Napster Co-Founder Sean Parker Makes ‘Significant’ Investment in Weta Digital
Billionaire philanthropist and entrepreneur, Facebook’s first president, partners with VFX pioneer to help fund studio’s growth.
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Epic Games Releases Unreal Engine 4.23
Latest release includes set of new features supporting virtual production, real-time ray tracing, massive-scale physics and destruction.
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Technicolor Adds Steffen Wild as New Head of Virtual Production
Industry veteran joins company’s pre-production studio to help merge previs, techvis and postvis together into flexible, storyteller-focused integrated production pipeline.
The Future of Animation
Interactive, Immersive, Intelligent.
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Taking on the ‘Lion’s’ Share of the Work
VFX powerhouse MPC's animation supervisor Stephen Enticott discusses how the studio balanced photorealism with emotion while crafting the engaging performances in ‘The Lion King,’ Disney’s latest hit animated classic remake.
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The ‘Marvel’ Behind Real-Time On-Set Visualization of Digital Hulk and Thanos
Profile Studios’ Matt Madden shares how virtually integrating Mark Ruffalo and Josh Brolin with CG assets, live, on set, gave ‘Endgame’ and ‘Infinity War’ filmmakers the immediate viewing access they needed to continually adjust and refine the film’s key digital character performances.
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Epic Games Releases Free Virtual Production Field Guide
Downloadable document provides filmmakers with practical tips in a variety of crafts, from VFX to stunts.
Foundry Names Jody Madden As New CEO
Company veteran has held several senior executive positions prior to taking the helm, effective immediately.
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It’s Full Steam Ahead for Foundry’s Post-Acquisition Mission
For co-founder and chief scientist Simon Robinson, Roper Technologies’ company purchase better enables the patient, long-term management perspective needed to successfully innovate and support a rapidly changing digital content creation industry.
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NVIDIA Launches NVIDIA Studio High Performance Platform
17 new RTX Studio laptops pair RTX GPUs with NVIDIA Studio Stack of SDKs and drivers to significantly improve performance and reliability for content creators.
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Reallusion Launches Cartoon Animator 4 2D Animation System
New system, formerly known as CrazyTalk Animator, provides fast and versatile tools to help novices and professionals easily and expertly design and animate.
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Stuttgart’s FMX 2019 Concludes: More Than 280 Speakers and 4,000 Attendees
Capacity crowds help one of the world’s most important animation and visual effects conferences fully embrace its theme of 'Bridging the Gap' between people and projects from around the world.
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Breaking Boundaries in Beijing
With a production panel and a project announcement at this year’s Beijing International Film Festival.
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NVIDIA RTX Powering Game-Changing Workflows at NAB 2019
From real-time virtual production and mixed-reality broadcasts to delivering cinematic-quality visuals and faster than real-time 8K transcoding, NVIDIA GPUs are powering demos for more than 85 partners at the world’s biggest broadcast trade show.
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The Mill Launches Mill Mascot Virtual Production System
Mill Mascot combines real-time game engine technology with motion sensors so characters can be puppeteered through hand and facial gestures to enable live, broadcast-quality CG character performances.
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Glassbox Technologies Launches with Real-Time Virtual Production Workflows
Virtual production specialists announce private betas for two key solutions -- DragonFly and BeeHive -- for Unreal Engine, Unity 3D and Autodesk Maya that will be made publicly available later this year.
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WATCH: Kevin Margo Releases 12-Minute Hi-Tech ‘CONSTRUCT’ Short
VFX veteran leads 75-artist team, using state-of-the-art virtual production technology, to tell the story of an android’s battle against a gang of robots.
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Milk Visual Effects Weathers the Rendering Storm on ‘Adrift’
Studio scales up 10x over onsite render capacity by leveraging AWS Cloud and Thinkbox’s Deadline.
Zhanna Bekmambetova Spreads Her Creative Wings With ‘Tweet-Tweet’
First animated film project for both director and Russian VFX house CGF Studio centers around a young girl and her fearless companion…a sparrow.
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Reallusion Releases iClone Motion LIVE Full-Body Mocap System
Solution integrates multi-device capture of face, body and hands into new real-time motion tracking platform.
MPC Film Advances the Craft of Visual Effects at SIGGRAPH 2018
Studio group announces its extensive schedule of talks and presentations for the upcoming computer graphics conference and exhibition in Vancouver.
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SIGGRAPH 2018 to Spotlight Creators and Pioneers in Games at Real-Time Live!
Creators, visionaries and pioneers from the world’s leading studios within the games industry to be showcased at SIGGRAPH 2018, running August 12-16 in Vancouver.
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Silver Spoon Opens New York MoCap Studio
New 12,000 square foot Brooklyn facility provides comprehensive capture, scanning and post processing services.
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Inside the OASIS: ILM’s Roger Guyett Talks ‘Ready Player One’
Industrial Light & Magic Artists creates the virtual reality world the OASIS for director Steven Spielberg’s mind-bending joyride.
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16th Annual VES Awards
Begins: February 13, 2018
Each year, the VES Awards recognizes and honors the most outstanding visual effects of the year as well as the creative professionals responsible for creating them.
