HELSINKI — Varjo (www.varjo.com), a provider of industrial-grade VR/XR headsets, has introduced a human eye-resolution virtual reality device, the Varjo VR-1. The VR-1 is designed solely for professio ...
February 26, 2019
AUSTIN, TX - South by Southwest (SXSW) Gaming (www.sxswgaming.com), set to take place from March 15th through the 17th, has announced the finalists for its sixth annual SXSW Gaming Awards. The Gaming ...
LOS ANGELES — Chaos Group (chaosgroup.com) has released V-Ray Next for SketchUp, boosting the speed and simplicity of the SketchUp renderer. Now, with a few clicks, anyone can create high-quality ray- ...
CHICAGO — Under the leadership of conference chair Mikki Rose, senior fur technical director at Blue Sky Studios, SIGGRAPH 2019 seeks submissions that cater to a central concept: Thrive. In its 46th y ...
PARIS — Polywink (www.polywink.com) has released a new plug & play solution for live facial animation in Unity with the iPhone X. The solution aims at delivering Polywink’s 52 automatically genera ...
LOS ANGELES – The 91st Academy Awards took place last night in Los Angeles, with Green Book taking top honors for ‘Best Picture’, as well as Oscars for ‘Actor in a Supporting Role’ (Mahershala Ali) an ...
February 25, 2019
ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA — For 20th Century Fox’s new cyberpunk adventure film Alita: Battle Angel, Rising Sun Pictures (rsp.com.au) worked in tandem with lead visual effect studio Weta Digital to cr ...
We are still in a high-fashion stage of VR where the experimentation and far-out art being presented at festivals like Sundance have yet to inspire the “ready-to-wear” market we are all waiting for.
February 21, 2019
A big story demands big visual effects. So when Warner Bros. Pictures and director James Wan brought the origin story of DC Comics’ Aquaman to life, it was a given that Arthur Curry’s journey of disco ...
Despite our recent recognition for our previs work on “The Final Battle” sequence, we originally dove into the massive underwater sandbox of Aquaman in a postvis capacity. The VFX crew had recently wr ...