Call for Submissions: 4th Edition of THU’s Talent League
Trojan Horse was a Unicorn’s free 12-week program provides mentorships, support and a platform to promote a new generation of talent; application deadline is July 8.
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Foundry Releases Mari 7.0
Updates and enhancements include new baking tools, texturing content, and USD 23.05 and VFX Reference Platform 2023 support; team licensing is now available.
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Foundry Rolls Out Nuke, Katana and Mari Updates
Now available, Nuke 15.0 bolsters doubles training speeds in CopyCat tool; all product updates include compliance with VFX Reference Platform 2023; Katana 7.0 and Mari 7.0. coming soon.
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CoreWeave Completes Conductor Cloud-Based Rendering Service Integration
Customers can now access expansive compute resources including NVIDIA RTX A5000-A6000 graphic cards for VFX, animation, and motion graphics workloads; check out the demo at SIGGRAPH 2023, running August 6-10 in LA.
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Houdini Now Supported by Conductor
Plug-in allows easy integration and access to cloud-based resources enabling users to submit renders without leaving the app.
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Chaos Czech Releases Corona Renderer 7 for 3ds Max
Update features 35 new presets for glass, metal, and fabric, and new Physical Material for deeper control; newly optimized features boost render times up to 50%.
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Chaos’ CG Garage Podcast Explores NFTs
New opportunities for CG artists are emerging with the advent of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency; available episodes feature industry experts including Magnopus’ leading AR/VR developer Sally Slade and NYU professor and chair of finance David Yermack.
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RealTime Conference Announces Full Spring Lineup
The free virtual event, running April 26-28, brings together over 150 speakers from a diverse set of industries; featured topics include Cloud/Pixel streaming in Real-Time; digital humans/virtual agents; virtual production; and how real-time is transforming animation.
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Chaos Releases V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max – Update 1
New features include added support for masks, allowing users to fine tune rendered images without re-rendering or moving to another app; update supports better compositing, direct support in Light Mix, and integration with Chaos Cosmos.
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Chaos Group Releases V-Ray 5 for Cinema 4D
Upgrade combines features from V-Ray 5 and V-Ray Next, providing an easier to use rendering solution that is up to 7x faster.
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‘BobbleHeads: The Movie’: First Film Finished Remotely with Nvidia GPUs and Azure
Cher, Jennifer Coolidge, and Luke Wilson star in animated film completed remotely, during the COVID-19 pandemic, with leading cloud-based technology including Chaos Group’s V-Ray renderer.
Chaos Group Launches Chaos Vantage and ‘Building Utopia’ Contest
Join the rendering challenge focused on creating real-time animation using Vantage and a free futuristic 3D city model provided by KitBash3D; contest runs until January 25, 2021.
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Adobe’s August Nvidia Studio Driver Now Available for Download
New driver features time-saving updates for Adobe Premiere Rush and Premiere Pro including auto reframe, scene edit detection, blender cycles.
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V-Ray 5 for Maya Now Available
Updated production renderer allows users to composite renders, incorporate light path expressions, and interactively relight scenes in the new V-Ray Frame Buffer.
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Chaos Group Releases V-Ray PLE for Maya Personal Learning Edition
Free non-commercial license gives new and self-taught CG artists a chance to explore photorealistic rendering at their own pace.
The Rookies Announces World School Rankings 2019 Winners
Based on almost 3,500 entries from artists in 89 countries, 120 industry experts used a variety of criteria to award schools on how well they prepare students for careers in creative media and entertainment.
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2019 Rookie Awards Announced
Winners of competition for aspiring design and media entertainment artists selected from over 3,400 entries representing 89 countries.
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Three Major Tech Trends Surrounding VFX Adoption and Growth
The new Trusted Partner Network, MPAA Open Source software initiatives and ISV native cloud service offerings are all positively impacting cloud resource utilization.
Chaos Group Releases V-Ray for Unreal Update 1
Support for native Unreal materials and Viewport rendering bring powerful new capabilities to full user base.
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Google Cloud Announces Major Zync Render Update
Version 2.0 rewrite of cloud-hosted rendering platform provides faster job startup, increased scalability and up to 48,000 CPU render cores.
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Total Chaos Returns to Bulgaria May 16 - 18
Chaos Group’s 2nd Annual event brings together 3D artists and developers in VFX, architecture and automotive design together for a series of masterclasses in Sofia.
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Chaos Group Shows Future of GPU Rendering and Real-Time Ray Tracing at GTC 2019
New R&D unlocks unprecedented rendering speeds in V-Ray with NVIDIA’s new ray tracing hardware.
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Blur Studio Taps V-Ray for Netflix’s New NSFW ‘Love, Death & Robots’ Short Film Anthology
Production studio explores different animation styles with the help of V-Ray renderer for new anthology series now on Netflix.
The Rookies Launches 2019 Global Competition
9th annual Rookie Awards call for entries is open to all amateur creatives in VFX, animation, games, VR, motion graphics and 3D visualization.
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Chaos Group Launches One-Click Cloud Rendering Service
Unlimited rendering power for 3D artists and designers with no hidden fees.
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