MONTREAL — Rodeo FX received an Emmy Award for its visual effects contributions to HBO’s Game of Thrones. Acting as one of the main VFX vendors on the series, the Montreal-based company created a tota ...
August 26, 2014
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - Google has acquired Zync Inc., the developer of the Zync Render cloud-based rendering solution. A visual effects cloud rendering technology, Zync Render has been used on features s ...
NEW YORK — Last week, I received an “Anonymous” email with a letter attached to it that was said to have been prepared by a core group of former Look Effects employees. The visual effects studio, whic ...
August 21, 2014
LONDON – Imagination Technologies (www.imgtec.com) showed their PowerVR graphics, GPU compute and ray tracing technologies at the recent SIGGRAPH show in Vancouver. The company’s solutions span across ...
August 20, 2014
BEVERLY HILLS — The Scientific and Technical Awards Committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (www.oscars.org) announced that 21 scientific and technical achievements have been sele ...
August 18, 2014
CHENNAI, INDIA — Gemini FX, the Chennai-based digital film operation that’s part of the Gemini Industries and Imaging group, has purchased three turnkey Quantel (www.quantel.com) Pablo Rio 4K color an ...
LOS ANGELES — On Saturday, the Television Academy presented the 2014 Creative Arts Emmy Awards for programs and individual achievements. The event took place at the Nokia Theatre LA Live in Los Angele ...
DENVER — Motion capture technology specialist Vicon (www.vicon.com) launched several new products at this year’s SIGGRAPH show in Vancouver. Pegasus and Pegasus Advanced is a new set of retargeting an ...
August 13, 2014
ROUND ROCK, TX — At the SIGGRAPH show, Dell (www.dell.com) introduced new members of its workstation line. The Dell Precision Tower 5810, Tower 7810, Tower 7910, and Rack 7910 are designed to address ...
SAN JOSE, CA — Nvidia (www.nvidia.com) is now shipping its Visual Computing Appliance (VCA) which dramatically accelerates ray tracing, enabling users to interact with computer models of such high vis ...