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Comment: We Were Told Sora Would Replace VFX by Next Year. Awkward.
OpenAI has killed Sora before the proposed Disney deal ever closed. One expensive AI showpiece is gone, while the wider industry still shovels absurd amounts of money into data centers in the hope that a business model will wander in and introduce itself.
FMX 2026 program goes live
The FMX program is live for the 30th edition, with RENO pipeline lessons, generative video craft, and European collab on Predator: Badlands.
FMX 2026 spotlights fire, fur and pipelines
FMX 2026 adds Wētā FX, Pixar and Illogic Studios sessions, plus new Premium Partners AMCRS, Accenture Song VFX and AYON.
Oscar animation directors go live online
Five Oscar nominated animation directors. One free Zoom panel. February 27. Register, log in, ask questions.
Mufasa heads to MPC
The Prequel of a remake of a animated movie, based on a Shakespeare play... and still worth watching! We got a Chance to talk to Audrey Ferrara, MPCs VFX Supervisor for Mufasa
Renderman 26 is here!
Highlights of RenderMan 26: XPU receives extensive updates that improve lighting support, camera control and adaptive sampling capabilities. Plus an interactive version of the Denoiser with ML and a stylised looks toolset. And the free, non-commercial version of RenderMan 26 is already available.
Here comes OpenUSD
USD seems to be catching on - Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk and Nvidia have launched the "Alliance for Open USD" together with a branch of the Linux Foundation
Flight of fancy | Retro article
Review: In DP 06 : 2014, the second instalment of Planes rotated its way into the inbound flight path. Disneytoon Studios increased the budget for software licences and personnel at the time - but does the film come close to Disney-Slash-Pixar major productions such as Frozen or Brave?
Trust is good, control is… QScan?
While gazing across the internet in search for DCC-related news items, we stumbled across a report released on
the 24th of October on postperspective.com titled “LWKS Offers Updated QScan for Automated QC”, announcing the launch of QScan 2023 – the most recent version of the automated quality control (AQC) platform, manufactured by Lightworks (LWKS). We got in touch with Daniel Roques, Product Manager for QScan to answer our questions about what improvements users can hope for with QScan 2023.
She-Hulk – Attorney at Law | VFX-Breakdown
Breaking (joke) news: clients represented by lawyer She-Hulk will benefit from nearly 1,000 VFX shots from Digital Domain!
Obi-Wan Kenobi | Breakdown Reel
VFX house Image Engine brings Jedi veteran Obi-Wan Kenobi out of retirement - and into his own streaming series on Disney Plus.
Prey | VFX Breakdown
Who will win the Predator-Alien versus Comanche-Indian duel? MPC provides the visual effects for the fifth Predator film.
Hawkeye | VFX-Breakdown
Are digital dogs the new cat content? Pizza dog Lucky blinks through the Marvel series Hawkeye - sometimes one-eyed, sometimes two-eyed. Fluffy VFXs with Image Engine!
The best fan film of the year!
Something to laugh about at the weekend: "E11 Standard Issues". Anyone who knows DP author Robert Hranitzky knows about his love of the Star Wars universe - now even as a fan film.
Loki | VFX-Breakdown
Industrial Light & Magic conjures up the powerful visual effects of the hit series!
Jungle Cruise | VFX Breakdown
If only Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski knew: Rising Sun Pictures plays the Amazon with wet VFXs.
Rediscover the Disney-Pixar classic “Upstairs” now!
In this wonderfully silly video, the flying house from "Upstairs" takes off on a musical flight of fancy - with Lego optics, created in Cinema 4D.
Download USD Island Paradise from the Disney film Moana now
South Pacific beaches are beyond your travel budget? Then take a trip to Motunui Island now with this USD download.
Monsters, Inc. Reimagined as a 1930s Cartoon
Pixar Remix retells Monsters, Inc. as a four-minute monochrome, hand-drawn-style cartoon inspired by 1930s animation.
Inside ILM: Creating the Razor Crest for The Mandalorian
Doug Chiang, John Knoll and ILM artists explain the design and visual-effects production of the Razor Crest spacecraft for The Mandalorian.
Six Animation Books Highlight Art, History and Filmmaking
A reading list surveys six books on animation artists, pixel history, Disney television, British animation, Mamoru Hosoda and decorative arts.
