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Jan 29, 2025 Blog

Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson Revive ‘True Detective’ Roles to Call for Filming in Texas: ‘Hollywood Is a Flat Circle’

Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson revive their True Detective roles in a campaign calling for more filming in Texas.

Jan 15, 2025 Blog

Here are all the nominees for the 23rd Annual VES Awards

The full list of nominees for the 23rd Annual VES Awards, honoring the year's best visual effects work.

Dec 21, 2024 Blog

SCANable Strengthens Existing West Coast Presence

SCANable strengthens its existing West Coast presence.

Nov 7, 2022 Blog

MoPho Studios announced by the leading VFX 3D Scanning Studio – SCANable

SCANable announces MoPho Studios - mobile photogrammetry studios that bring a full 3D capture stage to productions anywhere.

Oct 7, 2020 Blog

Pinewood Atlanta Studios, Home to ‘Avengers: Endgame,’ Rebrands as Trilith Studios

Pinewood Atlanta Studios, home to Avengers: Endgame, rebrands as Trilith Studios.

Aug 15, 2020 Blog

Fire, Prosthetics, LED’s and VFX: ‘Project Power’

Fire, prosthetics, LED lighting and VFX on Netflix's Project Power - behind the scenes of the film's practical and digital effects.

Jul 14, 2020 Blog

Packed stadiums, crowds, intimacy: Will VFX solve shooting dilemmas?

Can VFX fill packed stadiums and crowd scenes while productions shoot under restrictions? Industry supervisors weigh in.

Jul 2, 2020 Blog

How Georgia Hopes to Lead Hollywood’s Return to Production

How Georgia positioned itself to lead Hollywood's return to production, from stage space to safety protocols.

Jun 17, 2020 Blog

A Visual Breakdown of Pixomondo’s ‘WATCHMEN’ VFX

Pixomondo breaks down its Watchmen VFX - the carbonizing effect that turns Jeremy Irons' Ozymandias to gold, and the fun-house mirror shots.

Mar 10, 2015 Featured

Behind the Work: Garage Magazine Augmented Reality App

With New York Fashion Week FW15 in high gear, SCANable got in on the action with a dream assignment collaborating with The Mill, Garage Magazine, renowned…

Jan 14, 2013 Blog

How ILM Used Laser Scanning to Give Life to the Hulk in Marvel’s The Avengers

Industrial Light & Magic, a division of Lucasfilm Ltd. and now owned by The Walt Disney Company, forever changed the way movies are made and how we as the…

Nov 24, 2010 Featured

Microsoft Unknowingly Revolutionizes the 3D Imaging Industry [Kinect]

Being the bleeding edge technology geeks that we are here at SCANable, we have been closely following Microsoft’s adoption of Israeli developer…

Nov 3, 2010 3D Laser Scanning

Leica Geosystems launches a dedicated forensics program for law enforcement

Leica Geosystems launches a dedicated forensics program for law enforcement at this year’s worldwide 3D laser scanning conference. As part of its eighth…

Oct 25, 2010 Events

Leica Geosystems 2010 HDS Worldwide User Conference – Day 1

The conference kicked off this morning with some great presentations including a live preview of Cyclone 7.2 and its new pcE high speed visualization…

Apr 15, 2010 Animation

Exploring Point-Based Rendering in Pixar’s RenderMan [Point Clouds]

Creating animations of large point cloud datasets generated from terrestrial laser scanners and LiDAR has been an issue for a number of years. While it…

Apr 13, 2010 Featured

Create Floor Plans Automatically from 3D Point Clouds [Point-Cab]

SCANable is evaluating this promising new software and will follow-up with an indepth review in the coming days. In the meantime, please feel free to…

Apr 10, 2010 Featured

Digitally Preserving American History

It is great to finally see people accepting the benefits of laser scanning as a means of digital preservation. Below is an excellent article posted by by…

Apr 1, 2010 Featured

Laser Scanning the Hold of the Charles W. Morgan

In an effort to precisely document the measurements of the Charles W. Morgan, Feldman Land Surveyors from Boston, MA used a Leica Geosystems ScanStation 2…

Mar 25, 2010 Featured

3D Visualization Comes Alive [Holograms]

Three-dimensional space is a geometric model of the physical universe in which we live, work and are now entertained. Television manufacturers are quickly…

Mar 18, 2010 3D Laser Scanning

IBM Visualizes a “Smarter Planet” using 3D Laser Scanning Technology [LiDAR]

HOUSTON, TX March 18, 2010 Coign Asset Metrics & Technologies (CoignAMT), at the direction of Zoo Film Productions of Hollywood, CA, has helped produce…