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VR/AR/MR

The Big Interview: Ben Grossmann, co-founder and CEO of Magnopus

We interview Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor and virtual reality (VR) director, Ben Grossmann, CEO of Magnopus.

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Real time

Real-time production: barriers and opportunities

VFX post-production could be heading for a real-time future - but to get there, we’ll have to overcome a number of technical barriers.

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Design

The search for the next footwear design superstar

Find out what happened when 24 budding footwear designers embarked on the PENSOLE Master Class in Footwear Design 2018.

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Design

How New Balance Are Pioneering The Next Generation Of Footwear Design

Footwear of the future.

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Real time

A digested guide to real-time production

Advanced pre-vis, real-time production, virtual production… what’s the difference? We take a look at some of the techniques being touted as revolutionary.

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Cloud

Cloud technology: tackling the VFX industry’s cost prediction challenge

Predicting the project cost of talent and infrastructure has been one of the greatest challenges for VFX studios. We look at how cloud tech could be the answer.

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Film & TV

Finding freedom through deep compositing techniques

Deep compositing is a groundbreaking, time-saving technique that’s firmly taken root across the film industry over the last decade. Find out why in this article.

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VR/AR/MR

Exploring VR’s accessibility problem

In the second part of our ‘VR: It’s time for a reality check’ series, we explore the challenges around the accessibility of the technology - starting with headsets.

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Design

Architect 2.0: How technology is driving the industry

We speak to IBI Group - a global, technology-driven architectural design firm - about how they’re harnessing the power of new technologies to provide innovative services.

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Animagrad explores Katana lighting and dev tools
Film & TV

Why switching tools mid-project was well worth the risk for Animagrad 

Animagrad took an extraordinary step swapping out their look dev and lighting toolset mid-way through the project replacing them with Katana. Learn more about their success story

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Design

New Balance: pioneering the next generation of footwear design

Find out how moving from 2D workflows to 3D modeling is enabling New Balance to redefine what’s possible in footwear design.

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Foundry Trends 2018
Film & TV

Discover the big 6 trends that will define 2018

From AR moving to take centre stage, to VFX workflows being adopted by other industries, we take a look at some of the big tech trends that could take off in 2018.

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