The death of post-production
Deluxe exits post in Australia, focusing on cloud services and VFX moving forward.
IBC news
Blackmagic buys Ultimatte and Fairlight, Convergent Design’s Titan, and Boris acquires GenArts.
Flame 2017 Extension 1 announced at IBC
Autodesk has taken the wraps off of its upcoming Flame release, Flame 2017 Extension 1. We have an interview with Product Manager Will Harris and he also answers questions submitted by artists.
Kubo and the Two Strings: water effects
A look at the development process for the water effects in “Kubo and the Two Strings”, which broke new ground for the Portland-based LAIKA.
EPIC win: previs to final in five minutes
EPIC won the SIGGRAPH Best Real-Time Graphics and Interactivity award at Real-Time Live 2016 and now Ninja Theory has launched Senua Studio.
Best perfume spot EVER
UPDATED: DD’s Janelle Croshaw helps Margaret Qualley nail it for Spike Jonze’s Kenzo World.
Suicide Squad, vortical flows and fractal machines
Exclusive video and more from Suicide Squad, whose Enchantress is a sorceress only because her technology is so advanced, as we explore the fractal nature of that magic.
Bigger than Ben Hur
We examine the CG horse pipeline at Mr X for the new Ben Hur Chariot race. (Exclusive BTS video)
12 Scientific & Technical Areas Under Investigation for Oscars®
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that 12 distinct scientific and technical investigations have been launched for the 2016 Oscars®.
VFX Union UK: Sausage Party & Nitrogen – an open letter
VFX Union UK has released an open letter concerning the labor issues on the film Sausage Party.
The Union of VFX and directors
Florence Foster Jenkins is the latest in a line of multi-year, multi-film projects that Union VFX have done. We explore how they have built such a loyal fan base amongst some of the UK’s most prestigious directors.
Stiller Luxo Jr. birthday message
The story of two robots reenacting the world’s most famous computer graphics short film.
Who you gonna call? Call Illoura, MPC, SPI, & Zero VFX
Ghostbusters 2016. Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes, dead rising from the grave, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria and more…
VIEW Conference 2016 initial lineup announced
More details have been announced regarding the 2016 installment of the outstanding VIEW conference, being held October 24th in Turin, Italy.
SIGGRAPH: LAIKA, Marvel, shapes and more
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.
SIGGRAPH VR: BMWs, a supermodel and a shaved Corvette
BMW’s 360 YouTube adrenalin-fueled motorsport interpretation of the famous ‘shell game’ + DD goes all in on VR content.
Star Trek Beyond : inside the VFX of the Enterprise
Star Trek Beyond – our latest Design FX video with our media partners: WIRED.
SIGGRAPH monday: NASA and beyond
NASA, Arnold for Maya, Massive and a look at the state of cloud rendering.
SIGGRAPH Sunday: Tech Papers Fast Forward and more
Siggraph Sunday : The start of a week of hard core tech graphics geek out !
SIGGRAPH Saturday: DigiPro 2016
Our extensive coverage of DigiPro : Production technical papers from major studios around the world.
Open source deep comp extension (OpenDCX)
DreamWorks take their Deep Compositing extensions Open Source
MAXON debuts Cinema 4D R18
At SIGGRAPH 2016, MAXON announced the release of Cinema 4D R18, coming in September. We take a look at the main new features.
Vero, new cloud-based VFX budgeting & cost management
Thinkbox Software has teamed with VFX Producer Joyce Cox to develop Vero, a new cloud-based application that simplifies large scale VFX budgeting and bidding.
68th Emmy nominations
Nominations for the 68th Emmy Awards were announced this morning, here are the visual effects categories.
Kubo and the Two Strings: Rapid Prototyping evolves
We visit LAIKA to see how they are pushing their Sci-Tech winning Rapid Prototyping even further for their upcoming film, Kubo and the Two Strings.
Siggraph preview: face reconstruction from mono video
Automatic creation of a high-quality 3D face rig of an actor from just mono video data – or “you can never trust YouTube again”!
