Welcome to the ACE-Lab Industry Insights page, containing selected industry news, inspiration, reference and educational resources related to animation, visual effects, motion capture, immersive media (VR/AR) and other topics of interest here at the ACE-Lab.
NETFLIX: A Robust Provider of ‘Upper-Tier’ VFX
This year’s Emmys reflect Netflix’s growing excellence in VFX…
A Look at the VFX for Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
A look at performance capture and VFX for Andy Serkis’ Mowgli…
Behind the Scenes at SIGGRAPH Asia’s REAL TIME LIVE
For the first time, Real Time Live (RTL) was included in SIGGRAPH Asia.
Google Earth Studio Is A New Animation Tool
Google releases Google Earth Studio…
SideFX ships Houdini 17
Highlights include Project Vellum, a new GPU-accelerated multiphysics solver, plus a new material-based fracturing framework, a new retiming operator for animations and simulations, and improved hair grooming.
Bell Designs 10 Times Faster With VR
Turning to VR, Bell created the FCX-001 in just six months.
Disney’s StudioLAB Advances the Art of Storytelling
From Walt Disney’s early hand-drawn, animated cartoon, Steamboat Willie, to the live-action feature The Jungle Book and the interactive experience Coco VR, The Walt Disney Studios has spent nearly 100 years transporting audiences to new and stunning worlds using...
Animated Children’s Series ZAFARI Springs to Life with Unreal Engine
Much like the way its unique premise makes it stand apart from other shows, ZAFARI is the first episodic animated series of its kind to be fully rendering in Unreal Engine.
Writer Aaron Sorkin on Story
This is great interview response by LucasFilm’s Aaron Sorkin discussing key elements to writing a good story …
LucasFilm shares Game Engine Vision
Lucas film showed some of the potential that realtime game engines offer for feature film visual effects production. More on the presentation on theinquirer.net