Tag: SIGGRAPH
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’Frozen 2’ Adds Oscar-Nominated ‘Hidden Figures’ Writer Allison Schroeder
Co-director Jennifer Lee will continue to be lead writer for the sequel, as well as tackling...
The Best of SIGGRAPH 2018
This year at SIGGRAPH we had a few standouts for advances in technology, but also for paradigm shifts in terms of services for at...
News Bytes: New ‘Overwatch’ Short, SIGGRAPH Spills on ‘Crow’ VR Short, Ronny Chieng on ‘Earth’s Mightiest Show’ & More!
WATCH: e-d Films ‘Home Was Hairy Hill’ Teaser
New from the studio creating a buzz with its oral history animated short Giant Bear (created with...
SIGGRAPH 2018: It’s a Wrap!
The annual computer graphic and interactive technology confab SIGGRAPH 2018, which took place at the Vancouver Convention Center Aug. 12-16, was a big success....
NVIDIA Showcases First Turing-Base GPUs at SIGGRAPH
This week at SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA unveiled its first Turing architecture-based GPUs, which allows artists and designers to render photorealistic scenes in real time, add new...
Chaos Brings New Real-Time Ray Tracing to SIGGRAPH
Chaos Group demos the first look at Project Lavina, a groundbreaking new technology designed for photorealistic real-time ray tracing at SIGGRAPH this week. Using...
OptiTrack Introduces Active Puck Mini at SIGGRAPH
Tracking teck innovator OptiTrack is previewing its latest advancement in VR player tracking and full body motion capture, the lightweight Active Puck Mini at SIGGRAPH...
NIM Labs Unveils Latest Version of Platform
L.A.-based studio management outfit NIM Labs has unveiled the latest version of its studio management platform NIM 3.O at SIGGRAPH. The product helps visual effects...
Clip: Behind the Scenes of Disney TV’s Unity-Powered ‘Big Hero 6’ Shorts
Disney Television Animation has announced Baymax Dreams -- a trio of new two- to three-minute animated shorts based on Big Hero 6 The Series,...
SVA Names Jimmy Calhoun Chair of BFA Computer Art, Animation & VFX
David Rhodes, President of New York’s School of Visual Arts, has announced the appointment of artist and educator James (Jimmy) Calhoun as chair of...
SIGGRAPH 2018 Spotlights Women in CG
At the 45th SIGGRAPH conference (Aug. 12-16; Vancouver, BC), a spotlight will be shone on the numerous women from across all specialties of computer...
Mikros Animation Scales with AWS Cloud for Paramount’s ‘Sherlock Gnomes’
From spinning up 2,000 instances in minutes to simultaneously rendering on 170,000 cores, studio taps Amazon Elastic Compute (EC2) and Spot Instances for 4.5M...
Ziva VFX 1.4 Puts Real-World Physics into Character Creation
Just ahead of the SIGGRAPH confab, Ziva Dynamics has launched Ziva VFX 1.4, a major update to its character creation technology that adds five...
Unleashing the Hidden Beasts of ‘Wolves in the Walls’ VR
***This article originally appeared in the August ‘18 issue of Animation Magazine (#282)***
Neil Gaiman and illustrator Dave McKean’s 2003 children’s book, The Wolves in...
SIGGRAPH 2018: CG Immersion Days for Everyone
***This article originally appeared in the August ‘18 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 282)***
With advances in technologies coming at us from every direction each...
New Approach to DIY Mo-Cap Unwraps at SIGGRAPH Real-Time Live!
A fresh approach to do-it-yourself, full-performance motion capture will be one of the gamechanging solutions showcased at this year’s Real-Time Live! at SIGGRAPH. The...
Business Symposium Returns to SIGGRAPH 2018
SIGGRAPH 2018 is bringing its Business Symposium back for the 45th edition of the CG confab, taking place August 12-16 at the Vancouver Convention...
John Kahrs VR Short ‘Age of Sail’ Premiering at Venice Film Fest
Google Spotlight Stories will be debuting the highly anticipated, ambitious new short film project Age of Sail, from Oscar-winning director John Kahrs (Paperman), will...
Daily News Bytes: Disney’s First VR Short at SIGGRAPH, Marvel Funko Short, Rainbow Brite’s Return & More
New Anime Museum Opens in Tokyo
The iconic Toei Animation studio (Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, One Piece) is opening a dedicate museum next week, designed...
Pixar Animation Studios Releases RenderMan 22
Pixar today released RenderMan 22, the highly anticipated new version of the Academy Award-winning 3D rendering software for animation and visual effects. This major...
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