Chaos Releases V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max – Update 2
New MaterialX and USD Support, faster workflows, and V-Ray GPU updates and enhancements allow artists to complete their USD pipeline with smooth photoreal rendering across teams and tools in real-time.
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Warner Bros. Drops First Trailer for ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’
A young Furiosa, played by Anya Taylor-Joy, is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde in the standalone action adventure revealing the origins of the fan-favorite character from ‘Mad Max: Fury Road;’ the film hits theaters nationwide May 24, 2024.
Unity Terminates Working Agreement with Wētā FX, Lays off 265 Workers
2 years after purchasing the VFX company’s tools, pipeline, technology and engineering talent pool, the company moves to refocus on video game development, with a goal to become a major player in the professional M&E market; it will also shutter 14 offices.
The Journey of Virtual Humans
A conversation with Asian Virtual Human Association director Christopher Chen.
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Metaphysic Names Ed Ulbrich CCO
As chief content officer and EVP of production, the 30+ year VFX veteran will oversee all production, new business development, and content partnerships.
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‘Letter to a Pig’: Traumatic Memory Through the Eyes of Youthful Imagination
Filmmaker Tal Kantor’s first solo short film uses live-action and hand-drawn animation to tackle the heavy and complex subject of a Holocaust survivor addressing a classroom full of students, sharing a letter he wrote to the pig who saved his life, and how reality, memory, and imagination blend together in one young schoolgirl’s reaction.
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VIEW Conference 2023 On-Demand Now Live
Keynotes, panels, talks, workshops, and masterclasses from Italy’s premier event on Computer Graphics, Interactive Techniques, Digital Cinema, 2D/3D Animation, VR and AR, Gaming, and VFX now streaming; All-Access and Light Pass tickets on sale now.
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Scanline VFX Takes a Big Bite Out of ‘Meg 2: The Trench’
The studio delivers 590 shots across 20 sequences, including the prehistoric opening, the final battle, and loads of creature work on a T. rex, giant octopus, snappers, and megalodon triumvirate of Apex, Haiqui, and Bob, in Jason Stathom and Warner Bros.’ ‘The Meg’ sequel.
3Dconnexion Ups their Ergonomic Game with SpaceMouse Pro Wireless Bluetooth Edition
The company’s powerful, ergonomically designed SpaceMouse 3D, CadMouse, and Keyboard Pro are providing improved creative workflows and professional-grade comfort to artists in the animation and game industries.
‘Cyberpunk 2077’ to Drop 3D Immersive Times Square Billboard Takeover
Tomorrow, November 18, the Google, NVIDIA GeForce NOW, and CD PROJEKT RED activation, promoting the cloud gaming power of Chromebook Plus, will share a discoverable Easter egg code clue for ‘Cyberpunk’ fans.
2023 Monolith Creative Award Winners Revealed
Wrapping up Infinity Festival Hollywood’s 6th edition, the awards presentation honored visionaries in the fields of television, film, gaming, fine art and their contributions to storytelling and technology.
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Lenovo Reveals ThinkStation P8 Tower Workstation
Powered by AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-series processors and NVIDIA RTX graphics cards, the new workstation, designed for the most challenging workloads, is coming Q1 2024.
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Impossible Objects Gets Unreal on PIA & Anymize’s ‘Follow the Toad’ Music Video
Working from just a single day on-stage with an LED wall, the studio’s virtual production harnessed Unreal Engine to create an expansive world for the battle between good and evil in a style reminiscent of iconic tales from the film and gaming realm.
Watch: Ingenuity Studios’ ‘Black Cake’ VFX Breakdown Reel
The VFX house delivers 700+ shots across all 8 episodes of Season 1 of Hulu’s drama mystery series based on Charmaine Wilkerson's debut novel about a family wrapped in a murder mystery.
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PXO to Run Sony Pictures’ LED Volume on Stage 7
SPE’s award-winning virtual production and VFX company assumes operation of the virtual production stage located on the historic Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City.
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BOXX Releases APEXX S4 Workstation with Intel Core i7 and i9 14th Gen Processors
The new CPUs are optimized for CAD, 3D design and motion media apps such as Autodesk 3ds Max, Maya, AutoCAD, SOLIDWORKS, Cinema 4D and Adobe Creative Cloud.
Katzenberg Ahoy!
Are you a creator or a cog?
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AMD Announces New AMD Radeon PRO W7700 Graphics Card
The new card, priced under $1,000, delivers reliable and stable performance for content creation, AI applications, and CAD, offering a double-digit performance increase in key professional applications compared to competitive cards.
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Alkemy X’s Creative Studio Adds Eyepie to Commercial Roster
The Hudson Valley, New York-based creative agency, led by husband-wife duo Laney Coletti-Saracino and David Saracino, offers services blending artistic vision with technical expertise.
OptiTrack Unveils New Advanced MoCap Cameras
The PrimeX 120, PrimeX 120W and SlimX 120 boast higher resolution and larger tracking areas and are now available for pre-order.
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Call for Submissions: 4th Edition of the Next Lab Generation Workshop
The annual initiative seeks to discover new talent and boost advanced animation production from a technical and narrative perspective; entries accepted from individuals and groups – the deadline is December 13.
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Duality AI Releases FalconCloud and FalconEditor Digital Twin Tools
Product suite additions enable powerful collaborative workflows; editor uses 3D techniques to create and modify simulation-ready digital twins while cloud-based tool supports large scale high-fidelity simulations anywhere - directly from a web browser.
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Behind the First Time, Self-Taught 3D Animation Production of ‘Love Virtually’
For Cheston Mizel and L.E. Staiman, adding animation to their debut live-action feature film wasn’t planned, but their absurdist retro-future rom-com needed it, so after months of 14-hour days spent learning mocap, 3D software, and Unreal Engine, and with the help of virtual experience company Hi From The Future, their hybrid satire is now available.
Rock Star Animation Directors Talk ‘Breaking Tech’ at SCAD Savannah Film Fest
‘Trolls Band Together’s Walt Dohrn, ‘TMNT: Mutant Mayhem’s Jeff Rowe, ‘Elemental’s Peter Sohn, ‘Nimona’s Troy Quane and Nick Bruno, and ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’s Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson, and Kemp Powers discuss how this year’s wild, unique, and weird animated films are wowing audiences using technology not even available only a few years ago.
Move AI Releases ‘Move One’ Motion Capture App
The single-camera application provides realistic motion data captured anywhere with just an iPhone.
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