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 ...
December 15, 2016
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 ...
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
STUDIO CITY, CA — The Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) will honor Guillermo del Toro with its annual Filmmaker Award. The director of such films as Hellboy (2004), Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), Pacific R ...
Conrad Vernon co-directed 2016’s Sausage Party with Greg Tiernan. The animated feature about a sausage, out to discover the truth behind his existence, has taken in nearly $140M worldwide, far exceedi ...