21 Top Film Festivals Co-Curate Online We Are One: A Global Film Festival
Free 10-day digital festival, featuring 100 films, including DreamWorks shorts and Annecy animation selections, begins May 29 on YouTube.
Category: Technology
Wallace & Gromit Join the AR World with ‘The Big Fix Up’
Augmented reality experience from Aardman and Fictioneers consortium introduces their innovative new storytelling technology platform, using Unity tools, backed by UK government funding.
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Red Giant Introduces Lens Distortion Tool in VFX Suite 1.5
New release adds to collection of keying, tracking, cleanup, and visual effects compositing tools new feature to match any lens distortion.
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How Proof’s Fully Animated Previs Helped Save the ‘The Blacklist’ Season Finale
With production shutdown due to COVID-19, the hit NBC series finished its final Season 7 episode by integrating 20+ minutes of toon-shaded animation with live-action.
‘The Loud House & The Casagrandes Hangin’ At Home’ Virtual Animated Special Airs May 23
Using Adobe Character Animator and voice actors recording from home, Nickelodeon creates animated half-hour special hosted by Lincoln and Ronnie Anne; ‘The Loud House SmartyPants Challenge trivia competition follows beginning May 25.
Tips on Running a Remote Animation Studio
Agora.Studio co-founders David Hubert and Jacob Gardner discuss work-for-hire dynamics and strategies for building viable remotely connected teams.
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Arch Platform Technologies Launches Powerful Cloud-Based VFX Platform
New technology helps entertainment industry scale without constraints, benefiting from solution’s highly secure and scalable infrastructure.
Final Frontier Creates League of Legends Epic for OPPO
Director Hans-Christoph Schultheiss crafts full CG face-off pitting eSports champions FunPlusX against a formidable array of opponents.
Escape Studios Launches Virtual VFX Festival Series
Annual celebration of visual effects moves online for ongoing series of sessions running up until 2021 edition planned in London next February.
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Dell Launches New Portfolio of Innovative and Sustainable Commercial Workstations
New devices announced across the Latitude, Precision and OptiPlex PC lines with 5G support, plus AI-based productivity, thermal, and security enhancements.
Even a Pandemic Can’t Stop Politics from Being Funny on ‘Tooning Out the News’
Quickly retooling their production in the face of COVID-19, executive producers R.J. Fried and Tim Luecke continue bringing us a sorely needed daily animated dose of hilarious political satire.
Animayo 2020: Virtual Event Continues May 16-17
Sign-ups still open for upcoming masterclasses, featuring both Spanish and international industry experts; registration deadline is Friday, May 15.
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SIGGRAPH 2020 Announces Technical Research Papers Selections
163 projects from 24 countries have been chosen, representing innovative, cutting-edge research across a wide range of computer graphics fields.
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Submit Your Technical Papers to SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 by May 21
Deadline is only one week away; conference wants your research papers that introduce new and innovative ideas in a wide range of computer graphics fields.
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Eric Demeusy’s Indie Sci-Fi Thriller ‘PROXIMITY’ Launching May 15 on VOD
The Emmy Award-winning VFX artist leverages his animation and visual effects experience to craft a suspenseful film about a young NASA scientist obsessed with proving he was abducted by aliens.
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Unity’s ‘The Heretic’ Digital Human Character Package Now Available
Digital Human character and technology stack used in company’s short film project now available as a free download.
Annecy 2020 Announces Online Mifa Program
Running June 15-30, the digital market and business conference will feature an extensive mix of pitch sessions, meetings, press conferences, and access to the latest animated projects.
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First Look: Unreal Engine 5 Moving Towards High-End Photorealism
Slated for release in 2021, Epic Game’s next generation game engine looks to achieve photorealism on par with movie CG.
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Fresh Takes: New ‘Quarantoon’ Series ‘Gnat & Tina’ Episode 1
Brandon Martin and Eric J. Trujillo’s 100% quarantine-produced 2D animated short, about two bored houseflies looking to experience the world, is the first of a bi-weekly animated series.
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Ziva Dynamics Completes $7M Seed Financing Round
Leading character simulation software company expects to double staff and expand R&D, sales and marketing.
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Sign-Up Now for NVIDIA Webinar: Ray Tracing Essentials May 12
Computer graphics guru Eric Haines will share his expertise as he covers key concepts in ray tracing.
Rising Sun Pictures Celebrates 25th Anniversary
Adelaide, South Australia-based VFX production house today marks 25 years creating visual effects for some of Hollywood’s biggest films.
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FuseFX Gives Us the ‘Upload’ on Amazon’s New Sci-Fi Comedy Series
Production VFX supervisor Marshall Krasser walks through some of the 1,400 visual effects shots his team produced on Greg Daniel’s new Amazon Original series just released May 1.
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15th International Summit Animayo Virtual Edition Coming May 15 -17
Oscar qualifying Spanish animation festival embarks on virtual journey, offering free masterclasses with an international line-up of artists and creators.
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Scaling for Episodic VFX
How visual effects studio Rocket Science safeguards innovation while riding the constant, complex waves of episodic TV.
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