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Pixotope Announces New Executive Appointments
Mixed reality software company taps media and entertainment industry veterans Phil Ventre and Vivian Yu to support its growth servicing demand for virtual production in the broadcast and APAC markets.
Shutterstock Announces NeRF AI Tech Collaborations
The visual-content provider will partner with Luma Labs AI and RECON Labs’ 3Dpresso to explore development and 3D asset publishing on Shutterstock’s Turbosquid platform; and collaborate with Voling AI on the first-ever network of creators to produce on-demand NVOL environments.
Reallusion Integrates iClone Live Sync with NVIDIA Omniverse
The updated connector enables a two-way USD synchronized character animation workflow with the 3D simulation and collaboration platform for real-time crowd generation with digital twins and AECO.
Opsive Launches Omni Animation
The new AI generation technique can be used to generate 3D humanoid animations with realistic movement, details, and depth; Omni Animation will be demonstrated at Devcom Developer Conference later this month.
‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Director Heads to VIEW 2023
Annie Award-winner Joaquim Dos Santos will present in person the ‘making of’ Sony Picture Animation’s newest voyage into the Spider-Verse; the conference takes place October 15-20 in Turin, Italy.
ND Stevenson to Join ‘Nimona’ Directors at VIEW 2023
Author of New York Times best-selling graphic novel on which Netflix’s new 3DCG adventure is based will head to Turin along with Nick Bruno and Troy Quane to present their film in-person; the conference takes place October 15-20.
Kevin J. Johnson Joins Saffronic as Executive Creative Director
Company adds the 30-year animation veteran to spearhead creative content management and to lead ongoing productions.
Puget Systems Debuts Generative AI and Machine Learning Server
The new customizable rackmount machine supports up to four NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada graphics cards to host web-based chat interface for large language models.
NVIDIA's ‘Neuralangelo’ Source Code Now Available
The AI model transforms 2D video clips into detailed 3D structures for export and use in design applications across art, game dev, robotics, and digital twins.
Devcom Developers Conference 2023
The hybrid event, featuring talks, panels, and workshops from experts across the global games industry, will take place August 20-22 in Cologne, Germany.
European Conference on Visual Media Production 2023
The 20th ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production brings together worlds of academic algorithmic research and post-production to discuss new advancements and innovative applications; the conference will take place November 11– December 1, 2023.
Impossible Objects Gets Unreal on GM OnStar Campaign
Team uses state-of-the-art virtual production and real-time technology, including Unreal Engine and disguise, to highlight expanded tech capabilities of OnStar’s offerings – without ever having to hit the road; check out ‘From The Lab: Building the OnStar’ to see how.
Arcturus Named Go-To-Market Partner for Microsoft’s Mixed Reality Capture Studios
The volumetric video tech leader’s new pipeline offers complete, photorealistic end-to-end solutions, from capture to distribution, for content creators on any size project.
NVIDIA Makes Extended-Reality Streaming More Scalable with CloudXR Suite
The updated software-hardware combination brings high-quality XR to more enterprises and developers, enabling high-fidelity, immersive environments for anyone with an AIO headset or mobile XR device.
Shutterstock Brings Generative AI to 3D Scene Backgrounds with NVIDIA Picasso
Using cutting-edge tools, the visual-content provider now lets users quickly create and customize 3D scene backgrounds.
NVIDIA Announces Powerful New RTX Workstations and GPUs
Desktops from BOXX, Dell, HP, and Lenovo feature NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada GPUs and incorporate NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise software; 3 new desktop workstation Ada Generation GPUs - NVIDIA RTX 5000, RTX 4500, and RTX 4000 - also announced.
NVIDIA Reveals New Resources to Accelerate OpenUSD Adoption
Newly announced Omniverse Cloud APIs include ChatUSD, Run USD, DeepSearch and USD-GDN Publisher, giving developers more power to seamlessly implement and deploy OpenUSD pipelines and apps.
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.
NVIDIA Rolls Out Major Updates to NVIDIA Omniverse
Today at SIGGRAPH 2023, the tech giant revealed the newest improvements and additions to its foundation platform and services for developers to optimize and enhance 3D pipelines with the OpenUSD framework and generative AI.
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.
AWS Releases AWS Thinkbox Deadline 10.3 for UE5
New Unreal Engine 5 plugin leverages existing render setups and scalability so cloud-based resources can accelerate final-pixel outputs; also updates DCC apps, including Adobe After Effects 2023, Autodesk Maya 2024, Autodesk 3ds Max 2024, Autodesk VRED 2023 and Maxon Cinema 4D 2023.
Unity Unveils New Unity Wētā Tools Division at SIGGRAPH 2023
Leading platform for real-time 3D (RT3D) content and experience creation will showcase groundbreaking work in character creation, environment building, rendering, and compositing; live keynote today from August 7 2pm - 3pm PDT.
NIM Labs Launches NIM 6.0 Studio Management Platform
All-in-one system gets redesigned for speed and efficiency to help studios and freelancers bid for jobs of any size while keeping track of their bottom line.
Academy Software Foundation Launches OpenPBR MaterialX Subproject
The new open source shading model succeeds Autodesk Standard Surface and Adobe Standard Material; Open Source Days ‘23 event kicks off August 6.