VFX Developments
Foundry Develops Scene Layout and Sequencing for Interactive Media
Earlier this year, Foundry completed a two-year project titled Enabling Interactive Story Telling (EIST). Working with the BBC R&D team, the project's goal was to develop tools that would help a wider group of people from different backgrounds and industries…
August 08, 2020
VFX
V-Ray 5 for Maya Adds Render Compositing and Light Mixing
V-Ray 5 now supports the ACEScg colourspace standard. Chaos Group V-Ray 5 for Maya has expanded to include compositing of renders in the frame buffer, interactive light mixing and quicker, simpler scene management. New Light Path Expressions for custom render…
August 04, 2020
VFX
Autodesk Bifrost 2.1 for Maya Visualises Geometric Queries
Raycasting visualised using arrows Version 2.1 of Bifrost for Maya makes it possible to build compounds using rapid point-cloud queries, nearest-neighbour searches and raycasting. The user interface for setting datatypes on nodes has been improved to make…
July 27, 2020
VFX
Future Group Pixotope 1.3 Refines Object Tracking and Lights for MR Scenes
Pixotope, the live photo-realistic virtual production system from The Future Group, now runs on version 1.3 software, updated to help creators improve interactions between their virtual environments and the real-world elements. Pixotope forms the central…
July 25, 2020
VFX
Fusion Studio Rescues ‘Looks That Kill’ at Flying Turtle Post
Flying Turtle Post in New York produced visual effects for ‘Looks That Kill’, a romantic comedy made for OTT streaming with a dark sense of humour about Max Richards, a teenager born with a medical condition that makes him lethally attractive. His life…
July 22, 2020
VFX
Foundry Nuke 12.2 Reads USD Data and Goes Solo with Nuke Indie
Nuke 12.2 builds on updates in Nuke 12 so far, and adds a new product to the Nuke software series for compositors. Named Nuke Indie, the new software is a functionally restricted version of Nuke Studio that independent artists can use on commercial projects,…
July 17, 2020
VFX
Meet the Expert VFX and Animation Storytellers at AEAF
AEAF’s virtual event is taking place in just under one month. The Speaker Program line-up has grown to cover topics ranging from VFX and animation in TV shows and movies to learning how to wrap your pipeline around USD on a student budget. We are now also…
July 13, 2020
VFX
Houdini 18 Develops New Mesh, Deformation and Render Effects
Viewport fog effects Under Houdini's daily build program, functionality under development for the next major release can become candidates for backporting, the process of taking parts from a newer version of a software system and porting them to an older…
July 06, 2020
VFX
Top Level Feature Films Are Ready to Roll at AEAF Awards
Rodeo FX, 'The Aeronauts' AEAF Awards’ Feature Film categories, VFX and Animation, have received the most varied lineup of entries yet. It is also very big. Everyone devoted to filmmaking – artists, animators, producers and directors – is invited to tune in…
June 20, 2020
VFX
Katana 3.6 Updates Material Editing, Ships with 3Delight NSI 2.0
Katana 3.6 Updates Material Editing, Ships with 3Delight NSI 2.0 Image by Owen Frankland, Katana Senior OA, robot from Aaron Sims Creative Foundry Katana version 3.6 updates the application’s UI and workflow for artists, with snapping functionality that thst…
June 19, 2020
VFX
V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max Moves into Post-Render Compositing and Lighting
V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max Moves into Post-Render Compositing and Lighting Chaos Group V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max now extends its rendering functions to other stages of the visualisation process. Artists and designers can now composite renders, enhance materials and…
June 15, 2020
VFX
AEAF Awards Gather Momentum with Projects from Unstoppable Artists
AEAF Awards Gather Momentum with Projects from Unstoppable Artists There’s still time to enter AEAF Awards – but not much. Visit the ENTRY FORM page, get your projects organised and contact us if you have questions. To fuel your ambition, check the project…
May 26, 2020
VFX
