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Don't Miss This Incredible Virtual Story ANIMATIONWorld

The Truly Incredible ‘The Remarkable Life of Ibelin’

3D animator and DP Rasmus Tukia talks about Benjamin Ree’s ‘must see’ live-action / animated documentary about the vibrant, expansive, but secret virtual life of a young Norwegian, Mats Steen, who died at age 25 of a degenerative disease, and whose ‘World of Warcraft’ game exploits and incredible legion of friends were only discovered upon his death, debuting today, October 25, on Netflix.

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Jar Jar Returns! ANIMATIONWorld

Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit Talk ‘LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy’

The showrunners, co-creators and EPs, self-described ‘Star Wars’ nuts, discuss how they turned the entire empire upside down on the new Lucasfilm 3DCG series, where good guys are bad, bad guys are good, and Jar Jar Binks may well be… a Sith lord; now streaming on Disney+.

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Autodesk University 2024 Events

Autodesk University 2024

Begins: October 15, 2024

AU 2024 runs October 15-17 in San Diego and invites artists and creative professionals to learn about emerging technologies, innovative techniques, and hear from leading industry experts both in-person and online.

In 3D, AI, AR/VR/XR, Art, Business, CG, Digital Media, Education and Training, Event, Films, Games, Motion Graphics, Technology | Event Types: Conferences

We Want More Critters that Talk VFXWorld

‘Akiko, The Flying Monkey’ and the Art of CG Animal Mouths

Director Veit Helmer shot live-action animals, then animated them talking using an innovative photorealistic VFX pipeline that included Maya, Nuke, Arnold, Unreal Engine and LiveFX, on his new feature about the fantastical adventures of a young monkey who escapes from a zoo to reunite with his family.

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Kindergarten Song and Dance! ANIMATIONWorld

‘Kindergarten: The Musical’ Turns First-Day Jitters into Joyful Song

Executive producer and supervising director Tom Warburton talks about his new animated musical kids’ series that follows 5-year-old Berti and her friends as they navigate the challenges of starting school for the very first time, debuting today on Disney Jr. and Disney Channel, tomorrow on Disney+.

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It’s Capturiffic! Headline News

RADiCAL Announces Single-Camera Real-Time Markerless MoCap Solution

The new performance capture tools use a webcam or smartphone for finger tracking, higher fidelity facial mocap, and new upper body modes that are compatible with company’s full body mocap product.

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Technology Headline News

Autodesk Reveals GenAI Advances at SIGGRAPH 2024

Tech giant showcased new features that boost cloud-enabled workflows focusing on empowering teams and artists to work more efficiently; also teased, new AI capabilities coming to Maya and Flame following company’s acquisition of Wonder Dynamics.

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Love Those Reindeer Antics Headline News

Proof Shares ‘Dashing Through the Snow’ Postvis Reel

Leading visualization studio helps create balance between magical wonder, grounded, convincing behaviors, and funny antics for Disney’s holiday adventure film, contributing to several sequences including the final reindeer battle.

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Boom! Headline News

Lux Aeterna Shares ‘Einstein and the Bomb’ Creative Breakdown

Studio delivers around 70 VFX shots for Netflix’s 90-minute historical docudrama delving into Einstein, his groundbreaking ideas, and his influence on development of the atomic bomb.

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Action-Packed Mermaid Adventures! ANIMATIONWorld

‘Disney Junior’s Ariel’ Celebrates the Caribbean with Doubles, Red Locks and Cinder Blocks

EP Lynne Southerland and art director Chrystin Garland discuss their push for authenticity in the all-new 3DCG preschool series about the young mermaid princess that incorporates the islands’ multi-cultural elements of music, food, fashion, language, and folklore; show debuts June 27 on Disney Junior.

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Not The Cat’s Meow ANIMATIONWorld

‘The Garfield Movie’: The Mouth is a Window to the Belly

CG animation producer Shelley Smith and VFX supervisor Freddy Chaleur discuss how DNEG Animation perfected the not very Shakespearean process of staying on model while animating the extreme poses of a furry cat, based on iconic 2D comic designs, that can eat an entire pizza in one bite.

