First CG-animated series to be produced using the Unreal game engine celebrates our differences. By Jennifer Wolfe | Monday, March 4, 2019 at 12:33pm DUBAI — Spacetoon TV, the first kids’ TV channel in MENA, has recently premiered Zafari, an 11-minute CG animated series. The CG-animated series created with the Unreal Engine real-time game engine airs on Sundays and[…..] […]
The VR company Magic Leap is located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, and is an AR platform similar to Microsoft HoloLens. As a mysterious and low-profile company, its main R & D direction is to project images directly through the human eye to the retina. In this way, your brain will think the images are real. The company will[…..] […]
Aerolite is a game company based in Chongqing. Though small in scale, the company has an excellent performance in the field of cultural export. Today, CGGE has a chance to invite Mr. Li, the founder of the company, to talk about their games. CGGE: Can you briefly introduce the development history of Aerolite Tech Co.,[…..] […]
By Mercedes Milligan | February 22, 2019 The 2019 FMX Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Immersive Media — taking place April 30 to May 3 in Stuttgart, Germany — has confirmed new additions to this year’s program. Doug Chiang, the Academy Award-winning Vice President and Executive Creative Director of Lucasfilm, has joined the Concept Art track. Chiang has made[…..] […]
by SIGGRAPH Conferences | Feb. 19, 2019 At SIGGRAPH 2018, Derek Ham shared his VR project “I Am A Man” in the Immersive Pavilion’s Vrcade. This captivating experience immerses users in the middle of the historic events of the African-American Civil Rights Movement, including those leading up to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As we close out February,[…..] […]
by Maxwell Planck | Feb 13th, 2019 We are still in a high-fashion stage of VR where the experimentation and far-out art being presented at festivals like Sundance have yet to inspire the “ready to wear” market we are all waiting for. Since 2013, Sundance has been the first annual “runway” that sets the tone for[…..] […]
“SparkShorts is indie filmmaking inside of Pixar.” There came a newly unveiled initiative from Pixar: SparkShorts. Though first revealed to SIGGRAPH attendees in 2017 via a Talk on “Smash and Grab,” the program offers artists from all areas of the studio a chance to create their own, independent short film. Lester was one of six filmmakers[…..] […]
by SIGGRAPH Conferences | Jan 29th, 2019 In December, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its annual Scientific and Technical Awards recipients. Among the list of honorees are longtime SIGGRAPH all-stars Ed Catmull (co-founder, Pixar Animation Studios), Paul Debevec (senior staff engineer, Google VR), and Tony DeRose (senior scientist, Pixar Animation Studios). Catmull and DeRose, along[…..] […]
by SIGGRAPH Conferences | Feb. 12, 2019 In a conversation that spanned multiple disciplines, and multiple years, the team behind “Incredibles 2” spoke to a rapt audience during its SIGGRAPH 2018 Production Session last summer. Relive some of the magic as Rick Sayre, who was responsible for all aspects of the technical production of the film — from crewing up[…..] […]
To produce believable looking and sounding fireworks for director Jon Chu’s final shot, VFX supervisor Nhat Phong Tran broke new ground with his ‘Crazy Niche Equations.’ By AWN Staff Editor | Monday, February 18, 2019 at 12:59pm Sound designers play a big part in adding their magic to the work of VFX artists to make their[…..] […]
