Technology

MELS’ President Martin Carrier to Step Down

TVA Group announced that the company leader, who expanded the business while launching a virtual production platform service during the pandemic, is leaving his position to pursue new challenges; existing executive team will establish a leadership transition plan and ensure continuity in company’s business activities.

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People Headline News

Flawless AI Names Peter Busch Chief Strategic Officer

The film and TV AI tech company adds AI and facial animation technology veteran to leadership roster, joining former Lionsgate COO Jen Hollingsworth and company’s co-founders and co-CEOs Scott Mann and Nick Lynes.

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Truly the Bear Necessities VFXWorld

Robin Hollander Talks ‘Cocaine Bear,’ Wētā FX’s New Favorite Project

The VFX supervisor shares his studio’s fun, old-school visual effects work on Elizabeth Banks’ horror comedy based on the true story of a black bear, sometimes known as Pablo Escobear, who fatally ingested 75 pounds of cocaine dropped by smugglers in the Tennessee wilderness in 1985.

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VFX is Happening in Quebec Headline News

CAFÉ Returns May 16 for 2nd Edition

Hosted by the Quebec Film and Television Council, the Montréal-based event is now open for registration; this year's focus is technology, creativity, and industry – wellness at work and inclusion.

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Heading to Stuttgart Headline News

FMX 2023 Program Now Online

The 4-day hybrid event returns to Stuttgart April 25-27 with an exclusive online day April 28; confirmed presentations include the creative and technical journey of Netflix’s ‘1899’ and Digital Domain’s use of Charlatan, its neural network for ‘deep fake’-like face replacements on Disney+’s ‘She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.’

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That Dang Quantum Realm! Headline News

RSP Heads to the Quantum Realm with ‘Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania’ VFX

The Australian-based visual effects studio delivers 270 shots for Peyton Reed and Marvel’s MCU Phase 5 kick-off, including augmenting and then destroying the massive Celestium fortress and visualizing Kang’s 3D multiverse map.

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MoonRay Arives for Everyone! Headline News

DreamWorks Animation Releases Open Source ‘MoonRay’

Previously announced at SIGGRAPH 2022, the production renderer is now available, in an industry standard CMake environment, complete with a new documentation website, restructured libraries, reduced dependencies, and referenced open source packages.

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What’s Cookin? VFXWorld

Crafty Apes Prepares the Main VFX Course on ‘The Menu’

Visual Effects Supervisor Marc Smith and Compositing Supervisor Tanner Bartlett talk burning coals and a chef so hot he’s actually on fire, in Mark Mylod’s dark comedy about a truly cutthroat kitchen, starring Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy, now streaming on HBO Max.

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VFX for commercials Headline News

Framestore Shares ‘Enjoy the Ride’ Formula 1 Spot Breakdown Reel

Studio collaborates with Sky Creative from pre-production through shoot and VFX to create an adrenaline-fueled spot to celebrate the start of the 2023 racing season.

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An Evil Queen that Sings! VFXWorld

Pixomondo Hits the High Note with ‘The Magic Flute’ Operatic VFX

Leading visual effects studio delivers 420 shots, including a massive, sinister 3D snake, on Florian Sigl’s feature film adaptation of Wolfgang Mozart’s 232-year-old opera, which hits U.S. theaters today, March 10, courtesy of Shout! Factory.

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Technology Headline News

Lenovo Launches ThinkStation PX, P7 and P5 High-Performance Workstations

Aston Martin co-designs the sleek, all-new chassis of the computer giant’s trio of next-generation desktop platforms – the most advanced they’ve ever built - powered by the latest Intel® and NVIDIA technology.

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Business Headline News

Epic Names Platige Image UE Authorized Service Partner

The company continues innovating its scope of creative activities with Unreal Engine while offering flexible support with its proprietary virtual production solution.

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And the Oscar Goes to…? VFXWorld

On the Road to the 95th Oscars: The Visual Effects Nominees

'All Quiet on the Western Front,' 'Avatar: The Way of Water,' 'The Batman,' 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,' and 'Top Gun: Maverick' vie for this year’s Best Visual Effects Oscar.

