NVIZ Welcomes Luke Kaile and Chris Lunney to Top Leadership Roles
London based VFX and Visualisation studio NVIZ has appointed Head of Studio, Luke Kaile, as Managing Director to run NVIZ alongside Creative Director, Chris Lunney.
VFX Developments
January 26, 2023
VFX
CoreWeave Acquires Conductor Technologies to Expand Services to VFX Studios
CoreWeave, specialised cloud provider for GPU-accelerated workloads, has acquired Conductor Technologies cloud-based task management service used to access and scale cloud resources.
January 22, 2023
VFX
Autodesk Releases Open RV on Academy Software Foundation GitHub
The new open source RV allows users to review media with many of the commercial features, and customise, modify and implement core functionality tailored to projects and workflows.
January 16, 2023
VFX
Foundry Launches Annual Subscription for Nuke Software
Foundry is now making new licenses of Nuke family products, including Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio, Hiero, HieroPlayer and Nuke Render, available on annual subscription.
January 12, 2023
VFX
Maxon One Integrates Redshift with ZBrush, Optimises Trapcode Particles
The new Maxon One updates move Redshift rendering directly inside ZBrush, upgrade the sculpting tools, especially ZRemesher, and optimise Red Giant Trapcode’s particle simulations.
December 27, 2022
VFX
Conductor Cloud Render Platform Now Supports SideFX Houdini
Conductor Technologies cloud-based platform is now accessible to Houdini artists via a plug-in integration that gives users direct access to cloud compute resources.
December 23, 2022
VFX
Mari 6.0 Makes Texturing Pipelines USD-ready, Adds Teleport Node
Foundry Mari 6.0 3D painting and texturing tool has two new USD Exports, a new Roller Brush paint mode, Python snippets as Shelf items and a fast teleport node to navigate the nodegraph.
December 19, 2022
VFX
DNEG Hires Alaric McAusland as Managing Director of New Sydney Studio
Alaric McAusland, former Executive Director for Australia’s Directors’ Guild, joins DNEG’s new VFX and animation studio in Sydney, Australia.
December 19, 2022
VFX
Katana 6.0 Improves Look Dev with Visibility into Materials and Scene Processing
Foundry’s look development and lighting tool Katana 6.0 has new performance monitoring tools and visibility into material set-ups to speed up manual tasks.
December 18, 2022
VFX
V-Ray 6 for Houdini Advances with Solaris, Volumetrics and Lighting Developments
V-Ray 6 addresses SideFX’s USD tools in Solaris, moving to a Hydra delegate. It improves render efficiency, realism in volumetric FX, functionality in the frame buffer, adds procedural clouds.
December 14, 2022
VFX
Autodesk Develops Open Source Bifrost-USD Integration for Maya
Autodesk’s update improves many simulation and procedural workflows in Bifrost, including a new Bifrost-USD integration as an open-source USD system inside Maya or a project on GitHub.
December 12, 2022
VFX
Freefolk Strengthen Their Film & Episodic Division with Two Key Hires
Freefolk announce two significant hires that expand and diversify their film and episodic VFX offering – VFX Supervisor David Bowman and VFX Producer Hannah Dakin.
December 09, 2022
VFX
DNEG Hires Oscar and BAFTA Winner Guillaume Rocheron as VFX Supervisor
DNEG has hired multiple Oscar and BAFTA-winner Guillaume Rocheron as VFX Supervisor, bringing 20 years of VFX experience from Nope to 1917 to Ghost in the Shell.
December 09, 2022
VFX
Nuke 14.0 Re-invents its 3D System on USD, Upgrades AI/ML Tools
Foundry’s first Nuke 14 series release has a reconstructed, updated 3D system, now in beta, a free library of 3rd-party ML models, updates to UnrealReader and cloud-based login licensing.
December 08, 2022
VFX
VFX Supervisor Julian Hutchens at RSP Wins AACTA Visual Effects Award for ‘Elvis’
RSP’ VFX Supervisor Julian Hutchens with fellow nominees Tom Wood, Fiona Crawford, Joshua Simmonds and Adam Hammond won the AACTA Award for their VFX work on Elvis.
December 01, 2022
VFX
Jellyfish Pictures Positions for Growth With New Leadership Team
VFX and animation company Jellyfish Pictures restructured its leadership team with new appointments supporting the company’s plans for growth across existing and new sectors.
