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UDIM support comes to Substance Designer

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Ruchika Saini

VFX professionals cheer up as no more working around the lack of UDIMs workflow in Substance Designer. Allegorithmic has announced Spring ...

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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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CG experts behind Game of Thrones and Rogue One highlight Siggraph Production Sessions

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Randall Newton

The annual Production Sessions give Siggraph attendees a chance to learn from the best in the business. This year’s Production ...

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Autodesk Flame update offers workflow improvements

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Randall Newton

Real-time GPU acceleration for source media, spline-based shaping, and more for the advanced VFX platform. Autodesk has released Extension 1 ...

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Siggraph releases lineup for popular production sessions

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Randall Newton

Insider conversations include Interstellar, Jurassic World, Ant-Man, and Tomorrowland. Industrial Light and Magic will celebrate 40 years with a special ...

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Kung Fury rocks the 80s action movie genre with heavy CG

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Randall Newton

David Sandberg scooped up $630,000 on Kickstarter and put together a hilarious short film in Autodesk Maya and 3ds Max. ...

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How Whiskytree runs its “Work Smart” CG pipeline

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Randall Newton

Successful VFX for films including Elysium, Thor: The Dark World, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier are among the projects ...

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Southpaw is making money by giving away digital asset management

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Randall Newton

The multi-purpose open source Tactic for M&E asset management is finding its market one free download at a time. A year has ...

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Fast-paced Siggraph Dailies celebrates excellence in computer graphics

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Randall Newton

The juried presentation is non-stop action as presenters have two minutes to show and describe their work. One of the ...

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Shotgun gives VFX studio asset management systems UI overhaul

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Randall Newton

Now that customers are using the complete line of Shotgun products as a subscription suite, the next step was to ...