JFX Expands Senior Creative Team with New Hires Ingo Putze and Jenn Epstein
VFX studio JFX has expanded its senior creative leadership team with the appointment of Ingo Putze as VFX Supervisor and Jenn Epstein as Associate VFX Supervisor.
Digital Domain hired Pete Dionne as Visual Effects Supervisor, recognised for his technical expertise, creative leadership and strong record in digital creatures and complex CG environments.
Foundry’s acquisition of Griptape will help speed up its AI strategy by augmenting Foundry's AI-based features with orchestration capabilities for better customisation and control.
Katana 9.0’s native USD support gives lighting artists flexibility and control over lighting in USD workflows for scenes of any size, while maintaining data integrity all along the pipeline.
Maxon's new release of Cinebench is updated to the most recent Redshift Rendering engine and adds support for the new NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, and M4/M5 Apple Silicon processors.
Chaos Vantage's real-time feedback is now accessible in the viewport, speeding up layout, previs and lookdev for VFX and animation teams, alongside a new set of updates for V-Ray 7 for Houdini and Maya.
GenAI Generalist Sami Ling at Dimension Studio shares interesting ideas on the role of AI in filmmaking, particularly in virtual production, reflecting her experience gained at the studio.
Mari 7.5 has a new Multi-Paint feature developed as a collaboration between Foundry and Wētā FX, a Texture Transfer system, an expanded asset library and an Image Manager.
The December Maxon One release delivers improvements to Cinema 4D, Redshift, ZBrush and Red Giant, upgrading workflows for sculpting, rendering and motion graphics design.
The new Boris FX Sapphire 2026 release introduces an authentic film burn effect and transition, an AI-driven whiplash cutout transition, new lens flares, and grunge stamps.
Digital Domain has appointed Sudhir Reddy as President of its Global VFX Business, with 27 years of industry experience in India, New Zealand and the US.
Das Element, asset library software built for VFX and animation studios, now has stronger support for 3D workflows, new permission controls and improved tools for customization.
The Academy Software Foundation held its annual Open Source Days event in August, helping to further open source software development for VFX, animation and digital content creation.
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.