FMX: Film & Media Exchange 2024
Begins: April 23, 2024
The 4-day event returns to Stuttgart, kicking off April 23; on-demand presentations are available April 27 - May 31.
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Animation Dingle 2024
Begins: March 22, 2024
The 2-day festival returns to Dingle, Ireland, on March 22 for a weekend of creativity, art, and storytelling.
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FIAF’s Animation First Festival Announces Program Lineup
The event celebrates the legacy and innovation of Francophone animation with U.S. and NYC feature film premieres, ‘First Look’ presentations, filmmaker talks and a Student Short Film competition; event runs January 23-28 in NYC.
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Painting Practice Shares ‘Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Special’ Design Reel
Studio delivers concept design, hybrid virtual production previs, postvis, motion graphics, and VFX design and supervision across all three anniversary episodes - ‘The Star Beast,’ ‘Wild Blue Yonder,’ and ‘The Giggle;’ work includes creating the Doctor’s all-new Tardis interior virtual reality asset and graphic language for his new Sonic Screen.
FMX 2024 Shares First Program News
The 4-day event kicks off in Stuttgart on April 23, 2024 with a focus on ‘Connecting Ideas’ and the return of the ‘Lighting & Rendering” track; annual Animation Production Days is now accepting projects through February 6.
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IBERMEDIA NEXT Announces Co-Development Selections
Out of 104 submissions, 14 projects were chosen for support in development of Ibero-American stories through technological innovation in animation.
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SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 CAF Winners Announced
‘Moirai - Thread of Life’ takes Best in Show with Jury's Special Award going to ‘Hair Universe;’ winners among 38 films selected to screen at this year’s Electronic and Animation Theaters.
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Trailers Drop for New ‘Wallace & Gromit’ VR Game, Mini-Game
From Aardman and Atlas V comes ‘Wallace & Gromit in The Grand Getaway,’ a hilarious and cinematic sci-fi adventure, and its mini-game ‘Jamtastic!,’ a set of virtual and mixed reality games set to debut on the Meta Quest.
VIP Tickets for 51st Annie Awards Now on Sale
ASIFA-Hollywood’s annual celebration of excellence in animation is set for February 17, 2024 at UCLA’s Royce Hall; nomination announcements are coming January 11, 2024.
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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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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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BOXX Introduces APEXX T4 PRO Workstation
Featuring AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX- Series processors, the new liquid-cooled system is optimized for complex workflows and delivers top performance with creative apps such as Autodesk 3ds Max, Maya, and SOLIDWORKS.
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The Impact of AI on Hollywood
Kevin Geiger discusses disruption and opportunity.
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Connecting Ideas: FMX 2024 Returns Next April
The 28th edition, set for April 23-26, poses the question: Is the Media & Entertainment community moving closer together? Magnopus Global Director of Innovation Salomon Rogers named program chair.
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Submissions Now Open: Annecy 2024
Animation’s premier festival now accepting submissions in multiple categories, including short films, TV films, commissioned films, graduation films, feature films and VR works; registration dates for Mifa Pitch Sessions are coming next month.
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VES Announces ‘The VES Handbook of Virtual Production’ Release
The comprehensive guide to techniques and best practices, gleaned from 82 experts in VR, AR, MR, and XR technology and edited by VFX professionals Susan Zwerman VES and Jeffrey A. Okun VES, is now available for pre-order.
‘Moana’ Producer Osnat Shurer Joins Baobab Studios
The multiple Oscar nominee, named Co-Chief Creative Officer alongside Chief Creative Officer Eric Darnell, will work on the studio’s ‘Momoguro’ franchise that includes games and a series in development, as well as shows in development with Disney+.
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Retinize Ltd Launches Animotive VR Tool for 3D Animation
The immersive, real-time solution is compatible with Unity, Unreal and other industry standard software – allows remote creative collaboration through VR.
IBERMEDIA NEXT Reveals Co-Development Project Results at Pixelatl 2023
Final selections will receive funding from the Ibermedia Program initiative, which supports E.U. companies partnering with professionals/owners of Latin American IP; companies in Spain, Italy and Portugal submitted 104 projects for consideration.
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Call for Entries: 51st Annie Awards
ASIFA-Hollywood’s annual celebration of excellence in animation is set for February 17, 2024 at UCLA’s Royce Hall; the early submission deadline is October 16, with final entries accepted through December 8.
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19 NFB Films Heading to OIAF 2023
Official competition selections include ‘The Girl with the Red Beret’ by Janet Perlman, ‘Miserable Miracle’ by Ryo Orikasa, ‘HARVEY’ by Janice Nadeau and ‘Boat People’ by Thao Lam and Kjell Boersma; NFB programs include NFB HOTHOUSE@20 and Show-and-tell with the NFB Animation & Interactive Studio.
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Vu Reveals Vu One ‘All-in-One’ Virtual Production System
Innovative new platform combines state-of-the-art hardware and creative tools including the ‘Virtual Studio by Vu’ to make the latest storytelling possibilities accessible to everyone regardless of budget and technical experience.
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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.
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European Conference on Visual Media Production 2023
Begins: November 11, 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.
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