SANTA MONICA — Luma Pictures (www.lumapictures.com), which created visual effects for the first Guardians of the Galaxy film, including the powerhouse villain Thanos, returned to work on the franchise ...
May 18, 2017
VANCOUVER, CANADA — Vancouver Film School (www.vfs.edu) has opened its new commercial performance capture studio. The school partnered with Mimic Performance Capture, Inc., to build one of Canada’s la ...
NEWBURY PARK, CA — Maxon’s Cinema 4D modeling and animation software was recently used by director Ethan Shaftel to create Extravaganza (http://www.ethanshaftel.com), a new virtual reality short film ...
May 17, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO — Autodesk, Inc. (www.autodesk.com) has released SketchBook 4.0 for iOS, the latest update for its digital painting and drawing app. Now available for purchase through the Apple App Stor ...
PORTLAND, OR — Red Giant (www.redgiant.com) has released Universe 2.1, an update to its collection of GPU-accelerated plug-ins for editors and motion graphics artists. With six new tools and updates t ...
May 12, 2017
LOS ANGELES — Deluxe’s Method Studios (www.methodstudios.com) served as a primary VFX vendor for Marvel’s new Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 film, having completed work on more than 500 shots, includi ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Autodesk, here, has joined forces with Microsoft Azure to offer customers a new, scalable cloud rendering solution with the Microsoft Azure Batch Rendering Platform. Built on the Azure ...
May 11, 2017
CULVER CITY, CA — Visual effects house/digital marketing agency Giant Propeller (http://giantpropeller.com) recently completed work on rap artist/comedian Lil Dicky’s latest music video, Pillow Talkin ...
NEW YORK — Production company We Fly Coach (www.weflycoach.com) has entered into a strategic partnership with animation and VFX studio Believe. The partnership will allow We Fly Coach to expand its li ...
May 10, 2017
SAN JOSE, CA — At the GPU Technology Conference taking place this week in San Jose, Boxx Technologies (www.boxx.com) is introducing Apexx 8R, an Nvidia Visual Computing Appliance (VCA) Certified Solut ...
May 9, 2017