Chaos’ New Sequence Player Gives Instant High-resolution Playback
Chaos Player, a major upgrade to Pdplayer, features floating-point compositing, A/B comparisons, MP4 and OpenColor IO 2 support, and is now included in the V-Ray Collection.
VFX Developments
January 17, 2022
VFX
The Mill, MPC and Mr X Undergo Business Transformations at Technicolor
A new Moving Picture Company (MPC) Studio network will focus on Film and Episodic VFX; Technicolor Creative Studios consolidates across Advertising, TV & Film, Animation and Gaming
January 15, 2022
VFX
Predicting Video Pathways in 2022 – Ncam, Digital Domain and Arcturus
Video production, post and applications are evolving and expanding rapidly around the world. Three committed companies talk about their ambitions and expectations for 2022.
December 20, 2021
VFX
Katana 5.0 Focusses on Nuke Interoperability and Render Upgrades
Foundry’s Katana 5.0 includes Hydra Render Delegate support, Foresight+ for sequence renders, Katana and Nuke interoperability, and better Look Development and USD workflows.
December 13, 2021
VFX
Sam Mason and Team Take Bifrost on a Surreal 3D Journey through Dreamland
3D artist Sam Mason directed a music video titled ‘Colors and Shapes’ by Mac Miller, using Bifrost to manage the many complex scenes featuring particle effects created in tyFlow.
December 08, 2021
VFX
Isotropix Releases Angie to Support CPU, GPU or Hybrid Rendering
Early access to Clarisse 5.5 is now available creating options to render on a CPU, GPU or both combined, with support for OSL, MaterialX and a new Previz mode for near-realtime feedback.
December 02, 2021
VFX
Nuke 13.1 Updates 3D System and Machine Learning, Adds Unreal Reader
Foundry has made significant changes to Nuke in this release, updating its Node Graph UX, improving the timeline, extending Machine Learning and introducing an Unreal Reader in beta.
November 29, 2021
VFX
OTOY Adds Redshift Support to the Render Network
OTOY and Maxon announce that Redshift will be coming to the Render Network, giving Redshift users the ability to scale GPU rendering jobs to millions of distributed GPUs.
November 29, 2021
VFX
Katana 5.0 Extends Lighting and Look Development Through the 3D Pipeline
Katana 5.0 updates Foresight rendering, changes render delegate handling in the Hydra viewer, adds Katana’s new render delegate AVP, and updates the Nuke Interoperability Framework.
November 20, 2021
VFX
Mari 5 Enhances Proceduralism and USD Look Development Workflows
Foundry Mari 5.0 improves the brush engine to include colour jitter, has a new export workflow for USD material networks and helps users to take better advantage of proceduralism in Mari.
November 10, 2021
VFX
Unity Set to Acquire Weta Digital’s Tools, Pipeline and Engineering Talent
3D software developer Unity will soon acquire Weta Digital’s tools, pipeline and engineering talent, in effect making Weta’s VFX tools available for integration onto the Unity platform.
November 08, 2021
VFX
Folks VFX Chooses Quebec Location for its Fourth Studio
Folks VFX’s new studio in Saguenay, Quebec, becomes the tenth studio location in the FuseFX portfolio, which includes Rising Sun Pictures in Australia.
November 07, 2021
VFX
Golaem 8 Brings Crowds to Unreal Engine, Adds Layout Layers
Golaem 8 now makes its crowd simulation features available within Unreal Engine in real-time, improves previsualisation inside the Maya viewport, and has new editable Layout layers.
November 03, 2021
VFX
Preymaker Welcomes Top Talent to its Expanding Roster
Preymaker, one of the first 100% cloud native creative studios, has hired CGI and compositing artists and developers Rune Holst Månsson, Greg Cutler and Hassan Taimur to its team.
November 02, 2021
VFX
CGI Studio REALTIME Celebrates 25 years in Content Creation
REALTIME is celebrating its 25th anniversary, a milestone for the independent CG company, specialising in CG imagery and animation for automotive, gaming and broadcast clients.
November 02, 2021
VFX
RSP Hires Machine Learning Experts to Apply AI to the VFX Pipeline
RSP has appointed two post-doctoral researchers from the Australian Institute for Machine Learning to develop the use of Artificial Intelligence in its visual effects pipeline.
November 02, 2021
VFX
Framestore Announces New Mumbai VFX Studio
Framestore has opened the doors to a new 30,000 square-foot, purpose-built studio in Mumbai expected to accommodate a 300-person team by early 2022.
