Epic Has Awarded Grants To Almost 400 Projects

Epic MegaGrant is a funding project that supports developers and developers who create creative and outstanding content with Unreal Engine or enhance open source capabilities for the 3D graphics community. It is a pure developer support program without any conditions and restrictions. Selected projects will receive a grant of at least $5,000 (approximately 5.92 million[…..] […]

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Katana 5.0 Focusses on Nuke Interoperability and Render Upgrades

The new version 5 release of Katana from Foundry includes Hydra Render Delegate support and other render upgrades like Foresight+, interoperability between Katana and Nuke, and improvements to USD and Look Development workflows. Katana 5.0 connects Nuke with Katana. Using Nuke bridge, look development and lighting artists can now stream live renders to a running[…..] […]

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Kidscreen’s most-read stories of 2021

From beloved brand reboots to big deals for ZAG’s Miraculous Buyers have been all over rebooted, refreshed and reinvigorated brands this year—and it turns out that Kidscreen’s readers are equally interested. News about popular IPs being adapted, acquired or licensed for consumer products attracted the most views this year, as we look back at some[…..] […]

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Discovery-WarnerMedia merger wins clearance from European Commission

The merger of Discovery and WarnerMedia has cleared another regulatory obstacle after the European Commission (EC) has granted unconditional antitrust clearance to Discovery’s $43 billion acquisition of AT&T’s WarnerMedia. AT&T will receive around US$43bn in a combination of cash, debt securities and WarnerMedia’s retention of certain debt. Meanwhile, AT&T shareholders will receive a 71% stake[…..] […]

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V-Ray for Modo discontinued

Chaos has announced that V-Ray for Modo is discontinued from December 20, 2021. Chaos said “some products eventually reach their natural end of life”. This date marks the end of sales, technical support and downloads for existing license owners will continue for a further year until December 31, 2022. First released in 2016, V-Ray for[…..] […]

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The Russian Film Festival attracts over 1 million viewers in 23 countries

The Russian Film Festival (RFF), organized by ROSKINO with support from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation since 2020, has shown impressive performance, with the total number of viewers exceeding 1 mln in 23 countries. In 2020, RFF became the first Russian online project targeting wide international audiences. The festival was successfully held[…..] […]

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