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VES Announces ‘The VES Handbook of Virtual Production’ Release

The comprehensive guide to techniques and best practices, gleaned from 82 experts in VR, AR, MR, and XR technology and edited by VFX professionals Susan Zwerman VES and Jeffrey A. Okun VES, is now available for pre-order.

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OptiTrack Launches Motive 3.1 Beta 1

Now compatible with all OptiTrack mocap cameras and Cinepuck video camera tracking with simplified user interface, asset creation and 3D viewing and graphing; final release coming Q1 2024.

Technology Advancing Art Headline News

Epic Games Shares ‘Blue Dot’ Short Production Effort

Look behind-the-scenes of how the Serbia-based 3Lateral team harnessed MetaHuman Animator to make the high-fidelity cinematic short.

It’s Unreal Headline News

Epic Games Releases Unreal Engine 5.3

Update boasts new experimental features, including Orthographic Rendering and cinematic-quality volumetric rendering using SVT, refined workflows and capabilities across Lumen, Nanite, Path, Tracing and new standards suite for the next-generation virtual production - within nDisplay.

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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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AGBO’s Visual Creatures Names Andy Williams Senior Executive Producer

Industry veteran will lead business development and client strategy as the virtual production company expands its service offerings to the filmmaking industry.  

Real-time Animation Headline News

Impossible Objects Gets Unreal on GM OnStar Campaign

Team uses state-of-the-art virtual production and real-time technology, including Unreal Engine and disguise, to highlight expanded tech capabilities of OnStar’s offerings – without ever having to hit the road; check out ‘From The Lab: Building the OnStar’ to see how.  

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NVIDIA Announces Powerful New RTX Workstations and GPUs

By Dan Sarto | Tuesday, August 8, 2023 at 12:34pm

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.

Do it in the Cloud! Headline News

AWS Releases AWS Thinkbox Deadline 10.3 for UE5

New Unreal Engine 5 plugin leverages existing render setups and scalability so cloud-based resources can accelerate final-pixel outputs; also updates DCC apps, including Adobe After Effects 2023, Autodesk Maya 2024, Autodesk 3ds Max 2024, Autodesk VRED 2023 and Maxon Cinema 4D 2023.

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NVIDIA RTX A5000 Graphics Cards Special Pricing from PNY Now Available

By Dan Sarto | Tuesday, August 1, 2023 at 8:00am

PNY, one of NVIDIA’s leading professional visualization partners, has announced special limited-time pricing for the versatile, advanced, and high-performance NVIDIA RTX™ A5000 professional graphics card.  

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AGBO’s Visual Creatures Taps Digital Domain Alum to Lead Virtual Production Studio

Scott Meadows has been named Senior Visualization Supervisor, responsible for the studio’s new motion-capture enabled sound stage and real-time pipelines.

It’s Unreal Headline News

Epic Games Releases ‘Electric Dreams’ Unreal Engine Sample Project

The UE demo, unveiled at this year’s ‘State of Unreal’ at GDC, showcases experimental Procedural Content Generation – tech allows users to build scalable, virtual worlds fast with an iterative design pipeline.

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France.tv Acquires Majority Stake in Dwarf Animation Studio

The deal accelerates the public TV subsidiary’s creative hub expansion to the South of France while providing a more robust infrastructure and access to cutting-edge real-time technology.

Real-Time MoCap Headline News

Disguise and Move.ai Release ‘Invisible’ Real-Time Markerless MoCap Bundle

The solution lets creatives animate real-time characters and gesture-triggered effects without markers, wearable suits, and long calibration setups.

Promoting African Culture Headline News

Kunda Kids Launches Music-Filled ‘Kunda & Friends’ on YouTube

U.K.-based kids’ media company taps Uganda-based Creatures Animation to produce the 3DCG educational series portraying African Culture and fostering essential life skills such as confidence, kindness, and teamwork.

It’s Unreal! Headline News

Epic Games Launches ‘Virtual Production Visualization Guide’

The Unreal Engine creator rolls out Chapter 1 of its step-by-step hands-on look at how to get started with virtual production visualization workflows.

It’s Unreal Headline News

Unreal Engine 5.2 Now Available

The new update introduces Procedural Content Generation tools and a Substrate shading system providing artists with new real-time functionality – both showcased in March at GDC’s Electric Dreams real-time demo; also announced Unreal Fest 2023 coming to New Orleans in October.

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Impossible Objects Adds Jay Walker to Creative Roster

The short film, music video, and commercial director brings Unreal Engine expertise to cutting edge creative lab following their recent collaboration on Alienware’s campaign.

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Blue Zoo’s ‘MoPo’ Real-Time Tool Scores Epic MegaGrant

The London-based studio’s production software allows artists to create 3D animated content for platforms such as TikTok and YouTube in real-time; smaller teams can create quality content faster and cheaper with fewer steps.

Technology Advancing Art Headline News

NVIDIA Studio Highlights NVIDIA Omniverse and USD in ‘Cold Inside Diorama’

By Dan Sarto | Thursday, April 20, 2023 at 1:27pm

3D artists Gianluca Squillace and Pasquale Scionti’s project interconnect their workflows by replacing linear pipelines with live-sync creation, harnessing the collaboration platform powered by RTX GPU to create their Viking scene that conveyed a cold, glacial mood.

VFX for television Headline News

Goodbye Kansas Shares ‘Carnival Row’ VFX Breakdown Reel

From fairytale digital characters to monstrous transformation sequences and crowd simulations, the visual effects studio delivered 123 shots and over 50 character and environment assets for Season 2 of Prime Video’s fantasy series starring Cara Delevigne and Orlando Bloom.

It’s Unreal! Headline News

Unreal Fest ANZ Goes Down Under

Epic Games brings the event way down South to help Unreal Engine users from Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia broaden their skills and build community.

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disguise Announces Platform Integration with NVIDIA Omniverse

The new collaboration allows artists to connect their preferred content creation tools in a unified production pipeline for faster, easier changes and enhanced content production, with a lower barrier of entry for accessing M&E workflows.

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