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Krafton’s PUBG Studios is used to being an early adopter. The team was at the forefront of the wildly popular battle royale video game genre when they launched PUBG: Battlegrounds in 2017. Its innovative game design has resulted in one of the best-selling video games of all time.

ViewScreen unlocks the bluescreen and lets the entire crew see sweeping oceans, endless skies, and Tamatoa live on set. When cameras rolled on Disney's live-action Moana, the set was a vast soundstage wrapped in bluescreen. The sweeping oceans, Tamatoa's glittering underwater lair, and boundless skies of Moana's world were still months away from existing anywhere but in the imaginations of director Thomas Kail and the crew. That's what made ViewScreen so powerful on the set of Moana.

The Academy Foundation oversees all educational, preservation and cultural activities of the Academy, including the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library, the Academy Film Archive, the Academy Collection and the Academy’s talent development programs. The Academy Foundation Board comprises 12 trustees who also are members of the Academy Board of Governors.

Krafton’s PUBG Studios is used to being an early adopter. The team was at the forefront of the wildly popular battle royale video game genre when they launched PUBG: Battlegrounds in 2017. Its innovative game design has resulted in one of the best-selling video games of all time.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted 16 students as winners of the 53rd Student Academy Awards competition. This year, the Student Academy Awards competition received 2,972 entries from 894 colleges and universities worldwide. The 2026 winners join the ranks of such past Student Academy Award winners as Patricia Cardoso, Pete Docter, Spike Lee, Patricia Riggen, and Robert Zemeckis.

ASIFA-Hollywood recently elected a new Board President, Frank Gladstone, and Vice Presidents Jerry Beck, J.J. Blumenkranz & Tom Caulfield. Rounding out the new Executive Board is Bill Turner as Treasurer and Erica Pinto as Secretary. “I’m excited to welcome our newly elected Executive Board,” said Aubry Mintz, ASIFA-Hollywood Executive Director.

MetraSCAN BLACK2 introduces a 3-in-1 architecture that combines C-Track scanning, stand-alone scanning, and probing in a single metrology-grade system. In C-Track mode, manufacturers can perform high-productivity inspection of large parts, while the stand-alone mode enables maximum portability and quick in/out deployments in tighter areas. And when paired with HandyPROBE, it supports probing inspections within the same workflow.

Foundry today announced that Academy Award-winning creative studio DNEG has implemented Hiero to support its editorial workflows. Part of the Nuke product family, Hiero combines powerful multi-shot management, conform, editorial, and review workflow functionality with the shared Nuke timeline. Providing greater visibility and control over projects from ingest to delivery, Hiero enables editorial and production teams to efficiently monitor progress and share feedback in context.

LOS ANGELES / LONDON — Sohonet, the global leader in collaboration solutions and connectivity for the media and entertainment industry, and BIND Studio, a leader in visual effects production technology, today announced a significant expansion of their strategic partnership. BIND Studio’s full platform is now available through Sohonet, giving productions a single, trusted route to every component they need to stand up and run a VFX pipeline — from the first day of prep to the last day of post.

Weeklong conference celebrates 53 years of advancing the state of the art in computer graphics and interactive techniques. The 53rd annual SIGGRAPH conference, the world’s premier conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques, brought together thousands of artists, researchers, developers, and industry leaders from around the globe this week at the Los Angeles Convention Center.