In The Beginning…
An animated pre-production primer for storytellers.
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New White Paper Dives Deep into NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise in Animation and VFX
Discover the future of entertainment production with the groundbreaking collaboration between NVIDIA and HPC solution provider Exxact - uncover the power of OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse™ Enterprise in revolutionizing the Media & Entertainment (M&E) landscape.
AWS Deadline Cloud Rendering Service Now Available
The customizable and scalable cloud-based system boasts built-in customization tools and popular DCC integrations, offering accelerated production timelines without capacity limitations and no upfront costs.
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‘Silhouette’ Takes Home Autodesk-Sponsored Student Project VES Award
The tech giant continues to support students and educators, providing skills, hands-on experiences, and credentials via free software; company tools were used by winning ArtFX School of Digital Arts student filmmakers and nominees for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project recognized at last night’s 22nd annual Visual Effects Society ceremony.
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FutureWorks Tackles the VFX on ‘Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani’
The global visual effects studio partnered with Dharma Productions and DOP Manush Nandan to deliver over 1,300 shots, including set extensions, composites and motion graphics on numerous shots of phones, TVs, and iPad screens, and a CG car in a frantic chase sequence, on Director Karan Johar’s dramatic love story.
NVIDIA Omniverse is Changing Filmmaking and Exxact is Helping It Happen
Three presenters at NVIDIA GTC, the conference for AI and the metaverse, talked about their adoption of real-time virtual production integrated with the technology giant’s end-to-end platform for building and operating 3D virtual worlds, a growing movement supported by Exxact Corporation, a Fremont, CA-based provider of high-performance computing solutions.
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VFX Legion Shares ‘The Passenger’ Breakdown Reel
Team delivers 60+ shots and digital effects intensifying the high-impact violence throughout the hostage thriller, from the bloody restaurant massacre to the killing spree that follows; now available on streaming platforms.
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VFX Legion Amps Up the Terror in Lionsgate’s ‘Cobweb‘
The visual effects boutique delivers 225+ shots for the psychological thriller, adding to the tale’s horror with invisible effects, which included a 3D animated spider, digital limb replacements, and CG environments and set extensions.
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BOXX Announces RAXX P1G Workstation with New NVIDIA L40S GPU
The high-performance platform is purpose-built to power generative AI and media and entertainment workflows with NVIDIA’s new universal GPU for data centers based on the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture.
In 3D, AI, Business, CG, People, Technology, Visual Effects | ANIMATIONWorld, Headline News, VFXWorld | Special Events: SIGGRAPH | Geographic Region: All
FutureWorks Delivers on Indian ‘Ray Donovan’ Adaptation
The VFX studio contributed 1,800 shots for Netflix India’s ‘Rana Naidu’ series, based on the popular American Showtime drama series; work included action clean-ups, greenscreen sequences, and CG elements such as the creation of a realistic snake that appears during a drug-induced hallucination.
In 3D, Acting, CG, Digital Media, People, Technology, Television, Visual Effects | Headline News, VFXWorld | Geographic Region: Asia
Academy Software Foundation Adopts OpenImageIO
The Foundation’s newest hosted project, created by Larry Gritz in 2008, is widely used by VFX and animation studios and integrated into leading production software products; don’t miss the OIIO ‘Birds of a Feather’ session at SIGGRAPH August 7.
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NVIDIA’s ‘Meet the Omnivore’ Highlights ‘Sickle Cell Priapism’ Short
California-based Elara Systems harnesses Adobe Substance 3D Painter, Maya, Unreal Engine and NVIDIA Omniverse, connecting 3D pipelines to create AI character-driven 3D medical animations that help raise public awareness through relatable storytelling.
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NVIDIA Studio Highlights NVIDIA Omniverse and USD in ‘Cold Inside Diorama’
3D artists Gianluca Squillace and Pasquale Scionti’s project interconnect their workflows by replacing linear pipelines with live-sync creation, harnessing the collaboration platform powered by RTX GPU to create their Viking scene that conveyed a cold, glacial mood.
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‘Jane’ Harnesses the Power of Imagination and VFX to Help the World’s Wildlife
For Matt Bishop and his artistic team, creating 39 different wildlife creatures, some highly endangered with little available reference, for Apple TV+’s live-action/CGI hybrid series inspired by the life and work of Dr. Jane Goodall, was a rewarding, collaborative effort that hopefully helps inspire people to better understand kids’ relationship with our planet; the show premieres on the streamer April 14.
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.
‘Retour à Hairy Hill’ Short Showcases Stop-Motion-Styled CG
Inspired by a ‘Frozen’ documentary, director Daniel Gies digitally created the film’s folded paper styled stop-motion-like animation with tools such as Maya, Houdini, and Unreal Engine; his animated short debuts later this year.
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NVIDIA Reveals New Omniverse AI Tools for 3D Artists
As part of tech giant’s CES Special Address, company announced Blender enhancements that include Omniverse Launcher and Audio2Face, Audio2Gesture, and Audio2Emotion — generative AI tools that enable instant 3D character animation.
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Houdini Now Supported by Conductor
Plug-in allows easy integration and access to cloud-based resources enabling users to submit renders without leaving the app.
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NVIDIA Studio Highlights 3D Artist Hsin-Chien Huang
Artist’s award-winning artwork/VR experience, ‘Samsara,’ portrays the journey of life, death, spirituality, and awakening.
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Exxact Corp. Works with NVIDIA to Support Omniverse Enterprise
The Fremont, CA-based provider of high-performance digital hardware helps bring real-time collaboration to a growing clientele.
NVIDIA Omniverse Beta Release Now Available
Major updates to core reference apps and tools offer increased speed, accessibility, and flexibility for collaborative workflows, making it easier for developers, creators, and novices to build metaverse applications.
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Applications Open: WIA Scholarship Program 2023
Program ups the bounty for prospective recipients with new industry supporters, including Animation Focus, Animation Mentor, ArtStation, Autodesk, Foundry, and LAIKA, contributing workshops, tutoring sessions, software packages, hardware, and cash prizes for the 2023 cycle.
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Strangebox Gets Zen with Bifrost in ‘Finding Your Flow’ Spot
VFX artist Phil Radford delivers 12 shots in 2 weeks, harnessing Maya’s particle simulation capabilities to help create a 30-second commercial for Sapporo Beer.
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Pre, Tech, and Post: The Many ‘Vizings’ of ‘Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers’
Visualization supervisor Tefft Smith talks previs, techvis, and postvis on the production of Akiva Schaffer’s hybrid live-action/CG animated action-comedy, starring John Mulaney and Andy Samberg, now streaming on Disney+.
The Center for Learning Unlimited Announces 2nd Animation Training Graduating Class
6 neurodiverse students completed the 3-year animation career training program that included Autodesk Maya CGI software artist certification and credits on the short film ‘The Cursed Sketchbook’ and 2021 CLU short ‘What to Do With Your Tabloid News.’