The One and Only Ivan | VFX-Breakdown
Dumbo's ears flickering: Pachyderms, silverbacks - and Bryan Cranston.
FMX Spotlight Explores the VFX Behind Mulan’s Imperial City
VFX supervisor Anders Langlands explains how the imperial city was created for Disney’s live-action Mulan.
The Elephant Funk? Inside the VFX of Dumbo
VFX supervisor Richard Stammers explains how MPC and Framestore created Dumbo, Dreamland and the film’s highly detailed digital elephants.
Inside Pixar Explores the Studio’s Creative Process
The Disney+ documentary series Inside Pixar presents stories from the artists and production teams behind the animation studio’s work.
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.
VIEW Conference 2020 Streams Online for Free
VIEW Conference made its 2020 programme and Business Innovation Summit free online, with 160 speakers led by Ed Catmull.
The Rise of Skywalker | VFX-Breakdown
What language does Babu Frik actually speak? Can he speak binary, like BB-8 and D-0?
The Mandalorian | VFX-Breakdown
Pixomondo saddles you up with the Blurrg. Don't forget your sun cream: The desert sun is blazing.
Emmys 2020 | VFX Winner
The Mandalorian won over the viewers - but did it win over the jury?
Mulan Featurette Previews Disney’s Live-Action Remake
Director Niki Caro and actors Liu Yifei and Donnie Yen introduce Disney’s 2020 live-action Mulan in a behind-the-scenes featurette.
El Ranchito’s Mandalorian VFX Reel Crosses Desert and Space
El Ranchito’s season-one Mandalorian reel showcases desert environments, the Sandcrawler and Razor Crest space effects.
VFX-Breakdown zu Disney’s Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
In this visual effects breakdown, a polar bear becomes a boy's best friend.
SIGGRAPH Machine Learning Webinar
Disney Animation's Rajesh Sharma presented a free nine-part SIGGRAPH webinar on machine learning and neural networks for informed beginners.
VES Honours Ray Scalice and Lifetime Members
The VES named Ray Scalice its 2020 Founders Award recipient and honoured Debbie Denise, Thomas Haegele, Richard Hollander and Eugeen Rizzardi.
Hybride Breaks Down IG-11 VFX
Hybride’s Mandalorian breakdown shows the design and hyper-articulated animation work behind bounty-hunter droid IG-11.
ILM Behind the Magic: The Rise of Skywalker
New Behind The Magic from Industrial Light & Magic: VFX breakdowns for “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”
Trixter releases VFX Breakdown for Captain Marvel
The Munich-based VFX studio Trixter recently released a breakdown for Captain Marvel.
PBR-enabled textures from the cloud
Physically based shading from the browser - BrainDistrict makes it possible! The software developer BrainDistrict GmbH from Cologne offers a software called Material-Z. A physically-based material editor that can be used in a web browser, but is also available as a download installer so that you can work on your computer without an internet connection. The material editor is based on Disney's Principled Shader. The materials created can be used across platforms via export functions. One thing can be said with certainty: this newcomer has it all!
Disney Gets Generous
Anyone who has always been interested in the creation processes at Disney can now take a closer look at some of the production assets. They have been released for research and education purposes and can be downloaded free of charge from the Disney page.
Back in the animago Trailer Saddle in 2017
Thomas Richter created our animago trailers and the event clip last year. And because he enjoyed the task so much, he took it on again in 2017. He has now completed his degree in “Digital Filmmaking” at the SAE Institute Munich. Here he explains how the course content prepared him for the film industry and what has happened in his career since then.
Trailer for Disney’s New Feature Film “Coco”
Anticipation is famously the greatest joy—and so we are already looking forward to November 30, 2017. That is when Disney's latest work, the animated film "Coco," opens in German cinemas.
Our animago expert jury 2017
There are just under two weeks to go until the submission deadline for this year's animago AWARD. Here we introduce you to this year's animago jury members, who bring CG experience and expertise from their work at ILM, Disney, Mackevision, Arri or Trixter.
animago Pictures 2016: CONFERENCE
The two-day conference programme at animago was packed with presentations by Industrial Light & Magic, Framestore, Digital Domain, Pixar, Disney Animation Studios, and many more speakers. Here are a few impressions from the talks.
Everything is so furry and fluffy here!
