Light Field Lab is partnering with OTOY, Endeavor, and Roddenberry Entertainment to develop a no-headset holographic display system, and ultimately a real-life Holodeck. Get the details at The Hollywood Reporter.
Cinefex spotlights Encore’s Executive Creative Director and VFX Supervisor Armen Kevorkian, the man behind the spectacle on hit shows like Supergirl, Black Lightning, and The Flash. Click here to read more!
Yahoo Movies takes a look at how Stereo D helped Peter Jackson make 100-year old footage look like new for his epic World War I documentary. Click here to learn more about how Stereo D restored, colored, and dimensionalized the century-old footage.
Have a look at what the LA Times will be checking out at this year’s IndieCade, happening today and tomorrow in Santa Monica!
Deluxe today unveiled Stage One, its new state-of-the-art 4,000 square foot color grading facility in Hollywood’s historic Glen Glenn Sound building. Read more about Stage One’s offerings in Variety.
Visit CGSociety to learn about how Blue Spill, a boutique motion graphics and VFX facility, used Autodesk Flame to create the trippy opening title sequence for Netflix documentary “Take Your Pills.” (And click here to see the sequence in full.)
We’re so excited to be working with IndieCade again this year! Check out their newly-announced festival nominees here and come by the event in Santa Monica on Oct. 12-13.
Another fabulous IBC is in the books! Thanks to our clients and friends for making this a great trip!
Catch all the action at this week’s Oculus Connect event thanks to Supersphere! They’re partnering with Oculus to live stream the keynotes and esports tournaments through Venues. Get a sneak peek in this Q&A with Supersphere’s Lucas Wilson here.
Have you seen The Weather Channel’s terrifying storm surge segment? Visit Wired to learn about how they made the animation using Unreal Engine.
We love FedEx’s touching new campaign, directed by Biscuit’s Noam Murro. Check it out as Adweek’s Ad of the Day!
We’re thrilled to see two great Deluxe talents on Variety’s Artisans Elite list: EFILM senior colorist Mitch Paulson and Method Studios VFX Supervisor Sean Konrad. Check out the full list here.
Epic Games kicked off SIGGRAPH by teaming with NVIDIA and Porsche to unveil the first-ever car visualized with interactive, real-time ray tracing. Visit The Next Web for more details.
Broadsign’s Adam Green recently talked about the rise of programmatic digital out of home advertising in MediaPost. Check out his insights here.
Great seeing our friends from AWS Thinkbox and AWS Elemental at this week’s AWS cloud symposium at the Skirball!
Big news for our friends at Deluxe’s Method Studios and Atomic Fiction – Deluxe is acquiring Atomic Fiction and rolling it into the Method Studios brand. Read more about the news in Variety.
Today Epic Games released Unreal Engine 4.20, filled with dozens of new tools and enhancements for mobile and cross-platform capabilities, VFX, digital humans, virtual production, mixed reality, CAD-driven enterprise workflows, and more. Get the rundown at Variety.
Thrillist goes behind the scenes with Method Studios to see how they created the stunning Quantum Realm for Marvel’s ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp.’ Read more here.
Method Studios’ creative director John Likens shares his insights on the future of title design in our binge-watching culture for Little Black Book. Read more here, and check out his work on the Godless titles nominated at Cannes Lions.
Breaking the industry model, Epic Games is changing the revenue share on the Unreal Engine Marketplace from 70% to 88%, and issuing retroactive payouts to all Marketplace sellers at the 88% rate. Read more about the news on VentureBeat.