November 21, 2022
VFX
AWS Thinkbox Krakatoa MY and XMesh MY Are Now Available as Open Source
Source code for Krakatoa and XMesh for Maya is now available from GitHub, making AWS Thinkbox software more accessible to studios and more customisable for specific requirements.
November 17, 2022
VFX
DNEG Announces New Visual Effects and Animation Studio in Sydney
DNEG and the NSW Government are planning a VFX and animation facility in Pyrmont opening in 2023, led by VFX Supervisor Andrew Jackson, working with George Miller on Furiosa.
November 11, 2022
VFX
Maxon Upgrades 3D Tools with New Simulations, Lens Looks, Curve Controls
Maxon’s Cinema 4D adds Pyro for fire, smoke, explosion simulations and a Redshift Camera; Red Giant VFX tools finalise Real Lens Flares; Trapcode has more art directable particles.
October 29, 2022
VFX
Framestore Welcomes New VFX Supervisor Ross Wilkinson
Framestore is pleased to announce the arrival of Ross Wilkinson as VFX Supervisor to work on advertising and episodic projects across the studio’s Interactive Advertising division.
October 24, 2022
VFX
ACCESS:VFX Launches New European Chapter with Sponsorship from Netflix
ACCESS:VFX launched a new European chapter, making practical tools available for new creators across Europe who want to succeed in the industry, including interviews, reel reviews, virtual events.
October 24, 2022
VFX
RSP Co-Founder Tony Clark Named VES Fellow
Rising Sun Pictures Co-Founder and Managing Director Tony Clark has been named a VES Fellow by the Visual Effects Society, the first Australian to receive this honour.
October 23, 2022
VFX
Chaos Corona 9 for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D Redefines 3D Design and Animation
Chaos Corona 9 for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D features new tools for clouds, patterns and motion blur for 3D design, improving memory efficiency and speed, realism and camera effects.
October 08, 2022
VFX
Chaos Group and Greyscalegorilla Release Render Inspiration for Cinema 4D
Chaos Group and Greyscalegorilla released software that enhance the render quality from Cinema 4D -- Chaos V-Ray 6 for Cinema 4D and Tactile, specialised materials for 3D designers.
September 28, 2022
VFX
Technicolor Creative Studios Spins Off as Independent Company
Technicolor Creative Studios is now a global network of studios – MPC, The Mill, Mikros and Technicolor Games – focussed on creating film, episodic, gaming and advertising content.
Lala Gavgavian Becomes Digital Domain’s Global President of VFX Studios
Sep 28, 2022
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Digital Domain names Lala Gavgavian as Global President of Visual Effects Studios to…
Post Panic and KitBash3D Light Up ‘Free Fire’ Mobile Game Music Video
Sep 26, 2022
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Post Panic’s team used KitBash3D’s model kits to help flesh out game environment detail…
Autodesk Maya Creative Makes 3D Tools More Affordable, Flexible for Artists
Sep 16, 2022
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Maya Creative lowers the barrier to entry, making 3D modelling and animation tools more…
Maxon One Updates Simulation, Volumes, Colour for Cinema 4D and Redshift
Sep 08, 2022
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Maxon One software now features many updates, starting with Cinema 4D 2023 and including…
V-Ray 6 for Maya Adds Artist Control Over Skies, Render Time, USD Pipelines
Sep 03, 2022
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Chaos V-Ray 6 for Maya has features like geometric tiling, procedural clouds and a new…
Framestore Welcomes VFX Supervisor François Dumoulin
Aug 22, 2022
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Creative studio Framestore is pleased to add VFX Supervisor François Dumoulin to its…
Atlanta VFX Leaves No Clues with Fusion Studio on ‘Only Murders in the Building’
Aug 22, 2022
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Atlanta VFX completed complex compositing, shot blending and matchmoving in Blackmagic…
ASWF Launches Open Source Software Development Projects at SIGGRAPH
Aug 10, 2022
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ASWF launched two projects from SIGGRAPH, one for production-grade sample content to aid…
das element v1.2 Helps Teams Organise, Share, View Project Elements
Aug 07, 2022
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VFX library software das element has new teamwork features supporting elements…
Animal Logic’s Technology and Creative Teams Release ALab Phase 2
Aug 06, 2022
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Following the success of last year's release of ALab, with 4,000 downloads to date,…
Blur Studio, David Fincher and V-Ray Pull a Dark Story into the Light
Aug 04, 2022
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David Fincher created his first 3D animated film, a short for Love, Death + Robots, with…
Ghost VFX to Open New Studio in India
Aug 01, 2022
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Ghost VFX will open a new studio in Pune, India, in early 2023 offering a full range of…
Chaos V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max Tackles World-building and Workflows
Jul 11, 2022