Today, General TD Brandon Jarratt from Walt Disney Animation Studios will speak about "The Art and Technology of Zoomania" at the animago conference. For all those at home: Here is an excerpt of the making-of from DP 02:16, for which we were able to interview "Zoomania" producer Clark Spencer.
Conference programme & last call for early bird tickets
So ... our animago birthday party is slowly coming together! Here is an excerpt of the presentations at the animago CONFERENCE: Speakers from Disney, Pixar, ILM, Digital Domain, Platige Image and many other well-known animation and VFX studios will be there.
Universal Scene Description Is Open Source
The USD technology that Pixar developed for exchanging 3D data across different DCC tools has gone open source.
Trailer for “Elena of Avalor”
Disney champions women in leadership positions and creates "Elena of Avalor", a tough digital CEO-to-be of Kingdom Inc.
Sneak Peek DP 05 : 16
Our forthcoming DP issue 05 : 16 will appear on 25 July—here we give a brief preview of the topics the editorial team is currently working on for it.
Free 3D Model from “Zoomania”
Officer Judy Hopps reports for 3D duty! Scott Sewel is providing the fully rigged model of the rabbit for Blender free of charge.
Keep Your Eyes Open and Learn!
We love the slow Flash! And now we can draw him ourselves! “Zoomania” Art Director of Characters Cory Loftis shows how.
Snow Simulation from Disney
As DP 03 : 16, published April 18, will feature plenty of digital snow, here is Disney's snow-simulation technique used for “Frozen”.
All These Critters Everywhere!
Of course countless animated films return to cinemas and screens in 2016. Especially popular this year: animals in the leading roles. A preview.
Only the Best for Animators
If your Christmas gift for an animator wasn’t such a hit: here are a few more tips to make things right again. You can bring one along on New Year’s Eve. Or simply treat yourself.
FaceDirector for the Right Mood
The new Disney Research Labs software allows facial expressions to be adjusted in postpoduction without having to reshoot scenes.
Pixar Landscapes
In this video, Wired explains how the CG landscapes for “The Good Dinosaur” were created using, among other things, volumetric clouds and Houdini water simulation.
“The Present” Wins 50th Festival Award
“The Present” was nominated for an animago AWARD in 2014, and the animated short film has already won its 50th prize from the Film Academy. We interviewed Jacob Frey about the project for DP.
“Zootopia” Trailer with a Sloth
The first trailer for the new Disney film “Zootopia” is here—and the office staffed entirely by sloths is is a real advance highlight.
Disney Calculates the Perfect Drape
With Multigrid, Disney Research is developing a method that makes digital fabrics and their behavior under gravity appear even more realistic. The informational video explains the innovative grid.
Findig Dory—First Trailer Surfaced
Pixar has fired out the first trailer for “Finding Dory.” But why is Nemo still a child? Shouldn’t he be at least in puberty by now?
Guide to Hyperion
Walt Disney Animation Studios has published a guide to its in-house renderer Hyperion.
The Good Dinosaur!
And the final trailer for "The Good Dinosaur," or rather "Arlo and Spot," which is coming in December.
First “The Good Dinosaur” Trailer
Pixar’s “The Good Dinosaur” will open in cinemas on November 26.
“Zootopia” Teaser from Disney
“Zootopia”, the new feature film from Walt Disney Animation Studios, will open in cinemas in March 2016.
A Disney Flop, a Universal Success
While Disney follows “The Lone Ranger” and “John Carter” with another huge financial flop in “Tomorrowland”, “Jurassic World” breaks every record.
Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur Trailer
The next Pixar film has a trailer – “The Good Dinosaur” seems to deal with the dinosaurs not becoming extinct. Hurraaaa!!!
Price-Fixing at ILM, Sony and Pixar Legal – Because of a Missed Deadline.
The lawsuit brought by employees of DreamWorks, Walt Disney and ImageMovers was dismissed – because of a missed deadline. Thus, a decision on price-fixing and anti-poaching agreements remains outstanding for the time being.
Interstellar and Baymax at FMX
At this year’s FMX, there will be talks on the feature films "Interstellar" and Disney’s "Baymax", as well as first insights into Pixar’s "Finding Dorie".
Baymax for the Home
Artist Alejandro Santell has made a free model of Disney's robot Baymax available on Turbosquid.
