Facebook has announced a major investment with CIFAR (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research), a result of the Institute's leadership in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
September 26, 2017
PITTSBURGH, PA — Avere Systems, a provider of hybrid cloud enablement solutions, and HGST, a Western Digital brand, are helping animation house Illumination Mac Guff (www.illuminationmacguff.com) buil ...
September 21, 2017
The increasingly popular VR trend in the industry inspired Rocket Film’s Sam O’Hare to create a rig that didn’t compromise on quality but also didn’t break the bank. The director says, “I wanted a rig ...
LONDON — Using a suite of industry tools and custom in-house workflows, Render Crowds has launched from the SBLabs R&D team at creative studio Saddington Baynes (saddingtonbaynes.com). Render Crow ...
LOS ANGELES — Deluxe's Method Studios, which continues to integrate VFX and VR/AR operations, has added new leadership roles at the global level. Eric Combrié (pictured) has been promoted to chief ope ...
According to a report by Jon Peddie Research on the GPUs used in PCs, the year-to-year total GPU shipments increased 6.4%, desktop graphics increased 5%, and notebooks increased 7%. The information st ...
September 19, 2017
LOS ANGELES — VFX supervisor Tim Davies, senior executive producer Sue Troyan and owner/partner Darcy Parsons have joined forces to launch ‘Kevin,’ a new VFX studio. Kevin (yourstrulykevin.com) is cur ...
AUSTIN, TX — Boxx Technologies (www.boxx.com) has introduced Apexx 4 6301, its first workstation to feature the new, 16-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper processor. AMD’s highest performing desktop platform ...
Optimus Prime has gone rogue and all-out war has broken out between humans and Transformers, which have been declared illegal. To save Earth, the heroes of Transformers: The Last Knight have to learn ...
September 18, 2017
Sony Pictures Imageworks was one of several studios – including Method and Luma – that contributed visual effects to the new Spider-Man film from Columbia Pictures. Directed by Jon Watts, Spider-Man: ...