Pixar’s RenderMan & Marschner Hair

October 9, 2017

One of the advances in RenderMan is the new version of Marschner Hair: We speak to Steve Marschner & Pixar about doing Feature FIlm Level CG Hair.

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Saya: a uniquely Japanese “Kawaii” Digital Girl

October 2, 2017

Saya and her ‘parents’ talk to fxguide.

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Celebrating 25 years of Sony Pictures Imageworks

September 28, 2017

We celebrate 25 Years of SPI with 5 VFX Supervisors.

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More than a token effort at Rendering (with Blockchain)

September 19, 2017

Render Token offers to render your files and allow you to earn cryptocurrencies with your spare GPU cycles. We take a detailed look.

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Orville, a new Seth MacFarlane enterprise.

September 14, 2017

We talk to the team behind the miniatures and Previs of The Orville

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Congrats to the Craft Emmy Winners

September 11, 2017

Congrats to the VFX Emmy winners.

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New ways for Deluxe to work from Down Under

September 7, 2017

Tom Wild aims to unite Deluxe VFX and VR production management globally.

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Seeing David in a new light

September 4, 2017

We deep dive on a remarkable scanning and VR project that took almost 20 years.

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Framestore helps save puppies in the Destiny 2 Trailer

September 3, 2017

Framestore LA and NY VFX on the Destiny 2 trailer

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Atom View

August 29, 2017

One of the most impressive new tools in VR: Atom View and Nu Design

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Flimlight on TVC and features

August 25, 2017

Baselight plugs in for wider workflows.

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V-Ray in UE4

August 20, 2017

Chaos Group announced V-Ray for UE4.

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Open source release of USDMaya plugin: AL_USDMaya by Animal Logic

August 19, 2017

Animal Logic makes their USD Maya tools open source.

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Syd Mead to keynote at VES Summit

August 17, 2017

Visual Effects Society Names Syd Mead a Keynote Speaker at 2017 VES Summit, also names a featured speaker from IMAX as well as an Online Security expert.

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Adobe Technical Paper Genius

August 13, 2017

Adobe crosses faces with Content Aware Fill, their Character animator project and some new genius research for one of the best papers at this year’s SIGGRAPH.

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Jon Favreau Recipient of VES Lifetime Achievement Award

August 7, 2017

Visual Effects Society Names Acclaimed Writer-Producer-Director Jon Favreau Recipient of VES Lifetime Achievement Award

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11 Scientific & Technical areas investigated for 2017 Oscars

August 5, 2017

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that 11 distinct scientific and technical investigations have been launched for the 2017 Oscars®.

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VR Ghost Paint

August 2, 2017

Virtual Graffiti at SIGGRAPH 2017

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Real Time Mike !

July 31, 2017

MEETMIKE explores the future of Actors, Avatars and Agents. See what is creating the buzz here in LA (video)

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MPC at SIGGRAPH 2017

July 28, 2017

A summary of MPC’s SIGGRAPH talks.

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PIXAR Deep Dive on SSS : SIGGRAPH Preview

July 28, 2017

We deep dive on the new PIXAR SSS models and explain the link to new Nuclear Physics research. Plus a list of every Pixar talk at SIGGRAPH.

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ARKit at Siggraph and WWDC: Wingnut AR (video)

July 26, 2017

ARkit at SIGGRAPH and at Wingnut AR in New Zealand.

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Halon previs War for the Planet of the Apes at Comic-Con

July 21, 2017

Halon presents the PreVis and PostVis for War for the Planet of the Apes, done in UE4.

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The big and the ‘tiny’ of SIGGRAPH 2017. The insider’s guide

July 20, 2017

The insider’s guide to SIGGRAPH 2017 with Conference Chair Jerome Solomon.

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A Fortnite at Epic

July 19, 2017

Exclusive Siggraph Preview: Strange things are afoot at the DurrrBurger, …we talk to Directors and the team about their Fortnite UE4 short film. And do a deep dive in the Cool Tech of a real time rendering, animated short film.

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MeetMike

July 17, 2017

Each day at SIGGRAPH Mike will meet industry legends from Pixar, Weta Digital, Magnopus, Disney Research, Epic Games and leading researchers from around the world in VR using new Digital Human Avatar technology.

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Having a pig of a time

July 17, 2017

Method Studios delivers beautifully crafted character animation and creature work for Netflix’s Okja.

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Spider-Man: by Sea and by Air

July 16, 2017

We talk to Digital Domain and Sony Pictures Imageworks about their friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man and his two biggest battles.

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69th Emmy Nominations

July 13, 2017

The 69th Emmy Nominations have been announced

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Making Mummy

July 12, 2017

The Mummy re-animates to life thanks to companies such as MPC and ILM.

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