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Sony to wind down Pixomondo
Televisual reports Pixomondo will be wound down after contracts finish, with VFX efforts set to refocus on Imageworks.
Deadline 10 enters maintenance mode for studios
AWS Thinkbox will put Deadline 10 into maintenance mode on 7 Nov 2025: no new features, just fixes. Studios should plan migration to Deadline Cloud.
VFX-Shoot in the trunk
How do you shoot a film in the smallest setting imaginable, a closed car boot? Can you manage to maintain the narrative tension for 90 minutes and at the same time reinvent yourself visually time and again?
Open source plug-ins from Amazon Web Services!
Free plug-ins from the cloud computing provider AWS. Among them: Plug-ins that have already been used by VFX house Scanline for major productions such as Aquaman.
Birds of Paradise | VFX Breakdown
Goodbye Kansas Studios provides the visual effects for the dance drama based on the debut novel Bright Burning Stars by former dancer A.K. Small. An Amazon Prime feature film.
Version 22.10 of the Open 3D Engine has been released!
The new Terrain system ensures that O3DE is now also relevant for the implementation of large environments. Amazon's Software Development Manager explains how it works.
AWS Thinkbox makes VFX tools available for free!
VFX powerhouses such as Framestore, Pixomondo and Scanline work with it - and now you do too? Amazon Web Services Thinkbox makes its plugins available for free download.
Open 3D Engine 22.05 is released!
Triple AAA developers are listening up: The latest version of the powerful game engine is launched. Lumberyard engine was yesterday!
Germany in Baselight
A look back: In DP 01:2019, we took a look at high-end grading with Baselight. We also spoke to Rotor Film about HDR material and the Amazon series "Deutschland 86".
The Expanse | VFX-Breakdown
A day at the beach - with a bang! Will Spine VFX save our solar system?
Vox Machina Making-of Introduces Its Fantasy World
Critical Role’s making-of video introduces the locations and visual development of The Legend of Vox Machina with its art directors.
Amazon’s Utopia | VFX-Breakdown
The aluminium hats go into series production: conspiracy theories, nerd culture and John Cusack.
Unreal Build 2020 Examines Virtual Production Workflows
Epic Games’ free Unreal Build event brought studios and artists together to discuss virtual production, Unreal Engine 4.26 and Weta Digital.
Lumberyard 1.25 Beta Updates UI
Amazon Lumberyard 1.25 beta added UI 2.0, Nvidia Cloth, White Box tools, Script Canvas changes and more than 120 fixes.
Tales From The Loop: VFX-Breakdown von Rodeo FX
The visual effects breakdown for Amazon Prime's sci-fi series features robot characters.
Carnival Row | VFX Breakdown
Season 1 of Carnival Row: the Amazon Prime series with Cara Delevigne and Orlando Bloom in a VFX breakdown by Pixomondo!
Carnival Row Season 1 | VFX Breakdown
The first season of Amazon's Carnival Row is here, and Canadian studio Image Engine has released a new VFX breakdown.
New in Amazon Lumberyard: Simulated Objects
Amazon's free game engine gets its next update: With new PhysX and animation features.
Lumberyard with New PhysX
Amazon's "Lumberyard" game engine receives another update: The new beta version comes with changes for the Animation Editor, PhysX and more!
Specialist study on video software – take part and win!
Take part in the survey on video software now and win Amazon vouchers!
Data everywhere. But where is that file?
After asking around in preparation for this focus, we stumbled on a few studios mentioning something called Caringo – an Austin-based provider of storage tools, hardware, software and other things. Since it came recommended, we asked what that “storage thing they do” is …
Lumberyard 1.14
The Lumberyard Beta 1.14 supposedly has more than 200 new features, improvements and fixes.
ORCA: The Open 3D Asset Library
New open asset library: With ORCA, Nvidia, Amazon Lumberyard and SpeedTree provide high-quality 3D assets. Further donations are welcome.
Free Game Engine from Amazon
We may have left student life behind, but free, good things still delight us: the beta of Amazon's Lumberyard game engine is available.
Vimeo Offers 4K Streams for Everyone
From 2016, the video platform will offer all users its online player in 4K Ultra HD resolution and will also equip its smartphone and TV apps with adaptive streaming.
VES Handbook in a New Edition
The ultimate VFX handbook has been thoroughly updated for the second edition. The publisher is the Visual Effects Society.
Storyboard Tool from Amazon
Curse and blessing at once? Amazon Studios offers Storyteller, a free storyboard tool that does not even require users to know how to draw.
Amazon Brings Kindle to Europe
100-dollar surcharge for international customers - mobile connection free.
Amazon Unveils Large Kindle for Newspapers
The Kindle DX used a 9.7-inch display intended for reading electronic newspapers and magazines.
$100 Laptop Available from Amazon
Linux and Windows: dual-boot version to become available shortly.
Book Review: Web 2.0—Intelligently Connecting Websites
Mashups using Google Maps, Amazon, Flickr and YouTube with PHP and more.
Amazon Again Reports Record Christmas Business
Giving gifts via the Internet continues to advance: The world's largest online retailer Amazon recorded its best Christmas business to date this year. As the company announced, more than 5.4 million items were ordered worldwide on the peak day, December 10.
Amazon Talks to Vodafone About Cooperation for E-Book
According to a press report, online retailer Amazon is negotiating with mobile communications provider Vodafone over worldwide distribution of its reading device for electronic books.
Amazon.de ships more than 220,000 copies of Harry Potter
The long wait was finally over: Right on time for publication day, Amazon.de and DHL ship more than 220,000 preordered copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows free of shipping charges on Saturday.