Alkemy X Spoofs its 'Cutting Edge' 80's Work to Celebrate 40th Anniversary
VFX house creates campaign and 3-minute anthem film that showcases its ‘sales reel’ from 1981 complete with fictional relics from the past.
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Foundry Releases Nuke 13.1
Artist-focused update enhances productivity with improvements in workflows; new 3D manipulators and hotkeys make work faster and easier while new Unreal Reader allows users to request Unreal data from within the NukeX environment.
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DNEG Causes Considerable VFX Carnage
Leading visual effects house delivers 770 shots, including extensive full CG characters and environments, on Andy Serkis’ ‘Venom: Let There be Carnage,’ Columbia Pictures’ crazed symbiont sequel to its 2018 box office hit, ‘Venom.’
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Netflix Acquires Scanline VFX
Streaming giant takes a giant leap in production horsepower with the purchase of one of the industry’s leading visual effects studios.
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Creating the VFX ‘Foundation’ for Apple TV+’s Epic Isaac Asimov Adaptation
A team of visual effects houses, led by DNEG, created 4,000 shots, complete with new worlds, the mysterious Vault artifact, and the enormous Invictus ship, in David Goyer’s expansive and enthralling new series, based on the famed author’s seminal sci-fi book series, now streaming.
The First Prysm Stage Coming to Atlanta
NEP Virtual Studios and Trilith Studios’ new state-of-the-art facility, coming to the Creative Technologies District, offers filmmakers stable advanced real-time workflows and technology including ICVFX.
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Netflix’s ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Heads into Virtual Production
Live-action adaptation of Nickelodeon’s popular franchise has kicked off production using Pixomondo’s custom-built, state-of-the-art virtual production facility in Vancouver, allowing for real-time in-camera VFX, setting a new standard for immersive storytelling.
Foundry Releases Mari 5.0
Fundamental advancements include improved artist tools, procedural workflows and VFX Reference Platform CY2020 adherence; USD and feature upgrades aim to reduce pipeline friction.
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Autodesk Acquires Tangent Labs’ LoUPE Cloud-Based Pipeline
Acquisition furthers company’s mission to empower animators and studios to work more easily and efficiently in a cloud-based ecosystem; Tangent Labs founder Jeff Bell and team come onboard to further drive the future of production in the cloud.
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A Trio Bands Together to Help Denis Villeneuve Make ‘Dune’
Two of the director’s previous collaborators - production designer Patrice Vermette and editor Joe Walker - along with first timer, cinematographer Greig Fraser, teamed together to help him bring author Frank Herbert’s famed sci-fi novel, long thought unadaptable in cinema, to the screen.
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What Does the Unity – Weta Digital Deal Mean for the VFX Industry?
DNEG CEO Namit Malhotra weighs in on what he calls a ‘landmark agreement’ that will fuel the progression and application of new production tools, technology, and workflows in areas such as movies, TV, games, metaverses, VR, and theme park rides.
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ILM Expands Virtual Production Services
StageCraft expansion includes LED volume installation in Vancouver; company is currently recruiting talent ahead of the facility’s launch next year.
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Maxon Announces Trapcode 17.1
Updates include workflow and performance enhancements; new release is now available on the Maxon App.
One of Us Adds Stephen Enticott as Animation Director
The VFX studio strengthens its leadership team with the former DNEG, Framestore and MPC animation head and supervisor.
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K-POP Meets the Metaverse in aespa’s ‘Savage’ Music Video
Giantstep creates 3D animated characters with photogrammetry, real-time rendering, and motion capture for group’s first mini album, which surpassed 100 million views in 17 days.
It’s A Jungle Out There for Rising Sun Pictures’ ‘Shang-Chi’ VFX
Studio delivers nearly 300 shots depicting the village of Ta Lo and its lush, expansive jungle environs that included mountains, ancient forests, lakes, and rice paddies, along with a huge amount of natural looking vegetation, on Marvel Studios' first film to feature an Asian super hero.
Practical and Digital Effects Expertly Join Forces on ‘Dune’
For Oscar-winning VFX supervisor Paul Lambert and SFX supervisor Gerd Nefzer, the seamless blending of live-action and CG on Denis Villeneuve’s stunning, epic adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal sci-fi tome grounded the film in a believable reality, fully immersing audiences in Paul Atreides’ hero’s journey to the dark, foreboding conflict on the universe’s most dangerous planet.
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14th Century Paris Goes Medieval on Ridley Scott’s ‘The Last Duel’
MPC and Technicolor Creative Studios team to create film’s CG backdrop, set in the brutality of 1300’s France; over 400 shots were delivered from teams in London, Montreal, Bangalore, and Paris, made more complex by the challenges of COVID filmmaking.
NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise Now Available Through PNY
PNY is partnering with NVIDIA to bring their revolutionary real-time 3D collaboration and simulation platform to reinvent workflows for dispersed creative teams across the animation and VFX space. Join the free ‘Revolutionizing 3D Workflows with NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise,’ webinar set for November 17.
Marvel Goes Big with Major Disney+ Day Show Announcements
The episodic MCU continues to expand, as learn of the studios’ expansive slate of series renewals and new series coming in 2022/2023 series, including ‘Moon Knight,’ ‘Ms. Marvel,’ and ‘She-Hulk’ as well as the first ever ‘X-Men’ under the Disney banner.
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Bridging into VFX Education with ‘Acting: The First Six Lessons’
Beau Bridges and his daughter Emily, working with David Shapiro and Semkhor Productions, turn Richard Boleslavsky’s seminal book on acting into a film - complete with a recreated 1930s New York - and teaching materials used to show students how to produce high quality, low-cost visual effects.
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‘Lost in Space’ Season 3 Blasts off with New Trailer
Who’s not thrilled to hear once again the fateful phrase, ‘Danger Will Robinson… Danger’ as the third and final season of the reimagined 1965 Irwin Allen sci-fi classic is soon in hand; Netflix launches the space opera’s concluding episodes December 1.
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HP Heads Into the Omniverse with New High-Performance Tech Offers
Newly announced Z by HP, Teradici, and NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise subscriptions bring real-time connection to remote workers collaborating across multiple systems and applications.
Unity to Acquire Weta Digital's Tools and Technology
Deal calls for purchase of leading VFX studio’s proprietary software systems, pipeline, and engineering talent; Oscar-winning VFX team will become WetaFX, remaining under Peter Jackson’s majority ownership and helmed by CEO Prem Akkaraju.
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NVIDIA Reveals Omniverse Avatar Platform
New technology generates interactive AI avatars with ray-traced 3D graphics by connecting speech AI, computer vision, natural language understanding, recommendation engines and simulation technologies.
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