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
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 ...