Disney Research Investigates Eyes
At Siggraph Asia, a team from Disney Research presented its technology for capturing eyes.
Change of Director on Pixar’s “The Good Dinosaur”
Pixar parted ways with Bob Peterson for the upcoming animated feature film and is now relying on co-director Peter Sohn.
Animate the Baymax Character with C4D
This tutorial explains how to animate the Disney Baymax character with Maxon's Cinema 4D Pose Morph tag.
Disney in 2016
Walt Disney Animation Studios has published its feature-film release plans for 2016. "Zootopia" and "Moana" will be the two film titles for spring and autumn.
The 12 Principles of Animation – Explained in Modo
Modo artist Brian Vowles explains the "big 12" in his favourite software. You should allow a little time — around six and a half hours.
“Toy Story 4” Is Coming
Sequels that are well received by audiences are a safe bet in the film business. In the animated-film business too.
Teaser for “Inside Out”
Disney and Pixar show the first excerpts from the new animated feature.
Former DreamWorks Artist Sues Major Studios
Bold: an artist formerly employed by DreamWorks Animation files a "Class Action" lawsuit against Pixar, Disney, SPI, Digital Domain 3.0 and Lucasfilm, among others.
Automatic Editing
Disney Research presented an algorithm at Siggraph that can automatically edit together footage from multiple cameras of the same event.
John Lasseter Receives Honorary Doctorate
CalArts is honoring a former graduate. And in the case of one as famous as John Lasseter, it is happy to do so.
A Brief History of Textures
FXGuide has published a detailed account of the different texture technologies: from UV to UDIM to Ptex – there is also an interview with Weta about its design history.
FMX 2014 – The balance sheet
FMX drew a very positive conclusion in 2014: around 3,000 visitors came to the Haus der Wirtschaft every day, including a large number of respected personalities from the industry.
Gravity, Spider-Man 2 and The LEGO Movie
Everyone is eagerly awaiting the final programme for FMX 2014 - here are some more heavyweight appetisers that will make a trip to Stuttgart worthwhile.
Annie Awards Presented
The 41st Annie Awards were presented in Los Angeles this Saturday. Included: animago nominee and Film Academy graduate Viola Baier with "Wedding Cake".
Nominated for an Annie Award
The nominees for the 2013 Annie Awards have been announced, and it was not only familiar Hollywood studios that managed to secure a nomination.
Lucrative University
Education pays off—"Monsters University" has proved to be a lucrative film project for Pixar and Disney. Box-office receipts have broken the 700-million-dollar mark.
Monster Uni
Review: In DP 05 : 2013, Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios brought the prequel "Monsters University" to cinemas. Could the hair and cloth simulation keep up with its predecessor film "Monsters Inc."? Animation is a hairy business!
Lovefilm Loves Disney
More precisely: Disney/Pixar films. Amazon company Lovefilm announced Disney Movies on Demand, although only for the UK market.
FMX: Pixar, Cloud Computing and More
Disney/Pixar's Saschka Unseld presents The Blue Umbrella at FMX, alongside sessions on cloud gaming and computing.
Disney’s “Paperman”
Disney's “Wreck-It Ralph” has an enchanting, Oscar-nominated supporting film that can now be seen in full on YouTube.
Star Wars 3D on Ice
Is Disney getting cold Star Wars feet? The 3D release of Episodes II and III has been postponed indefinitely.
Scotland at Home
Today, “Brave” is available on DVD and BD. Reason enough to ask Pixar Shading Art Director Tia Kratter a few questions.
Monsters University Poster
A newly released poster can already fuel your anticipation for the prequel to "Monsters, Inc.".
Disney Buys Lucasfilm
Darth Vader and Mickey Mouse—what a combination: Disney has acquired Lucasfilm.
Characters That Touch Us
Disney's 12 principles of animation – The final part of Steve Lambert's free workshop series deals with the emotional impact of an animated character.
25 Years of Animation Art: Pixar Exhibits in Bonn
To mark the 25th anniversary of the famous animation studio Pixar, which belongs to the Walt Disney Company, an exhibition will take place at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn from July 6, 2012, to January 6, 2013. Young and old can look through artistic works such as paintings, concept drawings, film sequences, documentary contributions, and modeled figures.