VFXWorld Magazine

Announcements include $100,000,000 Epic MegaGrants, features in Unreal Engine 4.22 and beyond, SDK availability for free Epic Online Services, Epic Games store news and more.

Disney’s historic $71.3 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox creates an unprecedented collection of content and talent for the Mouse House.

Foundry’s name and brands to remain unchanged under the continued leadership of CEO Craig Rodgerson in all-cash deal expected to close in April 2019.

Samsung SDS integrates serverless and big data to automate machine learning application scaling and productization.

Is it real or rendered in real-time? Coming later this year, High Definition Render Pipeline leverages the NVIDIA RTX platform to deliver photorealistic image quality and lighting.

Using assets from the award-winning Netflix series, NVIDIA teams with Autodesk and Vancouver VFX studio Image Engine to showcase real-time GPU-accelerated rendering workflows with RTX Server and Quadro vDWS.

Offering a powerful tool for creating virtual worlds, interactive ‘smart paintbrush’ app harnesses the power of generative adversarial networks to convert rough doodles into stunning photorealistic landscapes.

More than a dozen developers across games, film, TV, AR and VR receive cash assistance in the program’s final round.

Leading visualization studio launches online showcase for original science fiction and fantasy-themed digital comics, illustrations and videos created by leading comic book artists and illustrators.