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How NVIDIA’S Omniverse is Helping Shape the Future of 3D Production

By Dan Sarto | Thursday, March 30, 2023 at 8:00am

The company’s General Manager of M&E, Richard Kerris, takes a deep dive into the processes and promise of NVIDIA’s groundbreaking creative platform.

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SCAD Alumnus Creates New 2D Lighting Tools for ‘The Pope’s Dog’ Short

Former visual effects student Noah Catan spent over a year working to improve upon the 2D ‘Klaus’ innovative 3D-styled lighting and shading in his development of Pantheon: Volumetric Lighting for 2D Animation software, created specifically for the production of SCAD Animation Studios’ CTA Emmy nominated animated short.

Don’t You Just Hate Evil Runaway AI! VFXWorld

‘Pleroma’: Can A Robot Prototype Save Workers from an Unleashed AI?

Visual effects supervisor Chris Browne has big plans for his sci-fi project originally conceived as a feature film and TV series – he created 200 digitally augmented shots with photoreal robots, virtual environments, and swarming drone bots for the short film proof-of-concept.

VFX for TV Headline News

NVIZ Harnesses Unreal Engine for Netflix’s ‘Shadow and Bone’ Season 2 Previs

Leading visualization company provides key techvis to help the production team make informed creative and financial decisions by first enabling exploration of virtual scenes and providing what amounted to a ‘digital storyboard.’

Conferences Events

SIGGRAPH 2023

Begins: August 6, 2023

The premier conference and exhibition on computer graphics and interactive techniques runs August 6-10 in Los Angeles and online.

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Wild Capture Joins NVIDIA Inception

Program nurtures startups by providing access to collective resources of the extensible NVIDIA Omniverse platform based on USD, in turn accelerating development of AI-Driven Volumetric Video Technologies for Digital Human Fidelity.

The Newest Fab Headline News

KitBash3D Teams with Epic Games on Digital Asset Library

10,000+ digital assets are coming to Fortnite creators via Fab, Epic’s new creator marketplace, now available in its Alpha Version.

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disguise Announces Platform Integration with NVIDIA Omniverse

The new collaboration allows artists to connect their preferred content creation tools in a unified production pipeline for faster, easier changes and enhanced content production, with a lower barrier of entry for accessing M&E workflows.

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Shutterstock Teams With NVIDIA on Generative AI 3D Artist Tools

By Dan Sarto | Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at 3:33pm

The two companies are partnering to build custom models for creating generative 3D assets for entertainment and gaming by training the NVIDIA Picasso cloud service using simple text prompts.

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VANAS Conference Digital Entertainment - 2023

By VANAS | Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at 1:51pm
Begins: October 20, 2023

Get ready to embark on an unforgettable journey of learning and inspiration with the upcoming VANAS Conference! Our team is currently hard at work curating a lineup of world-class speakers who are at the forefront of Animation, Visual Effects, and Video Games.

 

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NVIDIA and Getty Images Collaborate on Generative AI Tools

By Dan Sarto | Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at 1:39pm

Just announced joint effort will focus on using NVIDIA Picasso to produce customized text-to-image and text-to-video models using fully licensed visual content.

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New NVIDIA RTX Ada GPUs to Power Next-Gen Laptop and Desktop Workstations

By Dan Sarto | Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at 12:11pm

6 new GPUs, available this month, will be featured in computers from system builders like BOXX, HP and Lenovo, offering accelerated computing power for collaborative content creation, design, and AI-augmented applications.

People Headline News

MELS’ President Martin Carrier to Step Down

TVA Group announced that the company leader, who expanded the business while launching a virtual production platform service during the pandemic, is leaving his position to pursue new challenges; existing executive team will establish a leadership transition plan and ensure continuity in company’s business activities.

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Flawless AI Names Peter Busch Chief Strategic Officer

The film and TV AI tech company adds AI and facial animation technology veteran to leadership roster, joining former Lionsgate COO Jen Hollingsworth and company’s co-founders and co-CEOs Scott Mann and Nick Lynes.

Truly the Bear Necessities VFXWorld

Robin Hollander Talks ‘Cocaine Bear,’ Wētā FX’s New Favorite Project

The VFX supervisor shares his studio’s fun, old-school visual effects work on Elizabeth Banks’ horror comedy based on the true story of a black bear, sometimes known as Pablo Escobear, who fatally ingested 75 pounds of cocaine dropped by smugglers in the Tennessee wilderness in 1985.

VFX is Happening in Quebec Headline News

CAFÉ Returns May 16 for 2nd Edition

Hosted by the Quebec Film and Television Council, the Montréal-based event is now open for registration; this year's focus is technology, creativity, and industry – wellness at work and inclusion.

Heading to Stuttgart Headline News

FMX 2023 Program Now Online

The 4-day hybrid event returns to Stuttgart April 25-27 with an exclusive online day April 28; confirmed presentations include the creative and technical journey of Netflix’s ‘1899’ and Digital Domain’s use of Charlatan, its neural network for ‘deep fake’-like face replacements on Disney+’s ‘She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.’

That Dang Quantum Realm! Headline News

RSP Heads to the Quantum Realm with ‘Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania’ VFX

The Australian-based visual effects studio delivers 270 shots for Peyton Reed and Marvel’s MCU Phase 5 kick-off, including augmenting and then destroying the massive Celestium fortress and visualizing Kang’s 3D multiverse map.

MoonRay Arives for Everyone! Headline News

DreamWorks Animation Releases Open Source ‘MoonRay’

Previously announced at SIGGRAPH 2022, the production renderer is now available, in an industry standard CMake environment, complete with a new documentation website, restructured libraries, reduced dependencies, and referenced open source packages.

What’s Cookin? VFXWorld

Crafty Apes Prepares the Main VFX Course on ‘The Menu’

Visual Effects Supervisor Marc Smith and Compositing Supervisor Tanner Bartlett talk burning coals and a chef so hot he’s actually on fire, in Mark Mylod’s dark comedy about a truly cutthroat kitchen, starring Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy, now streaming on HBO Max.

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Framestore Shares ‘Enjoy the Ride’ Formula 1 Spot Breakdown Reel

Studio collaborates with Sky Creative from pre-production through shoot and VFX to create an adrenaline-fueled spot to celebrate the start of the 2023 racing season.

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