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FMX features Phil Tippett in conversation

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Kathleen Maher

FMX summer program features interviews and presentations from the past and present. The FMX conference continues this year as a ...

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Aardman and Fictioneers launch an augmented reality Wallace & Gromit story

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Ruchika Saini

Wallace & Gromit: The Big Fix Up debuts at AWE 2020. Fans are invited to enter Aardman’s augmented world via ...

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E.D. films is first animation company to win Epic Games MegaGrant award

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Kathleen Maher

Makers of Giant Bear now working on three projects including a VR experience for 2020. Epic Games announced e.d. films ...

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Blender Foundation awarded $1.2 million Epic MegaGrant

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Kathleen Maher

The grant will contribute to Blender’s Professionalizing Blender Development Initiative.

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Blender celebrates its 25th birthday

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Kathleen Maher

New versions, new members, new enthusiasm The path of Blender as a company and an organization has never been straight. ...

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Adobe’s Character Animator comes to life

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Kathleen Maher

Making people and creatures for fun and profit. It was just a few years ago, 2015 actually, that Adobe introduced ...

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Visualize production data in Shotgun 7.6—introduces Production Insights

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Ruchika Saini

Consolidated information helps manage VFX, animation, and games projects better. Shotgun Software has released Shotgun 7.6, the latest version of ...

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Nukeygara unveils Akeytsu after beta testing for two years

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Ruchika Saini

Rigging and animation software, Akeytsu will ship on 25 October 2017. Founded in 2014 by animator Aurélien Charrier and CTO Yannick Rousseau ...

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Animated feature film Anchor’s Up cloud-rendered in less than six months

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GfxS staff

PipelineFX Qube and Microsoft Azure coordinated cloud rendering services, allowing Norwegian animation studio Qvisten to import and complete complex rendering ...

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Blender Institute strikes again with cult comic Agent 327

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Amina Saeed

A three-minute teaser is out for a forthcoming feature film based on the work of Dutch artist Martin Lodewijk’s classic ...