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Let’s All Meet in 3D ANIMATIONWorld

Bent Image Lab Relocates to the Metaverse, Offers Tours to Annecy Attendees

Trever Stewart is taking over the commercial division of the venerable Portland animation studio, and has moved its half-acre facility completely to the metaverse, and is letting festival attendees – with priority on portfolio reviews – don headsets and tour the 3D digital world and creative universe his prolific team now calls home.

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Business Headline News

Autodesk Acquires Wonder Dynamics

The acquisition brings Wonder Studio, a cloud-based 3D animation and VFX solution that uses AI to help streamline 3D character workflows, into Flow, the tech leader’s M&E cloud on Autodesk’s Design and Make platform.

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Here Kitty Kitty! ANIMATIONWorld

Red Star’s Ben Smith Talks Years of Cat-Tastic Animation

The co-founder discusses the loss of his business partner, Jan Rogowski, and the studio’s transition from theme park films to feature films centered around an interesting creative niche: animated cats.

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Say it Ain’t So! ANIMATIONWorld

‘Red vs. Blue: Restoration’ Marks the End of the Rooster Teeth Era

Studio co-founder Matt Hullum talks about the seminal, groundbreaking machinima series, ‘Red vs. Blue,’ set in the world of ‘Halo,’ and the property’s first and only feature film, which he directed and releases today, a poignant farewell as the company closes its doors May 15.

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May the Best Design Be With You Headline News

Autodesk Launches Droid Design Contest with Disney and Lucasfilm

To celebrate Star Wars Day, the tech leader has announced its May the Fourth campaign, a month-long contest for superfans to design their own droid using Maya, 3ds Max, or Fusion.

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Innovations in Virtual Production Headline News

Chaos Reveals Project Arena, Alternative to Game Engines for Virtual Production

The new toolset enables the moving of 3D scenes quickly from industry-standard creation tools onto LED screens without the slow data conversion process.

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Professional Animation Tools Even Beginners Can Master ANIMATIONWorld

Professional Handkey Animations for Toon Characters - Exclusive on ActorCore

A library of more than 500 handkey motions, including unique, stylized interactions and movements such as walk, talk, and run, lets animators easily add zest to 3D cartoon productions.

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Technology Advancing Art Headline News

Milky Chance’s ‘Synchronize’ Music Video Visualized by Z by HP Ambassadors

Orlando Arocena, Bradley G Munkowitz (aka GMUNK), Nidia Dias, Jody MacDonald, and Rik Oostenbroek tapped HP technology to create an otherworldly journey inspired by the sounds of alt-pop German rock duo Clemens Rehbein and Phillipp Dausch, aka Milky Chance; go behind-the-scenes and watch the final piece.

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Technology Headline News

Foundry Launches Flix 7.0

Major update includes new Maya integration and upgraded API for remote collaboration, new metadata system, enhanced Adobe Premiere plugin, Photoshop plugin redesign and updated notification preferences.

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Technology Headline News

BOXX Releases the RAXX S1G Rack-Mounted Workstation

New scalable workstation is configurable to meet the needs of engineers, product designers, architects, VFX artists, and animators and optimized to implement remote workstation capabilities for SOLIDWORKS, Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD, 3ds Max, and Maya.

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Do It in the Cloud Headline News

CoreWeave Releases New Native Blender Plug-In for Conductor

Plug-In offers CoreWeave users faster and easier rendering within creative environments, streamlining Conductor’s use with the open-source 3D software.

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Feature Film VFX VFXWorld

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.

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VFX for commercials Headline News

Impossible Objects Dreams Up ‘All Kinds of Fields’ for John Deere

Directed by Jay Walker, the spot tapped studios’ technical expertise using CG, LED volume shoot and traditional VFX to visually realize a young girl’s dream.

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Feature Film VFX VFXWorld

Scanline VFX Creates the Perfect Storm in Netflix’s ‘NYAD’

VFX Supervisor Dann Tarmy breaks down his team’s extensive use of water sims, including how they tackled the huge, new challenge of replacing water in plates where the actor was shot in the water, on Netflix’s biographical sports drama of marathon swimmer Diana Nyad’s attempts to swim from Cuba to Florida.