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Autodesk Headline News

Autodesk Announces Acquisition of Arnold Maker Solid Angle

Developers of Arnold, the 3D animation and visual effects ray-tracing image renderer used on VFX Oscar winner ‘Ex Machina,’ purchased for an undisclosed sum.

Short Films Headline News

New ‘Moom’ Trailer Showcases Feature Aspirations for Tonko House

New CG-animated short from ‘The Dam Keeper’ directors Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi is an adaptation of the popular Japanese children’s book by film producer Genki Kawamura.

box office Headline News

Box Office Report: Disney’s ‘Jungle Book’ Roars to Life with $291M Globally

Jon Favreau’s CG re-imagining of the animated classic swings past expectations to score the number-two opening of all time for the month of April, and is widely expected to cross $300 million mark on Monday.

NAB 2016 Headline News

ASSIMILATE Announces New SCRATCH VR Suite at NAB 2016

First demos of the only end-to-end Virtual Reality toolset and workflow encompassing dailies, conform, color grading, composting, finishing and mastering to be showcased at the 2016 NAB Show.

NAB 2016 Headline News

GPL Technologies to Showcase NVIDIA Technology at NAB 2016

Full schedule of live virtualization and visualization demonstrations using NVIDIA GRIDTM technology, NVIDIA Quadro professional GPUs, and the Quadro Visual Computing Appliance set for the 2016 NAB Show in Las Vegas.

Annecy Headline News

Illumination’s ‘Secret Life of Pets’ to Premiere at Annecy 2016

World premiere of Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures’ latest collaboration to be held at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on Thursday, June 16 with director Chris Renaud and co-director Yarrow Cheney in attendance.

NAB 2016 Headline News

AMD Launching 32GB Workstation Graphics Card at NAB 2016

World’s first workstation graphics card with industry-leading 32GB memory support for large asset workflows with creative applications planned for availability in Q2 2016.

Visual Effects Headline News

Trixter Unveils Shot Breakdown from ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’

Munich-based visual effects studio delivered 294 shots for key sequences and characters for the Marvel blockbuster and another 106 shots for film trailers for a total of 400 shots.

Visual Effects Headline News

Delve into the VFX of ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6

VFX supervisor Joe Bauer and VFX producer Steve Kullback present the visual effects work for the upcoming season of the hit HBO fantasy series in a new featurette with lots of breakdowns and behind the scenes footage.

20th Century Fox Headline News

Fox Officially Announces ‘Deadpool’ Sequel

It’s a big day for movie sequels as 20th Century Fox officially announces ‘Deadpool 2’ and unveils footage from Blue Sky’s ‘Ice Age: Collision Course,’ ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ and Roland Emmerich’s ‘Independence Day: Resurgence.’

Dreamworks Animation Headline News

DreamWorks Animation Rounds Out Voice Cast for ‘Trolls’

Zooey Deschanel, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, Quvenzhané Wallis and John Cleese join Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake in DWA’s November 4 release.

Sony Headline News

Story Details Revealed in New ‘Angry Birds Movie’ Trailer

New trailer delivers a storyline straight from the game, with a tranquil tropical island populated by flightless birds who become wildly distressed when their eggs are stolen by a boatload of piggies.

The Foundry Headline News

The Foundry Delivers Increased Performance and Efficiency with NUKE 10

NUKE 10 offers key new updates across NUKE, NUKEX and NUKE STUDIO, improving performance in Roto Paint, Vector Blur, timeline manipulation and transcoding, while NVIDIA multi-GPU support speeds up processing time for GPU-accelerated nodes.

virtual production Headline News

Lytro Cinema Brings Revolutionary Light Field Technology to Film and TV Production

World’s first light field solution for cinema allows breakthrough creative capabilities and unparalleled flexibility on set and in post-production; first Virtual Reality short produced with Robert Stromberg, DGA and David Stump, ASC set to premiere at NAB on April 19.

Illumination Entertainment Headline News

The Cat is Out of the Bag in New Trailer for Illumination’s ‘Secret Life of Pets’

New, full-length trailer unveils plot details for the forthcoming CG-animated comedy from Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures starring comedy superstars Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet and Kevin Hart.

Pre-Visualization Headline News

SolidAnim Introduces SolidTrack Unity at NAB 2016

New version of markerless camera tracking and previs/animation solution for real-time visual effects & on-set visualization now includes the Unity game engine for rendering.

Technology Headline News

OTOY Announces Availability of OctaneRender 3 & OctaneRender Cloud

Cloud graphics company unveils massive update to its OctaneRender GPU rendering software ecosystem and a detailed roadmap for integration of OTOY’s advanced real-time path tracing engine Brigade.

Events Headline News

USC’S School of Cinematic Arts Presenting Annual First Frame Showcase

Event featuring the latest achievements from students and alumni in the John C. Hench Division of Animation and Digital Arts will take place on Friday, April 15 at the DGA Theater.

video games Headline News

‘1979 Revolution: Black Friday’ Video Game Depicts Iranian Revolution

Former Rockstar Games developer releases historically accurate choose-your-own-adventure game documenting events from Iran’s 1979 revolution.

Short Films Headline News

the STUDIO Helps Launch Children’s Cancer Foundation with ‘Scarlett’ Short

Short film promoting the Scarlett Contra el Cancer foundation combines 3D-animated characters with 2D backgrounds featuring hand-painted watercolor textures.

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