DigiPro 2025: where the future of VFX becomes present 🚀✨
Vancouver became the epicenter of digital innovation during DigiPro 2025, where VFX wizards revealed their latest tricks. From revolutionary shaders to simulations that would fool any tailor, this event showed that the line between real and digital is blurring more and more. 🎩💫
"At DigiPro they don't sell magic wands, but what they present comes pretty close"
OpenPBR Surface: the universal language of materials
This collaborative project between Autodesk, Adobe, and Lucasfilm ADG promises:
- Physically precise shaders on all platforms
- Unified workflow between studios
- Open source code for everyone to contribute
Tissues that deserve an Oscar
LAIKA and Disney raised the bar with:
- Techniques to simulate realistic tissues even in the smallest folds
- Efficient lighting migration between Maya and Houdini Solaris
- Systems proven in productions like Moana 2
Machine Learning: the perfect assistant
The smartest tools presented:
- Automatic segmentation of video for VFX
- Pseudo-Collisions for hair/skin without physical calculation
- Optimizations that save hours of rendering
On foro3d you can find in-depth analyses of these technologies and how to apply them in Blender, Houdini, or your custom pipelines. Because, let's be honest, we all want our next project to look like what was seen at DigiPro... without needing Disney's budget. 🏰
Amid so much serious technology, there was also room for laughs with the most epic bugs, like that fur that looked like it came from a teddy bear store. Because in the VFX world, even errors can be adorable. 🧸
As one attendee said: "The future of VFX is so bright we need sunglasses... virtual ones, of course". 😎