Tag: Houdini
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...
Spending Where It Matters: Tangent Animation Embraces Virtual Workstations to Focus on Talent and Product
With multiple Annie Award nominations for its work on Next Gen, Tangent Animation has emerged as a rising star. Tangent’s leadership attributes the company’s...
Workplace Trouble Boils Over in Bomper’s First Short, ‘Coffee Run’
Working in an office can bring with it a series of challenges, and sometimes the only thing that makes the day marginally more bearable...
Artifex Scares Up 200 Shots (and 10K Scorpions) for Nick’s ‘Are You Afraid of the Dark’
Vancouver’s Artifex Studios provided over two hundred sophisticated visual effects shots for the reboot of fondly-remembered frightener Are You Afraid of the Dark, which...
‘Hors Piste’: That Irresistible Alpine Humor
***This article originally appeared in the December ‘19 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 295)***
It has been quite a year for France’s École des Nouvelles...
ATK PLN Magics Up a Sparkling Heroine for Paramount’s New Animation Logo
Paramount Animation recently revealed its new logo clip, which introduces a magical tween heroine called Star Skipper -- conjured up by artist Christopher Zibach...
From Rockers to Walkers: Secrets of New V-Ray for Houdini from Ingenuity Studios
Chaos Group has released V-Ray for Houdini, a production-proven renderer built for high-end VFX and animation projects. Artists can now assemble their scenes in...
The Mane Event: ‘The Lion King’ Takes Pride in Virtual Production
***This article originally appeared in the August ‘19 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 292)***
One of the more surreal moments experienced by animation supervisor Andy...
Fox Renderfarm Backs Ambitious CG Fanimation ‘Dragon Ball Z Legacy’
A group of international CG artists and super Dragon Ball fans are teaming up to create a 3D reimagining of the iconic action-anime in...
Pixar Releases RenderMan 22.5 with Revamped Houdini Plugin
Pixar Animation Studios’ tech team have unveiled RenderMan 22.5, featuring a completely rewritten RenderMan for Houdini plugin along with several important new features and...
April Tech Reviews
Wacom’s Cintiq 16
What makes the new slimmed-down Wacom Cintiq 16 tablet different from previous versions?
Wacom recognizes that its products generally don’t price within everyone’s...
Po Bounces Back in ‘Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny’
***This story originally ran in the December ‘18 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 285)***
When Po, the beloved hero of the three Kung Fu Panda...
Building a Girl-and-Robot Dream Team for Netflix’s ‘Next Gen’
This Friday, Netflix will debut the new CG-animated feature Next Gen, written and directed by Kevin Adams and Joe Ksander, which features the voices...
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,...
Foundry Builds on Google Cloud for Athera VFX Workflow Tech
Timed to FMX in Germany, Foundry announces Google Cloud Platform as the underlying cloud service provider for Athera. Known in beta as “Project Elara,"...
‘At the Ark at 8’ Harbors with SC Films
London-based sales company SC Films (White Fang) has revealed its latest family animated feature At the Ark at 8 (3D), a French-German-Belgian CG co-pro...
Guru Explores ‘Space Between Stars’
Toronto’s hot animation hub Guru Studio (Paw Patrol, True and the Rainbow Kingdom, The Breadwinner) has unveiled the first trailer for its latest short...
Animation & Rigging Solutions Sweep Academy Tech Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that 10 scientific and technical achievements represented by 34 individual award recipients, as well...
The Stunning VFX of ‘The Shape of Water’
VFX Master Dennis Berardi discusses the stunning effects of Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water.
There are few directors who've loved monsters, creatures and...
A Dandelion Hopes for a New Life in Kevin Hudson’s ‘Weeds’
The recent anti-immigrant climate in the U.S. had a deep impact on animation director Kevin Hudson. The director of the new animated short Weeds...
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