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Xbox One: Developers ready

May 21 2013

Microsoft's Xbox One announcements sees new Kinect features, and lets developers continue advancements in lighting and texturing. read more...

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More than 5m views, with no spaceships in sight

May 16 2013

The buzz surrounding Star Trek: Into Darkness is clearly apparent with the huge response to this Audi Spock vs Spock viral. read more...

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The Tech Behind the Tools of Avatar Part 1: Ocula

Mar 03 2010

Ocula is at the very heart of the new post-production tools that have emerged to deal with stereo. Nuke and Ocula were used extensively on Avatar, and we explore the lessons learned with Simon Robinson, Chief Scientist of the Foundry. Ocula, in particular, is a read more...

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How Star Trek went into darkness for Earth Hour

by Ian Failes

With J.J. Abrams' Star Trek: Into Darkness only a few months away from opening, the film's distributors staged a Trek-themed quadrocopter light display as part of WWF's Earth Hour over the weekend in London. Stunt? Sure, but a fun one - see the video here. read more...

Digital Domain Names Clotiaux VP of Feature Film

by fxadmin

Digital Domain announced today that Terry Clotiaux has joined the company as Vice President of Feature Film Production. The company also promoted Joanna Capitano to Executive Producer and elevated Lisa Beroud to a member of the company’s senior management team. read more...

NVIDIA GPU Tech Conference Report

by John Montgomery

The GPU Technology Conference (GTC) advances GPU computing in computer graphics, games, mobile, and the cloud. For the vfx and production, this tech is has become an incredibly important part of the process and today we cover new announcements from the NVIDIA keynote. read more...

Heads will roll: VFX on TV

by Ian Failes

How practical and digital effects, previs and complete greenscreen environments help bring the shows The Walking Dead, Mr. Selfridge and Spartacus to your TV screen. UPDATED with Stargate's Walking Dead breakdown reel. read more...