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Emmy Awards Headline News

‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Sherlock’ Recognized for Outstanding VFX at 68th Creative Arts Emmy Awards

HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ wins the award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects; award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Supporting Role is given to PBS series ‘Sherlock.’

Autodesk Headline News

Autodesk Announces Major Updates to Flame Family at IBC 2016

New ‘Maya inspired’ 3D scene navigation features, workflow enhancements for third-party 3D animation tools, improved EXR handling, render quality improvements, better color management, and batch compositing enhancements included in Flame 2017 family extension 1 release available October 13.

Google VR Headline News

Sketchfab and Google VR Join Forces To Improve Sharing of Tilt Brush 3D Content

New launch of Google VR version 7 brings several key updates including improved FBX file format output to ensure that work created in VR can be easily uploaded to Sketchfab.

Visual Effects Society Headline News

Legendary East CEO Peter Loehr to Deliver Keynote Presentation at 2016 VES Summit

Forum to feature panels on cinematography and VFX and visual effects in the wild; industry leaders to host interactive business roundtables.

VIEW 2016 Headline News

VIEW Conference Unveils Spectacular Slate for 17th Annual Event

Running October 24-28 in Turin, Italy, VIEW 2016 to feature speakers from five of the six highest-grossing films of the year.

Maxon Headline News

MAXON Announces Technical Collaboration with NVIDIA

Multi-year agreement gives Cinema 4D developer access to NVIDIA rendering technology, including its Quasi-Monte Carlo sampling patent family, NVIDIA Iray, and Material Definition Language.

Adobe Headline News

Adobe Unveils New VR, Character Animation and 3D Innovations at IBC 2016

New version of Premiere Pro CC to include auto-aware Virtual Reality that seamlessly detects and applies the correct setting to stereoscopic and monoscopic media; After Effects CC to feature new Cinerender technology from MAXON.

Imagineer Systems Headline News

mocha Pro 5 OFX Plugin for Nuke & Fusion Now Available

New mocha planar tracking plugin delivers GPU acceleration and streamlined workflows to OFX hosts including The Foundry’s NUKE and Blackmagic Design’s Fusion.

Keywords: Virtual Reality Headline News

NVIDIA Releases Mod Editor for VR Funhouse in Epic Games Launcher

NVIDIA releases the full source code for VR Funhouse along with a brand-new mod editor called the VR Funhouse Mod Kit now available through the Epic Games launcher.

VIEW 2016 Headline News

Full Program for 2016 VIEW Conference Now Online

Italy’s VIEW Conference celebrates its 17th anniversary with full program of keynote presentations, production sessions, workshops, talks and more.

Epic Games Headline News

Unreal Engine 4.13 Now Available

Release includes several new rendering features, Alembic support for importing vertex animations, dynamic shadow optimization for mobile, and improvements to the VR Editor; non-linear cinematic editor Sequencer also receives major upgrades.

Pre-Visualization Headline News

Animatrik Provides Performance Capture Tech for 'Suicide Squad' Stunt-Vis

Animatirik’s performance capture system integrates CG assets from the film with live performances in real-time to help plan intricate fight scenes for the latest DC Universe installment.

Virtual Reality Headline News

VR Studio Wevr Unveils First Look at Jon Favreau’s ‘Gnomes & Goblins’

Virtual Reality experience from the imagination of acclaimed film director Jon Favreau takes advantage of room-scale technology to immerse users in an enchanted fantasy world.

Lucasfilm Headline News

Fan-Made Shorts Launch New Toy Line for ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’

Fan-made stop-motion animated shorts featuring the new line of toys from the forthcoming movie launch on the ‘Star Wars’ YouTube channel.

Digital Domain Headline News

Digital Domain Delivers Seamless Effects for Spike Jonze’s New Ad for Kenzo

VFX house contributes a range of seamless effects for ‘My Mutant Brain,’ director Spike Jonze’s stunning new short film starring Margaret Qualley for Kenzo's new perfume, KenzoWorld.

broadcast design Headline News

Syndrome Shifts into Motion Graphics

Award-winning live-action creative studio specializing in commercials and music videos returns to its roots creating high-quality motion graphics and broadcast design.

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