LOS ANGELES — The Visual Effects Society (www.visualeffectssociety.com) has announced that acclaimed visual futurist and VES Visionary Award honoree Syd Mead will serve as a keynote speaker at its 9th ...
August 18, 2017
STUTTGART, GERMANY — Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) have developed technology to digitally capture clothing on moving people, turn it into a 3D digital form, ...
August 11, 2017
TUSTIN, CA — Luxion, a developer of advanced rendering and lighting technology, and maker of KeyShot (www.keyshot.com), the realtime ray-tracing and global illumination program for 3D rendering and an ...
August 10, 2017
LOS ANGELES — On the night of Tuesday, August 8th, John Bailey was elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Tuesday night by the organization’s Board of Governors. A number ...
August 9, 2017
PARSIPPANY, NJ — PNY Technologies (www.pny.com) has launched a new high-powered mobile workstation product family. Powered by the latest generation Nvidia Quadro GPUs, the PNY PrevailPro P3000 and P40 ...
LOS ANGELES — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that 11 distinct scientific and technical investigations have been launched for the 2017 Oscars. These investigations are ...
August 7, 2017
LOS ANGELES — The Visual Effects Society (www.visualeffectssociety.com) has named writer/director/producer/actor Jon Favreau as the next recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing his va ...
PLAYA VISTA, CA — Visual effects provider Digital Domain (www.digitaldomain.com) has launched its first cinematic virtual reality series, Monkey King. Now available on Sony PlayStation VR, Digital Dom ...
July 26, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO — Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) have announced the inaugural Open Source release of the MaterialX Library (www.materialx.org) for computer graphics. MaterialX is an op ...
July 25, 2017
LONDON — Creative software developer Foundry has launched Nuke and Hiero 11.0, the next major release for the Nuke family of compisiting products, which includes Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio, Hiero and Hi ...
July 24, 2017