LOS ANGELES – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (www.oscars.org) announced that 10 films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 89th Academy Awards. The Academy’s V ...
December 19, 2016
TORONTO — Built in 1911, Toronto’s sprawling Casa Loma is rumored to be haunted, making it the perfect setting for the haunted house experience “Legends of Horror.” The promenade theatre featured dres ...
December 16, 2016
SAN JOSE, CA — Reallusion’s (www.reallusion.com) CrazyTalk Animator 3 demystifies the animation process, providing character design, scene building, and character motion tools to create studio-level 2 ...
LONDON — The Foundry has released Mari 3.2 (www.thefoundry.co.uk), the latest version of its high resolution 3D painting tool. The company is offering a 30-day free trial of the software, which includ ...
December 15, 2016
LONDON — Imagination Technologies announced that a PowerVR GPU is the first to achieve Khronos OpenVX 1.1 conformance. With OpenVX, developers can run fully optimized vision algorithms on the highly p ...
LONDON — Software developer The Foundry recently announced the winners of The Foundry Student Championship 2016. The three winners are Alvaro Claver from Vancouver, Canada, Dai Zhongyan from Oakville, ...
Framestore Creative Director Christian Manz took the rein as overall VFX supervisor on Warner Bros.’ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, alongside long-time collaborator Tim Burke. Reuniting the ...
December 14, 2016
In the multidimensional world of Marvel's latest blockbuster, Doctor Strange, superpowers take an enchanting shape; heroes and villains cause the world to twist, turn, fold and shrink, defy and rewrit ...
ROCHESTER, NY — Rochester Institute of Technology professor Owen Gottlieb (owengottlieb.org) was awarded a National Science Foundation grant to benefit the next generation of games and learning schola ...
COPENHAGEN & SAN FRANCISCO — Rokoko Electronics Inc. (www.rokoko.com), a Danish hardware and software innovator, has unveiled its flagship product, the Smartsuit Pro, which is designed for technic ...