The British special effects artist, sculptor, and model maker known for his work on ‘Alien’ and ‘When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth’ passed away in his North Wales home on February 18.
The VFX supervisor on Greta Gerwig’s hit film sheds light on the various ways the famed Mattel doll and her world came to life across 1,300 shots involving various digital filmmaking tools, including virtual production, previs, postvis, CG set augmentation, and more than 20 fully CG shots, produced by Framestore, Chicken Bone FX, FuseFX, UPP, and Lola VFX.
The miniature’s artist and modelmaker shares how his theatrical set-building career morphed into ‘tiny sets,’ how to make connections in the field, and what he charges for custom commissions.
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.
Watch the breakdown real showcasing how the visual effects studio delivered 500 shots on the Paramount+ series, based on the novel ‘The Blue’ by Lucy Clarke, creating a foreboding seascape for the fleeing friends who find themselves in dangerous waters with seemingly ‘no escape.’
Gavin Friday and Bono’s film project, developed in support of the Irish Hospice Foundation, reimagines Sergei Prokofiev’s classic symphony using a juxtaposition of traditional hand-drawn 2D animation combined with a physical set-built world to tell the story of the grieving 12-year-old Peter.
Students will be taught technical skills needed for in-demand jobs to meet the industry’s growing demand in virtual reality, interactive entertainment, and virtual production environments; applications now open for Fall 2023.
Premium model kits help VFX studio quickly create new futuristic sci-fi environments for IPs such as ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ and ‘Halo;’ easily customizable assets work with Unreal, Maya, VRay, and Arnold.
Company’s first subscription-based option offers professional 3D software at a lower price.
New plug-in provides seamless integration with Cinema 4D, providing easy real-time creation of models and animations.
Production VFX supervisor Roger Guyett talks creating Princess Leia, the benefits of practical shooting, and bringing the saga to a close.
An intimate, sober and thoughtful animated short that imagines what a Chinese man’s family life might have been had his mother not been forced to terminate her second pregnancy.
New studio to integrate set building, puppets, models and creature creation using cutting-edge techniques such as 3D printing.
Simple Export to Project Felix Enhances 3D Material Workflow for Artists and Graphic Designers; Five Additional Tools and Updates Now Available
Submit your animated 3D character to the yoanimate 3D Animation Contest.
