Newest version includes enhanced technology features such as XPU Advancements and Interactive Denoising; core improvements include faster instancing and texture read parallelism and improvements in RenderMan's Stylized Looks toolset for enhanced creative control.
The software-defined platform helps developers in broadcast and streaming deliver AI-enabled media solutions.
The new toolset enables the moving of 3D scenes quickly from industry-standard creation tools onto LED screens without the slow data conversion process.
Attendees can explore the stylistic design choices behind ‘Kung Fu Panda 4’ and gain insight into artistic and technological innovations developed for ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire;’ 4-day event kicks off in Stuttgart on April 23, 2024.
The long-time leader of The Jim Henson Company’s first Creature Shop in Los Angeles, whose pioneering work included development of the ground-breaking Henson Performance Control System that revolutionized computer-driven puppetry, died of cancer on March 13.
New technology helps media and entertainment studios automate, integrate, and manage their complex assortment of GenAI-assisted DCC tools.
Banger Film’s documentary, ‘Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story,’ captures the highs and lows of the pioneering transgender soul and R&B artist’s life through an innovative, groundbreaking mix of live-action and vividly animated sequences.
Debuting with 25 multi-dimensional stories, the company’s innovative new app empowers creators, offering a diverse array of immersive experiences that push the boundaries of digital storytelling.
Leading visual entertainment company nabs exclusive license for the powerful character-simulation software and will onboard a large portion of the tech team; real-time character creation, assisted by machine learning, enables artists to craft accurate and scalable digital characters efficiently.
The customizable and scalable cloud-based system boasts built-in customization tools and popular DCC integrations, offering accelerated production timelines without capacity limitations and no upfront costs.
Acquisition of the two Luxembourg-based studios bolsters the company’s development, production and financing capabilities for premium feature and TV animation.
Hailing from Epic Games, Original Force and Wētā FX, the 28-year industry veteran will oversee and guide the studio’s technological vision and exploration of real-time workflows to produce feature-quality animation.
The program review, featuring projects in production and development at the state-of-the-art studio, will be held on the SCA campus this coming Thursday, April 4.
A library of more than 500 handkey motions, including unique, stylized interactions and movements such as walk, talk, and run, lets animators easily add zest to 3D cartoon productions.
The end-to-end, cloud-native software platform brings generative AI within reach of every business; now includes NVIDIA NIM to speed generative AI application deployment, NVIDIA AI Workbench and the widely used Red Hat OpenStack Platform.
Attempting to prevent the use of AI in the workplace is a Quixotic effort.
The director explains that while his movie is mainly advertised as a horror film, ‘It leans more heavily into adventure and fantasy’ and ‘feels more like ‘The Goonies’ with young adults,’ also noting that with a mix of 2D animation and VFX, it tackles ‘the dark side of nostalgia, and how it can lead to depression and trauma.’
Storytelling app’s ‘Hear Your Name’ technology lets kids become part of Gabby’s paw-some animated adventure stories; the series is now streaming on Netflix.
The 3-day international animation festival, running April 5-7 in Brighton, England encompasses a global perspective and provides an accessible venue for everyone to learn about animation.
The bright red, tiny shapeshifting pet returns in a 3DCG preschool adventure series, produced by Guru Studio, that explores friendship and imagination; show debuts today, March 20, on Disney Junior and Disney+.
As demonstrated at NVIDIA GTC, developers and visual content providers can get more creative control with new 3D asset generation tools; Shutterstock 3D AI generator Speedy 3D is now in early access, and Getty Images has released Edify-powered APIs.
At NVIDIA GTC, an interactive demo of the new Omniverse Cloud APIs featured a physically accurate digital twin of a car streamed in full fidelity to Apple Vision Pro’s high-resolution displays, leveraging powerful spatial computing and blending 3D photorealistic environments with the physical world.
With the addition of the production management solution, the tech giant’s industry cloud for M&E, Flow, will link previously disparate workflows of pre-and post-production, fostering broader collaboration and efficiency.
The new, seamless solution leverages Reallusion’s iClone, Character Creator, and NVIDIA’s Audio2Face to revolutionize multi-lingual facial lip-sync animation production.
The company’s Neural Radiance Fields tools for virtual production, VFX, TV, and entertainment lets users process information locally while retaining complete control without reliance on cloud services.
