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Gareth Edwards Talks ‘The Creator’ VFX and How AI Helped Enable His Vision

By Dan Sarto | Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 3:15pm
Gareth Edwards Talks ‘The Creator’ VFX and How AI Helped Enable His Vision
Gareth Edwards Talks ‘The Creator’ VFX and How AI Helped Enable His Vision

With his innovative and compelling sci-fi action adventure now wowing cinema audiences, the director discusses his radical new approach to filmmaking and VFX in the just released featurette, ‘Advancing AI: Creating The Creator;’ Edwards’ film was made possible by recent technological advances and a collaboration with James Knight, AMD’s Global Director of Media & Entertainment and VFX, who kept the filmmaker abreast of the rapidly changing AI landscape from script to final press junket.

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Do It in the Cloud Headline News

DeadDrop Labs Helps WeFX ‘See’ with the Power of AWS

DeadDrop Labs Helps WeFX ‘See’ with the Power of AWS
DeadDrop Labs Helps WeFX ‘See’ with the Power of AWS

Cloud specialists help Toronto-based VFX studio adopt a scalable hybrid cloud-based infrastructure built on Amazon Web Services to tackle visual effects work on Apple TV+’s hit futuristic series.  

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Amazon Nimble Studio Offers Animators a Home in the Cloud

Amazon Nimble Studio Offers Animators a Home in the Cloud
Amazon Nimble Studio Offers Animators a Home in the Cloud

Nimble Collective co-founder Rex Grignon and Kyle Roche, Head of Immersive Technology for Amazon Web Services, talk about their recently-launched cloud-based production service.

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Molecule VFX Creates Texas Greenery from New Mexico Desert in ‘Dr. Death’

By Dan Sarto | Thursday, August 19, 2021 at 5:08pm
Molecule VFX Creates Texas Greenery from New Mexico Desert in ‘Dr. Death’
Molecule VFX Creates Texas Greenery from New Mexico Desert in ‘Dr. Death’

VFX supervisor Nico Del Giudice walks through the studio’s background replacements and greening, as well as surgical gore replacement work, on the Peacock crime drama, based on the podcast of the same name, inspired by the true story of Dr. Christopher Duntsch and his reign of deadly surgical malpractice.

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Cloud-based Production Systems Headline News

AWS Launches Amazon Nimble Studio

By Dan Sarto | Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 8:50am
AWS Launches Amazon Nimble Studio
AWS Launches Amazon Nimble Studio

New cloud-based pay as you go production service provides almost limitless, easily scalable access to high-power accelerated virtual workstations, high-speed storage, and on-demand rendering resources across Amazon’s global infrastructure.

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FX Artists Put the Dinosaur Spittle into ‘Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous’

FX Artists Put the Dinosaur Spittle into ‘Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous’
FX Artists Put the Dinosaur Spittle into ‘Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous’

Whether its dramatic water splashes, dino drool, or bioluminescent beasts, DreamWorks Animation and Netflix’s adventure series, nominated for a Best FX for TV/Media Annie Award, strives for realistic visual effects that push the story forward through color and lighting.

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cloud Computing ANIMATIONWorld

What Does the Next Gen Creative Studio Look Like?

What Does the Next Gen Creative Studio Look Like?
What Does the Next Gen Creative Studio Look Like?

For AWS product manager Jay Maglione, the challenges of 2020 mean we must rethink creative studio norms and look to the cloud for the next workflow evolution.

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Mergers & Acquisition VFXWorld

It’s Full Steam Ahead for Foundry’s Post-Acquisition Mission

By Dan Sarto | Wednesday, June 19, 2019 at 12:28pm
It’s Full Steam Ahead for Foundry’s Post-Acquisition Mission
It’s Full Steam Ahead for Foundry’s Post-Acquisition Mission

For co-founder and chief scientist Simon Robinson, Roper Technologies’ company purchase better enables the patient, long-term management perspective needed to successfully innovate and support a rapidly changing digital content creation industry. 

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