VP stage news

January 25, 2021

Virtual Production news from MELS in Canda and also from NCam & disguise.

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2020: Yearly Departed

December 31, 2020

Barnstorm VFX provide a (not so fond) farewell to 2020

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Making waves in animation

December 15, 2020

Brent Forrest is making waves – for fellow artists

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First look: Mocha Pro 2021

December 10, 2020

We look at the major update to Mocha, including its powerful new PowerMesh.

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NVIDIA adds ADA to GANs

December 7, 2020

NVIDIA reduces the training data required for GANs

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Age it like Beckham

December 3, 2020

Digital Domain helps Malaria No More by aging David Beckham

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How to Pitch?

November 29, 2020

How to pitch creative work with The Moon Unit.

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A busy week for Epic Games News

November 20, 2020

Epic Games buys Hyprsense, supports SideFX, and is deployed by Digital Domain

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Imageworks making a mountain avalance battle escape For Mulan

October 21, 2020

Imageworks Mulan VFX making of videos.

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Engineering Emmy Winners Highlights 2020

October 10, 2020

Congrats to all the 72nd Engineering Emmy Awards Winners

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Advanced digital chats

October 7, 2020

Companies such as Pinscreen and NVIDIA are all developing advanced video conferencing tools that are insanely great.

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Virtual set design

October 6, 2020

COVID has accelerated the use of VP in television for shows such as the Masked Singer and Celebrity Show Off.

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American pickle making

September 29, 2020

Nviz’s American Pickle visual effects bridging a 6 weeks gap of a split-screen shoot.

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Weta joins the AWS virtualization

September 2, 2020

Weta Digital adopt AWS

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Chaos Group releases V-Ray 5 for Maya

August 7, 2020

V-Ray for Maya with Light Mix and Layer Composite using the VFB

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Congrats to the Emmy Nominees

July 28, 2020

Congrats to all the nominees, shows, and the artist who made them.

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Upload

July 10, 2020

FuseFX creates everlasting VFX life in Upload

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Universal Machine: Short Film

July 7, 2020

Qlbeans walks through the details of an elegant robot fight choreography in Dubai.

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Well that’s one way to solve it: The Blacklist

May 24, 2020

Proof solves The Blacklists lock down problem with innovative toon-shading 3D in Maya.

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AI GameGAN Recreates Pac-Man by Watching Another AI Play

May 22, 2020

AI GameGAN fully recreates an interactive Pac-Man one can play, without the use of a game engine.

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Mythic Quest: Quarantine

May 20, 2020

Mythic Quest: Quarantine,’ Brings Ensemble Cast Together for New Installment Filmed Remotely on iPhones

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A UK Holistic Approach to Production

May 7, 2020

UK’s Framestore and The Third Floor move down different paths and new business models

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RTC May events: Dennis Muren

May 3, 2020

Tomorrow is the second online RTC with Dennis Muren (free)

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Maxon releases new subscription-based Cinema 4D S22

April 20, 2020

MAXON has released a new subscription-based version of their software, billed as Cinema 4D S22.

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Boris FX Silhouette Paint + Mocha plugin test drive

April 20, 2020

We test-drive the new Boris FX Silhouette Paint plugin.

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GauGAN and Omniverse

April 17, 2020

NVIDIA’s GauGAN and Omniverse combined into one cool Real-time demo

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CannyAI VDR; face replacement as a service

April 16, 2020

Neural rendering using Machine Learning for VDR, lessons from our exclusive test drive.

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Flame 2021 with new machine learning

April 16, 2020

A first-look at Flame 2021

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RealTime Conference goes ahead next week

April 2, 2020

The first International RealTime Conference goes ahead with free online sessions

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TurboSquid introduces Kraken Pro

March 25, 2020

TurboSquid launches Kraken Pro, a turnkey 3D asset manager.

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