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Entering a New World of High-End Visuals with NVIDIA’s RTX A5000 Graphics Card

Carl Flygare, NVIDIA Professional Visualization Marketing Manager at PNY, talks about virtual production, changes in the M&E landscape, and the many virtues of the NVIDIA RTX™ A5000 professional graphics card, which is available at a special promotional price for a limited time.

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Representation! Headline News

Workinman Interactive Workers Unionize

The workers are backed by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) and recently filed a petition for representation election with the NLRB.

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Holiday Stories Headline News

Curiosity Ink Media Sets ‘Snow Boy’ Release

Watch the teaser for the D.M. Farrell and Glenn Thomas title about how a snow person finds friendship, community, and family, available September 19, the first of four new books with stories that lean into the holiday season.

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Different Day Different Doomsday VFXWorld

From Sensei to Biker: Wētā FX Takes Pogo for a Ride in ‘Umbrella Academy’

The leading visual effects company, led by VFX Supervisor Chris White, revisits one of the Netflix series most compelling – and fully CG – characters in Season 3’s ‘Marigold’ episode, nominated for an Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Single Episode Emmy.

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Technology Headline News

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.

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We Want More Snoopy Presents! ANIMATIONWorld

Marcie Steps into the Spotlight with her Own ‘Snoopy Presents’ Special

With today’s Apple TV+ debut of ‘One-of-a-Kind Marcie,’ executive producer Craig Schulz and director Raymond S. Persi continue the franchise’s recent focus on lesser-known ‘Peanuts’ characters, this time in a charming, all-new story of the gang’s shy, kindhearted introvert who finally finds her own, unique way to help her friends.

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Technology Headline News

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.

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The Road to Turin Headline News

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.

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Who Doesn’t Love The Wall? ANIMATIONWorld

Sydney Ryan Talks ‘Solar Opposites’ Season 4 Hijinks

The Hulu sci-fi comedy’s Emmy Award-winning supervising producer discusses the new season, including more mayhem in The Wall, new Silvercops adventures, and actor Dan Stevens replacing Justin Roiland, the show’s co-creator, as the voice of Korvo; all-new episodes debut today, August 14.

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Business Headline News

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.

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Technology Headline News

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.

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Technology Headline News

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.

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Technology Headline News

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.

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Technology Headline News

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.

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Technology Headline News

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.

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Technology Headline News

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.

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VFX for TV Headline News

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.

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Together in Solidarity Headline News

In Solidarity: An Open Letter from WIA President Marge Dean

Women in Animation’s president announces the ‘Animating Resilience: Surviving and Thriving in an Uncertain Industry’ series to empower and support industry professionals and students during ‘these tough times.’

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Technology Headline News

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.

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A Deep Dive into the 1941 Industry Strike Headline News

‘The Disney Revolt’ Coming in Paperback this September

Jake S. Friedman’s seminal book, 'The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation’s Golden Age,' about an important, mostly unreported piece of Disney studio history, the 1941 animator’s strike led by the famed Art Babbitt, now available in hardbound, will arrive in a softbound version this Fall.

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