VFX Developments
AEAF Awards Set to Sparkle in Sydney on 16 August
AEAF Awards Set to Sparkle in Sydney on 16 August AEAF Awards have experienced their largest ever number of entries since starting out 22 years ago. While technical expertise, artistry and storytelling are evident in every category, extreme creativity shines…
June 24, 2019
VFX
Red Giant VFX Suite Extends After Effects for Composites and Motion Graphics
Red Giant VFX Suite Extends After Effects for Composites and Motion Graphics Optical Glow The new Red Giant VFX Suite is a set of nine keying, tracking, cleanup and visual effects compositing tools available as plugins to use inside Adobe After Effects for…
June 21, 2019
VFX
Corona Renderer 4 for Cinema 4D Updates Caustics and Interactive Rendering
Corona Renderer 4 for Cinema 4D Updates Caustics and Interactive Rendering Chaos Czech has updated the Corona Renderer to version 4 for Cinema 4D, further to its recent update to Corona for 3ds Max. Although the main change is the addition of caustics to…
June 13, 2019
VFX
Chaos Czech Builds Instant Caustics into Corona Renderer 4 for 3ds Max
Chaos Czech Builds Instant Caustics into Corona Renderer 4 for 3ds Max Corona Renderer 4 for Autodesk 3ds Max with Caustics. Chaos Czech has developed a simple, effective approach to caustics, an important element of realism, for Corona Renderer 4 for…
June 05, 2019
VFX
V-Ray for Unreal Supports Native Materials for Real-time Raytracing
V-Ray for Unreal Supports Native Materials for Real-time Raytracing Chaos Group’s V-Ray for Unreal Update 1 adds new support for native Unreal materials, which means designers can now ray trace all parts of their scene from within their existing Unreal…
May 25, 2019
VFX
RSP’s Dynamic Duo to Speak on ‘Captain Marvel’ VFX at AEAF
RSP’s Dynamic Duo to Speak on ‘Captain Marvel’ VFX at AEAF Malte Sarnes, Visual Effects Supervisor and Alexandra Daunt Watney, Senior Producer from Rising Sun Pictures (RSP) are coming to speak at AEAF about their work on 'Captain Marvel', a movie with the…
May 16, 2019
VFX
DNEG ReDefines VFX Services for Expanding International Markets
DNEG ReDefines VFX Services for Expanding International Markets Brahmastra DNEG visual effects, animation and stereo conversion company has launched ReDefine, a new studio devoted to bridging the gap between east and west for creative services for film and…
May 14, 2019
VFX
Substance Engine v7 Adds Control and Consistency to Material Pipelines
Substance Engine v7 Adds Control and Consistency to Material Pipelines Height Extrude renders 3D depth from a grayscale height map The new Substance Engine v7 in Substance Designer has changed and simplified the material creation process by processing both…
May 09, 2019
VFX
KeyShot KeyVR Brings New and Future Designs to Life for Developers
KeyShot KeyVR Brings New and Future Designs to Life for Developers Users of KeyShot, the real-time ray tracing and global illumination software for 3D rendering and animation, can now create immersive, fully interactive virtual reality experiences quickly,…
April 30, 2019
VFX
Clarisse iFX Integrates NVIDIA RTX Acceleration for Real-time Interactivity
Clarisse iFX Integrates NVIDIA RTX Acceleration for Real-time Interactivity Clarisse iFX 4.0 SP2, the most recent update for 3D computer graphics software Isotropix Clarisse iFX, supports interactive NVIDIA RTX ray tracing in Clarisse’s 3D viewport at game…
April 28, 2019
VFX
Substance Painter Refines Dynamic Brushes, Material Blending and Sculpting
Substance Painter Refines Dynamic Brushes, Material Blending and Sculpting Image: Vytautas Katarzis The first Substance Painter update of 2019 uses dynamic painting, material blending and real-time sculpting to help users speed up their work, while keeping…
April 09, 2019
VFX
NAB 2019 - Maxon Acquires Redshift Rendering Technologies
Maxon Acquires Redshift Rendering Technologies MAXON has acquired Redshift Rendering Technologies Inc, developers of the Redshift rendering engine. Redshift is a GPU-accelerated, biased renderer with a wide set of tools that makes rendering complex 3D…
April 07, 2019
VFX
NAB 2019 - Autodesk Flame 2020 Accelerates VFX Workflows with Machine Learning
NAB 2019 - Autodesk Flame 2020 Accelerates VFX Workflows with Machine Learning Computer vision has developed to the point that, by processing and analysing images, computer programs can be used to extract 3D data from digital imagery, especially when modern…
April 03, 2019
VFX
Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro Get Smarter, More Efficient
Adobe’s updates to Premiere Pro and After Effects at NAB add Content-Aware Fill, an Expressions Editor, and use Adobe Sensei AI engine to speed up key post production tasks.
