Previs Pro Releases Update with User-Requested Refinements
Software introduces Pose Mode, Hand Pose presets, and a series of community-suggested workflow mods to make storyboarding and scene creation more expressive and precise.
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Epic Games Releases Twinmotion 2025.2
With added support for Unreal Engine’s Nanite virtualized geometry system, the major update offers significant workflow benefits across numerous industries including Media & Entertainment.
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Previs Pro Gets Major Update, Free Access Tier
Previs Pro 3 adds new Animatics feature that incorporates motion, timing, and pacing directly into the visual planning process; Light Grade exits beta; new free pricing level allows users to generate unlimited watermarked storyboards, use up to three AI-generated props, and create one animatic sequence.
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Proof Shares ‘Heads of State’ Visualization Reel
The studio delivered both previs and techvis for the action-packed, 12-minute Air Force One action sequence on the Prime Video comedy starring John Cena and Idris Elba.
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OPSIS Partners with Utopai Studios to Pioneer AI-Supported Content Creation
Leading visualization studio launches new division to harness video-to-video AI tools for creator driven, cost-effective feature and episodic projects; shows in pre-production with the AI-tech company include ‘Cortés’ and ‘Space.’
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The Two Jakes Come Together for ‘Thunderbolts*’ Visual Effects
Using mocap, practical sets, and rigorous previs, VFX supervisor Jake Morrison helped director Jake Schrier create complex, multi-character action, stunts, and combat with authenticity and detail, using as much real footage as possible, in the latest Marvel Studios action adventure.
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Proof Shares ‘Wheel of Time’ Season 3 Postvis Reel
The studio delivered 35 minutes of visualization across all 8 episodes using a unique Sketchvis pipeline to create the ‘channeling’ of different powers before final effects were in place.
Animating a Post-Apocalyptic Love Story
What happens when a buoy and a satellite fall in love? Sam and Andy Zuchero share their process for creating avatars with stars Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun on their indie feature, ‘Love Me.’
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Alex Weber Joins OddBeast
3D artist will act as studio’s primary product visualizer by cleaning up CAD models, modeling products from scratch, and processing all client artwork files to be used on 3D models.
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Previs Pro Introduces ‘Light Grading’ Tool
New feature includes a library of classic lighting scenarios with over a dozen presets that can be customized or replaced entirely via in-built generative AI prompt; now available via the Previs Pro app.
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Halon Entertainment Launches New Glasgow Studio
Expansion to state-of-the-art facility with up to 250 artist positions grows the company’s international footprint and ability to take on more ambitious work; expansion also planned at Los Angeles headquarters.
From Start to Finish, Framestore Visualizes ‘Wicked’
Visualization supervisors Christopher McDonald and Maike Fiene discuss their teams’ expansive and extensive efforts, from previs to postvis and final, including helping devise camera angles and character movements, on Nessarose Thropp’s levitating wheelchair, Elphaba taking flight, and Doctor Dillamond sequences, on Jon M. Chu’s hit musical adventure.
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SIGGRAPH Asia 2025
Begins: December 15, 2025
The 18th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia will be held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre December 15-18, 2025.
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Proof Shares ‘Something in the Water’ Previs Reel
The leading visualization studio’s work involved animating and editing a number of sequences, including a boat crash and shark chase, for the StudioCanal film about a group of friends who meet up for a wedding in the Caribbean and become stranded at sea after their boat sinks.
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Paul Lambert Returns to Arrakis for ‘Dune: Part Two’ VFX
The Oscar-winning VFX supervisor once again teams up with filmmaker Denis Villeneuve for the second of three adaptations of Frank Herbert’s seminal sci-fi tome, shooting practical wherever possible to capture the right desert light, shadow and tone.
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Building the World of ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’
From the Minotaur and the Chimera to the Underworld and the pit of Tartarus, Senior VFX Supervisor Erik Henry talks about what it took to create the mythological universe for the hit Disney+ series, now streaming.
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RADiCAL Introduces Comprehensive Pre-Production Solution
‘RADiCAL for Pre-Production’ includes extensive new features that enable teams to create, simulate, and iterate on scenes and set design with real-time 3D visualization.
Proof Shares ‘Damsel’ Previs, Postvis Reels
The leading visualization studio’s work focused on the cave sequences and all scenes ‘dragon related’ on Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and Netflix’s fantasy adventure about a dutiful ‘damsel’ who marries a handsome prince, only to find herself trapped inside a cave with a fire-breathing dragon to settle an ancient debt.
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The ‘Imperfect’ Visual Effects that Make ‘Ahsoka’ Shine
Award-winning VFX supervisor Richard Bluff talks about his work delivering more than 4,000 shots on the Disney+ Star Wars spinoff that has just been nominated for five Emmy Awards.
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Expert VFX Play a Supporting Role on ‘The Fall Guy’
Visual Effects Supervisor Matt Sloan, handling as much in-camera as possible so digital effects didn’t overshadow the tremendous stunt work, helped deliver 1,400 VFX shots working with Framestore, Cinesite, Rising Sun Pictures and Crafty Apes, as well as extensive postvis by OPSIS, on David Leitch’s behind-the-scenes ode to stuntmen, starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt.
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SIGGRAPH Asia 2024
Begins: December 3, 2024
The annual computer graphics conference and exhibition comes to Tokyo, Japan December 3 – 6; will once again the Electronic Theater and Animation Theater will celebrate the best in computer animation.
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Proof Shares ‘Dashing Through the Snow’ Postvis Reel
Leading visualization studio helps create balance between magical wonder, grounded, convincing behaviors, and funny antics for Disney’s holiday adventure film, contributing to several sequences including the final reindeer battle.
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Virtual Production Studio Dimension Selects AWS and Arch Platform
On heels of signing joint venture with DNEG to launch DNEG 360 division, the company announced its choice for cloud and technology platforms to scale global visualization, virtual production and content creation services.
3Dconnexion Releases SpaceMouse Wireless Bluetooth Edition
Device brings increased functionality and ease of operation to how users navigate, sculpt, and design in 3D applications.
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USC School of Cinematic Arts’ Ganek Immersive Studio Inaugural Showcase Set
The program review, featuring projects in production and development at the state-of-the-art studio, will be held on the SCA campus this coming Thursday, April 4.
