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October 18, 2021
V Ray Loki Digital Domain
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V-Ray Wins 2021 Engineering Emmy for Ray-Traced Rendering

Loki, Digital Domain Chaos Group’s V-Ray renderer has won an Engineering Emmy Award for making new levels of photorealistic visual effects possible in episodic productions. The award honours technical developments that are “so innovative in nature that they…
October 18, 2021
Framestore cto michael stein
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Disney Imagineering’s Michael Stein joins Framestore as CTO

Creative studio Framestore is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael Stein as Chief Technology Officer.Michael’s career spans VFX, games, animation and theme park rides, and has led him to develop transformational systems for some of the world’s…
October 18, 2021
AWS dropdead wefx
VFX Editor

DeadDrop Labs Opens the Door to VFX Compute Power on AWS Cloud

DeadDrop Labs works with post production houses, VFX studios, editors, animators, game designers and digital artists to help them optimise and take better advantage of their work environment. In particular, their team configures and customises the…
October 11, 2021
GolaemEngineeringEmmy2021
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Golaem Receives an Engineering Emmy Award for Crowd Software

Golaem has been awarded an Engineering Emmy Award by the Television Academy for its software Golaem Crowd. Golaem Crowd helps artists to rapidly populate television shows, films and game cinematics by procedurally animating thousands of characters with…
October 11, 2021
FuseFX robin
VFX Editor

FuseFX Hires Global Director Strategic Partnerships

FuseFX has hired Robin Prybil as global director, strategic partnerships. Robin will act as a conduit to existing relationships, strengthen ties and trust with large studios and high-level executives, and cultivate new business relationships across the…
October 11, 2021
ILM sydney
VFX Editor

Rob Coleman and Randal Shore Rejoin ILM to Boost Feature Animation

Industrial Light & Magic has announced that Rob Coleman has rejoined the company as a Key Creative for Feature Animation at ILM’s Sydney studio. ILM also announced the return of Randal Shore, who will be rejoining the company’s Vancouver studio as an…
October 04, 2021
Nevion Virtualisation
VFX Editor

Nevion Celebrates 25 Years at the Heart of Broadcast Innovation

Nevion, virtualised media production specialists, are celebrating their 25th anniversary, marking a quarter of a century of reinvention that has seen the company take a leading position within the broadcast sector. Founded in 1996, Nevion has achieved a…
October 04, 2021
VFX and post talent
VFX Editor

Six VFX and Post Stars Join The VFX & Post Talent Agency

Top row L-R, Alex Belgeonne, Oliver Cubbage, Anna Fuller Clarke. Bottom row L-R, Jan Guilfoyle, Sarah Tulloch, Jorge Cañada Escorihuela The VFX & Post Talent Agency has added six more post and VFX artists to their impressive roster. The new signings coincide…
September 27, 2021
Framestore Lionsgate World 1
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Framestore Promotes Three Top Artists to Lead Attractions Services

Creative studio Framestore has appointed Eugénie von Tunzelmann to the newly created role of Head of VFX, Attractions while Lauren Anderson and Maximilian McNair McEwan join Heather Kinal as Executive Producers. These three promotions are a move to solidify a…
September 27, 2021
Jellyfish Paul Baaske
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Jellyfish Pictures Appoints Paul Baaske as Head of Technical Direction

Paul Baaske, Head of Technical Direction, Jellyfish Pictures Animation and VFX studio Jellyfish Pictures has appointed Paul Baaske. The new role has been created to strengthen the company’s global working operations, both technically and creatively, as…
September 14, 2021
PXO london 02
VFX Editor

Pixomondo To Open London Virtual Production Studio, Hires Alex Webster

VFX and virtual production studio Pixomondo is launching a London division in September and has appointed Alex Webster as its Head of Studio. Most recently working as Managing Director of Framestore Pre-Production Services in London, Webster will focus on…
September 13, 2021
MPC mikros Tom Bea
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MPC Episodic and Mikros VFX Join Forces

