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Technology Headline News

Movella Launches OBSKUR All-in-One Livestream Broadcasting System

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.

Do It in the Cloud Headline News

CoreWeave Completes Conductor Cloud-Based Rendering Service Integration

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.

Events Headline News

NVIDIA GTC 2024 Announces Call for Submissions

By Dan Sarto | Thursday, August 3, 2023 at 11:32am

The conference, taking place March 18-21, 2024 in San Jose, California, seeks submissions for talks, posters, and training labs by September 8, 2023. 

Technology Headline News

AMD Announces New AMD Radeon PRO W7600 and W7500 Graphics Cards

By Dan Sarto | Thursday, August 3, 2023 at 7:30am

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.

Actors Helping Actors Headline News

Hollywood Execs, Actors Donate to Support Strikers

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.

Geralt Handiwork is Afoot Headline News

Cinesite Adds ‘Monstrous’ VFX to ‘The Witcher’ Season 3

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. 

This Aint No Pleasure Cruise Headline News

Watch: ‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’ Featurette

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.

People Headline News

DNEG Adds Academy Award Winner Tim Burke as VFX Supervisor

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.’ 

You’re Gonna Die Down Here Headline News

Universal Drops Official ‘The Exorcist: Believer’ Trailer

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. 

Business Headline News

Trixter Announces New Leadership

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.

Technology Headline News

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.  

Technology Headline News

Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA Launch Alliance for OpenUSD

By Dan Sarto | Tuesday, August 1, 2023 at 7:00am

The tech giants and Linux Foundation affiliate JDF join forces to create new AOUSD initiative to nurture global USD collaboration and support developers in building products and services for an ever-widening range of large-scale 3D projects across new industries and applications.

Filmmaking Slight of Hand 101 VFXWorld

‘I’m a Virgo’ Channels ‘The Lord of the Rings’ Camera Tricks for its Own ‘Giant’ Magic

FuseFX VFX supervisor Jamie Barty shares his studio’s work using old-fashioned in-camera forced perspective to help tell the story of a 13-foot-tall young Black man, Cootie, as he experiences the beauty and contradictions of the real world, in Boots Riley’s new series, now streaming on Prime Video.

In-Passing Headline News

Paul Reubens of ‘Pee-wee Herman’ Fame Dies at 70

By Dan Sarto | Monday, July 31, 2023 at 1:50pm

The noted comedian, writer, producer, voice artist, and actor, best known for his ground-breaking kids’ show, ‘Pee-Wee’s Playhouse’ and films including Tim Burton classics ‘Pee-wee’s Big Adventure’ and ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas,’ passed away July 30 from cancer.

Technology Headline News

Academy Software Foundation Adopts OpenImageIO

The Foundation’s newest hosted project, created by Larry Gritz in 2008, is widely used by VFX and animation studios and integrated into leading production software products; don’t miss the OIIO ‘Birds of a Feather’ session at SIGGRAPH August 7. 

Recognizing the Best Aspiring M&E Designers Headline News

13th Annual Rookie Award Winners Revealed

The annual international competition garnered 5,517 entries from aspiring design and media entertainment artists; a panel of more than 150 judges and industry professionals selected winners based on criteria including creative, technical, and presentation skills as well as complexity and raw talent.

Education Headline News

SVA Announces Academic Program Name Changes

The title changes are key to ensuring that SVA keeps up with an evolving industry and will be effective this fall; the class of 2024 will be the first to graduate under the new program names.

The Year of Delays Headline News

Next ‘Spider-Verse’ Off Release Schedule, Other Sony Features Delayed

The WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes continue to wreak havoc on Hollywood, as the list of film delays now includes the upcoming animated Spidey flick as well as ‘Kraven the Hunter’ and ‘Ghostbusters Afterlife.’

Revenge Doggy Style Headline News

New Trailer For ‘Strays’ Packs Some Bite

Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx star as best doggy buds Reggie and Bug, who exact sweet revenge on Doug, a lowlife human who abandoned Reggie, in the raunchy live-action comedy adventure, scampering into theaters August 18.

Game to Cinema Oh My! Headline News

Eli Roth’s ‘Borderlands’ Feature Gets Release Date

The live-action adaptation of the hit video game, starring Cate Blanchett, Jack Black, Edgar Ramirez, Kevin Hart, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu, and Jamie Lee Curtis, will debut in theaters August 9, 2024.

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