247 films selected to compete at Oscar-qualifying festival running September 19-24 with appearances by ‘The Red Turtle’ director Michael Dudok de Wit and Illumination Entertainment’s Pierre Coffin.
The veteran VFX and VR director talks about the challenges of bringing compelling storytelling to VR and how to navigate the growing cloud of VR “hype” in order to better focus on viable creative opportunities.
Datasmith, which will be available as a private beta in August (unrealengine.com/beta), is designed to help artists and designers simplify the process of importing data into Unreal Engine from over 20 CAD/DCC sources, including Autodesk 3ds Max.
Full-body motion tracking and self calibrating systems are added to OptiTrack VR to produce the first automated, all-in-one tracking solution for location based entertainment VR.
The new cloud rendering platform by Conductor Technologies enables VFX, VR and animation studios to cut costs and boost capacity by offloading render workloads to the cloud.
The leading markerless 3D-facial motion capture solutions provider has announced a Windows-Native, C++ SDK that enables developers and creatives to build their own real-time, interactive applications SDK for its real-time facial mocap and animation technology, Faceware Live, which it will be discussing at SIGGRAPH 2017 (Booth 741) Aug 1–3.
At SIGGRAPH 2017, Boris FX will preview 360° stereoscopic workflow and new versions of flagship plug-ins Sapphire and Continuum at the Los Angeles Convention Center in booth 1011.
360-degree hutong doodles.
Women in Animation co-president Marge Dean to moderate panel of guests representing film, TV, comics, VR, gaming and digital streaming on Thursday, July 20, at San Diego Comic-Con International.
The popular VR fortune teller now combines tarot reading, astrological reading and the ancient Babylonian game of Ur on Google Daydream and Samsung Gear VR devices.
Fast-growing roster of directorial talent fusing technology and storytelling includes Nexus Studios, Mighty Nice, Gentleman Scholar, Assembly, The Mill's Mill+, XYZ Studios, Wizz, Carnage, independent visual director Paul Mitchell, and Blacklist directors CISMA and Terry Hall.
Director of immersive platforms storytelling for ‘The New York Times’ Graham Roberts will present a 40-minute talk about the organization’s VR expertise and integration of the new medium into the media outlet’s news reporting through NYT VR, as well as insight into the making of the 10-minute short film ‘The Antarctica Series: Under A Cracked Sky,’ executive produced by Roberts and one of four films in the Times’ Antarctica series.
Launched by creative studio VR Playhouse, the program consists of three essential, six week courses covering 3D production, interactive 360 video and storytelling in virtual reality starting July 10, with other intensives planned.
Tiny Island Productions will adapt and expand their ‘Dream Defenders’ animated series for the China market with a TV series, feature film, comics and an augmented reality experience, all as part of WingsMedia’s hope to grow ‘Starship MZ’ properties into China’s Marvel Universe equivalent.
VES of Los Angeles and the Hollywood Section of SMPTE emphasize the importance of augmented reality technologies with special joint June meeting.
The film’s producers Iryna Kostyuk, Egor Olesov and Anna Eliseeva will present the in-development film’s teaser introducing the protagonists on June 15 at MIFA.
SIGGRAPH’s fledgling VR showcase matures with a diverse array of new Virtual and Augmented Reality projects from around the world, all focusing on the theme of diversity.
The new office will offer enhanced support for OptiTrack’s expanded European customer base and distributors.
Production company 1stAveMachine combines resources with VR community and platform Kaleidoscope to focus on producing branded VR content.
The One Club for Creativity awards has honored Framestore with 49 trophies across five projects, including 18 gold awards for ‘Field Trip to Mars,’ all for the production company’s innovative work in virtual and augmented reality.
China's first improv VR table read informs the development of ‘Four Dishes and a Soup.’
Philippe Baylaucq’s immersive ‘A Day on the Franchère Bridge’ (‘Un jour sur le pont Franchère’) re-creates the rhythms of a typical day in the early 19th century.
New VRgins program offers £1,000 prize for virtual reality, augmented reality and 360-degree video projects; deadline for submissions is May 23, 2017.
Designed to identify and experiment with new and emerging technologies, mew Nickelodeon Entertainment Lab aims to fuel production opportunities and content creation.
The Jon Peddie Research duo talk in-depth about computer graphics industry growth trends, including hardware, software and immersive content creation.
