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.
Newly announced Omniverse Cloud APIs include ChatUSD, Run USD, DeepSearch and USD-GDN Publisher, giving developers more power to seamlessly implement and deploy OpenUSD pipelines and apps.
The high-performance platform is purpose-built to power generative AI and media and entertainment workflows with NVIDIA’s new universal GPU for data centers based on the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture.
Today at SIGGRAPH 2023, the tech giant revealed the newest improvements and additions to its foundation platform and services for developers to optimize and enhance 3D pipelines with the OpenUSD framework and generative AI.
The brave group have signed authorization cards to help bring the VFX industry towards union representation in the face of shocking firings, long hours, and 7-day weeks.
The Bristol-based VFX studio delivers 13,600+ graphic elements and 360 photoreal CG shots on the historical series referred to as a ‘biography of our planet’ by presenter and naturalist Chris Packham; watch it this month on BBC Two in the U.K.
The VFX studio contributed 1,800 shots for Netflix India’s ‘Rana Naidu’ series, based on the popular American Showtime drama series; work included action clean-ups, greenscreen sequences, and CG elements such as the creation of a realistic snake that appears during a drug-induced hallucination.
Women in Animation’s president announces the ‘Animating Resilience: Surviving and Thriving in an Uncertain Industry’ series to empower and support industry professionals and students during ‘these tough times.’
‘Foundry Learn and Education’ meetups and presentations at the conference include techniques in compositing from Unity Wētā Tools, Boxel Studios, and Action VFX and lighting and 3D techniques from Foundry product experts.
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.
Leading platform for real-time 3D (RT3D) content and experience creation will showcase groundbreaking work in character creation, environment building, rendering, and compositing; live keynote today from August 7 2pm - 3pm PDT.
All-in-one system gets redesigned for speed and efficiency to help studios and freelancers bid for jobs of any size while keeping track of their bottom line.
The new open source shading model succeeds Autodesk Standard Surface and Adobe Standard Material; Open Source Days ‘23 event kicks off August 6.
Leading mocap tech company’s new application is the first such product built on UE5; OBSKUR Mocap Box, a mocap suit redesigned especially for streaming, also launches.
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.
The conference, taking place March 18-21, 2024 in San Jose, California, seeks submissions for talks, posters, and training labs by September 8, 2023.
The new cards, designed to enable top performance for mainstream professional workflows, leverage breakthrough AMD RDNA 3 technology to deliver 2X higher TFLOPS performance and 1.5X higher maximum total data rate for displays than previous generation.
Many big-name execs and actors have now contributed to the Entertainment Community Fund, formerly the Actors Fund, to lessen the hardships of the work stoppage on actors and writers, with Seth MacFarlane most recently dropping a $1 million donation.
The award-winning visual effects studio creates the huge-jawed Aeschna sea monster, the deadly Flesh Monster, and a huge Ring of Fire, in the hit fantasy adventure’s latest season; watch the final S3 episodes now on Netflix.
Streamers will soon redirect their AI algorithms from content curation to content creation.
Take ‘A Look Inside’ the new film, based on a single chilling chapter from Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula,’ that tells the terrifying story of the merchant ship ‘Demeter,’ which was chartered to carry private cargo and one infamous vampire, in theaters August 11.
The visual effects veteran brings 20+ years’ experience to his new role, including an Oscar win on Sir Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator’ and a BAFTA win on ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.’
Ellen Burstyn reprises her iconic role as Chris MacNeil, an actress who has been forever altered by what happened to her daughter Regan five decades before in the newest installment of the ‘Exorcist’ franchise, haunting theaters starting Friday, October 13.
Christina Caspers-Roemer and Christopher Hantel takes the helm of the high-end visual effects studio; co-founder and former Chief Creative Officer Simone Kraus Townsend returns to creative leadership as Animation Supervisor.
The MCU’s favorite trickster must work alongside the Time Variance Authority to fix his Tesseract-related, time-altering mistakes; series debuts October 6.
