IBC news
Blackmagic buys Ultimatte and Fairlight, Convergent Design’s Titan, and Boris acquires GenArts.
Best perfume spot EVER
UPDATED: DD’s Janelle Croshaw helps Margaret Qualley nail it for Spike Jonze’s Kenzo World.
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®.
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.
Stiller Luxo Jr. birthday message
The story of two robots reenacting the world’s most famous computer graphics short film.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
One on one with Roland Emmerich
An fxinsider exclusive: our one on one with Roland Emmerich about his approach to vfx & Independence Day: Resurgence
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.
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
Magic Leap and ILM XLab join up on Star Wars
Holographic chess looks a whole lot closer. Magic Leap and ILM xLab team up.
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.
Method Studios NY throws particles-off dance-off for AICP
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.
VFX of Beautiful Dreamer
Director David Gaddie talks about the work done by Afterparty VFX on his short film Beautiful Dreamer.
mocha Pro 5 launched
mocha Pro 5 is now available, bringing a slate of improvements as well as new plug-in versions for popular host applications.
Milk VFX builds the High Rise environment
Milk VFX designed and created visual effects for Ben Wheatley’s High Rise.