October 18, 2021
VFX
Rising Sun Pictures Welcomes Home-Grown Talent as VFX Production Booms
As the film and television industry rebounds from the pandemic, now is a great time to begin a career in visual effects (VFX). Production activity in Australia and worldwide is expanding quickly as studios and streaming services rush to meet consumer demand…
October 18, 2021
VFX
V-Ray Wins 2021 Engineering Emmy for Ray-Traced Rendering
Loki, Digital Domain Chaos Group’s V-Ray renderer has won an Engineering Emmy Award for making new levels of photorealistic visual effects possible in episodic productions. The award honours technical developments that are “so innovative in nature that they…
October 18, 2021
VFX
Disney Imagineering’s Michael Stein joins Framestore as CTO
Creative studio Framestore is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael Stein as Chief Technology Officer.Michael’s career spans VFX, games, animation and theme park rides, and has led him to develop transformational systems for some of the world’s…
October 18, 2021
VFX
DeadDrop Labs Opens the Door to VFX Compute Power on AWS Cloud
DeadDrop Labs works with post production houses, VFX studios, editors, animators, game designers and digital artists to help them optimise and take better advantage of their work environment. In particular, their team configures and customises the…
October 15, 2021
VFX
Ghost VFX Wins an Emmy for ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ and Expands Leadership
Ghost VFX says they work to make the impossible, possible and to produce imagery that speaks for itself. Their conviction led to a team of their artists receiving a 2021 Emmy for 'Outstanding Visual Effects in a Single Episode' for the Star Trek: Discovery…
October 11, 2021
VFX
Golaem Receives an Engineering Emmy Award for Crowd Software
Golaem has been awarded an Engineering Emmy Award by the Television Academy for its software Golaem Crowd. Golaem Crowd helps artists to rapidly populate television shows, films and game cinematics by procedurally animating thousands of characters with…
October 11, 2021
VFX
FuseFX Hires Global Director Strategic Partnerships
FuseFX has hired Robin Prybil as global director, strategic partnerships. Robin will act as a conduit to existing relationships, strengthen ties and trust with large studios and high-level executives, and cultivate new business relationships across the…
October 11, 2021
VFX
Rob Coleman and Randal Shore Rejoin ILM to Boost Feature Animation
Industrial Light & Magic has announced that Rob Coleman has rejoined the company as a Key Creative for Feature Animation at ILM’s Sydney studio. ILM also announced the return of Randal Shore, who will be rejoining the company’s Vancouver studio as an…
Nevion Celebrates 25 Years at the Heart of Broadcast Innovation
Oct 04, 2021
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Nevion, virtualised media production specialists, are celebrating their 25th anniversary,…
Six VFX and Post Stars Join The VFX & Post Talent Agency
Oct 04, 2021
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Top row L-R, Alex Belgeonne, Oliver Cubbage, Anna Fuller Clarke. Bottom row L-R, Jan…
Framestore Promotes Three Top Artists to Lead Attractions Services
Sep 27, 2021
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Creative studio Framestore has appointed Eugénie von Tunzelmann to the newly created role…
Jellyfish Pictures Appoints Paul Baaske as Head of Technical Direction
Sep 27, 2021
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Paul Baaske, Head of Technical Direction, Jellyfish Pictures Animation and VFX studio…
Cinema 4D R25 and Trapcode 17 Get Updates for Artists; Redshift RT in Beta
Sep 15, 2021
4029
Maxon has updated applications across the company’s Maxon One combined package of…
Pixomondo To Open London Virtual Production Studio, Hires Alex Webster
Sep 14, 2021
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VFX and virtual production studio Pixomondo is launching a London division in September…
MPC Episodic and Mikros VFX Join Forces
Sep 13, 2021
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Visual effects studios MPC and Mikros have formed an alliance of their episodic and film…
FuseFX Picks up the Pace with Staff Moves and Promotions
Sep 09, 2021
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FuseFX visual effects studio, performing services for television, film and commercials…
DNEG Plans Global Expansion to Include New Toronto Studio
Aug 30, 2021
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DNEG is increasing its Canada-based VFX and animation operations and opening a new studio…
AMD USD Hydra Plug-in Supports USD Assembly and MaterialX for Blender
Aug 23, 2021
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Blender is becoming a standard 3D software application and, according to AMD, needs to be…
Unreal Engine 4.27 Advances In-Camera VFX and Cloud Workflows
Aug 22, 2021
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Unreal Engine 4.27 is now available with updates supporting filmmakers, broadcasters,…
V-Ray 5 for Unreal Updates Post Processing and Customises Light Baking
Aug 16, 2021
