Tag: SIGGRAPH
USC Students Blaze a Trail with Ollie
The short film Trailblazer may appear at first glance to be animation created by a soon-to-graduate student from the University of Southern California in...
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Celebrating 80 Years of Batman
DC is gearing up to celebrate the iconic legacy of the Dark Knight, who first appeared in Detective Comics #27...
FMX 2019 to Welcome ILM’s Rob Bredow, Google Spotlight’s Jan Pinkava
Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Immersive Media April 30 - May 3, 2019, Stuttgart/Germany, Haus der Wirtschaft Ludwigsburg/Germany, January 18, 2019.
FMX is building...
The Top Tech Tools and Trends of 2018
We are back again with a recap of the best tech of 2018. As always, some things are new, some have been around, and...
SIGGRAPH Festival Plans Global Growth
ACM SIGGRAPH has announced the newly formed Computer Animation Festival Advisory Board, which will be chaired in its first term by Jason RM Smith,...
Jeff Gipson Discusses Disney’s Poignant VR Short ‘Cycles’
The first thing that comes to mind when discussing the still-nascent medium of virtual reality is the technology, from the software to the headset...
‘Sonder’ Gets Oscar Qualifying LA Run in September
As Oscar season gets going, animation fans in LA will have plenty of chances to see some of the year’s finest works of short...
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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...
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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...
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