Reels
Prime Focus’ Bollywood VFX showreel
Prime Focus has released a new reel of its work for Bollywood cinema. Watch it on Vimeo.
Reels
Prime Focus has released a new reel of its work for Bollywood cinema. Watch it on Vimeo.
Tech & Research
NVIDIA has released a new video demonstrating its research into reconstructing holes or damage in images using deep learning algorithms. They've called the process “image inpainting” and propose it could be used in photo editing software to heal images by filling areas with a computer-generated alternative. You can learn more about the technique on NVIDIA's website and see a demo on YouTube.
Blender News
The Blender Foundation has announced that as a result of the Blender Code Quest - a period of accelerated development with the aim of previewing Blender 2.8 this summer - the built-in game engine and internal render engine are to be removed. According to Ton Roosendaal it is planned that Eevee will replace the latter. You can watch a Q & A session with the developers about this and several other topics on YouTube.
Breakdowns
Seoul-based Macrograph has published a breakdown video for their work on the film Operation Red Sea. Watch it on Vimeo.
Interviews
The Virtual Assist has published an interview with Carlos Pegar, co-founder of Thinkinetic and product manager of the Max and Maya destruction plugin Pulldownit. Read it on the Virtual Assist (expect content aimed at promoting Thinknetic products)
Articles
There are many articles about human mocap found online, but how about animals? Here to redress the balance is a short post by Cinifex about Sara Cameron's recent experiences capturing motion capture from horses for an unnamed game project still development. Read it on the Cinefex blog.
Maya
Golaem has released a 6 part tutorial explaining how to use its Crowd Population tool for Maya to populate a stadium with an animated crowd.
Software
Richard Frangenberg has released a Prism, a new free pipeline management tool for animation and VFX that's compatible with Houdini, Maya, 3DS Max, Blender, and Nuke. In addition it can work with other popular tools including RV, DJV, and VLC for media playback; Deadline and Pandora for submitting to the farm; and Shotgun for project tracking. (more...)
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