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‘La Calesita’ Director Augusto Schillaci Takes Us on a Special Ride
When Augusto Schillaci’s heartfelt CG-animated short La Calesita (The Merry-Go-Round) debuted at Annecy in June, audiences praised its heartwarming portrayal of an old merry-go-round...
Brent Forrest Introduces His ‘Samurai Frog Golf’ at SIGGRAPH
Among the many animated projects debuting a SIGGRAPH this week is Samurai Frog Golf (or SFG), a charming short created by director Brent Forrest...
Pixomondo Crafts Cinematic Worlds for ‘Star Trek’ & ‘Halo’ with KitBash3D
Pixomondo’s skilled team of artists across global facilities have crafted cinematic worlds for the most beloved and coveted IP. From Star Trek’s final frontier,...
Autodesk Rolls Out Next-Gen Updates to 3D Tools
Autodesk has unveiled a series of feature-loaded updates to its portfolio of 3D tools for artists working in the film, television, games and design...
‘Green’: Behind the Lush Photoreal Artistry of VES Student Award Winner
This year's winner of the Visual Effects Society (VES) Student Award, presented once again by Autodesk during the 20th annual VES Awards, uses richly...
Twin Pines Recreates a Spectacular Naval Battle for ‘La Fortuna’
Twin Pines, the Madrid-based digital post-production company, looked after the visual effects for La Fortuna, the new Movistar+ series directed by Alejandro Amenábar. This...
‘Lucas the Spider’: Spinning a Loving Web
***This article was written for the November '21 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 314)***
Back in November of 2017, animator Joshua Slice’s charming Lucas the...
August Tech Reviews: Autodesk’s Maya ’22, 3ds Max ’22, Nvidia RTX A6000 & Boris FX’s Silhouette 2021
Maya 2022
It's been a while since I’ve typed out a review of Maya. This is mostly because Autodesk has been doing a slew of...
Dream Farm Studio CEO Discusses Company’s New Projects and Priorities
We recently had the chance to catch up with Dave Ansari, the CEO of Canadian animation house Dream Farm Studios. The Toronto- and Poland-based...
Maya 2020.4 Marks a New Chapter for Bifrost
Autodesk rolled out Maya 2020.4 today. Designed to help artists and studios keep pace with the ever-increasing demand for content, this release unveils the...
Ringling Grad Jeremy Schaefer Opens Up ‘The Box Assassin’
Ringling College of Art and Design graduate Jeremy Schaefer’s action-packed new short The Box Assassin centers on an unassuming pizza delivery guy who unwittingly...
A Love Letter to Our Planet: ‘Here We Are’ Debuts Friday on Apple TV+
Irish children’s author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers’ 2017 book Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth is the kind of charmingly illustrated...
Nelvana’s ‘Most Magnificent Thing’ Promotes Positive Values
A few years ago, former president of Canadian animation studio Nelvana Scott Dyer and creative producer Pamela Slavin contacted Arna Selznick (The Care Bears...
Top 10 Tech Tools @ SIGGRAPH
Centered around the theme of “Thrive,” the 46th edition of SIGGRAPH is right around the corner, featuring the latest innovations in computer graphics and...
May ‘19 Tech Reviews: Titan RTX, Maya 2019 & Modo 13
Nvidia’s Titan RTX
Last summer at Siggraph, Nvidia made a huge splash by introducing its new line of RTX Turing architecture-based cards and its mothership,...
Magic Light Pictures Flies High with ‘Zog’ Special
Over the past decade, we’ve come to expect great things from the discerning animation production team of Michael Rose and Martin Pope of Magic...
Mikros Animation Scales with AWS Cloud for Paramount’s ‘Sherlock Gnomes’
From spinning up 2,000 instances in minutes to simultaneously rendering on 170,000 cores, studio taps Amazon Elastic Compute (EC2) and Spot Instances for 4.5M...
HouseSpecial’s Armadillo Love Story Makes a Date with Portland Airport
Portland, Oregon-based animation studio HouseSpecial and director Kirk Kelley have launched a new short about the love life of one of America’s odder creatures,...
The Highway Rat: He Just Loves to Steal Cake!
The new animated special The Highway Rat has all the ingredients of a classic animated special.
After producing The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child, Room on...
SIGGRAPH: Autodesk’s Next, Virtual Studios, VR & Moving to Mars
See previous re-caps and announcements here.
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Autodesk as ever has taken the opportunity of SIGGRAPH to highlight the next generation of its storytelling and collaboration...
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