In the world of motion capture, mo-cap suits for body capture and head-mounted cameras for facial capture have perhaps received the most widespread attention and use. But a growing amount of research and innovation is being made in hand motion Read more
Katana is a lookdev and lighting tool and as such it benefits from close integration with the applications it interfaces with most often, especially Mari for texturing and Nuke for compositing. With the new version 5 of the software, Foundry’s Read more
Unity has just announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Weta Digital, specifically its artist tools, core pipeline, intellectual property, and award-winning engineering talent. The Academy Award-Winning VFX service teams of Weta Digital will be known Read more
After winning an Engineering Emmy award last month, Golaem 8 has been released that introduces real-time simulation in Unreal Engine, facilitating interactive usage and Unreal Engine-based creation workflows. Golaem Crowd enables animating thousands of characters with advanced behaviors, including physics, fur, Read more
Boris FX has just released Mocha Pro 2022, the latest version for one of the best tools for tracking, rotoscoping, and more.. Mocha Pro is go-to software for planar tracking, rotoscoping, object removal, mesh tracking, and stabilization. And Boris FXhas just Read more
Renewed for a second season is the Marvel Studios production of Loki, where the trickster Norse god portrayed by Tom Hiddleston takes center stage and wreaks havoc with multiple-dimensional incarnations of himself. Digital Domain was responsible for 300 visual effects shots which Read more
The process of doing high-end facial capture is constantly not only improving but also becoming quicker and more efficient. One of the key papers at this year’s SIGGRAPH that illustrated this was Digital Domain’s Simplified facial capture with head-mounted cameras, by Jose Read more
Weta Digital has joined with SideFX to provide a new software service WetaH, which combines Weta’s proprietary tools within SideFX’s award-winning Houdini application. This is the second such deal Weta has done, having done a similar deal with Autodesk and Read more
Images courtesy of Peter Jackson Sir Peter Jackson, VES Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. Taking us from Skull Island to Middle Earth to the World War I battlefield to breakfast with the Beatles, Sir Peter Jackson has created cinematic experiences that Read more
Want some VFX Inspiration? Check out these 7 incredible compositing demo reels from professional Nuke artists. 1. Hang Yang – Houdini FX personal work Reel 2021 Hang Yang, from Vancouver Canada, did an astounding job breaking down these scenes. He Read more
