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Category: VFX Insight

VFX Insight

Volumetric video: a state of play round-table

Posted onFebruary 10, 2022February 10, 2022

Leading companies in volumetric video share what they’re doing in this space, and their thoughts on the future of the industry.

VFX Insight

VIDEO: A new Reallusion iClone 8 work in progress demo

Posted onFebruary 8, 2022February 8, 2022

Go under the hood of iClone 8’s Pose Mixer, Curve Editor and more.

VFX Insight

How to get your foot in the VFX and animation door

Posted onFebruary 3, 2022February 10, 2022

Inside Cinesite’s LEAP program, plus details of the fairness, diversity and inclusion initiatives at the studio.

VFX Insight

Pop Family Entertainment previews Being Betty Flood at AWS re:Invent 2021

Posted onJanuary 18, 2022

Innovative production workflow of magical animated feature includes Amazon Nimble Studio and Epic Games’ Unreal Engine.

VFX Insight

How Cartoon Network Africa leveraged iClone real-time software for dance challenge

Posted onJanuary 7, 2022

Indie director Benjamin Sokomba Dazhi shares his behind the scenes.

VFX Insight

Here’s how to get access to Megascans Trees

Posted onDecember 22, 2021December 22, 2021

They are now in early access in the Unreal Engine Marketplace.

VFX Insight

Building a real-time pipeline for an animated feature AND an accompanying game all at once

Posted onDecember 15, 2021

How Hasraf ‘ HaZ’ Dulull jumped into Character Creator, iClone and Unreal Engine for ‘RIFT’.

VFX Insight

What does going global mean for a VFX and animation studio?

Posted onDecember 13, 2021December 15, 2021

Cinesite has done it, here’s how it offers clients and crew a whole new range of choices.

VFX Insight

Real-time and comp meet: How you can use the new UnrealReader node in Nuke to enhance your real-time renderings

Posted onDecember 6, 2021December 6, 2021

Foundry gets real about real-time rendering.

VFX Insight

Here’s how Moab canyons and rock formations were scanned for Megascans

Posted onDecember 3, 2021

This behind the scenes Quixel video takes you on location for the scans.

Podcasts, VFX Insight

VFX Futures: Pipeline, tools and tech with Cinesite

Posted onNovember 29, 2021November 29, 2021

Cinesite’s technology leaders break down the major tech achievements and challenges facing the studio right now in VFX and animation.

VFX Insight

New Mari and new Katana: reducing pipeline friction for artists

Posted onNovember 9, 2021November 11, 2021

How interoperability is playing a larger role in Foundry tools.

VFX Insight

Image Engine taps remote ShotGrid pipeline for VFX on ‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’

Posted onNovember 8, 2021April 13, 2022

How the VFX studio has been using a custom ShotGrid pipeline during remote working.

VFX Insight

Go deeper into this Megascans-made medieval village

Posted onNovember 4, 2021November 4, 2021

These extended Quixel video tutorials take a deep dive into performance optimization.

VFX Insight

DeadDrop Labs helps WeFX tap into the power of AWS

Posted onOctober 11, 2021

The 2nd season of the Apple TV+ series ‘SEE’ was one of WeFX’s first projects.

VFX Insight

Megascans infests ‘Resident Evil Village’

Posted onSeptember 23, 2021October 7, 2021

How Capcom utilized the Quixel Megascans Library for the first-person survival-horror game.

VFX Insight

ActorCore’s Next Generation Characters Revive Business Simulations

Posted onSeptember 14, 2021October 7, 2021

Lightweight actors with facial, body and lip-sync animations for crowd rendering sets a new standard for 3D people.

Podcasts, VFX Insight

VFX Firsts: 25 years of Foundry

Posted onSeptember 9, 2021October 7, 2021

The founders of Foundry celebrate their quarter century birthday.

VFX Insight

All grown up: Hybride celebrates 20 years of ‘Spy Kids’

Posted onAugust 23, 2021October 7, 2021

An oral history of the VFX studio’s work on the 2001 Robert Rodriguez film.

VFX Insight

das element: new asset library software for visual effects

Posted onAugust 16, 2021October 7, 2021

Here’s how the new tool can manage and organize your VFX element library, including with machine learning.

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