OXFORD, UK — Motion control technology specialist Vicon (www.vicon.com) is showcasing its two new cameras - Vero and Vue - at this year’s SIGGRAPH show in Anaheim, CA. The cameras join Vicon’s flagshi ...

July 22, 2016

LOS ANGELES — Thinkbox Software (www.thinkboxsoftware.com) has teamed with VFX producer Joyce Cox ( The Jungle Book, The Great Gatsby, Avatar ) to develop Vero, a new cloud-based application that simp ...

July 22, 2016

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM — Nozon (www.nozon.com) and Chaos Group (chaosgroup.com) have entered into a technology partnership that enables artists to create pre-rendered, volumetric VR. Using PresenZ and V-Ra ...

July 21, 2016

SANTA MONICA — Santa Monica and Melbourne-based creative studio Luma (www.lumapictures.com) has hired Jill Gilbert as executive producer of animated content. Based out of the Santa Monica office, she ...

July 20, 2016

PARIS, FRANCE — It is well known that rendering can be expensive, time-consuming and energy-hungry. During SIGGRAPH 2016, the French startup Qarnot (Qarnot.com) will present a new render farm that is ...

July 20, 2016

LOS ANGELES — At SIGGRAPH 2016 in Anaheim, CA, GPL Technologies (www.gpltech.com) is partnering with Nvidia to showcase the latest new solutions for virtualization and deep learning. SIGGRAPH 2016 is ...

July 20, 2016

LOS ANGELES — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (oscars.org) announced its newly elected 2016–2017 board of governors. A runoff election is required for the Film Editors Branch.

July 18, 2016

BROOKLYN, NY — Lobo (http://lobo.cx), the São Paulo, Brazil-based design and animation studio, has opened its first US office in New York. Partners Nando Cohen, Gabriel Nobrega and Mateus de Paula San ...

July 18, 2016

LONDON/MONTREAL — Currently swinging in cinemas worldwide, Warner Bros’ The Legend of Tarzan is the visually stunning feature film based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ bestselling 1912 novel, Tarzan of the ...

July 11, 2016

SOFIA, BULGARIA — Chaos Group ( http://www.chaosgroup.com ) has released V-Ray for MODO, a rendering system optimized for large productions and photoreal design projects. V-Ray for MODO is seamlessly ...

July 11, 2016