LOS ANGELES — The Academy (www.oscars.org) is now accepting entries for its 2017 Student Academy Awards competition. All Student Academy Award winners become eligible for Oscars consideration. The ent ...
March 28, 2017
NEW YORK — Viacom recently named Jim Gianopulos chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures. He succeeds Paramount's former chairman, Brad Grey, who departed in February.
PARIS — E-on software (e-onsoftware.com) announced that Ecole George Mélies has deployed the company’s Vue and PlantFactory software to advance the computer graphics skills of students and accelerate ...
LOS ANGELES — Chaos Group (chaosgroup.com) has released Phoenix FD 3 for Maya, a major update to its all-in-one fluid dynamics plug-in for Autodesk Maya. Phoenix FD supports a wide range of fluid simu ...
PALO ALTO, CA — Artec 3D (www.artec3d.com) has unveiled Artec Leo, an AI-based, handheld 3D scanner, capable of capturing data at up to 80 frames per second. The unit can autonomously select and proce ...
NEW YORK — The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) recently announced the nominees for the 44th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, which will be presented at the Pasadena Civic Auditor ...
March 27, 2017
NEW YORK — The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) have announced the honorees for outstanding achievement in animation who will be honored at the 44th Daytime Creative Arts Emmy ...
SAN CLEMENTE, CA — @Xi Computer has introduced the new PowerGo laptop featuring Nvidia Quadro P3000 graphics card and seventh generation Intel i7 mobile processor. The PowerGo 15/7 comes with a 15.6-i ...
March 24, 2017
FARNHAM, UK — Animation technology specialist IKinema (www.IKinema.com/Orion) has introduced a new approach to motion capture and body tracking that uses ordinary VR hardware. Orion is designed to bri ...
March 22, 2017
CULVER CITY, CA — Sony Pictures Animation has promoted Pam Marsden to head of production. She held the title of executive vice president of production for the past six years, and was responsible for s ...