Visual effects studios MPC and Mikros have formed an alliance of their episodic and film divisions. Mikros, a French company with over 35 years in the visual effects industry, has been a Technicolor brand since 2015. The combined studios will operate under…
September 09, 2021
FuseFX2
VFX Editor

FuseFX Picks up the Pace with Staff Moves and Promotions

FuseFX visual effects studio, performing services for television, film and commercials from eight studios in North and South America and Australia, has promoted key staff members to leadership positions at its New York and Atlanta studios. At FuseFX’s Atlanta…
August 30, 2021
DNEG Toronto Island
VFX Editor

DNEG Plans Global Expansion to Include New Toronto Studio

DNEG is increasing its Canada-based VFX and animation operations and opening a new studio in the Greater Toronto Area. The company’s fourth North American facility, joining studios in Montreal, Vancouver and LA, will initially employ up to 200 people, in…
August 23, 2021
AMD BlenderUSDHydra3
VFX Editor

AMD USD Hydra Plug-in Supports USD Assembly and MaterialX for Blender

Blender is becoming a standard 3D software application and, according to AMD, needs to be able to work in a larger workflow of other applications. Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (USD) has made exchanging data between 3D applications easier for artists,…
August 22, 2021
Unreal engine 4 27
VFX Editor

Unreal Engine 4.27 Advances In-Camera VFX and Cloud Workflows

Unreal Engine 4.27 is now available with updates supporting filmmakers, broadcasters, game developers, architectural visualisation artists, and automotive and product designers. In-camera VFX The use of in-camera VFX is now more efficient, with results of a…
August 16, 2021
Vray light baking unreal screenshot playard 02
VFX Editor

V-Ray 5 for Unreal Updates Post Processing and Customises Light Baking

Chaos V-Ray 5 for Unreal production rendering plugin is a new update designed to import V-Ray scenes, bake lighting and render ray-traced images and animation in Unreal Engine. Now, the V-Ray 5 feature set is accessible to architects and designers, including…
August 09, 2021
ASWF tangent
VFX Editor

ASWF Welcomes Maxon and Tangent Animation as General Members

Tangent Animation The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF), dedicated to open source software development in the motion picture and media industries, announced the addition of two new general members – Maxon and Tangent Animation. The news came at the start of…
August 09, 2021
Corona Renderer 7 for Cinema 4D new physical material 01
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Corona Renderer 7 for Cinema 4D Updates Materials, Skies and Speed

Corona Renderer 7 for Maxon Cinema 4D includes the new Physical Material for setting up photoreal surfaces, gives artists access to the Corona Materials Library directly from within Cinema 4D, adds realistic lacquer with Clearcoat and depicts digital weather…
August 08, 2021
Animal logic ALab
VFX Editor

Animal Logic Releases USD Alab to Promote Open Source Learning

Animal Logic's USD Alab is a fully realised USD scene, intended to encourage further collaboration and exploration among the wider community into Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (USD). Animal Logic Group has now released USD Alab as open source software.…
July 31, 2021
Foundry nuke hydra viewer
VFX Editor

Christy Anzelmo Takes Foundry’s Software into the Future

Hydra Viewer in Nuke Christy Anzelmo at Foundry has moved up to become Chief Product Officer, leading the delivery of Foundry’s product portfolio for Media & Entertainment and Digital Design. Christy first joined Foundry in 2015 and has been working as Senior…
  1. Rising Sun Pictures Welcomes Home-Grown Talent as VFX Production Booms
  2. V-Ray Wins 2021 Engineering Emmy for Ray-Traced Rendering
  3. Disney Imagineering’s Michael Stein joins Framestore as CTO
  4. DeadDrop Labs Opens the Door to VFX Compute Power on AWS Cloud
  5. Ghost VFX Wins an Emmy for ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ and Expands Leadership
  6. Golaem Receives an Engineering Emmy Award for Crowd Software
  7. FuseFX Hires Global Director Strategic Partnerships
  8. Rob Coleman and Randal Shore Rejoin ILM to Boost Feature Animation
  9. Nevion Celebrates 25 Years at the Heart of Broadcast Innovation
  10. Six VFX and Post Stars Join The VFX & Post Talent Agency