Meta Human Animator

MetaHuman Animator is announced along with UE for Fortnight and much more as part of the ’23 State of Unreal keynote at GDC

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GTC: Shutterstock Teams with NVIDIA to Build AI Models for Generative 3D

NVIDIA joins with Shutterstock for generative 3D

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And the Winners are …

Congrats to all the teams that worked on the Oscar VFX films this year.

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Elvis is in the (VFX) House

Fin Design+ Effects discusses their work on the multi-oscar nominated film Elvis.

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fxpodcast #351 ILM’s Craig Hammock – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Oscar Nominated Craig Hammock discusses Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

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fxpodcast #350 Sci Tech Winner Ryan Laney

Ryan Laney is to receive a commendation (special plaque) for his inventive use of AI facial technology to give a digital “veil” to protect identities while preserving facial emotion in documentary filmmaking.

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Congrats to the VES winners 2023

All the winners of the 2023 VES awards

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Flying Top Gun: Maverick with Ryan Tudhope

A Deep Dive with Oscar Nominated Ryan Tudhope, the Visual Effects Supervisor on Top Gun: Maverick.

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fxpodcast #349 Move AI

Move.ai makes markerless motion capture with iPhones that match existing tech using incredible machine learning, (and may soon exceed it)

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VFXShow 266: Oscar Nominations

The guys discuss the three VFX nominees for the 95th Oscar.

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Autodesk’s open sourcing of RV

Autodesk and Shotgrid discuss the move to make RV Open Source

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Wētā’s having a great year with the 95th Oscar Nominations

Wētā’s having a great year with 6 of the 20 nominees over 3 films. We speak to Wētā Visual Effects Supervisors from all 3 films.

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Congrats to the Nominees for 21st Annual VES Awards

Nominees in 25 categories for this year’s VES awards were selected by VES members at 27 in-person and virtual nomination events conducted worldwide last weekend (the event unfortunately overlapped with the Oscar Bake-off).

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95th Oscar VFX Bake-off from LA

We report from LA on the 95th Academy Awards VIsual Effects Bake-off.

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I Wanna Dance With (the volumetric capture of) Somebody

In the new Whitney Houston Bio-pic, the film’s crowds were made with volumetric capture – a first for this approach at this scale. We talk with Zero VFX’s Brian Drewes.

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fxpodcast #347 Emancipation, in depth with Rob Legato.

Three-time Oscar Winner Rob Legato joins us to do a deep dive into Emancipation, a true story of slavery and survival.

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All Quiet on the Western Front VFX

All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the shortlisted films in this year’s VFX bakeoff.

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fxpodcast #346 Smile

We talk to SMILE Director Parker Finn, and VFX supervisors Vico Sharabani and Yuval Levy of The Artery in NYC.

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Exclusive: Joe Letteri Discusses Wētā FX’s new Facial Pipeline on Avatar 2

Senior VFX Supervisor Joe Letteri discusses in depth, Wētā FX’s new APFS pipeline – the new face system in Avatar: The Way of Water, along with Prof. Karan Singh.

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VFXShow 265: Andor

In this episode we explore the newest show in Star Wars’ galaxy, focusing on Cassian’s journey in Andor.

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fxpodcast #345 ILM makes Wakanda Forever

ILM discusses their extensive VFX work on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

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Invisible Effects of living in the WestWorld

WestWorld aimed to do as much work as they could in camera, but they still relied on a host of invisible effects work by FutureWorks.

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fxpodcast #344 Black Adam with Digital Domain

We speak Black Adam, with Digital Domain’s VFX supervisor Nikos Kalaitzidis

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Volumetric team Arcturus expands with help from Epic and Autodeck

Volumetric startup Arcturus received $11M Series A funding, including investments from Epic Games and Autodesk.

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