VFX Union UK: Sausage Party & Nitrogen – an open letter

August 22, 2016

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

August 17, 2016

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

August 8, 2016

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

July 27, 2016

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

July 27, 2016

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

July 26, 2016

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

July 26, 2016

Siggraph Sunday : The start of a week of hard core tech graphics geek out !

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SIGGRAPH Saturday: DigiPro 2016

July 25, 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)

July 25, 2016

DreamWorks take their Deep Compositing extensions Open Source

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MAXON debuts Cinema 4D R18

July 25, 2016

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

July 20, 2016

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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Honda ‘news’ by Alt.vfx

July 20, 2016

A look at the latest Honda spot from Alt.vfx.

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68th Emmy nominations

July 14, 2016

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

July 13, 2016

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

July 6, 2016

The Foundry has released a powerful new CARA VR plugin for Nuke.

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Redshift releases version 2.0

July 4, 2016

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

June 27, 2016

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

June 23, 2016

Behind-the-scenes video of how Weta swapped The Rock’s face with Vine Star Sione in Central Intelligence.

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Neuro-gaming : focus or fail?

June 23, 2016

What’s next after VR gaming? Try Neuro-gaming.

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343 Industries & Blur Studio Halo Wars 2 trailer: awesome

June 17, 2016

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

June 16, 2016

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?

June 16, 2016

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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Method Studios NY throws particles-off dance-off for AICP

June 12, 2016

Method Studios NY created the 2016 sponsor reel for the AICP Show awards and the result is a fun and colorful combination of motion capture, procedural animation, and particles.

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VFX of Beautiful Dreamer

June 8, 2016

Director David Gaddie talks about the work done by Afterparty VFX on his short film Beautiful Dreamer.

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mocha Pro 5 launched

June 6, 2016

mocha Pro 5 is now available, bringing a slate of improvements as well as new plug-in versions for popular host applications.

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Milk VFX builds the High Rise environment

June 3, 2016

Milk VFX designed and created visual effects for Ben Wheatley’s High Rise.

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The Simpsons live – how you can do it yourself

May 19, 2016

The Simpsons recently featured Homer answering viewer questions live. How they did it plus a free look at an fxphd.com class covering the tech.

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Quantic Dream becomes human

May 19, 2016

How Sony PS4’s Detroit: Become Human used IKinema to make 50 hours of Game animation.

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TMU offer free help for your next charity job

May 15, 2016

Got a cause you feel passionate about but almost zero budget? The Moon Unit are offering free pitching/design help for serious charity work.

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Free on-demand licensing in May from Thinkbox

May 9, 2016

With the release of Deadline 8, Thinkbox is giving away free licensing hours of Deadline and Krakatoa as well as free hours of NUKE, KATANA, and V-Ray for the month of May.

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