Avid Supports Independent Filmmakers and Diversity

February 25, 2017, 08:10 AM

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WESTWORLD: VFX Breakdowns by Important Looking Pir

February 25, 2017, 08:10 AM

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Here are three VFX Breakdowns by Important Looking Pirates about their work on WESTWORLD...

FCG142 – Piper’s Pick TV

February 25, 2017, 08:10 AM

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Kids programming, although seen as a stepping stone for many in the entertainment industry is actually Adam Feinsilver and his daughter, Piker’s passion. So many of us take the time to really concentrate on what we love and in the process we don’t allow ourselves to do our very best.

Autodesk tools touch all 5 VFX Oscar nominees

February 24, 2017, 05:59 PM

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SAN FRANCISCO — Artists from around the world used media and entertainment software from Autodesk Inc. (www.autodesk.com) to help bring many of 2016's most popular films to the big screen. The company also received recognition from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, earning a Scientific and Technical Achievement Award (Sci-Tech) for the Arnold Renderer.

Guarding all my hard drives like

February 24, 2017, 01:42 PM

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NAB Show Announces The First Ten Startups Chosen F

February 24, 2017, 01:42 PM

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The National Association of Broadcasters has announced the first ten startup companies that will be participating in the 2017 SPROKIT program. Up to 30 emerging companies will be selected by industry leaders to participate based on their potential to offer real solutions to challenges in today’s evolving market. SPROCKIT is still accepting applications for participation and will ...

HPA Tech Retreat takes on realities of virtual rea

February 24, 2017, 01:42 PM

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By Tom Coughlin The HPA Retreat, run by the Hollywood Professional Alliance and SMPTE, began with an insightful one-day VR seminar— Integrating Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality into Entertainment Applications. Lucas Wilson from SuperSphere kicked off the sessions and helped with much of the organization of the seminar. Continue reading → February 24, 2017 The post HPA Tech Retreat takes on realities of virtual reality appeared first on Randi Altman's postPerspective.

I Started an Audio Podcast and So Can You

February 24, 2017, 05:53 AM

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  Guest post by Matthew Marteinsson   So podcasts… there’s a lot of them. I’ve been running one for three years now and feel we’ve got a pretty good listenership. Maybe you’ve heard of it, maybe you haven’t. It’s Beards, Cats, And Indie Game Audio, or #BCAIGA as I like to call it. (I’ve got a […]

The Technical Details Behind Facebook 360 Audio

February 24, 2017, 05:53 AM

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In a recent post on the Facebook engineering blog, Varun Nair & Hans Fugal explain in great detail the technical details behind Facebook 360 Audio. You can read the complete article here.

Valve Launches Steam Audio

February 24, 2017, 05:53 AM

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After acquiring Impulsonic earlier this year, Valve just released Steam Audio, a new spatial audio solution with physics based sound propagation on top of HRTF binaural audio for games & VR. The Beta of the SDK is available free of charge & currently supports Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android. For more details please visit the official announcement.