Update on the Wikihuman project

At Occulus Connect, Epic Games announced Robo Recall, the company’s new VR game for Oculus Touch.

Since Siggraph we have wanted to highlight the great work in V-Ray regarding an age old computer graphics problem. One that has remained remarkably resistant to the best efforts of the world’s render experts to solve.

We spoke to Paul Lacroix about the new face tracking technology used for Empara Mi: The Come Down.

In a last minute addition, Rob Legato will be presenting “The Art and Science behind creating a photo-realistic Jungle Book” at the VIEW Conference coming up in Turin, Italy.

See our latest WIRED video on Tatiana Maslany, who won an Emmy as Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her work on BBC America’s Orphan Black. VFX by Intelligent Creatures.

The MPAA issued a press release attacking a USC study about tax incentives. We have links to the release and a response from The Tax Foundation.

Watch our Exclusive WIRED DesignFx piece on Pete’s Dragon.

The 2016 Creative Arts Awards were presented over the weekend, here are the winners.

Deluxe exits post in Australia, focusing on cloud services and VFX moving forward.

Blackmagic buys Ultimatte and Fairlight, Convergent Design’s Titan, and Boris acquires GenArts.

UPDATED: DD’s Janelle Croshaw helps Margaret Qualley nail it for Spike Jonze’s Kenzo World.

The 5D Mk IV and its new Dual Pixel Raw Mode.

The story of two robots reenacting the world’s most famous computer graphics short film.

More details have been announced regarding the 2016 installment of the outstanding VIEW conference, being held October 24th in Turin, Italy.

Sessions included LAIKA’s Kubo and the Two Strings, Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War, a clever solution for shoulder animation in crowd simulations, and using words to match body shapes.

BMW’s 360 YouTube adrenalin-fueled motorsport interpretation of the famous ‘shell game’ + DD goes all in on VR content.

NASA, Arnold for Maya, Massive and a look at the state of cloud rendering.