BURBANK -- ASIFA-Hollywood is now accepting recommendations for this year’s Juried Award nominations honoring career achievement and exceptional contributions to animation. Applications may be submitted now through Tuesday, November 16, 2021, via email at info@asifa-hollywood.org or mailed to the ASIFA-Hollywood offices at 2416 W. Victory Blvd., #245, Burbank, CA 91506.
The Juried Award recipients
Bob Pette, VP of NVIDIA’s Professional Visualization Product Group, has just shared a blog post highlighting that the company’s new NVIDIA RTX A2000 GPU is coming on a wide range of standard and small-form-factor workstations that will make it easier for designers to access powerful real-time ray tracing and AI acceleration capabilities.
Since its introduction
NVIDIA has just announced a major expansion of NVIDIA Omniverse - the world’s first simulation and collaboration platform that is delivering the foundation of the metaverse - through new integrations with Blender and Adobe that will open the innovative system up to millions more users.
Blender, a leading open source 3D tool, will now have
The Toy Association and the Good Play Guide have announced the launch of a new STEAM Accreditation Program for the toy industry that evaluates and certifies STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) products for children. Any toy company or brand involved in the manufacture, design, and marketing of children’s STEAM products is
Vancouver Animation School (VANAS) has announced it will open its first class for Brazilian students in September 2021. Prior to the opening, VANAS will host a free professional animation workshop with an online seminar format specially tailored to students in Brazil. The online events will take place on July 31 and September 4 at
Imaginary Forces (IF) has named Anthony Gibbs creative director. With extensive design and VFX experience, Gibbs has created traditional, interactive, and experiential projects for such brands as Apple, AT&T, Epic Games, and Google.
“Anthony is smart, talented, and kind,” commented IF co-founder/executive creative director Peter Frankfurt. “As a director, designer, and leader, he has
NVIDIA has just announced their new Isaac simulation engine is now in open Beta. The Isaac Sim creates photorealistic environments, streamlining synthetic data generation and domain randomization to build ground-truth datasets to train robots in applications from logistics and warehouses to factories of the future. Omniverse, the underlying foundation for NVIDIA’s simulators such as this new
After a rather tortuous, 6-year path that included a name change, a name change reversal, a release delay, and an eleventh-hour online release deal, Sony Pictures Animation’s The Mitchells vs. The Machines is now streaming on Netflix. Produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the dynamic, Oscar-winning duo behind Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the
Indian animation pioneer, Ketan Mehta and filmmaker, artist, and academic Professor Nina Sabnani will be honored at the 2021 Animation Masters Summit. The virtual event, organized by Toonz Media Group, will be held May 4-8 via Zoom with the theme “Embracing Diversity: Finding Beauty in Our Differences.”
Professor Nina Sabnani:
In recognition of her numerous contributions
Ted Hope, former co-head of Amazon Movies, is joining Arizona State University’s Thunderbird School of Global Management as the marquee professor of practice in the new Master of Arts in Global Affairs and Management in the Creative Industries (MGCI) program. The program is a collaborative effort between two ASU colleges, linked together through