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Chaos Scatter populates scenes with 3D objects, procedural clouds help customise skies,…
MAXON One Brings Updates to Cinema 4D, Redshift and Red Giant Software
Jul 06, 2022
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An interim upgrade to the MAXON One software includes progress in Cinema 4D’s Scene Nodes…
DNEG Hires Academy Award Winning VFX Supervisors Eric Brevig and Greg Butler
Jun 27, 2022
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DNEG VFX studio has hired Eric Brevig and Greg Butler as Visual Effects Supervisors. Eric…
Maxon’s Imperfections Create Perfectly Photoreal 3D Surfaces
Jun 24, 2022
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More than 50 4K scanned tiled textures called Imperfections are now available to Cinema…
Adobe Updates Substance 3D Materials and Photoshop AI Filters
Jun 18, 2022
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Substance 3D software now includes a 3D Materials SDK for developers, a new plugin and…
Pixomondo Speeds Virtual Production Iteration and Review on AWS Cloud
Jun 17, 2022
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To support their in-camera VFX pipeline, Pixomondo moved operations relating to storage…
MPC Ages Dr Egon Spengler for ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’
Jun 08, 2022
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For ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’, MPC was entrusted with bringing the character of Dr Egon…
Silhouette 2022 Integrates New Nodes for Compositing, FX and Tracking
Jun 08, 2022
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Silhouette 2022 now integrates the Boris plugins Sapphire, Mocha Pro and Particle…
Animal Logic’s New Vancouver Studio Set to Double its Local Workforce
May 24, 2022
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Animal Logic is building a new 110,000 sqft purpose-built studio expected to double their…
Framestore VFX Studio Announces New CEO
May 16, 2022
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Framestore today announces Mel Sullivan as its new CEO as founding member and CEO of 26…
ZEISS CinCraft Mapper Delivers Precise Lens Data for Efficient VFX Workflows
May 10, 2022
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ZEISS Cinematography introduces the first service of its new CinCraft system for the…
Nuke 13.2 Adds NDI, OpenTimelineIO, Refines ML Learning and UnrealReader
Apr 18, 2022
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Nuke 13.2 continues to focus on collaboration, workflows and pipelines, adds NDI support,…
3ds Max and Arnold Bring Interactivity and More Speed to 3D Workflows
Apr 07, 2022
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New support for glTF, flexible modelling tools and greater control are among the updates…
Karma XPU Gathers Speed as SideFX’s Hybrid GPU/CPU Renderer
Mar 28, 2022
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Brian Sharpe at SideFX talks about Karma XPU, an engine option, now in development, for…
Two New Talents Receive Animal Logic Scholarship
Mar 21, 2022
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Animal Logic, in partnership with the UTS Animal Logic Academy, today announced that…
das element Upgrade Manages Asset Libraries for VFX Teams and Projects
Mar 21, 2022
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Das element helps studios ensure their asset libraries are well structured and organised,…
ASWF Releases Research on Open Source Development in Modern Filmmaking
Mar 14, 2022
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The Academy Software Foundation has released a new research paper titled ‘Open Source in…
Johannes Sambs to Lead Framestore’s CG Team in London
Feb 28, 2022
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Framestore promoted Johannes Sambs as Head of CG, based at the company's headquarters in…
Tribal Imaging Virtualises Post and VFX Production on AWS Compute Cloud
Feb 21, 2022
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Tribal Imaging virtualised its VFX workstations on AWS. Artists now connect to virtual…
Conductor Welcomes Julie McDonald as Head of Business Development
Feb 03, 2022
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Conductor Technologies cloud-based rendering and simulation platform announced that Julie…
Framestore Welcomes Simon Devereux as Director of Global Talent Development
Jan 31, 2022
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Framestore has announced Simon Devereux, director and founder of ACCESS:VFX, as its new…
Chaos’ New Sequence Player Gives Instant High-resolution Playback
Jan 23, 2022
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Chaos Player, a major upgrade to Pdplayer, features floating-point compositing, A/B…
The Mill, MPC and Mr X Undergo Business Transformations at Technicolor
Jan 17, 2022
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A new Moving Picture Company (MPC) Studio network will focus on Film and Episodic VFX;…
Predicting Video Pathways in 2022 – Ncam, Digital Domain and Arcturus
Jan 15, 2022
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Video production, post and applications are evolving and expanding rapidly around the…
