Digital Domain appointed Gabrielle Gourrier as Executive Vice President of VFX Business. In this role, Gabby will focus on expanding client partnerships and establishing strategic initiatives.
Chaos V-Ray 7 for 3ds Max brings Gaussian Splat support for fast photoreal environments, new ways to create interactive virtual tours and more realistic, controllable lighting to 3D rendering.
VFX Supervisor Morgan McDermott at Impossible Objects talks about making their immersive film for UFC’s debut at the Sphere, combining heros and symbols of Mexican independence with UFC legends.
Chaos puts Project Arena’s Virtual Production tools to the test in a new short film, achieving accurate ICVFX with real-time raytracing and compositing. Christopher Nichols shares insights.
Moving Picture Company (MPC)has appointed Lucinda Keeler as Head of Production for its London studio, bringing over 20 years of experience and leadership in the VFX industry.
REALTIME studio has launched a Virtual Production division, following its grant from Media City Immersive Technologies Innovation Hub to develop a proprietary Virtual Production tool.
ZibraVDB plugin for Virtual Production and CG studios delivers high compression rates and fast render times, making it possible to work with very large volumetric effects in real-time.
Maxon One 2025 updates Cinema 4D, Redshift, Red Giant and Cineware, and releases ZBrush for iPad, putting ZBrush sculpting tools into a mobile device with a new UI and touch controls.
Das Element asset library software version 2.1 has new video playback controls, hierarchy tree customisation for libraries, faster set-up processes and simpler element migration.
Autodesk returned to SIGGRAPH 2024 to show software updates that include generative AI and cloud workflows for 3D animation in Maya, production scheduling and clip retiming in Flame.
Shutterstock launched a cloud-based generative 3D API, built on NVIDIA Edify AI architecture, trained on licensed Shutterstock content, as a fast way to produce realistic 3D models with AI.
AEAF Welcomes ILM’s VFX Supervisor Jeff Capogreco as Speaker
Visual Effects Supervisor Jeff Capogreco is coming to speak at AEAF 2017 from ILM Singapore, where he has been working since 2014 when he joined the company as an Associate VFX Supervisor on ‘Jurassic World’. Most recently, he supported the ILM team in 2016 on ‘The Great Wall’ also as Associate Visual Effects Supervisor and then became VFX Supervisor on ‘Kong: Skull Island’. He is now working on post for ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’, releasing in June 2017.
He has a post graduate diploma in Computer Animation from Sheridan College and a 10-plus year career producing imagery for top feature films. Prior to ILM he worked at WETA Digital as a VFX Sequence Supervisor on such films as the three Hobbit films, ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’, ‘The Adventures of Tintin’ and ‘Avatar’. www.ilm.com
The VES held the 14th Annual VES Awards, recognising visual effects artistry and innovation in film, animation, television, commercials, video games and special venues.
Paul Butterworth is one of Australia's most experienced Visual Effects Supervisors, now working at Animal Logic. He will be speaking at AEAF in Sydney in August.