Google Spotlight Stories teams with Reel FX to debut new VR short that builds on the Mexican director’s past work from ‘El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rodriguez’ and ‘The Book of Life.’ Google Spotlight Stories’ latest virtual reality short, Son of Jaguar, rolled out this week on Google’s new Pixel 2 phone. A version for…
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Studio Daily: Previewing Qube 7 with New GUI, Postgres Database Support
Qube's Metered Licensing for Burstable Cloud Capacity Is 'Taking Off,' Despite Industry Inertia PipelineFX is previewing Qube 7, a major release that overhauls both the UI and the backend of the render-farm management software, at SIGGRAPH this week. Qube 7 will sport a new, unified GUI with a view that adjusts automatically based on a…
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Method Studios Returns to the Marvel Universe for ‘Guardians 2’
Method Vancouver and Los Angeles facilities deliver 550 VFX shots for the latest Marvel blockbuster, including key CG character sequences with Rocket and Baby Groot, large-scale destruction and spaceship crashes, environment design, and more. Director James Gunn and VFX supervisor Chris Townsend recently tapped Deluxe’s Method Studios to handle a broad scope of work for…
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A deeper look into the business of VFX
By MALLORY PICKETT MAY 4, 2017 Why Hollywood’s Most Thrilling Scenes Are Now Orchestrated Thousands of Miles Away The visual effects industry, and the “movie magic” blockbuster films spend huge shares of their budgets on, are being lured away from California — and into two of the most expensive cities in the world. In the summer of…
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