On July 22nd, the third chapter in the current Star Trek franchise hit theatres. J.J. Abrams directed both 2009’s Star Trek and 2013’s Star Trek: Into Darkness, but for the new release, Star Trek: Bey ...

July 22, 2016

OXFORD, UK — Motion control technology specialist Vicon (www.vicon.com) is showcasing its two new cameras - Vero and Vue - at this year’s SIGGRAPH show in Anaheim, CA. The cameras join Vicon’s flagshi ...

July 22, 2016

LOS ANGELES — Thinkbox Software (www.thinkboxsoftware.com) has teamed with VFX producer Joyce Cox ( The Jungle Book, The Great Gatsby, Avatar ) to develop Vero, a new cloud-based application that simp ...

July 22, 2016

CHATSWORTH, CA, — JMR Electronics, Inc. (www.jmr.com) has released SiloStor, a non-volatile memory express (NVMe) SSD plug-in card that’s a full-length, half-height PCIe 3.0 x8 drive that adds 2TBs or ...

July 21, 2016

NEW YORK — Post FactoryNY (simgroup.com) has appointed Liam Ford chief technology officer. He joins the company with more than a decade of post production engineering and IT experience, most recently ...

July 21, 2016

BURBANK, CA — Picturemill (http://picturemill.com) recently created opening sequences for two new AMC television series. Led by creative director William Lebeda, the studio created the opening titles ...

July 21, 2016

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM — Nozon (www.nozon.com) and Chaos Group (chaosgroup.com) have entered into a technology partnership that enables artists to create pre-rendered, volumetric VR. Using PresenZ and V-Ra ...

July 21, 2016

SYDNEY — Fairlight.AU (www.fairlight.com.au), the Australian technology development company best known for its professional audio products, has announced that it is actively seeking a buyer for its pr ...

July 21, 2016

SANTA MONICA — Santa Monica and Melbourne-based creative studio Luma (www.lumapictures.com) has hired Jill Gilbert as executive producer of animated content. Based out of the Santa Monica office, she ...

July 20, 2016

PARIS, FRANCE — It is well known that rendering can be expensive, time-consuming and energy-hungry. During SIGGRAPH 2016, the French startup Qarnot (Qarnot.com) will present a new render farm that is ...

July 20, 2016