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Too Cute and Too Spot On! ANIMATIONWorld

Dean Fleischer Camp Talks ‘Marcel the Shell with Shoes On’

The director and co-creator shares his seven-year journey to produce the Oscar nominated, Annie Award-winning stop-motion animated film about a tiny, googly eyed, tennis shoe-wearing seashell hoping to one day reconnect with his long-lost family.

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Business Headline News

Metaphysic Adds Creative Dream Team

Former ILM AI experts Sam Head, Thomas Salama, Scott Bourne and Matteo Olivieri Dancey join the AI technology developer as it expands its work in high-profile partnerships and projects.

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VFX for TV Headline News

Goodbye Kansas Shares ‘See’ Season 3 VFX Breakdown Reel

Studio delivers 50 shots that include CG characters, digital water and explosions, plus set and crowd extensions on Apple TV+’s Emmy Award-winning post-apocalyptic dystopian drama.

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Having a Real Time with Real-Time Headline News

Epic Games Shares 2022 Unreal Engine Trends

Did you know that UE now accounts for 50% of next-gen games being built and has been used on over 500 film/TV projects.

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Man This is Deep! ANIMATIONWorld

Converting ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ to Stereo 3-D

Stereographer Jeremy Carroll discusses the careful, creative decisions needed to convert animation, including the depth of a scene and how exaggerated the action can be so audience’s eyes don’t become fatigued and ruin their experience.

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New Innovations in Distributed Entertainment Content Production ANIMATIONWorld

Supermicro Heralds the Future of Animation and VFX Production

Marketing Consultant Robert Moore shares his insights on how new high-performance, high-efficiency, NVIDIA GPU-based Supermicro servers optimized for NVIDIA Omniverse™ Enterprise, are enabling new paradigms of distributed, collaborative entertainment content production.

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And the Awards Goes To! Headline News

‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,’ ‘The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse’ Win Big at 50th Annie Awards

Netflix’s hit stop-motion tale takes home five awards, while the Apple TV+ and BBC short takes home four; 'Love, Death + Robots’ also snags four awards, while ‘Marcel the Shell with Shoes On’ wins 3 at the 50^th annual celebration, held Saturday night at Royce Hall on the UCLA campus.

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Meow! ANIMATIONWorld

Mark Edwards Talks the Visual Development of ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’

With an exclusive ‘Wishing Star Battle’ breakdown reel to help illustrate, the visual effects supervisor takes us behind the digital curtain, sharing lookdev mandates, design directives, and production realities on how our titular feline hero, as well as the Wolf, Perrito and other characters came to life, on the Oscar-nominated 3DCG animated feature.

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Technology Headline News

Autodesk Releases Moxion Rooms Real-Time Camera-to-Cloud Production Review System

The forensically secure solution for creative team review, developed to specifications and based on requirements from ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,’ is now commercially available.

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Can’t Someone Else be The One! ANIMATIONWorld

The Comedic and Production Odyssey of ‘Gary and His Demons’

Season 2 of Mark Little’s adult animated series finally arrives four years after the show’s debut; back from the brink with an unexpected pickup – but only six months to produce – that reversed a disappointing funding loss, the show about a burdened ‘Chosen One’ hoping to retire is now streaming on Prime Video Canada.

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Take a Walk Through Entertainment History Headline News

‘Disney 100: The Exhibition’ Debuts, Features AI-Generated Walt Disney Hologram

The Walt Disney Company utilized AI tools to transform archival videos of the iconic founder into a realistic, life-sized hologram that speaks to guests.

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Pass the Puck Headline News

ESPN is Going Real-Time with ‘NHL Big City Greens Classic ' Telecast

In an impressive effort to merge the ‘children’ and ‘hockey enthusiast’ demographics, Disney Channel will broadcast a real-time volumetric animated NHL game with players and teams modeled after characters from Disney’s animated comedy ‘Big City Greens,’ airing March 14.