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®.
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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.
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Stiller Luxo Jr. birthday message
The story of two robots reenacting the world’s most famous computer graphics short film.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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SIGGRAPH monday: NASA and beyond
NASA, Arnold for Maya, Massive and a look at the state of cloud rendering.
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SIGGRAPH Sunday: Tech Papers Fast Forward and more
Siggraph Sunday : The start of a week of hard core tech graphics geek out !
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SIGGRAPH Saturday: DigiPro 2016
Our extensive coverage of DigiPro : Production technical papers from major studios around the world.
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Open source deep comp extension (OpenDCX)
DreamWorks take their Deep Compositing extensions Open Source
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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.
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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.
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68th Emmy nominations
Nominations for the 68th Emmy Awards were announced this morning, here are the visual effects categories.
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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.
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CARA VR plugin for Nuke
The Foundry has released a powerful new CARA VR plugin for Nuke.
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Redshift releases version 2.0
A new version of the GPU renderer debuts with 3ds Max integration, improved SSS models, a new PBR-based Redshift material, and more.
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One on one with Roland Emmerich
An fxinsider exclusive: our one on one with Roland Emmerich about his approach to vfx & Independence Day: Resurgence
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The shower scene from Central Intelligence
Behind-the-scenes video of how Weta swapped The Rock’s face with Vine Star Sione in Central Intelligence.
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343 Industries & Blur Studio Halo Wars 2 trailer: awesome
343 Industries and Blur Studio debuted a trailer for upcoming Halo Wars 2M at E3, directed by Dave Wilson
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Magic Leap and ILM XLab join up on Star Wars
Holographic chess looks a whole lot closer. Magic Leap and ILM xLab team up.
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Raining octopuses! How is this a thing?
After seeing this great new spot, fxguide spoke to Deluxe’s Method Studios Senior VFX Supervisor Benjamin Walsh about how they made it rain octopuses.
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