Tag: SideFX
MIFA Unveils 2024 Program
The 2024 International Animation Film Market (MIFA) has announced its official program running June 11-14 alongside the Annecy Festival. This year, the Market opens...
Alliance for OpenUSD Unveils Roadmap, Welcomes 12 New Members at SIGGRAPH Asia
The Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD), an organization dedicated to fostering the standardization, development, evolution, and growth of OpenUSD (Universal Scene Description), today unveiled its...
CBS VFX Blazes New Trail for TV Effects in ‘Fire Country’
Drama and action ignite with the help of explosive visual effects work in the new CBS series Fire Country. The producers relied on the...
Tech Reviews: Conjuring More Visual Magic with Houdini 19.5
***This article originally appeared in the Sept./Oct. ’22 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 323)***
SideFX’s Houdini 19.5
I’m pretty convinced that the amount of stuff that...
How Digital Domain Built a Digital, Destructible Slice of NYC for ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’
In Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: No Way Home, nearly 20 years and three separate Spider-Man franchises converge into one of the most...
Top Tech Tools & Trends of 2021
Once again, we round out another crazy year where our lives are slowly inching back to normal. But while people are stuck in their...
SIGGRAPH Asia Soldiers on with Planned Hybrid Event
In response to the new Omicron variant, the Japanese government announced on Nov. 29 that the country will bar all international business and leisure...
Global Collab CGI Short ‘Mila’ Under Oscar Consideration
Ten years in the making and completed with the help of 350 volunteers across 35 countries, Mila, a powerful CG short about a young...
VIEW Conference Adds Virtual ‘Encanto’ Session, Houdini & Epic Games Reveals
Building on its robust hybrid program for 2021, Italy's VIEW Conference (Oct. 17-22) has announced a special virtual presentation on the making of Disney's...
Weta Digital and SideFX to Enhance Cloud Production with Houdini Software
New Zealand's world-famous Weta Digital has announced alongside its partner SideFX, a new software service. The new software service will combine Weta's proprietary tools...
Event Updates: Annies Call for Entries, MAF Goes Hybrid, SIGGRAPH Asia & More
13th Annual Bay Area Int'l Children's Film Festival: That's a Wrap
BAICFF presented a fab film program in partnership with Dublin's Festival of Curiosity, as...
Interactive Immersion: SIGGRAPH Offers a Broad Showcase of CG Achievement
***This article originally appeared in the August '21 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 312)***
What better way to escape the summer doldrums than by diving...
Chaos Launches V-Ray 5 Updates for Maya, Houdini with USD Support
Chaos introduces initial Universal Scene Description (USD) support for V-Ray 5 for Maya and V-Ray 5 for Houdini, tying two powerhouse production renderers to...
SIGGRAPH: ‘Migrants,’ ‘Meerkat,’ ‘I’m A Pebble’ win CG Festival Prizes
SIGGRAPH 2021 announces the award winners and lineup of 37 short films, cinematics, scientific visualizations, breakdowns and more set to appear in the second...
Tech Tools: The Best of 2020
Let's face it, being on a "Best of 2020" list isn't setting a very high bar for anyone. You could have invented a Reese's...
FMX 2020 Imagines Tomorrow with Regina Pessoa, Volker Engel, Steven Appleby
With 2019 drawing to a close, FMX – Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Immersive Media has made its first big announcement for 2020,...
Pixar Animation Studios Releases RenderMan 23
Pixar has released RenderMan version 23, featuring next-level artist interactivity, enhanced support for Pixar’s USD (Universal Scene Description), and first-class integration with SideFX’s recent...
Women In Animation Announces 2019 SIGGRAPH Summit
Women in Animation (WIA) is pleased to announce the program lineup and speakers for its upcoming Women in Animation Summit at SIGGRAPH, to be...
Women in Animation Announces Global Fund with Million Dollar Goal
Women in Animation (WIA) announces the launch of The WIA Global Fund, recently established to broaden the organization’s international reach by developing and expanding...
Unity Awarded Its First Tech Emmy for Animation Software
Cutting-edge tech solutions creator Unity has been awarded its first Technology & Engineering Emmy Award, for 3D Engine Software for the Production of Animation,...
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