VFX Supervisor Patrick Ferguson Joins MPC LA
VFX talent brings his creative expertise to the studio’s senior team.
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LOBO Expands U.S. Presence with New NYC Studio
Independent creative animation and design studio expands to new location in New York City led by creative director Guilherme Marcondes, art director Felipe Jornada and executive producer Luis Ribeiro.
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SIGGRAPH 2018: A Chat with Computer Animation Festival Director Larry Bafia
Ahead of this year’s SIGGRAPH Conference, Computer Animation Festival director Larry Bafia reflects on his experiences heading up this year’s edition, and dishes up some sage advice for first-time attendees.
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Emile Awards Now Accepting Submissions for 2018 Edition
Expanded two-day event running December 7 & 8 in Lille, France to include talks, master classes, workshops, exhibitions and screenings.
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Outpost VFX Appoints Maurizio Giglioli Head of CG
Visual effects veteran has worked for some of the world’s biggest studios on major feature films including ‘Avengers: Infinity War,’ ‘Doctor Strange’ and ‘Star Trek.’
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MPC LA Boosts Senior Creative Advertising Team
MPC’s LA studio promotes Morten Vinther to Creative Director and Jim Spratling to Head of 2D, with Daniel Seddon joining as VFX Supervisor.
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Unconditional Love: Julia Pott Journeys to ‘Summer Camp Island’
With a new series in production at Cartoon Network Studios, the ‘Adventure Time’ alum reflects on learning to collaborate and the benefits of selling out.
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Framestore Names Vic Lovejoy Senior VFX Producer
Exec brings extensive production experience in film, television and commercials to the company’s advertising division.
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Framestore Names New Joint Heads of CG
Grant Walker and Ahmed Garraph join the leadership ranks for the studio’s advertising, television and immersive entertainment work.
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Puppetoons Preservation Project Launches Crowdfunding Campaign
‘The Puppetoon Movie’ Volume 2 to include 25+ digitally restored stop-motion shorts by the Academy Award-winning George Pal.
Advertising Week Spotlights Thought Leadership and Entrepreneurship
Focus included talk of tech company consolidation and new plans for VR/AR in commercial messaging.
Mikros Advertising and MPC Join Forces in Paris
Advertising VFX companies will operate under the Mikros-MPC Advertising banner.
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Timber Wins Best Visual Effects Award at MTV VMAs
Creative team celebrates their first MTV Video Music Awards win for Best Visual Effects for Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Humble.’
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Heckler Teams with Artist Brooklyn Whelan for New VR Experience for Samsung
Sydney-based post-production and VFX house teams with Australian contemporary artist Brooklyn Whelan to bring fine art to Virtual Reality life for Samsung at this year’s Splendour In The Grass music and arts festival.
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Not To Scale & Elliot Lim Bring Fun to the Fair
Award-winning film and animation production company teams with director Elliot Lim and agency Campbell Ewald to deliver a whimsical 2D short featuring playful character design and a warm and accessible illustrative style.
Gentleman Scholar Helps Lenovo Bring Gaming to Life
New CG-animated cinematic trailer for Lenovo’s Legion brand via agency Ogilvy & Mather helps launch dedicated sub-group for gaming PCs.
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Framestore Appoints Josh King as Senior VFX Producer
Visual effects producer has overseen widely-recognized commercial campaigns for Three, Cravendale and Harvey Nichols, among others.
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Zoic Studios Promotes John Kilshaw to Creative Director
VFX veteran has lent his talents to a slew of major feature films including ‘The Avengers,’ “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,’ and ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.’
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animago Award & Conference Readies 2017 Edition
Thirty-three projects from all over the world nominated for animago AWARDS in eleven categories; international VFX experts set to meet at the animago CONFERENCE in Munich September7-8, 2017.
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Awesome Inc Brings ‘Big Chicken Small Movie’ to Life for KFC
New 2D-animated short brought to life by Atlanta-based animation production studio Awesome Inc pays homage to Marietta, GA’s beloved 56-foot-tall steel fowl.
Framestore Animates Detailed Hulk for Marvel
International Oscar-winning creative studio Framestore is showing its cross-platform capabilities yet again by bringing the powerful Marvel character Hulk to life on both film and commercial platforms, with the London film team and the Los Angeles integrated advertising team collaborating on the latest CG characterization of Hulk for upcoming Marvel Studios releases and Renault’s commercial “Renault Kwid.”
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Hulk Hammers Rogue Satellite for Renault (Director’s Cut)
The Framestore Film team in London and Integrated Advertising team in Los Angeles extend the studio’s big screen Hulk experience into director Jonathan Gurvit’s slammin’ new “Renault KWID” spot.
Freitag Launches Animated ‘Tarp Blanche’ Campaign
Five animation directors from Zurich to Argentina tell the Freitag story from truck to bag the way they see it.
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Peter Sluszka Celebrates Retail Whimsy with Stop-Motion Paper Animation for Amazon
Hornet director’s signature stop-motion papercraft returns for Amazon’s Prime Day 2017 with characters new and old.
Oscar-Winning Director Laurent Witz Helms ‘Cogs’ Short for AIME
CG-animated short from the director of the 2014 Academy Award-winning animated short ‘Mr. Hublot’ is produced by Luxembourg-based Zeilt Productions for agency M&C Saatchi Sydney and Australian non-profit AIME.
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