CG Empowers

CG Empowers Promotes Diversity in Computer Graphics and Virtual Production

01/09/2026

We ran a small experiment.

We asked AI to generate a rap song about teddy bears.
Lyrics. Structure. Performance.

It’s cheesy.
It’s awkward.
It’s kind of awful.

But it’s also useful.

Not because it’s good,
but because it shows what’s suddenly trivial to generate.

This isn’t about replacing artists.
It’s about understanding the baseline.

Want more? Join our webinar next Thurs at 6pm
https://hubs.ly/Q03-6yf00

11/24/2025

Struggling with clothing poking through your MetaHumans?
It’s not your resizing—it’s the underlying geometry.

In this quick clip we walk through:
✔️ Why poking happens
✔️ When to use material masks
✔️ When to use a body mask to actually remove geometry

If you’re serious about leveling up your real-time filmmaking, our Unreal Engine: Filmmaking on-demand course is 20% OFF through Tuesday.

5 Modules covering:
• Environment creation
• Animation & character performance
• Virtual production fundamentals
• Chaos, Niagara & advanced tools
• Cinematic rendering workflows

Train with industry-standard techniques and level up your storytelling.

https://hubs.li/Q03Vwj350

10/02/2025

We’re excited to share that CG Pro is an official selection at Silicon Beach Film Festival 2025! 🎉

Come experience Meditate Like a Dolphin 🐬 — a VR collaboration with Michel Pascal (“The Medicine Man”) that blends visuals, music, and mindfulness for mental wellness.

📅 Sept 10
🎶 Concert + 2D screening at 7pm
🎧 VR before & after the main event

✨ Tickets available online or at the door:
https://hubs.li/Q03L_RVc0

Want to hear more about our events? Join our mailing list 👉 https://hubs.li/Q03L_Qwq0

09/29/2025

We’re entering an era where creators aren’t just making content—they’re building their own form of broadcast. It’s not about replacing traditional media, but about creating a new layer of connection and community.

🎥 Full CG Pro Insights video: https://hubs.li/Q03L1hnV0

Excited to join Infinity Festival Hollywood -- the original Entertainment x Tech showcase. **October 9–10** at the Acade...
09/24/2025

Excited to join Infinity Festival Hollywood -- the original Entertainment x Tech showcase.

**October 9–10** at the Academy Museum & Sony Imageworks Miracle Mile Campus.

See you there!

🔗 https://hubs.li/Q03KcQ8P0

09/17/2025

Gaussian splats just landed in a major way. Superman is one of the first feature films to make them truly usable in production.

Meanwhile, Sinners pushed digi-double work to the next level with Michael Ralla, and even built a custom halo rig using DJI action cameras to twin Michael B. Jordan on screen.

The VFX pipeline keeps leveling up.

09/08/2025

We’re excited to share that CG Pro is an official selection at Silicon Beach Film Festival 2025! 🎉

Come experience Meditate Like a Dolphin 🐬 — a VR collaboration with Michel Pascal (“The Medicine Man”) that blends visuals, music, and mindfulness for mental wellness.

📅 Sept 10
🎶 Concert + 2D screening at 7pm
🎧 VR before & after the main event

✨ Tickets available online or at the door:
https://hubs.li/Q03HlszL0

Want to hear more about our events? Join our mailing list 👉 https://hubs.li/Q03HlyvG0

08/26/2025

🚀 Welcome to The CG Pro Show, a new live, interactive series about the future of computer graphics, AI, gadgets, and technology. Next Episode: Keeping it Real(Time) on August 28th, 11:30am PT

Your hosts bring decades of experience and industry insight:

🎬 Edd Dawson-Taylor — 20-year veteran of the CG industry and a recovering software engineer
🎥 Andy Cochrane — former Senior Vice President of The Sphere in Las Vegas
🔥 Special Guest Virtual Production Supervisor Jim Geduldick

This show brings the energy of industry conversations, conferences, and late-night debates straight to you. Together, we’ll dig deeper into the chaos of emerging tech, share insights from special guests, cover breaking news, and build the future of the show in real time — with YOU as part of it.

👉 Sign up and join us live https://hubs.li/Q03Fp_ht0

👉 Subscribe so you never miss an episode! https://hubs.li/Q03Fp-wX0

Unreal Engine 5.5 introduced the Texture Graph — but not everyone is using it yet. Powerful but overlooked, it's like S...
08/26/2025

Unreal Engine 5.5 introduced the Texture Graph — but not everyone is using it yet. Powerful but overlooked, it's like Substance Painter… inside Unreal.

At CG Pro’s Free Open Day next Thursday, our instructors (working industry pros) will:

✔ Demo the Texture Graph in real workflows
✔ Show how to merge AO, Roughness, and Metallic maps
✔ Share production-ready techniques for team pipelines

This is practical knowledge most tutorials won’t cover, especially for high-end pros. Join free + get your questions answered:

https://hubs.li/Q03FnpXw0

08/13/2025

CG Pro Open Day – August 14th, 5–7 PM (PT) - Theme: Flux Kontext and Runway

This week, we’re introducing Tim Riopelle—Senior Technical Artist with 10+ years in the film industry and leader of our AI Creative Development course.

Tim will walk through two key AI tools:

-Flux Kontext – keep your visual style consistent across concepts.
-Runway Gen 4 – create alternate shots, perspectives, and video while maintaining art direction.

📌 Free session, live Q&A included. Join us and explore new possibilities in generative workflows.

08/12/2025

🎥 “A Cinematographer’s job is simple: do whatever it takes to make the film the best it can be.” – Chris Barnett, Senior Technologist at Christie Digital

Whether that means shooting at strange frame rates or with an open shutter to capture more light data, it’s all in service of the story.

And as machine learning starts to feel like magic, leaning into its possibilities might just be the smartest move we make as visual storytellers.

Catch the full episode where he goes into a new way of doing virtual production utilizing Christie Projectors and Ghost Frame:

https://hubs.li/Q03BHR0v0

To learn more about when these podcasts go live and other events like our Thursday Open Day are happening, sign up for our newsletter on CG Pro's community page:

https://hubs.li/Q03BHQxZ0

07/16/2025

Grabbed a scene from Fab Marketplace—first thing I noticed?
Everything’s in the persistent level. That’s a major issue if you're working in virtual production.

For optimized LED volume performance, smart level structuring is key from the beginning. This is the challenge with hacking rather than learning a process/pipeline. - Tamara Abas, Pixomondo Operator and CG Pro Instructor

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