MONTREAL — London and Montreal-based creative studio Cinesite has hired Marianne O’Reilly as chief operating officer of its feature animation studio in Montreal, Quebec. She will be responsible for th ...
December 20, 2016
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
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 ...
December 16, 2016
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, ...
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 ...
December 14, 2016
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 ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Mekajiki Inc., has released its first commercial software application, Boardfish (www.boardfish.io), a standalone page layout application designed specifically for storyboarding.
BOURNEMOUTH, UK — Outpost VFX (http://outpostvfx.co.uk) provided effects services for 200 shots featured on Universal’s new film, Nocturnal Animals. Directed, co-produced and co-written by Tom Ford, t ...
December 13, 2016