Crossing the Uncanny Valley: MPC Crafts CG Rachael for ‘Blade Runner 2049’
VFX supervisor Richard Clegg raises the bar on photorealistic digital doubles in Denis Villeneuve's hit follow-up to the 1982 sci-fi classic directed by Ridley Scott.
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GALLERY: The Cinematography of ‘My Little Pony: The Movie’
Gallery of process images from ‘My Little Pony: The Movie’ cinematographer Anthony Di Ninno showcases the work that went into crafting the final film.
Lights, Camera, Action: The Cinematography of ‘My Little Pony: The Movie’
Cinematographer Anthony Di Ninno discusses virtual cameras, staging, lighting, the advantages of a hybrid 2D/3D pipeline, and more for the new animated feature based on Hasbro’s ‘My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic’ television series.
Highly Suitable Work: Luma Pictures Tackles ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’
VFX supervisor Kevin Souls leads Los Angeles and Melbourne teams handling almost 500 key shots on the first ‘Spider-Man’ film within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Chaos Group Brings GPU+CPU Hybrid Rendering to V-Ray 3.6 for Maya
New technology breaks hardware barrier, ensuring fast, consistent rendering; support for Maya 2018.
Animal Logic Open Sources USDMaya Plugin
Animal Logic has announced the open source release of its USDMaya plugin AL_USDMaya, which enables powerful and efficient authoring and editing of 3D graphics data using Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (USD) in Autodesk’s Maya.˙
In 3D, Cartoons, CG, Event, Films, Production, Technology, Visual Effects | ANIMATIONWorld, Headline News, VFXWorld | Special Events: SIGGRAPH | Geographic Region: North America
Google Cloud Platform’s ZYNC Render Now Supports Autodesk 3ds Max
Google to showcase technology preview of V-Ray GPU for Autodesk Maya on ZYNC Render and more at SIGGRAPH 2017.
In 3D, Business, CG, Event, Technology, Visual Effects | ANIMATIONWorld, Headline News, VFXWorld | Special Events: SIGGRAPH | Geographic Region: All, North America
Autodesk Highlights Next-Gen Storytelling & Collaboration Tools at SIGGRAPH 2017
Recent updates for collections, Maya, Shotgun, Arnold, 3ds Max and Flame accelerate creative workflows.
In 3D, Business, CG, Event, Technology, AR/VR/XR, Visual Effects | ANIMATIONWorld, Headline News, VFXWorld | Special Events: SIGGRAPH | Geographic Region: All, North America
Massive Announces AI-Controlled Horse & Rider Agent
New crowd simulation agent delivers lifelike, feature film quality movements recorded by one of the world’s leading motion capture studios.
In 3D, CG, Event, People, Technology, Visual Effects | ANIMATIONWorld, Headline News, VFXWorld | Special Events: SIGGRAPH | Geographic Region: All, Australia, North America
Massive Debuts Massive Prime 9.0 at SIGGRAPH 2017
Industry-leading simulation tool features improved workflow for creating crowds, expanded shading options, and universal plugin to ensure compatibility with all major 3D software.
In 3D, CG, Event, People, Technology, Visual Effects | ANIMATIONWorld, Headline News, VFXWorld | Special Events: SIGGRAPH | Geographic Region: All, Australia, North America
PipelineFX’s Qube! Means Smooth Sailing for Qvisten
Qvisten Animation made extensive use of PipelineFX’s intelligent render farm manager and Microsoft Azure integration to complete their feature ‘Anchors Up’ on a tight timeline, relying on a shared disk image in the cloud and Qube!’s automatic resource allocation.
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Golaem Announces Release of Golaem 6
The new software version is built to give crowd technical directors more under-the-hood access to the crowd simulation engine, and provides custom artificial intelligence, an emit/kill behavior, traffic simulation behavior and improvements to the acclaimed Golaem Layout Tool.
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MPC Takes the Lead on ‘The Mummy’ Reboot
London, Montreal, Vancouver and Bangalore facilities deliver more than 1,000 VFX shots for the first installment of Universal’s ‘Dark Universe’ monster movie franchise.
Oscar-Winning Director Laurent Witz Helms ‘Cogs’ Short for AIME
CG-animated short from the director of the 2014 Academy Award-winning animated short ‘Mr. Hublot’ is produced by Luxembourg-based Zeilt Productions for agency M&C Saatchi Sydney and Australian non-profit AIME.
In 3D, CG, Commercials, People, Short Films | ANIMATIONWorld, Headline News | Geographic Region: Australia, Europe
Foundry and J Cube Partner to Improve Katana and Maya Pipelines
The software developer and R&D company work to boost the CG ecosystem with seamless and fast data transfer of layouts and geometry between 3D applications, as well as look to address wider industry problems, such as proper motion blur render of varying meshes in Maya and Katana.
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Keep it in Motion - Classic Animation Revisited: 'Bingo'
Every Thursday, Chris Robinson takes a look at films from animation’s past. Today's screening is Chris Landreth's Bingo (1998)
In 3D, Art, CG, Films, Reviews, Short Films, Technology | ANIMATIONWorld | Blogs: Let's Go Eat the Factory! | Geographic Region: All
Autodesk Teams Up with Microsoft Azure to Offer Scalable Cloud Rendering
The Microsoft Azure Batch Rendering Platform is built on the Azure Batch platform and allows users to submit render jobs through Maya, 3ds Max and Arnold, and the Azure SDK allows customization and open-source plugins to integrate directly with Maya and 3ds Max.
Nimble Collective Announces Partnership with Cal State Summer Arts Program
Scholarships available for for CG animation course led by Aubry Mintz alongside guest artists Rex Grignon, Jason Schleifer, Scott LaFleur and Jennifer Dahlman.
Crafty Apes Delivers Subtle VFX for ‘Hidden Figures’
Team of 20 artists employs Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya to create CG environments and effects, including period-era technology reminiscent of 1960s Russian and NASA space programs.
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Chaos Group Releases V-Ray 3.5 for Maya
Fast adaptive lights and major GPU rendering improvements now available in latest update of Academy Award-winning renderer recently used on ‘The Fate of the Furious,’ ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ and ‘Stranger Things.’
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Halon Takes On Previs, Postvis and Final VFX for ‘Kong: Skull Island’
Postvis/VFX supervisor Teftt Smith II discusses the Santa Monica studio’s work on nearly 300 shots from previs through final delivery.
Chaos Group Releases All-in-one Fluid Dynamics Plugin Phoenix FD 3 for Autodesk Maya
Fire, smoke, liquid and ocean simulations now possible directly in Maya; FLIP Solver tops new feature set.
Claude Barras Delivers Heartwarming Oscar-Nominated ‘My Life as a Zucchini’
Director’s touching stop-motion feature tells moving story of a young orphan learning to trust and love again.
In 2D, CG, Films, People, Stop-Motion, Technology | ANIMATIONWorld | Special Events: Academy Awards | Geographic Region: All
Zoic Studios Protects Your Car in WeatherTech Super Bowl LI Spot
Pinnacle Advertising, Fancy Content, and Zoic Studios team up to save a car interior from ruin.
‘Piper’ and the Development of Pixar’s Presto Sculpting Brush
Along with a slew of VFX breakdown videos and images, ‘Piper’ supervising technical director Brett Levin details the tools and techniques employed on director Alan Barillaro’s Oscar-nominated CG short.
In 3D, CG, People, Production, Short Films, Technology, Visual Effects | ANIMATIONWorld, VFXWorld | Geographic Region: North America
