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.

SideFX ships Houdini 17

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.

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Disney’s StudioLAB Advances the Art of Storytelling

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...

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LucasFilm shares Game Engine Vision

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

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