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Chaos V-Ray 5 for Unreal production rendering plugin is a new update designed to import…
Autodesk Bifrost Makes Complex Simulations More Interactive, Expressive
Aug 16, 2021
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Autodesk’s Bifrost updates include virtual sliders for feedback port changes, unknown…
ASWF Welcomes Maxon and Tangent Animation as General Members
Aug 09, 2021
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Tangent Animation The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF), dedicated to open source…
Corona Renderer 7 for Cinema 4D Updates Materials, Skies and Speed
Aug 09, 2021
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Corona Renderer 7 for Maxon Cinema 4D includes the new Physical Material for setting up…
Animal Logic Releases USD Alab to Promote Open Source Learning
Aug 08, 2021
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Animal Logic's USD Alab is a fully realised USD scene, intended to encourage further…
Christy Anzelmo Takes Foundry’s Software into the Future
Jul 31, 2021
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Hydra Viewer in Nuke Christy Anzelmo at Foundry has moved up to become Chief Product…
Framestore Backs Two New Machine Learning Research Fellowships
Jul 26, 2021
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VFX and studio Framestore and Bournemouth University are seeking two research fellows to…
Adobe Adds Speech to Text Workflow to Premiere Pro, Plugins for Blender
Jul 26, 2021
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Adobe released updates across the Creative Cloud applications Premiere Pro and After…
Corona Renderer 7 for 3ds Max Updates Sky Model and Physical Material
Jul 24, 2021
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Corona PRG Clear Sky Model Corona Renderer 7 for 3ds Max makes updates to the Corona…
Framestore Welcomes VFX Supervisor Damien Stumpf
Jul 19, 2021
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Framestore is pleased to announce that Damien Stumpf has been hired as VFX Supervisor to…
V-Ray 5 for Maya and Houdini Supports USD Format and Workflows
Jul 11, 2021
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Chaos Group has completed the first steps of its support for Universal Scene Description…
RenderMan 24 Upgrades Render Architecture and Shading for Animation and VFX
Jul 04, 2021
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Pixar RenderMan v24 releases with a new render architecture for animation and VFX, able…
MPC Film Bolsters the Team with Four Senior Artists
Jul 02, 2021
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VFX Producer Lisa Purisima MPC Film welcomes four senior VFX hires to lead its teams as…
Maxon Redshift Gains Support for OpenColorIO v2
Jun 28, 2021
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Following Redshift’s April release bringing support for MacOS Metal, the Apple M1 chip…
FuseFX Hires New Global Director of Virtual Production and Real-Time
Jun 28, 2021
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FuseFX visual effects studio, specialising in services for television, film and…
V-Ray 5 for Cinema 4D, Update 1, Supports Node-Based Material Editing
Jun 28, 2021
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V-Ray 5 for Cinema 4D, update 1, now supports node-based material editing, making it…
Weta Digital Partners with Autodesk on WetaM Cloud Production Pipeline
Jun 20, 2021
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'War for Planet of the Apes' Weta Digital has designed and developed a set of tools…
Pixomondo and William F. White to Expand Virtual Production in Canada
Jun 14, 2021
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VFX company Pixomondo and Canada’s TV & film equipment rental business, William F. White…
VFX and Animation Studio DNEG Brings New Opportunities to Bangalore
Jun 14, 2021
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Visual effects and animation company DNEG has announced plans to expand its India…
KeyShot 10.2 Upgrades Caustics on NVIDIA RTX Ampere GPUs
Jun 14, 2021
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Luxion KeyShot 10.2 includes major improvements for caustics, a redesigned Materials…
Binyan Uses 3ds Max to Bring Drama and Storytelling to ArchViz Projects
Jun 10, 2021
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View of Sydney Opera House from the Sirius Building. Architects traditionally use highly…
RSP Welcomes New Hires and Leadership in Adelaide
Jun 07, 2021
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Under new Executive Production leadership of Meredith Meyer-Nichols, visual effects…
Nuke 13.0’s CopyCat Trains Custom Neural Networks for VFX Artists
Jun 07, 2021
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In March 2021, Foundry introduced machine learning into Nuke 13.0 with the addition of…
GridMarkets Renders, Manages and Simulates in the Cloud
Jun 03, 2021
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Cloud rendering services are a form of remote working and of virtualising hardware-based…
MPC Episodic Continues to Expand Senior VFX Team
May 24, 2021
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Head of CG Owen Jones MPC Episodic, Moving Picture Company’s dedicated VFX division for…
