Epic Games awards large cash grant to the free 3D software maker as part of ongoing program to assist professionals expanding efforts with Unreal Engine and open-source technology. Epic Games, as part of the company’s $100 million Epic MegaGrants program, is awarding the Blender Foundation $1.2 million in cash to further the success of Blender,[…..] […]
Company veteran has held several senior executive positions prior to taking the helm, effective immediately. Foundry today announced that Jody Madden has assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Madden joined Foundry in 2013 and has held positions as Chief Operating Officer and most recently, Chief Customer Officer and Chief Product Officer. Over[…..] […]
The new Trusted Partner Network, MPAA Open Source software initiatives and ISV native cloud service offerings are all positively impacting cloud resource utilization. The rise in cloud services adoption for content creation over the past few years has aligned with the explosive growth of high-quality scripted media production. Additionally, these high-quality projects’ visual effects and[…..] […]
R&B singer Halle Bailey already has a number one fan when it comes to her upcoming role as Ariel in Disney’s live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. Speaking to E! News during Comic-Con 2019, Yara Shahidi shared her excitement over her Grown-ish co-star and friend’s casting. Naturally, when she found out the news about the[…..] […]
Character and content company Aurora World is toasting the successful launch of YooHoo to the Rescue — the latest animated series inspired by its globally popular YooHoo brand — in Russia. The show has launched on leading Russian linear kids’ station, Carousel TV, with plans to drive a plush and licensing program in the country.[…..] […]
Agisoft has released De-Lighter, a new free stand-alone tool designed to remove shadows from model textures. The application is designed to remove cast shadows and ambient occlusion from 3D models by allowing the user to paint on the models to mark approximate areas that are lit or in shadow. It uses “rough illumination maps to perform binary[…..] […]
The Jim Henson Company has announced new top-tier broadcast partners for the latest season of its six-time Emmy-nominated and Parents’ Choice Silver Honor animated preschool series Dinosaur Train. Season five (22 x 11’) of Dinosaur Train, scheduled to premiere in the U.S. on August 26 on PBS KIDS, will be available to children across Germany,[…..] […]
CGF is the largest Russian post-production, animation, and visual effects studio, founded in 2004. The studio has worked on more than 50 feature films, 25 TV series, and numerous projects in the field of music videos and advertising. In 2017, the studio opened CGF Animation, a large branch focused on animation production as well as[…..] […]
Watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/130012001 After the awarded musical splatter The Rains of Castamere | An Animated Choreography οf Departures, where he covered and performed George R. R. Martin’s and Ramin Djawadi’s emblematic song, Aristarchos Papadaniel returned this year by creating a series of caricatures of the main Game of Thrones protagonists, who were in the[…..] […]
(Photo) The opening of the 15th China International Animation Game Expo In the 1940s, the Wan Brothers produced the first Chinese animated film “Princess Iron Fan”, which was distributed to Southeast Asia and Japan. It opened a new horizon in the Chinese animation industry, as well as the starting point when the “Chinese Work” began[…..] […]
