Ingenuity Studios announced the appointment of Armen Kevorkian as president. A visual effects industry leader, Armen brings high-profile production expertise to a new role.
Chaos Group V-Ray for Blender now makes the V-Ray renderer available to Blender users, working in animation, VFX, archviz and game cinematics, from inside the application.
Tippett Studio, award-winning Animation and Visual Effects studio founded by Phil Tippet, announced the hiring of Marc Morissette as Visual Effects Supervisor.
ZEISS’ virtual lenses replicate looks and animated behaviour of physical lenses to use in Nuke compositing software for CG content, helping to close the gap between production and post.
Digital Domain contributed 61 robot builds and 859 shots to The Electric State, based on Simon Stålenhag’s graphic novel, developing the main characters and essential environments.
Industry veterans Sarah Essam and Jonny Vale join as Business Development Producer and Head of Marketing and Communications, building the studios’ reach and market presence.
Autodesk’s Media & Entertainment 2026 updates incorporate Golaem crowd tools, integrate AI and improve Flow-connected workflows for modelling, animation, FX and OpenUSD.
Nuke 16.0 has new features for compositing and review workflows that speed up review and reduce the time spent on repetitive tasks to make pipelines more efficient.
The new SynthEyes 2025 release adds AI masking for fast object isolation, customisable multiple-exports, a head mesh asset and a dedicated exporter for virtual production workflows.
Wētā FX has appointed VFX executive, Daniel Seah, as new CEO, after serving as CEO, Chairman and Executive Director of major VFX companies including Digital Domain for the past 12 years.
V-Ray 7 includes native support for ray-traced Gaussian Splats, and improves shading and texturing with OpenPBR compliance in Maya and Houdini’s new Volumetric Shader.
Zibra AI’s collaboration with SideFX Labs brings real-time volumetric compression to Houdini, optimising storage and bandwidth and enabling high quality VFX workflows.
AEAF Welcomes ILM’s VFX Supervisor Jeff Capogreco as Speaker
Visual Effects Supervisor Jeff Capogreco is coming to speak at AEAF 2017 from ILM Singapore, where he has been working since 2014 when he joined the company as an Associate VFX Supervisor on ‘Jurassic World’. Most recently, he supported the ILM team in 2016 on ‘The Great Wall’ also as Associate Visual Effects Supervisor and then became VFX Supervisor on ‘Kong: Skull Island’. He is now working on post for ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’, releasing in June 2017.
He has a post graduate diploma in Computer Animation from Sheridan College and a 10-plus year career producing imagery for top feature films. Prior to ILM he worked at WETA Digital as a VFX Sequence Supervisor on such films as the three Hobbit films, ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’, ‘The Adventures of Tintin’ and ‘Avatar’. www.ilm.com
The VES held the 14th Annual VES Awards, recognising visual effects artistry and innovation in film, animation, television, commercials, video games and special venues.
Paul Butterworth is one of Australia's most experienced Visual Effects Supervisors, now working at Animal Logic. He will be speaking at AEAF in Sydney in August.