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🗣️ See you at Digital Production Symposium (DigiPro) on July 27: 'Multithreading USD and Qt: Adding Concurrency to Filament', 'Nucleus: A Design System for Animation and VFX Applications', and 'Developing a Curve Rigging Toolset: A Case Study in Adapting to Production Changes'.🔗 bit.ly/3VSWjON

🗣 Hear from Reuben, our Lead TD, at ACM SIGGRAPH for an in-depth course about mastering ‘USD in Production’ on 31 July! Based on real production examples, this course will expand upon best practices for pipeline infrastructure and integration 🔗 bit.ly/4bXckJc #SIGGRAPH

A fabulous keynote from Darin Grant of Animal Logic about the value of volunteerism, benefits to open source, and lessons he has learned over 20+ years of volunteer experience with ACM SIGGRAPH VisualEffectsSociety and The Academy

🗣 Join Antoine at @SIGGRAPH for an exciting talk on ‘Real-Time Refraction Shader for Animation’ to uncover our innovative solution to simulate light refraction in deformable characters' eye corneas in Autodesk® Maya®'s viewport! 🔗 bit.ly/3WvwtSe

Our CTO, Darin Grant, gave a keynote at Open Source Days, where he announced that ALab v2.2 is now available for download via DPEL. #ALab is a full production scene that includes over 300 assets and 2 rigged characters. Read about it on the #ASWF blog  👉 bit.ly/3A03BsK

To thank our amazing #Vancouver crew for all that they do, we threw an exciting mid-year party! 🎉What a glam-filled evening they had, dressed to the nines with a Hollywood theme! 👠

With the The Olympic Games underway in Paris, our crew jumped at the opportunity to participate in some games of our own! 💪 From cornhole to pickle ball, badminton to basketball, we saw the best of the best compete for the cup and, more importantly, bragging rights!🏅

Our #Sydney studio had an epic night of dancing at our recent mid-year party! 💃 We can't thank all our crew enough for everything they do, so a fun Hollywood-themed night out on the town seemed like a good place to start! 🎉

Curious to know how we make our amazing films? 🎓 Then it's your lucky day if you're a year 10 or 11 student in #Sydney because our Work Experience Week is back at the end of November! We have 10 spots available, so apply by the 4th of Novemberhere 👉 bit.ly/3AEcJ6I

🗣️Our L&D Manager, Mark, presented at the Animation Studies conference at UNSW last month. His talk, Animation and VFX at the Edge: Trends in Disrupting Current Workflows, discussed accessibility to tools, USD workflows, the Metaverse, AI, VR/AR, changing markets and delivery systems!

Did you miss out on going to #DigiPro this year? 🗣 Then check out this recap from the fxguide crew and discover a summary of what our crew spoke about at the conference! 👉 bit.ly/47nKyVW

Our crew had a fantastic time putting their film knowledge to the test with some Movie Trivia at our #Sydney studio! 📽

Last week, our #Sydney studio had the chance to slow down and have a mindful moment with a healing tea ceremony by ms.cattea, as well as check in with each other to ask "R U OK?" over a sweet treat!

Our #Vancouver Studio recently hosted a Houdini User Group event, with presentations from our talented crew followed by an industry social! 🗣 Thanks to everyone who attended, it was a great opportunity to catch up and learn something new! 👏 #Houdini

🎉 We're thrilled to announce that our animated feature film, #Leo, was nominated for outstanding colour grading at the #HPA Awards 2024! A big congratulations to all the incredible nominees across all the different categories—what a talented industry we are! 👏

Are you going to @sxswsydney? 🗣 Then don't miss out on the 'Cutting Edge Creators: World Building in #VFX and #Animation' panel! Catch our crew, Ingrid and David, chat with Fiona and Frazer from Industrial Light & Magic, and a big thanks Screen NSW for hosting! 👉 bit.ly/404nfyt

What a wonderfully creative team we have! 🤯 Recently for #Halloween, we hosted our annual costume competition and had some incredible winners from across our studios! 👻

🦎 We can't believe it's been a whole year since our favourite lizard, Leo, started streaming on Netflix! Time sure flies when you're in a classroom terrarium! Have you watched #Leo yet? 🔗 bit.ly/4ahj5FA

🗣 Will you be at SIGGRAPH Asia ➡️ Hong Kong 2024 in #Tokyo? Then don’t miss our presentation, 'Fringe Lights: Colored Penumbra in Glimpse' from Emanuel!💡Discover how we stylise shadows easily in our proprietary renderer, Glimpse, at our talk on 3 December 👉 bit.ly/4g4bjBN

How lucky are we? 🎬 The incredible Adam Elliot recently graced our studio to chat with our Animation Supervisor, Simon Pickard, about Adam's latest stop-motion film, #MemoirOfASnail! 🐌It was excellent to dive deeper into the film, and meet the main character, Grace, in the clay