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Thinkbox Software Headline News

Thinkbox Software Introduces Third-Party Metered Licensing at SIGGRAPH 2016

Thinkbox’s e-commerce portal now offering on-demand, per-minute licensing for additional third-party applications.  

call for entries Headline News

Kidscreen Awards Now Accepting Submissions for 2017

Deadlines for entries is September 16; new set of ‘Best in Class’ awards to pay special tribute to the top kids programming entry in each of its three age categories.

Education & Training Headline News

Pluralsight Acquires Adobe-Centric Training Company Train Simple

Global leader in online learning for technology professionals now offers more than 1,200 courses covering the entire Adobe Creative Cloud suite as well as other Adobe flagship technologies.

Business Headline News

Stargate Studios Names New Management Team

Award-winning production company specializing in virtual production and visual effects, announces a new management team that includes Al Lopez (President), Peter Ware (Head of Production), Jason Lucas (CFO) and Reid Paul (VP of International Operations).

virtual production Headline News

Animatrik and NantStudio Bring High-End Virtual Production to LA

Deal expands Animatrik’s industry-leading performance capture and virtual production from Vancouver and Toronto into the United States.

Luma Headline News

Luma Welcomes Jill Gilbert as Executive Producer of Animated Content

Former Psyop executive producer and managing director to oversee development and management of Luma Toons original animated content and animation service work.

VRay Headline News

Nozon, Chaos Group Partnership Enables Volumetric VR Without a Game Engine

Technology partnership still in private beta combines PresenZ and V-Ray to enable artists to create photorealistic pre-rendered, volumetric VR design spaces with free movement and full parallax without the help of a game engine.

Virtual Reality Headline News

PlayblastVR for Maya V2.0 Now Available

Dover Studios co-founder Andrew Hazelden releases renderer for Maya that creates hardware rendered panoramic images using OpenGL or DirectX, allowing users to create immersive previs renderings of Maya scenes in LatLong, angular fisheye, domemaster, cylindrical, and cubic panorama formats.

nvidia Headline News

GPL, NVIDIA to Show Virtualization & Deep Learning Tools at SIGGRAPH 2016

Joint demonstration of a VDI workstation designed by GPL engineers and employing NVIDIA’s powerful GRID technology will feature a remote workstation running Mechdyne’s TGX desktop software.

SIGGRAPH 2016 Headline News

Fabric Software Introduces ‘Blocks’ with Fabric Engine 2.3 at SIGGRAPH 2016

Blocks make visual programming even more powerful and easy-to-use; new release to be shown publicly for the first time at SIGGRAPH 2016.

VIEW Conference Headline News

VIEW Conference Announces 2016 Keynote Speakers, Call for Entries

Byron Howard, director of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ ‘Zootopia,’ to deliver keynote address; deadline for entries to 2016 VIEW Awards is September 15.

Post-Production Headline News

John Paulson Joins Deluxe

Former Tag Worldwide CEO joins creative services company as President and General Manager, Features and Advertising Post Services, leading Deluxe’s Beast, Company 3, EFILM, Editpool, Rushes and Deluxe’s post-production group in Culver City, CA.

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