April 01, 2019
VFX
Autodesk 3ds Max 2020 Increases Speed and Control for Visualisation
Autodesk 3ds Max 2020 Increases Speed and Control for Visualisation OSL Map display Performance enhancements support more accurate playback in the Viewport at better framerates. Use of Validity Intervals has increased playback speeds. Because so many things…
March 29, 2019
VFX
Rodeo FX and Rodeo Production Join VFX and Video Forces
Rodeo FX and Rodeo Production Join VFX and Video Forces Rodeo FX for Tag Heuer Rodeo FX visual effects studio in Montreal has acquired Rodeo Production and its roster of photographers and directors. While the two organisations are aligning their creative and…
March 27, 2019
VFX
Modo 13 Supports GPU-rendering with AMD Radeon ProRender
Modo 13 improves design workflows with native support for GPU-rendering with AMD Radeon ProRender, and adds non-destructive editing of actions through new Animation Layers.
March 22, 2019
VFX
Project Substance Alchemist Enters Beta, Source Goes into Orbit
Project Substance Alchemist Enters Beta, Source Goes into Orbit The Project Substance Alchemist open beta has been launched at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2019. Current Substance subscribers have unrestricted access to this new Substance material…
March 21, 2019
VFX
Arnold 5.3 Helps Control CPU/GPU Renders, Lighting and Look Dev Cycles
Arnold 5.3 Helps Control CPU/GPU Renders, Lighting and Look Dev Cycles Autodesk Arnold 5.3 with Arnold GPU is now in public beta. GPU rendering is initially available for some of the functions, with the option to choose between rendering on the CPU or GPU…
March 06, 2019
VFX
Chaos Group’s Cloud Renderer Opens for 3D Artists and Designers
Chaos Group’s Cloud Renderer Opens for 3D Artists and Designers Chaos Group’s Chaos Cloud is a new cloud rendering service developed to help artists and designers visualise their work from any location. By clicking on one button, users can access and use…
March 06, 2019
VFX
MAXON Cinebench Release 20 Brings Hardware Testing Up to Date
MAXON Cinebench Release 20 Brings Hardware Testing Up to Date MAXON CINEBENCH is computer testing software used to benchmark hardware capabilities of computers using the 3D engine from Cinema 4D Release 20. Available free of charge, CINEBENCH compares CPU…
February 28, 2019
VFX
Allegiance Studios Connect with VFX Talent via Signiant
Allegiance Studios Connect with VFX Talent via Signiant Allegiance Studios is a Canadian VFX facility handling services from pre-production to compositing, including CG modelling, lights, shading and animation, plus environment work and matte painting.…
February 27, 2019
VFX
Cinesite Creates a Day in the Life of Nottingham for ‘Robin Hood’
Cinesite Creates a Day in the Life of Nottingham for ‘Robin Hood’ In the recent production of ‘Robin Hood’ much of the action takes place in a digital version of the historic City of Nottingham built from scratch in 3D as it looked in the Middle Ages. Artists…
February 26, 2019
VFX
DNEG Takes Home the VFX Oscar for ‘First Man’
DNEG Takes Home the VFX Oscar for ‘First Man’ Visual effects, animation and stereo conversion company DNEG was recognised for the second consecutive year at the 91st Academy Awards for its team's work on ‘First Man’, directed by Damien Chazelle DNEG’s VFX…
February 20, 2019
VFX
DNEG's LA Team Welcomes Former Paramount SVP Post Corey Turner
DNEG's LA Team Welcomes Former Paramount SVP Post Corey Turner Visual effects, animation and stereo conversion company DNEG has hired Corey Turner, former SVP Post Production at Paramount Pictures, to lead the film team at its Los Angeles facility. Corey, who…
