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Passion Pictures and FableFX Illuminate Entries at AEAF
It’s time to enter your team’s greatest new work from the past year. AEAF Awards has more than 20 categories for digital work of all genres, 2D and 3D animation, visual effects for movies TV and commercials, motion graphics, VR, AR and more. See the Entry…
April 05, 2021
Animation
iPi Soft Develops Real-Time Integration for iPi Mocap and Unreal Engine
iPi Soft has upgraded their markerless iPi Motion Capture system to support the Unreal Engine development tools for real time content creation. The updates include a new plug-in that allows real-time motion tracking, motion transfer to 3D characters and…
March 30, 2021
Animation
12field Animation and Digistor Design Remote 2D Production Pipeline
12field Animation in Melbourne specialises in creating long form 2D character animation, including children’s TV series such as ‘Little J & Big Cuz’ for NITV and the ABC, and ‘The Strange Chores’ for the ABC. Early last year, as work got underway on these two…
March 20, 2021
Animation
DI4D PURE4D Captures Precise Facial Performances for Game Engines
DI4D, a specialist in performance-driven facial animation services, has launched a new service called PURE4D, a precise pipeline for digital double facial animation. PURE4D combines their existing DI4D PRO service and head-mounted camera (HMC) service with…
March 16, 2021
Animation
Bento Box Entertainment to Partner with Princess Pictures in Australia
Bob’s Burgers © Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Animation studio Bento Box Entertainment, owned by Fox Entertainment, and Australian television and film production company Princess Pictures are partnering to form Princess Bento Studio, a new animation…
March 12, 2021
Animation
Arcturus and DOCOMO Telecom Bring Volumetric Video to 5G Mobile
Arcturus is the developer behind the post-production platform HoloSuite, software tools for creating, editing and distributing volumetric video of digital humans. The company’s founders are artists and developers devoted to storytelling innovation, and come…
March 01, 2021
Animation
DNEG to Help Develop ‘The Great Gatsby’ into an Animated Film
Oscar-winning filmmaker, writer and illustrator William Joyce has joined forces with novelist, screenwriter and illustrator Brian Selznick and animation studio DNEG Feature Animation to develop an entirely new adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel…
February 15, 2021
Animation
Animal Logic and Warner Bros. Partner on New Musical ‘Toto’
Animal Logic has confirmed that the feature musical adaptation of ‘Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of the Wizard of Oz’ will be the next project produced at their animation studio in Vancouver. The family film will attract audiences of all ages and Toto will…
February 05, 2021
Animation
Animal Logic Entertainment Announces Screenplay Competition Winner
Animal Logic Entertainment (ALE) is pleased to announce the winner and two runner-up finalists of their inaugural Screenplay Competition specialised in family entertainment. From over a hundred entries across Australia, it was the imaginative storytelling of…
January 09, 2021
Animation
Digital Domain Ages David Beckham in Campaign Against Malaria
‘Malaria Must Die, So Millions Can Live’ is a global campaign from the charity Malaria No More UK, supported by a number of organisations and celebrities who have joined the fight against malaria and want to encourage strong political action to permanently…
December 28, 2020
Animation
KeenTools Adds FACS Blendshapes and New Topology for Facial Animators
FaceBuilder's new low-poly resolution KeenTools FaceBuilder now has built-in FACS blendshapes for head animation, and Live Link Face app support for importing recorded facial expressions. The topology is corrected for symmetry and has three different…
October 30, 2020
Animation
Axis Studios Flexes its Pipeline on the AWS Cloud
Animation and visual effects company Axis Studios creates commissioned and original content for film, television, games and entertainment experiences. The company was founded in 2000 and now has three facilities in each of Glasgow, Bristol and London. As the…
October 20, 2020
Animation
Narina Sokolova Sets the Stage for Animated Storytellers
Narina Sokolova is a background painter, creating the worlds for animated series and shows since the 1990s working on projects ranging from ‘Rugrats’ to the Looney Tunes Cartoons currently streaming on HBO Max. She is also a Prime-Time Emmy Award and Annie…
ftrack Unreal Engine and Unity Plugins Track Real-time Projects Natively
Oct 18, 2020
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ftrack plug-in for Unreal Engine - importing assets into ftrack. ftrack has released…
Digital Domain Teaches Digital Characters How to be More Human
Oct 12, 2020
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In September, Digital Domain announced that Masquerade 2.0, the next version of its…
Vicon and Rokoko Develop Smarter, Simpler Systems for VR Experiences
Oct 01, 2020
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Software developers at Vicon and Rokoko are making it simpler to turn real performances…
ReDefine Montreal Appoints Corey Smith as Creative Supervisor
Sep 14, 2020
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'Meet the Robinsons' ReDefine animation and visual effects services company has appointed…
Cinema 4D Tunes Up Character Animation Tools, Integrates Magic Bullet
Sep 10, 2020
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Maxon updated Cinema 4D’s animation and UV workflows, extended character animation tools…
Weta Digital Launches ‘Weta Animated’ to Produce Original Content
Jun 20, 2020
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Weta Digital Launches ‘Weta Animated’ to Produce Original Content Weta Digital will begin…
Cinesite’s Management Team Grows with Three Animation and VFX Hires
Jun 15, 2020
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Cinesite’s Management Team Grows with Three Animation and VFX Hires Cinesite announced…
Riot Games and Pixotope Go Live to Augment LPL Pro League Finals
May 25, 2020
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Riot Games and Pixotope Go Live to Augment LPL Pro League Finals Riot Games wanted to add…
Illustrators Bridging 3D Animation and Medical Science
May 18, 2020
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Illustrators Bridging 3D Animation and Medical Science Veronica Falconieri Hays is a…
Faceware Studio Matches Animation to Live Performance in Real Time
May 12, 2020
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Faceware Studio Matches Animation to Live Performance in Real Time Faceware Studio is a…
AEAF Shows Off Beautiful Work for TV, Film, Digital – and Beyond
May 07, 2020
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AEAF Shows Off Beautiful Work for TV, Film, Digital – and Beyond Some terrific new…
MPC Gets Ready for a More Animated, More CG Future
Apr 18, 2020
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MPC Gets Ready for a More Animated, More CG Future MPC's focus on animated CG creatures…
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