Category: 3D
Cinesite Acquires German VFX Powerhouse Trixter
Privately-owned digital entertainment studio acquires 100 percent of leading European provider of VFX and animation for an undisclosed amount.
Nimble Collective Goes Pro with Nimble Studio
Industry’s first end-to-end cloud-based platform for commercial studios and enterprise animation production available September 4.
2018 Shotgun Pipeline Award Winners Announced
UTS Animal Logic Academy, 4th Creative Party, Zoho Studio and Territory Studio honored for outstanding achievement in pipeline tool development.
WATCH: Netflix Releases New Trailer for ‘Next Gen’ Feature
Charlyne Yi and John Krasinski lead the voice cast in Chinese-Canadian animated co-production about an unlikely friendship between a rebellious girl and a runaway combat robot.
Academy Unveils Finalists for 2018 Student Academy Awards
Four international and seven U.S.-made animated short films named finalists for the 2018 Student Academy Awards.
Visual Effects Society Announces Special 2018 Honorees
VES Hall of Fame honorees include L.B. Abbott, Richard “Doc” Baily, Saul Bass, Ray Harryhausen, Derek Meddings, Eileen Moran and Gene Roddenberry.
Solid Angle Introduces Arnold 5.2
New release of Academy Award-winning rendering software includes new Cell Noise shader, multi-threaded Adaptive Subdivision, Texture Baking, and deeper integration with Cryptomatte.
Epic Games Introduces Unreal Engine Online Learning
New learning platform for Unreal Engine 4 users illustrates common workflows across Game Development, Architecture, Industrial Design and Media and Entertainment.
Chaos Group Debuts New Real-Time Ray-Tracing Technology at SIGGRAPH 2018
Project Lavina Demonstrates photorealistic computer graphics rendering at up to 90 frames per second on new NVIDIA Turing-based Quadro RTX GPUs.
NVIDIA Unveils Quadro RTX, World’s First Ray-Tracing GPU
New Turing-based design revolutionizes workflow of millions of designers and artists on the desktop and in the datacenter.
NVIDIA Reinvents Computer Graphics with Turing Architecture
Hybrid rendering fundamentally changes computer graphics by fusing real-time ray-tracing, AI, simulation and rasterization.
Chaos Group Releases V-Ray for Houdini Beta
Vicon Introduces Origin, the First Complete LBVR Solution with Unbreakable Tracking
Created with help from industry leaders including Dreamscape Immersive, bundle includes everything needed to power location-based VR tracking.
AMPAS, Linux Foundation Launch Academy Software Foundation
Founding members include Animal Logic, Autodesk, Blue Sky Studios, Cisco, DNEG, DreamWorks Animation, Epic Games, Foundry, Google Cloud, Intel, SideFX, The Walt Disney Studios and Weta Digital.
CalArts Students Create Short Films Promoting Gender Equity for HeForShe Summit
Led by Experimental Animation Program faculty Pia Borg and Character Animation Program faculty Soyeon Kim, CalArts students create a series of short films for the annual HeForShe Summit.
Chaos Group Opens V-Ray Cloud Beta with Free Rendering for a Limited Time
World’s simplest cloud rendering service leverages Google Cloud for ultra-fast renders; open beta includes free credits until launch.
Conductor Appoints Mac Moore President
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CLIP: Meet Shank, See Disney Princesses in Sneak Peek of ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’
‘Wonder Woman’s Gal Gadot voices the tough and talented racing driver Shank in ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet,’ arriving in theaters on November 21, 2018.
Zhanna Bekmambetova Spreads Her Creative Wings With ‘Tweet-Tweet’
First animated film project for both director and Russian VFX house CGF Studio centers around a young girl and her fearless companion…a sparrow.
Disney Animation Unveils Technological Innovations at SIGGRAPH 2018
Disney Animation to bring the world debut of its first-ever VR short, ‘Cycles,’ a behind-the-scenes look at ‘Ralph Breaks The Internet’ and share a complete data set from ‘Moana.’
Epic Games Drives Real-Time Immersive Experiences at SIGGRAPH 2018
Disney and Unity Team Up on ‘Baymax Dreams’ Animated Shorts
Reallusion Releases iClone Motion LIVE Full-Body Mocap System
Solution integrates multi-device capture of face, body and hands into new real-time motion tracking platform.