Tag: animation
ICVR’s Animated Primitive Candlemaker Short ‘Lightfall’ Is the Latest Unreal Project To Win an Epic MegaGrant
ICVR, a digital game development and virtual production studio out of Los Angeles, didn’t have to spin any wheels. No stale basic cable audience booed them and what possibly happened when they learned they had acquired an Epic MegaGrant for their animated short film, Lightfall, is that they felt relief and gratitude.
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The Art With Impact 2023-2024 grant open call asks filmmakers from animation to documentary to spotlight struggle in a five-minute film
Art With Impact holds an annual grant open call for its “Voices With Impact” grant of $7,500 awarded to ten filmmaking teams. The two 2023-2024 themes are films centered around “Cliques & Echo Chambers” or “Serious Mental Illness.”
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If only Mrs. Doubtfire had Metahuman Animator: early reactions to Unreal’s performance capture pipeline
Unreal Engine released the Metahuman Animator pipeline for facial performance capture the second week of June, and the reactions have been positive if not captivated.
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The speaker lineup at the 2023 VIEW Conference is like the Space Jam Dream Team of VFX and animation
With an early confirmed speaker list released, here’s a look at who’s attending the event and what you can expect from the 2023 VIEW Conference.
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Let’s get technical: The keyboard shortcuts for Autodesk’s Open RV
Whether you’re new to Open RV or a veteran of the commercial RV through a ShotGrid subscription, any user can benefit from RV keyboard shortcuts – especially those now familiarizing themselves with the new open-source version of RV.
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We now pause your broadcast to melt into the lush animation of ‘Elemental’
Elemental looks like it’s going to parachute down from a Pixar Animation Studios blimp and land to fill audiences with wonderment and baby tears. The week before release, here’s the speculation on why Elemental is already considered a visual achievement.
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Unreal Fellowship shows that during the 2023 writers’ strike, artists can find avenues to creatively grow
One of the expressive avenues currently open to artists on a slowdown caused by the WGA strike is the 2023 Unreal Fellowship in animation.
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The 2023 Annecy International Animation Film Festival prepares for another record-breaking attendance
The 2023 Annecy International Animation Film Festival will take place from June 11th to 17th in Annecy, France. Billed as “The world’s largest event dedicated to animation”, here’s what you can look forward to at the annual festival honoring the best in animation.
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Unreal Engine releases Faceware Retargeter and Analyzer courses for beginners who wish to master facial animation faster than a Batman training montage
Epic’s newly released courses for using MetaHuman with Faceware Retargeter and Analyzer can help you become an earthly god of character emotional expression in a few hours.
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Bring Down the House: NFL Super Bowl 2022 Commercial
NFL Super Bowl 2022 – Bring Down the House commercial was produced in Louisiana, and the 2-minute spot featured a cast of NFL legends – players, referees, coaches and announcers in a video game format.
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Wild Capture is bringing humans to life with innovations in volumetric video
We talked to Louis Normandin, the Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer for Wild Capture, who provided us with a deeper understanding of innovations in volumetric video, and how translating captured human performances into pristine data sets evokes an experience that is both surreal and vividly alive.
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Adam: A look behind the scenes of the real-time-rendered short film by Unity demo team
ADAM: Behind the Scenes videos reveal the magic behind this real-time rendered short film created with the Unity engine by Unity’s demo team.
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