Academic Tour – Making a Character from Scratch

Ongoing
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The Ziva Team is proudly reaching the next wave of creature experts with practical, beginner-friendly tutorial content. Throughout 2019, the Ziva Team has participated in a number of on-campus educational events, teaching aspiring CG artists and riggers how to achieve great results right away.

Discover how you can quickly make a physics-embedded, fully deforming feature animation character using the fast and easy single-volume Ziva VFX tools. Ideal for feature animation and non-anatomical rigs.

CES 2019 – The Making of The Meg | Intel Stage

January 8, 2019 – Las Vegas, Nevada

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At CES 2019, Executive producer Randy Greenberg and CCO of Ziva Dynamics Michael Smit uncover how the megalodon finally came to life in 2018 blockbuster hit, The Meg. After three different attempts over the course of a decade, Steve Alton's 'The Meg' novel was finally adapted into a film that achieved the level of realism and cinematic greatness that was unobtainable for so many years prior.

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According to Randy Greenerg, "The Meg had to be technologically flawless in terms of characters. If you saw something that didn't look right, you'd be taken right out of that movie. That's were Intel, Ziva Dynamics, and Scanline came into play. We had to fiscally manage this project and, in this case, we were able to come in on time and under budget!"

FMX 2019 – Anatomy Transfer Work Shop

May 1, 2019 – Stuttgart, Germany
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On May 2, 2019, the Ziva Team hosted a live Ziva VFX 1.6 workshop at FMX 2019. In the presentation, Senior Creature TD Andy van Staten demonstrated the power of Ziva Anatomy Transfer while Ziva co-CEO & Founder James Jacobs introduced audiences to the company and the future of character effects.

FMX is the largest VFX conference of the year. Creators from around the globe gather to discuss the creative developments of their productions and present cutting-edge tools and pipelines, real time technologies and business models.

Creature Legends 2019 –  Anatomy Transfer Work Shop

April 13, 2019 – Paris, France
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On April 13, 2019, the Ziva Team showcased the highly-anticipated Ziva VFX 1.6 Anatomy Transfer tools at Creature Legends 2019. Streamed live on Twitch.tv, the demonstration included a full Ziva VFX 1.6 walkthrough and a detailed Q&A session for all webinar & in-person event attendees.

Creature Legends, hosted by The Rookies & Gaël Kerchenbaum, is an open industry event and Twitch stream that features VFX experts from across the globe, all specializing in character creation and storytelling.

INTEL AI DEVCON 2018 – AI in VFX Keynote

May 23, 2018 – San Francisco, California
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From May 23-24, 2018, Intel hosted its inaugural AI DevCon event in San Francisco. The event is designed to connect the top minds in data science, machine and deep learning, application development, and research to hear the latest perspectives and see practical implementations that break barriers between theory and real-world practice.

Ziva Dynamics co-CEO & founder James Jacobs presented along side Naveen Rao, the corporate vice president and general manager of the Artificial Intelligence Products Group at Intel, to showcase the power and future of Ziva technology.