fxpodcast #309: Game of Thrones: those crazy bastards…
We turn our attention to the Emmys and the Game of Thrones nominated work done by Iloura in the “Battle of the Bastards” episode.
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.
fxpodcast #308: Siggraph Preview & Pixar Piper
After a discussion about what we are looking forward to at Siggraph 2016 we speak with Alan Barillaro, Director of the latest short from Pixar, “Piper”.
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.
fxpodcast #307: Paul Debevec, USC ICT at SIGGRAPH (Exclusive)
In depth discussion with Dr Paul Debevec about the latest USC ICT SIGGRAPH work, doing even more accurate lighting capture and the new multi-spectral Light Stage. (Click through for Video and images).
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”!
