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Framestore VFX Studio Announces New CEO

Framestore today announces Mel Sullivan as its new CEO as founding member and CEO of 26 years Sir William Sargent steps down to focus on the wider Framestore Company 3 Group.

May 10, 2022

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ZEISS CinCraft Mapper Delivers Precise Lens Data for Efficient VFX Workflows

ZEISS Cinematography introduces the first service of its new CinCraft system for the digital application of lens looks into compositing and matchmoving workflows.

April 18, 2022

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Nuke 13.2 Adds NDI, OpenTimelineIO, Refines ML Learning and UnrealReader

Nuke 13.2 continues to focus on collaboration, workflows and pipelines, adds NDI support, features Foundry’s research into machine learning, and increases support for UnrealReader.

April 07, 2022

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3ds Max and Arnold Bring Interactivity and More Speed to 3D Workflows

New support for glTF, flexible modelling tools and greater control are among the updates to Autodesk 3ds Max, plus the new Arnold, speeding complex projects and pipeline customisation.

March 28, 2022

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Karma XPU Gathers Speed as SideFX’s Hybrid GPU/CPU Renderer

Brian Sharpe at SideFX talks about Karma XPU, an engine option, now in development, for the Karma renderer that users can select to take advantage of GPU and hardware acceleration.

March 21, 2022

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Two New Talents Receive Animal Logic Scholarship

Animal Logic, in partnership with the UTS Animal Logic Academy, today announced that Jacinta Horin and Rubeena King are the recipients of the inaugural Animal Logic Scholarship.

March 21, 2022

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das element Upgrade Manages Asset Libraries for VFX Teams and Projects

Das element helps studios ensure their asset libraries are well structured and organised, and now makes them easier to search, set up with custom databases, and create thumbnails for.

March 14, 2022

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ASWF Releases Research on Open Source Development in Modern Filmmaking

The Academy Software Foundation has released a new research paper titled ‘Open Source in Entertainment: How the Academy Software Foundation Creates Shared Value’.

February 28, 2022

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Johannes Sambs to Lead Framestore’s CG Team in London

Framestore promoted Johannes Sambs as Head of CG, based at the company's headquarters in London. Johannes will lead the CG team on a range of projects across Advertising, Episodic and Immersive.

February 21, 2022

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Tribal Imaging Virtualises Post and VFX Production on AWS Compute Cloud

Tribal Imaging virtualised its VFX workstations on AWS. Artists now connect to virtual machines running on Elastic Compute Cloud to help scale the team and avoid upfront hardware costs.

February 03, 2022

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Conductor Welcomes Julie McDonald as Head of Business Development

Conductor Technologies cloud-based rendering and simulation platform announced that Julie McDonald has joined the company as Head of Business Development.

January 31, 2022

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Framestore Welcomes Simon Devereux as Director of Global Talent Development

Framestore has announced Simon Devereux, director and founder of ACCESS:VFX, as its new Director of Global Talent Development.

January 23, 2022

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Chaos’ New Sequence Player Gives Instant High-resolution Playback

Chaos Player, a major upgrade to Pdplayer, features floating-point compositing, A/B comparisons, MP4 and OpenColor IO 2 support, and is now included in the V-Ray Collection.

January 17, 2022

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The Mill, MPC and Mr X Undergo Business Transformations at Technicolor

A new Moving Picture Company (MPC) Studio network will focus on Film and Episodic VFX; Technicolor Creative Studios consolidates across Advertising, TV & Film, Animation and Gaming

January 15, 2022

VFX Adriene Hurst

Predicting Video Pathways in 2022 – Ncam, Digital Domain and Arcturus

Video production, post and applications are evolving and expanding rapidly around the world. Three committed companies talk about their ambitions and expectations for 2022.

December 20, 2021

VFX Editor

Katana 5.0 Focusses on Nuke Interoperability and Render Upgrades

Foundry’s Katana 5.0 includes Hydra Render Delegate support, Foresight+ for sequence renders, Katana and Nuke interoperability, and better Look Development and USD workflows.

December 13, 2021

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Sam Mason and Team Take Bifrost on a Surreal 3D Journey through Dreamland

3D artist Sam Mason directed a music video titled ‘Colors and Shapes’ by Mac Miller, using Bifrost to manage the many complex scenes featuring particle effects created in tyFlow.

December 08, 2021

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Isotropix Releases Angie to Support CPU, GPU or Hybrid Rendering

Early access to Clarisse 5.5 is now available creating options to render on a CPU, GPU or both combined, with support for OSL, MaterialX and a new Previz mode for near-realtime feedback.

December 02, 2021

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Nuke 13.1 Updates 3D System and Machine Learning, Adds Unreal Reader

Foundry has made significant changes to Nuke in this release, updating its Node Graph UX, improving the timeline, extending Machine Learning and introducing an Unreal Reader in beta.

November 29, 2021

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OTOY Adds Redshift Support to the Render Network

OTOY and Maxon announce that Redshift will be coming to the Render Network, giving Redshift users the ability to scale GPU rendering jobs to millions of distributed GPUs.

November 29, 2021

VFX Adriene Hurst

Katana 5.0 Extends Lighting and Look Development Through the 3D Pipeline

Katana 5.0 updates Foresight rendering, changes render delegate handling in the Hydra viewer, adds Katana’s new render delegate AVP, and updates the Nuke Interoperability Framework.

November 20, 2021

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Mari 5 Enhances Proceduralism and USD Look Development Workflows

Foundry Mari 5.0 improves the brush engine to include colour jitter, has a new export workflow for USD material networks and helps users to take better advantage of proceduralism in Mari.

November 10, 2021

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Unity Set to Acquire Weta Digital’s Tools, Pipeline and Engineering Talent

3D software developer Unity will soon acquire Weta Digital’s tools, pipeline and engineering talent, in effect making Weta’s VFX tools available for integration onto the Unity platform.

November 08, 2021

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Folks VFX Chooses Quebec Location for its Fourth Studio

Folks VFX’s new studio in Saguenay, Quebec, becomes the tenth studio location in the FuseFX portfolio, which includes Rising Sun Pictures in Australia.

November 07, 2021

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