Illumination’s “Minions: The Rise of Gru” — the latest animated film in the Despicable Me franchise — made an estimated $125 million domestically for its four-day opening weekend, according to Universal. That gives the film the record for biggest opening over the July 4th holiday weekend, overtaking “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” which made $115[…..] […]
Build the musicverse with native VR tools, available July 7 on Oculus Store PatchXR announces the release of PatchWorld for Meta Quest 2. PatchWorld is an unprecedented VR toolkit for exploring musical experiences, building original, fanciful instruments, and playing full-immersion live shows. Play and explore fantastic musical worlds, even without previous musical experience – then[…..] […]
Maxon and AMD have announced that Redshift, Maxon’s GPU renderer for DCC tools like 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya, is now compatible with AMD’s Radeon Pro GPUs on Windows and Linux. The move – teased release trailer for Redshift 3.5, which also introduced support for CPU and hybrid rendering – makes Redshift[…..] […]
In the UK and US, 58% of game developers are starting to use blockchain, according to research. According to a survey by research agency Opinion, 58% of them are starting to use blockchain technology and nearly half of respondents (47%) have started incorporating non-fungible tokens (NFTs) into their projects in the United States and UK.[…..] […]
We are all children. “One thing that can unite all people is the children. Because we were all children once.” Seoul Int’l Children’s Film Festival(SICFF) has been discovering great contents that children can enjoy and listening to voices from all over the world for the next generation. We hope the children discover better[…..] […]
Celebrating 20 years of Open Source The Blender event of the year is back! The largest gathering of artists, developers and contributors will take place at the beautiful 18th century neo-classical Felix Meritis in the heart of Amsterdam from Oct 27~Oct 29. A new Format The new Felix Meritis venue offers 5 tracks of parallel events[…..] […]
Kenneth C. Knowlton (June 6, 1931 – June 16, 2022) was an American computer graphics pioneer, artist, mosaicist and portraitist. In 1963, whilst working at Bell Labs, he developed the BEFLIX programming language for creating bitmap computer-produced movies, which laid the groundwork for today’s computer-generated imagery in film and on TV. As an engineer, computer scientist[…..] […]
Annecy US-based partner Animation Is Film sets 2022 dates Animation Is Film (AIF) and its partner Annecy International Animation Film Festival have announced the fifth edition of the US-based festival set for October 21-23. AIF celebrates global animation and will take place at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres in Hollywood. Last year the event presented[…..] […]
From the 6th to the 10th of July, ten Chilean game companies was present in virtual format at this important Latin American event in the games sector. The ten members of the Chilean delegation joined the hundreds of programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals and other actors involved in the development of interactive games, will be[…..] […]
ZED (Manuel Catteau) will adapt for television “Chasing Dragons: The Forgotten Knight of the Round Table” a previously unknown medieval novel from the universe of the Arthurian legend, and that has just been reassembled at the end of a 10-year quest. This exceptional novel has been reconstructed by the medievalist historian Emanuele Arioli after 10[…..] […]
