VES Reference Platform
The VES tech Committee looks forward to what workstations artists could and should be using, in the VFX Reference Platform 2021 Survey.
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Goodbye Kansas Studio is on Vigil
Vigil has only just been released in the USA, VFX by Goodbye Kansas Studios.
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Maya’s Unreal Future
Autodesk, in collaboration with Epic Games, has released a new Maya Unreal Live Link
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Virtual McDonalds
Co-Directors Matt Manhire and David Whiteson recently finished a Mcdonald’s commercial shot entirely using VP.
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Deep Neural Rendering Comes of Age
NR is so much more than DeepFakes, as Synthesia is demonstrating.
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The Volumetric Future?
An in-depth, deep dive Case Study on Volumetric Capture : Coldplay BTS My Universe
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The Definitive Weta Digital Guide to IBL
Erik Winquist exclusively shares Weta Digital’s internal IBL making of video.
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fxpodcast #336: Chris Corbould SFX Supervisor 007
SFX Oscar Winner Chris Corbould discusses Bond, Bombs, and Bank Districts.
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fxpodcast #335: Nuke meet Unreal, play nicely.
The upcoming Nuke release sees the addition of direct Unreal importing and control.
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Foundational Visual Effects
In the build up to this week’s final brilliant episode of Foundation, we explore DNEGs work on Apple+’s hit series.
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fxpodcast #334: Paul Debevec on IBLs + Virtual Production LED Stages
We talk to Paul Debevec on IBLs and using them in LED Virtual Production Volumes along with guest Erik Erik Winquist from Weta Digital.
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Digital Avatars at GTC
NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang outlines vision for AI, Robotics, and Omniverse Avatars in his GTC Keynote
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Golaem 8 including Real-Time crowd sims for UE4
Golaem 8: Real-Time crowd simulation for Unreal and significant improvements for Maya and Houdini users.
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ILM solves Y Last Man
We talk to Stephen Pugh and Michael Beaulieu about the challenges and process of bringing ‘Amp’ to the screen for Y Last Man.
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fxpodcast #333: Perception, Designing Science Fiction & Science Fact
Jeremy Lasky co-founder of Perception discusses Science Fiction and Science Fact design projects.
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Can Xencelabs tablets challenge Wacom?
We have been testing the Xencelabs tablet for the last few months.
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Cinematic Computational Photography
A look at the state of the art in computational photography in the iPhone13 ProMax.
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fxpodcast #332: Can Computational Photography be Cinematic?
Filmmaker and Chief Creative Officer at Maxon Stu Maschwitz joins us to discuss Computational Photography including the new iPhone13 Pro Max
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Fun News from Adobe MAX
Adobe Max has a range of new innovations many using Sensei AI machine learning.
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