Developers of USD, Marvelous Designer, OpenVDB are among this years Sci-Tech Winners

A wrap up of SIGGRAPH ASIA’s Featured Presentations.

SIGGRAPH Asia starts next week the line up of featured speakers is one of the most interesting we’ve seen in years.

Sony with Peerless-AV recently installed a small LED Volume that serves as a case study in the deployment of newer & smaller LED Volumes.

Our best wishes to all the team members of the Unity Wētā Tools’ division following its closure. UPDATE: Statement from WētāFX

Move ai release their single iPhone MoCap app

Next-gen studio, ZeroSpace in Brooklyn, NY has leveraged NVIDIA multi-GPU workstations for high-fidelity real-time workflows.

The audio recording of our SIGGRAPH’23 AI Panel with Wonder Dynamics, Rising Sun, Flawless and Autodesk

Black Kite Studios, Francois Rousselet and the VFX team on the Rolling Stones new single, Angry.

Highlights from DigiPro 2023 told (mainly) in pictures

AI panels at SIGGRAPH, including Reshaping the Film & Television Industry with Generative AI + Crashing a Live Broadcast.

Extraction2 sees Chris Hemsworth back from the brink of death, as commando Tyler Rake with some major support from the team at FuseFX

We talk to director Vico Sharabani of The-Artery in NY about his new high-end TVC spot for Mercedes-Benz.

Dan Baldwin led DNEG’s team as they build mountains, blow up trains, and race down ski slopes in The Citadel.

Frametore’s Black Mirror Werewolf Transformation.

SwitchLight is a new AI tool that promises to radically change relighting actor. (Including exclusive first look at moving footage)

Halon’s Postviz reel for Cocaine Bear.

Neuralangelo creates dense scene of objects and very large-scale indoor/outdoor scenes with high detail, from a normal video.

We talk to Sameer Malik, VFX Supervisor, DNEG, and Philipp Wolf, Executive Producer, about The Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.

Union’s VFX work on The Banshees of Inisherin

We’ve been working on more (fun) machine learning demos. Respeecher and Pinscreen join us to demonstrate advanced AI Facial Re-enactment.

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

NVIDIA joins with Shutterstock for generative 3D

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

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

Autodesk and Shotgrid discuss the move to make RV Open Source

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.

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).

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.