Digital Domain’s DDAI Brings AI-Integrated Infrastructure to Visual Storytelling
Digital Domain’s DDAI is specifically designed to meet the demands of film and episodic production, combining the precision of CGI pipelines with the expression of generative AI.
Digital Domain has appointed VFX Supervisor and Art Director Jelmer Boskma bringing credits on projects including Star Wars: Andor, Marvel's Eternals and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
Autodesk’s Maya, 3ds Max and Arnold updates combine new AI features with improvements like a procedural RBD workflow for Bifrost and automated horse motion in MotionMaker.
Nuke 17.0 introduces native Gaussian Splat support, launches a new USD-based 3D system, expands machine learning capabilities, and extends its Machine Learning tools.
VFX studio JFX has expanded its senior creative leadership team with the appointment of Ingo Putze as VFX Supervisor and Jenn Epstein as Associate VFX Supervisor.
Digital Domain hired Pete Dionne as Visual Effects Supervisor, recognised for his technical expertise, creative leadership and strong record in digital creatures and complex CG environments.
Foundry’s acquisition of Griptape will help speed up its AI strategy by augmenting Foundry's AI-based features with orchestration capabilities for better customisation and control.
Katana 9.0’s native USD support gives lighting artists flexibility and control over lighting in USD workflows for scenes of any size, while maintaining data integrity all along the pipeline.
Maxon's new release of Cinebench is updated to the most recent Redshift Rendering engine and adds support for the new NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, and M4/M5 Apple Silicon processors.
Chaos Vantage's real-time feedback is now accessible in the viewport, speeding up layout, previs and lookdev for VFX and animation teams, alongside a new set of updates for V-Ray 7 for Houdini and Maya.
GenAI Generalist Sami Ling at Dimension Studio shares interesting ideas on the role of AI in filmmaking, particularly in virtual production, reflecting her experience gained at the studio.
Mari 7.5 has a new Multi-Paint feature developed as a collaboration between Foundry and Wētā FX, a Texture Transfer system, an expanded asset library and an Image Manager.
AEAF Welcomes ILM’s VFX Supervisor Jeff Capogreco as Speaker
Visual Effects Supervisor Jeff Capogreco is coming to speak at AEAF 2017 from ILM Singapore, where he has been working since 2014 when he joined the company as an Associate VFX Supervisor on ‘Jurassic World’. Most recently, he supported the ILM team in 2016 on ‘The Great Wall’ also as Associate Visual Effects Supervisor and then became VFX Supervisor on ‘Kong: Skull Island’. He is now working on post for ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’, releasing in June 2017.
He has a post graduate diploma in Computer Animation from Sheridan College and a 10-plus year career producing imagery for top feature films. Prior to ILM he worked at WETA Digital as a VFX Sequence Supervisor on such films as the three Hobbit films, ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’, ‘The Adventures of Tintin’ and ‘Avatar’. www.ilm.com
The VES held the 14th Annual VES Awards, recognising visual effects artistry and innovation in film, animation, television, commercials, video games and special venues.
Paul Butterworth is one of Australia's most experienced Visual Effects Supervisors, now working at Animal Logic. He will be speaking at AEAF in Sydney in August.