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LoUPE Autodesk has invested in RADiCAL, the New York-based developer of a cloud, AI-powered 3D motion capture solution. This investment marks the latest move by Autodesk toward cloud VFX production for content creators and builds on the recent acquisitions of Moxion

NVIDIA is collaborating with top academic researchers at 14 universities to present 16 research papers at SIGGRAPH 2022, Aug. 8-11. The research tackles graphics’ toughest problems with advancements in content creation, VR, real-time rendering, and 3D simulation. For example, NVIDIA’s academic collaborations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Gx8wiNbs8 We have just seen a special 3D stereo presentation of the Avatar 2: The Way of Water trailer. It is incredible, but does it seem like it was worth the wait? After all, it has been thirteen years since, Avatar, – which by the

he Champion directed by Maciej Barczewski, is the first full theatrical feature film to be converted to English using neural rendering. All of the performances were changed so the actors not only are revoiced into English, but their faces were replaced

fxguide visited scanning company Avatar Factory on location in Melbourne to get 3D scanned. The company operates a mobile scanning truck, which allows for remote scanning. Typical projects involve both hero actor scanning and ‘catalog work’ of scanning all props

Among the Oscar nominees in 2021, MANK received the most nominations with 10, including nominations in the categories of Best Picture, Actor in a Leading Role, and Directing. Other Oscars nominees 2021 with multiple nominations include THE FATHER, JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH,

There is an old saying that the best camera is the one you have on you. For doing VFX work, especially on location, it is standard to have a set of tools including an SLR camera, measuring equipment, and various

GANs or generative adversarial networks, have had an enormous impact on facial simulation, style transfers and they are increasingly being introduced into VFX pipelines around the world. GANs are an insanely powerful and relatively new form of Machine Learning, and

Mocha is easily the leading planar tracking software available and the last several releases have seen improvements in regards to the utilization of the generated tracks, both in regards to applying the tracking data inside the app as well as

Frame.io is launching Camera to Cloud (C2C), a secure camera-to-cloud workflow that lets customers instantly upload and stream images from on-set cameras to creative post-production teams anywhere in the world. Frame.io C2C represents a significant change in film, television, news,