The Molecule’s VFX Artists Stay Connected with AWS Virtual Workstations
The Molecule’s VFX Artists Stay Connected with AWS Virtual Workstations Billions VFX studio The Molecule operates on both coasts of the USA, opening first at their headquarters in New York in 2005 and then at a second facility in Los Angeles. Recent work…
May 18, 2020
VFX
Rising Sun Pictures Celebrates its 25th Year
Rising Sun Pictures Celebrates its 25th Year Gravity Visual effects studio Rising Sun Pictures (RSP) has reached its 25th year, after producing work for more than 150 motion pictures and television series, including some of the most popular and…
May 11, 2020
VFX
Framestore Film Expands VFX and Business Teams with New Hires
Framestore Film Expands VFX and Business Teams with New Hires Framestore has made three key hires across its film division – VFX supervisor Graham Page and Head of FX Mark Hodgkins from DNEG, and Head of Business Development Anna Ford. Graham Page joins…
May 03, 2020
VFX
Method Studios Takes AWS Cloud Rendering to the Next Level
Method Studios Takes AWS Cloud Rendering to the Next Level Visual effects company Method Studios works on content for all screen types - feature films for cinemas, television content and commercials for home or mobile screens, title designs and others. At its…
April 27, 2020
VFX
Framestore Pre-production Services Announces Creative Team
Framestore Pre-production Services Announces Creative Team Framestore Pre-production Services has pulled together a new creative team of supervisors to work exclusively across previs, techvis, postvis and virtual production. Creative Director and Senior…
April 22, 2020
VFX
Cinema 4D S22 Automates UV Unwrap, Tunes Viewport and Pipelines
Cinema 4D S22 Automates UV Unwrap, Tunes Viewport and Pipelines UV Auto Unwrapping The new version of Maxon Cinema 4D is a subscription-only release that gives subscription customers early access to the next series of updates. These include UV unwrapping and…
April 20, 2020
VFX
Flame 2021 Adds Physical Defocus, Facial Keying, HDR Mastering
Flame 2021 Adds Physical Defocus, Facial Keying, HDR Mastering Autodesk Flame 2021 has new tools for human face segmentation driven by machine learning, and finishing tools for streaming services with new functionality for Dolby Vision HDR authoring and…
April 14, 2020
VFX
Ziva VFX Academic Licenses Are Now Free
Ziva VFX character simulation software from Ziva Dynamics is now free for students and educators to give students the chance to learn physics-based character creation while studying.
April 06, 2020
VFX
Golaem 7.3 Characters Step Beyond Crowds with USD, Scattering and Fur
Golaem 7.3 Characters Step Beyond Crowds with USD, Scattering and Fur Scattering tool Golaem characters are extending their usefulness beyond crowd simulations to become a cross-pipeline data format for animated characters of all types such as cars, trees and…
March 26, 2020
VFX
3ds Max 2021 Adds PBR and Texture Workflows, Python 3 Integration
3ds Max 2021 Adds PBR and Texture Workflows, Python 3 Integration PBR material - metallic roughness Autodesk 3ds Max 2021 has a fully scriptable texture baking workflow and is simpler to install. Viewport configuration and rendering are improved, in…
March 17, 2020
VFX
Cineware by Maxon Plug-in Integrates Cinema4D Assets into Unity
Cineware by Maxon Plug-in Integrates Cinema4D Assets into Unity Maxon is now a Unity Technologies Verified Solutions Partner and is distributing a plug-in for Unity called Cineware by Maxon. Developers and creative teams can use the new plug-in to integrate…
March 16, 2020
VFX
KeenTools Builds and Tracks Faces for Nuke and Blender Artists
KeenTools Builds and Tracks Faces for Nuke and Blender Artists KeenTools, a team of software developers based in St Petersburg, started up in 2017 with a straightforward plugin called GeoTracker for Foundry Nuke, designed for object tracking. The software met…
March 11, 2020
VFX
Toolchefs Integrates Atoms Crowd into Unreal Engine
Toolchefs Integrates Atoms Crowd into Unreal Engine Toolchefs software developers has released a free open beta of Atoms Unreal, a new plugin integrating Atoms Crowd into Unreal Engine. The Atoms Unreal plugin is Toolchefs’ first step into the real-time…
