Kim Davidson has been re-elected as Board Chair, with Susan O’Neal elected First Vice Chair, David Tanaka as Second Vice Chair, Rita Cahill as Secretary, and Jeffrey A. Okun as Treasurer.
Trevor Hardy says six years spent struggling to build his animation business is akin to fiddling with a bad tooth, though his recent hugely popular music video, ‘The Happy Song,’ for Imogene Heap and newest short, ‘A Right Royal Sprout’ may signal a welcome bit of pain relief.
Led by VFX supervisor James Brennan-Craddock, the studio delivered postvis and 317 visual effects shots on Tim Burton’s hit ‘Beetlejuice’ sequel, including digital versions of a miniature plane, simulated oceans, stretched faces, and sequences featuring the famed sandworm.
Designed to support the creation of spatial content, the system accurately captures real-world objects, human motion, and backgrounds, recreating them in virtual environments for 3DCG production.
Enhancing safety, reducing costs, and maximizing creative freedom compared to traditional methods, the new system offers an ‘all-in-one’ solution for filming vehicles using virtual production in any setting.
The move will bring hundreds of detailed and authentic 3D botanical assets, materials, and tools to the software platform, which provides solutions for content creators working in 2D/3D design, motion graphics, and visual effects.
The Emmy Award-winning EFX supervisor helped creator Ian McCulloch produce a series of gruesome human and animal bodies seemingly pulled apart in layers in the horror thriller series now streaming on Peacock.
The Disney-themed Christmas Day program continued the 2024 sports production trend of building immersive viewing events to enhance fan engagement and attract new audiences.
The update, which is free for all Moho 14 users, includes Color Drift and Opacity options for brushes, allowing artists to mix colors and create natural looking artwork while maintaining the flexibility of vectors.
Using Unity integration, the update allows artists to create, power and run real-time applications and 3D media using only an iPhone or iPad.
At this year's Autodesk Univerisity, with the help of Mikros Animation, Digital Fish, and Wonder Studio, the tech giant demonstrated a slew of program feature updates and improvements across its product lineup, all designed to increase creative productivity and lower barriers for great storytelling.
Watch the breakdown reel; VFX Supervisor Andy Boyd and his team produced 202 final shots, from set supervision to delivery, via Houdini, Maya, Nuke Hiero, Shotgrid, and V-Ray.
A gentle reminder to my animation colleagues.
The classic charm of ‘Wonder Pets’ is back with creator Jennifer Oxley’s new series, a fresh take that introduces a new team of animal heroes, navigating global adventures, who showcase the power of empathy and collaboration while teaching life lessons through mini-opera-inspired tales.
For Rob Hoffman, Lenovo’s Senior Worldwide Manager for Media & Entertainment Vertical, insatiable consumer appetite for new experiences across film, TV, games and interactive experiences, in greater quantity with increasing fidelity, means, the future of entertainment content development continues to look strong.
Led by industry veteran Ken Locsmandi, the boutique visual effects company has been revolutionizing filmmaking through its virtual production pipeline that uses iClone and Unreal Engine to produce high quality, cost-effective animation.
The filmmaker shares how his short film brings the historic 1961 X-15 test flights to life through the innovative use of visual effects, blending authentic details with creative cinematography to explore the spirit of innovation and human perseverance that ultimately led to the first U.S. human lunar landing in 1969.
The gen AI-powered video platform allows fans of film and TV to create highly personalized and interactive movies based on a single selfie with their gen AI software.
The background segmentation tool allows broadcasters to integrate real-time 2D and 3D graphics into live productions without greenscreens, manual rotoscoping, or match moving.
Watch the latest work, based on the hugely successful ‘Legends of Avantris’ D&D 5th edition folk-horror-adventure, ‘The Crooked Moon,’ from the composers on Cartoon Network’s ‘Over the Garden Wall’ series.
Tailored for high-end projects like the upcoming 'Pocoyo Season 6,' the software turns rough sketches, even rough storyboards, into fully-rendered 3D animations with one click.
Powered by Video to 3D Scene technology, the Wonder Animation tool turns any video sequence into a 3D-animated scene via AI reconstruction; the beta is available now to Wonder Studio users.
A newly-created Office of Technological Enablement will be headed by previous Walt Disney Studios CTO Jamie Voris, and will explore opportunities and risks associated with AI, mixed reality, and other current and emerging tech.
New Gaussian Splat support lets users quickly create 3D environments from photos or videos; 20+ new features and improvements range from creative scatter options to firefly removal.
From previs, techvis, and postvis to a 5,000-frame street fight ‘oner,’ 3rd act Time Ripper disintegration, and our villain’s hand rummaging around a person’s head – think pinkie out the nose – VFX supervisor Matt Twyford, senior visualisation supervisor Kaya Jabar, and their teams delivered some of the most impressive visual effects seen of late on Shawn Levy’s hilarious and bloody new Marvel blockbuster.