Erika Burton Joins DNEG as Global Head of Studios
May 24, 2021
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Visual effects and animation company DNEG has announced the appointment of Erika Burton…
One of Us Open Paris VFX Studio
May 20, 2021
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One of Us has opened a new studio in Paris. The company, which is based in Soho in…
Clarisse 5 Puts Look Development and Rendering Under the Spotlight
May 12, 2021
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Emission Importance Sampling in Clarisse 5 - all lighting in this render comes from the…
Cinema 4D S24 Reveals 3D Asset Control, Animation Workflows, Scene Nodes
Apr 14, 2021
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Car Rig Character Object Preset Maxon’s Cinema 4D Subscription Release 24, or S24, has…
Rumble VFX Launches Expert Team in Soho for Film and TV
Apr 13, 2021
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Tim Zaccheo, Richard Costin, Joe Cork and Max Wright set up Rumble VFX to handle VFX…
BlueBolt Promote Tracy McCreary to Managing Director
Apr 12, 2021
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Joining co-founders CEO Lucy Ainsworth-Taylor and Creative Director Angela Barson, Tracy…
Framestore to Speak at AEAF 2021 on Jingle Jangle’s Storybook Sequences
Apr 09, 2021
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Framestore created several animated sequences for Netflix movie Jingle Jangle: A…
FuseFX Acquires Australian-based Rising Sun Pictures
Apr 08, 2021
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Gravity FuseFX has announced its acquisition of Rising Sun Pictures (RSP) visual effects…
DNEG Appoints Innovator Roy C Anthony as Global Head of Research
Apr 05, 2021
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VFX and animation company DNEG has appointed digital technology innovator and real-time…
ArsenalFX Color Expands Team with an Eye Towards VFX
Mar 30, 2021
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Cortney Haile ArsenalFX Color has expanded its team, adding new talent to support the…
Autodesk’s 2022 Updates Add USD Plugin, Tune Up Modelling and Rendering
Mar 29, 2021
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Resulting from joint development work between Pixar, Animal Logic, Luma Pictures and Blue…
Nuke 13.0 Supports USD Hydra, Adds Machine Learning Tools
Mar 22, 2021
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Machine Learning Foundry has launched into the Nuke 13.0 series of releases with a…
ReDefine Grows VFX and CG Character and Creature Team with New Talent
Mar 16, 2021
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Global animation and visual effects company ReDefine has further expanded its presence in…
FuseFX Welcomes Lindsey Kaiser and Johnny Fisk in Los Angeles Office
Mar 16, 2021
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FuseFX visual effects studio has named Lindsey Kaiser as executive producer at its main…
Houdini Engine for Unreal and Unity Available Free for Commercial Studios
Mar 08, 2021
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Houdini Engine for UE4 SideFX Houdini Engine for UE4 and Houdini Engine for Unity are now…
VFX Students at AIE Get Hands-on with Virtual Production
Mar 08, 2021
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Students at AIE, a 3D animation, game design and VFX college in Sydney, produced their…
Preymaker Expands Production Team
Mar 01, 2021
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Preymaker studio adds to its creative collective with the hires of Zachary Fortin in…
Chaos V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max Update 1 Extends Visualisation Tools
Feb 25, 2021
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Chaos V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max, Update 1, now includes support for masking, new Progressive…
Framestore Appoints New Members to the Real-time Team
Feb 22, 2021
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Grant Bolton and Alberto Aguado have joined the Framestore engine team as Lead Technical…
Level Ex Welcomes Aharon Rabinowitz as Creative Director
Feb 15, 2021
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Level Ex, creator of medical video games for physicians, has welcomed Aharon Rabinowitz…
VFX Veteran Bryan Godwin Joins Pixomondo as Head of LA Studio
Feb 15, 2021
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Pixomondo, an Oscar and Emmy-winning visual effects and virtual production company, has…
AMPAS Honours ftrack Studio with a Technical Achievement Award
Feb 07, 2021
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A review session in ftrack Production tracking platform, ftrack Studio, has earned a…
Framestore Unreal Shot Engine Gears Up for New VFX Pipeline
Feb 01, 2021
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In a special project named FUSE, Framestore Unreal Shot Engine, Framestore is producing a…
Preymaker Welcomes VFX Supervisor Ruben Vandebroek
Jan 25, 2021
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Preymaker creative and technology studio welcomes Ruben Vandebroek to its growing team.…
