The Price Of The VFX Overtime Death March
/ ves

vfxsoldier.wordpress.com An article is making the rounds promoting the 40-hour week and explains how long work hours have proven to cost workers and their employers more of their time, their money, and their health.

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An Open Letter To VFX Artists And The Entertainment Industry At Large Visual Effects Society 2.0‏
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http://www.visualeffectssociety.com/node/2425

As an Honorary Society, VES has led the way in promoting the incredible work of VFX artists but so far no one has stood up to lead the way on the business side of our business. No one has been able to speak out for unrepresented artists and facilities – or the craft as a whole – in any meaningful way.

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Fabric engine
/ software

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50qCYaCapi0

Fabric Software has discontinued work on Fabric Engine, its much-praised framework for developing custom tools for VFX and games pipelines, along with its supporting tools for DCC software.

http://www.cgsociety.org/index.php/CGSFeatures/CGSFeatureSpecial/fabric_engine?utm_source=CGSociety+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CGSNL%232+December  

a computational engine, that will enable web developers to tap into a computer’s multi-core power to bring multi-threaded performance in a web browser.

Used for Image/video processing – 3D Interaction (games, storytelling, interactive manuals) – Perceptual/Visual computing – Simulation (physics, crowds, financial, etc) – Visualization for use in medical, engineering, and oil and gas – Raw computation – Data mining – Business intelligence – Semantic analysis – Recommendation engines – Large-scale simulations – Other computationally intensive applications

OpenColorIO standard
/ colour, production, software

http://opencolorio.org/

 

https://www.provideocoalition.com/color-management-part-11-introducing-opencolorio/

 

OpenColorIO (OCIO) is a new open source project from Sony Imageworks.

 

Based on development started in 2003, OCIO enables color transforms and image display to be handled in a consistent manner across multiple graphics applications. Unlike other color management solutions, OCIO is geared towards motion-picture post production, with an emphasis on visual effects and animation color pipelines.