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FMX 2019 Headline News

FMX 2019 Announces ‘Spider-Man’ Talk, Indie Animation Track and ‘CatPlanets’ Trailer Reveal

Sony Pictures Imageworks VFX supervisor Danny Dimian will present work on hit animated feature; animators Sophie Koto Gate, Michael Frei, Boris Labbé and Tomek Popakul will share their distinctive work.

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AI Blogs

Meet the AIs

Chinese TV hosts introduce their virtual replacements.

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ILM’s Rob Bredow to Present ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ at FMX 2019

Studio’s head and executive creative director will share inner workings of their visual and physical effects work on Disney's BAFTA and VES-nominated sci-fi adventure.

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FMX 2019 Headline News

FMX 2019 Releases First Trailer and Program Confirmations

Keynote by Oscar-winner and Google Spotlight Stories creative director Jan Pinkava one of initial set of events confirmed for upcoming animation and VFX conference.

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FMX 2019 Headline News

FMX 2019 Announces ‘Bridging the Gap’ Theme

Animation and VFX conference, set for next April 30-May 3, will highlight worldviews and workflows that inspire artistic exchange.

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Awards Headline News

Advanced Imaging Society Unveils 2018 Technology Lumiere Award Honorees

DreamWorks Animation, Google VR, NVIDIA, The Mill, and the USC Institute for Creative Technologies among 15 award recipients to be honored at 9th Technology Lumiere Awards.

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Is NVIDIA’s New RTX Real-Time Ray Tracing Technology Really a Game Changer?

Industry analyst Jon Peddie weighs in on the significance of NVIDIA’s recently announced Turing GPU architecture and AI-enhanced photorealistic rendering.

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SIGGRAPH 2018 Headline News

MPC Film Advances the Craft of Visual Effects at SIGGRAPH 2018

Studio group announces its extensive schedule of talks and presentations for the upcoming computer graphics conference and exhibition in Vancouver.

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Allegorithmic Headline News

AI-Powered Alchemist Headlining Allegorithmic’s Substance Day at SIGGRAPH 2018

Day-long event open to SIGGRAPH 2018 attendees with multiple sessions from industry leaders including Double Negative and Theia Interactive.

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Digital Entertainment World Headline News

5th Digital Entertainment World Adds Top Speakers

Event features 2,000 decision-makers across video, music, games and advertising, startups, innovators, technologists and press.

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Technology Blogs

CES Round UP 2018

The CTA’s annual Consumer Electronics Show once again displayed, center stage, the future of technological innovation.

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Couldn’t Make It to SIGGRAPH? Watch the Epic Games User Group Presentation Online

Epic Games showcases advancements in virtual, augmented and mixed reality as well as the impact of the Cloud, AI and machine learning on production pipelines, at is first-ever User Group meetup at SIGGRAPH 2017.

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SIGGRAPH 2017 Headline News

A Whole New Game: NVIDIA Research Brings AI to Computer Graphics

NVIDIA is combining our expertise in AI with our long history in computer graphics to advance 3D graphics for games, virtual reality, movies and product design.

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SIGGRAPH 2017 Headline News

NVIDIA Supercharges Rendering Performance with AI

The new OptiX 5.0 running on NVIDIA DGX Station delivers rendering performance of 150 servers.

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nvidia Headline News

NVIDIA-Powered AI and VR Tools on Display at SIGGRAPH 2017

NVIDIA and NVIDIA partners to showcase the latest AI, VR, and advanced rendering technologies at SIGGRAPH 2017.

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Virtual Reality Blogs

The Art of Indirection

Transcript of my VR storytelling principles presentation just given at the 7^th Int’l Conference & Exhibition on Visual Entertainment in Beijing.

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Hayao Miyazaki Headline News

Hayao Miyazaki Not Impressed with Your AI-Programmed Animation

“If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.”

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Virtual Reality Blogs

The Three R's

A brief primer on VR, AR and MR.

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Massive Simplifies AI-Crowd Simulation with New Parts Library

During SIGGRAPH 2016, Massive debuts the single most significant improvement to its AI-crowd simulation software since it was first released along with updates to Ready to Run Agents.

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Massive Headline News

Massive for Max Unveiled at SIGGRAPH 2016

Popular crowd simulation application now available to Autodesk 3ds Max users; new release includes complimentary Ready to Run Agent.

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Technology Headline News

Massive Software announces Massive 7.0 at SIGGRAPH 2014

Massive 7.0 features more efficient character animation with Massive for Maya, big improvements in rendering, animation and user interface, Arnold support, 4x rendering speed up, V-Ray displacements and hair, a more flexible IK, and more.