NEW YORK — TV, film and advertising veteran Vadim Turchin has joined MPC (moving-picture.com), here, as CG supervisor. He will serve as a senior member of the CG team, working with its producers on bi ...
March 23, 2017
FARNHAM, UK — Animation technology specialist IKinema (www.IKinema.com/Orion) has introduced a new approach to motion capture and body tracking that uses ordinary VR hardware. Orion is designed to bri ...
March 22, 2017
CULVER CITY, CA — Sony Pictures Animation has promoted Pam Marsden to head of production. She held the title of executive vice president of production for the past six years, and was responsible for s ...
QUEBEC, CANADA — Animation studio Squeeze has launched MOOV (moovstudio.com), a new motion capture division that’s focused on creating realistic animation. Located in Squeeze's offices, MOOV offers an ...
March 15, 2017
ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA — Rising Sun Pictures (rsp.com.au) is expanding its visual effects educational program, operated in partnership with the University of South Australia. RSP will now offer a G ...
March 9, 2017
LOS ANGELES — Chaos Group (chaosgroup.com) has introduced V-Ray 3.5 for Nuke, a major update to the ray-traced renderer used on films such as Spectre and The Revenant. The new release offers support f ...
March 2, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO — At GDC 2017, OptiTrack (www.optitrack.com) introduced OptiTrack Active, a solution tailored specifically for out-of-home, theme park scaled virtual reality (VR) experiences. This advan ...
March 1, 2017
ENSCHEDE, NETHERLANDS — Xsens (xsens.com), a developer of 3D motion tracking technology, has announced a new initiative that’s designed to democratize the use of its Hollywood-grade motion capture sol ...
February 28, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO — Artists from around the world used media and entertainment software from Autodesk Inc. (www.autodesk.com) to help bring many of 2016's most popular films to the big screen. The company ...
February 24, 2017
LOS ANGELES — Unity Technologies CEO John Riccitiello, whose engine and platform powers popular virtual and augmented reality experiences, will deliver a keynote address at the VRLA Expo (www.virtualr ...
February 22, 2017