Real-Time Live preview: SIGGRAPH 2021
A preview of Real-Time Live @ SIGGRAPH2021, with past winners returning again to the SIGGRAPH Live arena.
Digital Domain brings Black Widow’s Red Room Crashing Down
Digital Domains 75 secs of visual effects, Black Widow excitement.
In Camera UE4.27 LED Test Shoot
ICVFX with Unreal Engine 4.27 including a new nDisplay module.
Apple iPad Pro is about collaboration not replacement
The iPad Pro ‘road tested’ as a production tool.
Behind the NY final battle in Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Sony Imageworks rebuilt New York, key locations and even Falcon himself for Disney+ Falcon and the Winter Solider
WetaM
WetaM aims to democratize Weta’s VFX and animation pipeline with Autodesk as a SaaS Maya cloud service.
NVIDIA GPU Enterprise A5000
Hardcore Graphics options for Virtual Production from NVIDIA.
Digital Albert
The Mill’s FACS based digital Albert Einstein, transported from the 1950s to the present day.
Apex Legends Valkyrie at DD
We look at the animated video “Northstar,” Respawn and EA released, and created by DD
Cloud rendering in an age of COVID
Cloud rendering is expanding but not in every part of the Ecosystem. We speak to GridMarkets about their success.
Trimirror looks to dress MetaHumans in real-time
With the interest in MetaHumans, triMirror is developing real-time tools to design & fashion garments for these new digital humans.
The Midnight Sky through ARENA
NVIZ used their our virtual camera system (ARENA) to set up shots for The Midnight Sky.
Galactic footsteps in the cosmic rewind: Scanline & the Flash
Scanline VFX completed their work in just seven months to help bring Zach Snyder’s version of the film to an audience.
Flame learns (even more)
Flame adds new machine learning camera tracking to the new software release.
Twin Peaks meets Fargo meets Alf: Resident Alien
Artifex Studios and CoSA visual effects work for Resident Alien
Congrats to the winners of the VES Awards
Congrats to all the artists and teams in this year’s VES awards
ILM’s look behind the scenes of The Mandalorian’s Stagecraft
ILM shows the use of Stagecraft 2.0 in season 2 of The Mandalorian.
Virtual production at Stargate Studios
Stargate test Tru-vision with URSA Mini Pro 12K cameras.
DI4D extends with PURE4D
Exclusive: DI4D releases PURE4D AI for large volume games characters
Mank’s monochrome effects
Mank is a monochrome love letter to early cinema and some early VFX approaches.
Oscar Short list
The 2021 shortlist for Nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards in VFX and Animated Short Film
The DD Vince Lombardi Charlatan
DD and Respeecher bring back Vince Lombardi with help from advanced machine learning
2021 Sci-tech Oscars
This year’s Sci-tech Winners: and we speak to one of those winning teams about ftrack studio