New streamlined workflow features include new physically based rendering engine for hyper-realistic 3D characters and scenes, adaptive rigging, custom parameter palettes, and more.
Dover Studios co-founder Andrew Hazelden releases PlayblastVR, a new renderer for Softimage that creates hardware rendered panoramic 360 degree images using OpenGL.
Stop-motion/CG-animated hybrid short written and directed by Ty Coyle and Bill Dorais is the follow-up to last year’s ‘Enjoy the Sweets.’
David Sheldon-Hicks, Marti Romances and Peter Eszenyi share how they cued off authentic NASA mission control systems to bring realistic computer UI designs to Ridley Scott’s sci-fi hit.
KeyShot 6 takes 3D models from concept shot to high quality visual even easier than before.
Eighth ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Conference and Exhibition brought together over 7,000 computer graphics professionals, technologists, researchers, enthusiasts and trade visitors hailing from 49 countries across the globe.
Cautious yet flexible expansion at one of China’s top VFX studios has caught the attention of both the Middle Kingdom and Hollywood’s biggest players.
Design and visual effects software business The Foundry welcomes former Shine CEO.
One of Us and Milk VFX brave the elements in their work on Baltasar Kormakur’s action adventure.
Real-time motion capture plug-in for high definition Kinect Xbox One turns iClone 6 Pro into an instant motion capture studio solution.
Animation supervisor Nick Bruno, art director Nash Dunnigan, lead color designer Vincent Nguyen, lighting supervisor Jeeyun Sung Chisolm and colorist Natasha Leonnet discuss the challenges of bringing Charles Shulz’s iconic characters to life in the latest CG-animated feature from Blue Sky Studios.
Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox release trailer for ‘Cosmic Scrat-Tastrophe’ short teasing ‘Ice Age 5’ and playing in theaters ahead of ‘The Peanuts Movie.’
Stock climbs 14 percent for the Jeffrey Katzenberg-led animation studio as revenues rise to $259 million and DWA revises projection for year to a $30 million profit.
Deadline for submissions to the Autodesk Games Reel set to debut next year at GDC 2016 is December 14.
Autodesk Flame now available as a software-only product with customers choosing their own qualified Linux hardware packages; sales of Flame as a turnkey system to be discontinued early next year.
For the first time ever, SIGGRAPH Asia introduces the Symposium on Education and the Symposium on Visualization in High Performance Computing.
New trailer introduces J.K. Simmons as the supernatural villain Kai in DreamWorks Animation’s forthcoming CG animated feature, ‘Kung Fu Panda 3.’
Ten-week certificate course from the National Film and Television School offers one guaranteed paid job contract at the studio and production company co-founded by Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish.
Vicon T40 cameras help Framestore capture the intensity of climbing Mount Everest for epic action-thriller ‘Everest.’
Veteran Pixar DP explains how complex lighting studies and concept paintings done in Wyoming’s Big Sky country helped her capture the beauty of the outdoors in new ways never before seen at the studio.
New appointment bolsters computer vision and facial animation specialist's management team.
Cinesite creates the VFX for key sequences in the movie, including the Queen Witch’s resurrection, an epic battle scene and CG magical effects.
Manchester and Westby-based animation studio creates cinematic CG-animated game trailer for ‘War of Tanks: Rubicon X.’
New appointment follows recent company reorganization; Adam Wood, Teunis De Raat and Luke Carroll named VPs.
Co-director of Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ to deliver keynote address at SIGGRAPH Asia 2015, running November 2-5 in Kobe, Japan.
