Milk Visual Effects Weathers the Rendering Storm on ‘Adrift’
Studio scales up 10x over onsite render capacity by leveraging AWS Cloud and Thinkbox’s Deadline.
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Chad Howitt Joins We Are Royale as Creative Director
Designer brings to studio a decade of experience in commercials, working on brands including VW, Honda, Marvel and Ubisoft.
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Epic Games Releases Final Set of Free Paragon Hero Assets
New batch of 19 AAA-quality characters now available free-of-charge to Unreal Engine 4 developer community.
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Visual Effects Society Announces 2018 VES Fellows
Distinguished VFX Practitioners Craig Barron, Joyce Cox, Dan Curry, Paul Debevec and Mike Fink to be recognized at exclusive celebration in Beverly Hills on October 11.
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VR’s Content Drought
Why can’t VR content, cash and consumers converge?
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Academy Sci-Tech Council Adds Six New Members
David Ayer, Rod Bogart, Theo Gluck, Leslie Iwerks, Colette Mullenhoff and Jeff Taylor join the Academy’s Science and Technology Council.
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MPC Film Upgrades the Visual Effects of ‘The Predator’
Led by VFX supervisors Richard Little and Arundi Asregadoo, MPC Film delivers hero animation for the Upgraded Predator along with the Predator Dogs, a CG swamp environment, and more.
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Rising Sun Pictures’ Delivers Adrenaline-Fueled VFX for ‘The Predator’
Working on a tight schedule, South Australian visual effects studio produces more than 100 shots for 20th Century Fox’s alien adventure.
Andrew Morley Named Head of VFX at Outpost VFX
Veteran visual effects supervisor, who worked on ‘Avatar’ and ‘Avengers: Infinity War,’ will oversee team at studio’s Bournemouth facility.
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Troy Saliba to Present VFX of ‘Venom’ at VIEW Conference 2018
The veteran animation director, along with DFX supervisor Aharon Bourland, will detail DNEG’s work on Marvel and Sony’s upcoming superhero-adventure film at next month’s Turin event.
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Advanced Imaging Society Unveils 2018 Technology Lumiere Award Honorees
DreamWorks Animation, Google VR, NVIDIA, The Mill, and the USC Institute for Creative Technologies among 15 award recipients to be honored at 9th Technology Lumiere Awards.
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It’s UltraWide Time!
Share your UltraWide time.
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Pixar Releases Non-Commercial RenderMan Version 22
Interactive ‘live rendering’ highlights latest update, which is free for all education, research, personal projects and evaluations.
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Legend 3D Adds Jeff Shapiro & Jeremy Nicolaides to India Management Team
On the heels of the its first anniversary, Pune, India facility to expand to nearly 50,000-square feet to accommodate growing artist teams.
The Third Floor Helps Build Emmy Award-Winning VFX for ‘Game of Thrones’
From dragon flights to flying pyrotechnics, teams develop creative approaches to epic visuals using previs and technical planning.
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Freefolk Celebrates Emmy Win for ‘The Alienist’
TNT’s ‘The Alienist’ awarded for outstanding special visual effects in a supporting role for “The Boy on The Bridge.”
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‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘The Alienist’ Win VFX Emmy Awards
HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ wins outstanding special visual effects for ‘Beyond the Wall’ episode; TNT’s ‘The Alienist’ awarded for outstanding special visual effects in a supporting role for “The Boy On The Bridge.”
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Academy Backtracks on New Oscar Category Plan
Cites need for additional member discussion as reason not to add award for most popular film at upcoming Oscars.
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Gravity Sketch 1.5 Released
New version of immersive design software provides a host of tools aimed at higher quality real-time 3D creativity.
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Is NVIDIA’s New RTX Real-Time Ray Tracing Technology Really a Game Changer?
Industry analyst Jon Peddie weighs in on the significance of NVIDIA’s recently announced Turing GPU architecture and AI-enhanced photorealistic rendering.
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Method Studios Promotes Andrew Bell
Former senior EP and VP takes new role as managing director, overseeing operations for integrated advertising and immersive experiences at the Los Angeles facility.
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Framestore Pictures Signs Director Laurent Ledru
Award-winning Psyop alum to be based out of Framestore’s Los Angeles office.
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London’s Golden Wolf Sets Up Shop in New York
Cutting-edge design and animation studio occupies adjacent studio space in SoHo to Psyop and sister company Blacklist.
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MAXON Cinema 4D Release 20 Now Available
New 3D software release features expanded MoGraph toolset, new volume-based modeling tools, ProRender improvements and more.
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Sony Pictures Imageworks Takes A Bite Out of ‘The Meg’
SPI visual effects supervisor Sue Rowe and her team use simulation tools and a lot of bubbles to tackle a dynamic, action-packed third act in Warner Bros.’ underwater thriller.
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