3D Animation

Favreau Talks about The Jungle Book

Mon, 04/18/2016 - 13:15 -- Nick Dager

Disney’s The Jungle Book is the first film released in the U.S. in Dolby Vision 3D and is available at two Dolby Cinema at AMC Prime locations: Empire 25 in New York City and Hawthorn in Chicago. In this video director John Favreau shares how the movie sets a new bar for beautiful visuals and the 3D movie-going experience. “Whatever hesitation people might have in going to see a 3D movie I think completely goes away,” he says, “because the brightness of the image, the quality of the lenses and the fact that…the glasses just disappear and you’re watching a crystal clear image where you feel like you just climb onto the screen is a game changer.”

Laika Receives Technical Oscar

Wed, 02/17/2016 - 12:01 -- Nick Dager

Laika was honored at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ Scientific & Technical Awards on Saturday, February 13 in Beverly Hills, California. Brian McLean and Martin Meunier received the Scientific and Engineering Award for Laika’s pioneering use of rapid prototyping for character animation in stop-motion film production. Laika, the animation studio located just outside Portland, Oregon, has produced three films, all of which have earned Oscar nominations for Outstanding Animated Film.

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Autodesk Launches 3ds Max 2016 Extension 2

Tue, 12/01/2015 - 12:52 -- Nick Dager

Autodesk has launched Autodesk 3ds Max 2016 Extension 2 for 3D modeling, animation and rendering. Building on 3ds Max 2016 and Extension 1 releases unveiled earlier this year, Extension 2 expands the software’s capabilities with new tools and workflow improvements that simplify and accelerate the creation of 3D assets for design visualization and content creation professionals.

Finding Inspiration in Yesterday for Tomorrowland

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 15:23 -- Nick Dager

yU+co’s main-on-end title sequence for the Walt Disney Pictures movie Tomorrowland presents a series of mesmerizing portraits of the future as imagined by visionaries of the past. The 3D animated sequence, which delivers the movie’s end credits, takes audiences on a breathtaking tour through a vast metropolis whose various iterations show the “world of tomorrow” as envisioned by successive generations of “dreamers.”

Oscar-Nominated Short Film A Single Life Relied on Cinema 4D

Wed, 02/11/2015 - 11:41 -- Nick Dager

The Dutch film A Single Life is an Academy Award nominee in the Animated Short Film category. Created by Job, Joris & Marieke, a Netherlands-based creative studio, A Single Life relied extensively on Maxon’s Cinema 4D as its central application to handle the complexities of 3D content creation including modeling, rigging, character animation, lighting, rendering and more.

The Foundry to Launch Live Sessions June 19

Thu, 06/05/2014 - 15:30 -- Nick Dager

The Foundry is launching the first Foundry Sessions with a live transmission from its London headquarters on Thursday June 19 at 7pm British Summer Time. People who can’t participate in the live event will be able to access a recording on The Foundry’s website afterwards. The Session will be a one hour digital broadcast including live Q&A via #TFsessions enabling participants anywhere to interact with guest speakers and specialists from @TheFoundryTeam.

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