ALab, a Free USD scene: Creativity in the 3rd Dimension
Animal Logic release USD production quality assets for R&D and Education.
Real-Time Live preview: SIGGRAPH 2021
A preview of Real-Time Live @ SIGGRAPH2021, with past winners returning again to the SIGGRAPH Live arena.
Digital Domain brings Black Widow’s Red Room Crashing Down
Digital Domains 75 secs of visual effects, Black Widow excitement.
In Camera UE4.27 LED Test Shoot
ICVFX with Unreal Engine 4.27 including a new nDisplay module.
Lessons learnt for machine learning VFX
AI Machine Learning Lessons from the ‘Censor Veil’ as seen in Welcome to Chechnya
Apple iPad Pro is about collaboration not replacement
The iPad Pro ‘road tested’ as a production tool.
Behind the NY final battle in Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Sony Imageworks rebuilt New York, key locations and even Falcon himself for Disney+ Falcon and the Winter Solider
WetaM
WetaM aims to democratize Weta’s VFX and animation pipeline with Autodesk as a SaaS Maya cloud service.
Live action AOVs: Disney soft segmentation via CopyCat in Nuke
Soft Colour Segmentation using CopyCat in Nuke 13 with Rafael Silva
NVIDIA GPU Enterprise A5000
Hardcore Graphics options for Virtual Production from NVIDIA.
Synthesia: Full Digital Jacket
An exclusive Digital Humans ‘test drive/ test Inferrence’ of Synthesia Studio
Digital Albert
The Mill’s FACS based digital Albert Einstein, transported from the 1950s to the present day.
UE5 early release
UE5 Early Release and an exclusive look at the artistry from Aaron Sims Creative
Apex Legends Valkyrie at DD
We look at the animated video “Northstar,” Respawn and EA released, and created by DD
Cloud rendering in an age of COVID
Cloud rendering is expanding but not in every part of the Ecosystem. We speak to GridMarkets about their success.
Trimirror looks to dress MetaHumans in real-time
With the interest in MetaHumans, triMirror is developing real-time tools to design & fashion garments for these new digital humans.
The Midnight Sky through ARENA
NVIZ used their our virtual camera system (ARENA) to set up shots for The Midnight Sky.
Kong: Weta’s biggest ape yet
Godzilla vs. Kong provided Weta Digital a chance to tackle their largest ape design challenge yet.
Omniverse & Audio2Face
A detailed look and demo of Audio2Face as part of the new Omniverse from NVIDIA
Galactic footsteps in the cosmic rewind: Scanline & the Flash
Scanline VFX completed their work in just seven months to help bring Zach Snyder’s version of the film to an audience.
Flame learns (even more)
Flame adds new machine learning camera tracking to the new software release.
CopyCat, inference & machine learning in Nuke
A NUKE deep dive into Deep Learning with Dan Ring, Head of Research at the Foundry.
Twin Peaks meets Fargo meets Alf: Resident Alien
Artifex Studios and CoSA visual effects work for Resident Alien
Congrats to the winners of the VES Awards
Congrats to all the artists and teams in this year’s VES awards