Katana 5.0 Focusses on Nuke Interoperability and Render Upgrades
Dec 20, 2021
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Foundry’s Katana 5.0 includes Hydra Render Delegate support, Foresight+ for sequence…
Sam Mason and Team Take Bifrost on a Surreal 3D Journey through Dreamland
Dec 13, 2021
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3D artist Sam Mason directed a music video titled ‘Colors and Shapes’ by Mac Miller,…
Isotropix Releases Angie to Support CPU, GPU or Hybrid Rendering
Dec 08, 2021
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Early access to Clarisse 5.5 is now available creating options to render on a CPU, GPU or…
Nuke 13.1 Updates 3D System and Machine Learning, Adds Unreal Reader
Dec 02, 2021
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Foundry has made significant changes to Nuke in this release, updating its Node Graph UX,…
OTOY Adds Redshift Support to the Render Network
Nov 29, 2021
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OTOY and Maxon announce that Redshift will be coming to the Render Network, giving…
Katana 5.0 Extends Lighting and Look Development Through the 3D Pipeline
Nov 29, 2021
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Katana 5.0 updates Foresight rendering, changes render delegate handling in the Hydra…
Mari 5 Enhances Proceduralism and USD Look Development Workflows
Nov 20, 2021
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Foundry Mari 5.0 improves the brush engine to include colour jitter, has a new export…
Unity Set to Acquire Weta Digital’s Tools, Pipeline and Engineering Talent
Nov 10, 2021
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3D software developer Unity will soon acquire Weta Digital’s tools, pipeline and…
Folks VFX Chooses Quebec Location for its Fourth Studio
Nov 08, 2021
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Folks VFX’s new studio in Saguenay, Quebec, becomes the tenth studio location in the…
Golaem 8 Brings Crowds to Unreal Engine, Adds Layout Layers
Nov 07, 2021
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Golaem 8 now makes its crowd simulation features available within Unreal Engine in…
Preymaker Welcomes Top Talent to its Expanding Roster
Nov 03, 2021
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Preymaker, one of the first 100% cloud native creative studios, has hired CGI and…
CGI Studio REALTIME Celebrates 25 years in Content Creation
Nov 02, 2021
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REALTIME is celebrating its 25th anniversary, a milestone for the independent CG company,…
RSP Hires Machine Learning Experts to Apply AI to the VFX Pipeline
Nov 02, 2021
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RSP has appointed two post-doctoral researchers from the Australian Institute for Machine…
Framestore Announces New Mumbai VFX Studio
Nov 02, 2021
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Framestore has opened the doors to a new 30,000 square-foot, purpose-built studio in…
Rising Sun Pictures Welcomes Home-Grown Talent as VFX Production Booms
Oct 18, 2021
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As the film and television industry rebounds from the pandemic, now is a great time to…
V-Ray Wins 2021 Engineering Emmy for Ray-Traced Rendering
Oct 18, 2021
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Loki, Digital Domain Chaos Group’s V-Ray renderer has won an Engineering Emmy Award for…
Disney Imagineering’s Michael Stein joins Framestore as CTO
Oct 18, 2021
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Creative studio Framestore is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael Stein as…
DeadDrop Labs Opens the Door to VFX Compute Power on AWS Cloud
Oct 18, 2021
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DeadDrop Labs works with post production houses, VFX studios, editors, animators, game…
Ghost VFX Wins an Emmy for ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ and Expands Leadership
Oct 15, 2021
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Ghost VFX says they work to make the impossible, possible and to produce imagery that…
Golaem Receives an Engineering Emmy Award for Crowd Software
Oct 11, 2021
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Golaem has been awarded an Engineering Emmy Award by the Television Academy for its…
FuseFX Hires Global Director Strategic Partnerships
Oct 11, 2021
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FuseFX has hired Robin Prybil as global director, strategic partnerships. Robin will act…
Rob Coleman and Randal Shore Rejoin ILM to Boost Feature Animation
Oct 11, 2021
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Industrial Light & Magic has announced that Rob Coleman has rejoined the company as a Key…
Nevion Celebrates 25 Years at the Heart of Broadcast Innovation
Oct 04, 2021
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Nevion, virtualised media production specialists, are celebrating their 25th anniversary,…
Six VFX and Post Stars Join The VFX & Post Talent Agency
Oct 04, 2021
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Top row L-R, Alex Belgeonne, Oliver Cubbage, Anna Fuller Clarke. Bottom row L-R, Jan…
