Black Mirror

83rd Golden Globe Awards Nominations Announced

‘KPop Demon Hunters’ scores nods for best animated feature, best cinematic and box office achievement, and best original song, while ‘Arco,’ ‘Demon Slayer,’ ‘Elio,’ ‘Little Amélie or the Character of Rain’ and ‘Zootopia 2’ are all nominated for best animated motion picture; awards ceremony set for January 11.

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Union VFX Shares ‘Black Mirror - USS Callister: Into Infinity’ Breakdown Reel

The London and Montreal-based visual effects studio was the lead vendor on the Netflix series’ Season 7 finale, a feature-length sequel episode to the acclaimed Season 4 opener, ‘USS Callister’ released in 2017.

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Paper Airplanes and Tai Chi for Previs VFXWorld

Inside the VFX of Netflix’s ‘Black Mirror - USS Callister: Into Infinity’ Season 7 Finale

Overall VFX supervisor James MacLachlan helped deliver 600 shots that included teleportation, fragging and defragging, spaceships, space battles, and a gyroscopic Heart of Infinity immersive simulation, on the sci-fi anthology’s season-ending episode, a sequel to the fan favorite Season 4 opener, ‘USS Callister.’

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TV VFX Headline News

NVIZ Delivers ‘Black Mirror’s Season 6 Retro Look

The VFX studio created detailed graphics and compositing for three of the Netflix sci-fi anthology’s latest episodes: ‘Loch Henry,’ ‘Demon 79,’ and ‘Mazey Day.’

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‘We Lost Our Human’: Unpacking Netflix’s Largest Ever Interactive Special

Co-creators Rikke Asbjoern and Chris Garbutt discuss their new non-linear animated film about an indoor cat and dog who wake to find all humans have disappeared, then venture into the outside world for the first time to either save - or destroy - the universe; show debuts on the streamer today.

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People Headline News

EGG VFX Names Aled Rhys Jones Head of Department

Industry veteran led studio’s art team to timely delivery of projects, on schedule and on budget, during COVID-19 lockdowns.

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FMX Spotlight - Making Monsters: Framestore’s VFX for HBO’s ‘Lovecraft Country’ on Oct 7

Don’t miss Grant Walker and Stephen Nixon from the hit horror series’ VFX team present their visual effects wizardry, streaming live via FMX on October 7.

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People Headline News

MPC Episodic Adds 7 New Key Senior Team Hires

Since its launch this past January, studio has expanded quickly, working on a number of series, and will soon begin VFX production with Sky Studios on HBO’s ‘The Third Day’ mini-series.

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Animation Blogs

Stay Calm and Keep Animating

It’s the end of the world as we know it... but I have quota.

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People Headline News

Amy Wixson Joins Outpost VFX as Executive Producer

Industry veteran will be based in LA and service studio’s US and international film, TV and SVOD production clients.

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Outpost VFX Hires Ben Lock and Patric Roos to Further Global Expansion

Company expands its APAC footprint with two industry veterans who will lead the studios’ new regional visual effects operation.

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Henry Bull Joins Framestore as Head of Recruitment in London Office

Recruiter, formerly at Dneg TV, Double Negative and the Mill, plans to expand studio’s creative team on projects like ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ and ‘Spider-Man: Far from Home.’