Weta Digital and SideFX Bringing Houdini to the Cloud
New WetaH collaboration marks leading VFX company’s second move to integrate top commercial and proprietary applications in a single cloud-based service.
New WetaH collaboration marks leading VFX company’s second move to integrate top commercial and proprietary applications in a single cloud-based service.
Leading visualization company shares a set of 29 revealing images showcasing their extensive work on James Gray’s outer space thriller, which stars Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones.
Casey Pyke discusses his company’s previs and postvis work on Plan B Entertainment’s thrilling space adventure, which stars Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones.
High-profile creative hires Emile Ghorayeb, Keith Roberts and Spencer Cook join Gilman to bolster studio’s global expansion plans.
Veteran compositing supervisor brings with her more than 40 movie and TV credits including ‘Ghostbusters,’ ‘The Jungle Book,’ ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ and ‘Avatar.’
All five Oscars best visual effects nominees used software made by the company, whose employees also were honored by the Television Academy and at the Sci-Tech Awards.
Weta’s four-time Oscar-winning senior VFX supervisor talks about the complexities of creating believable digital ape performances in the final film in Fox’s ‘Apes’ trilogy reboot, director Matt Reeves’ futuristic action adventure ‘War for the Planet of the Apes.’
Group of 20 nominees draws on two decades of experience and technological advances, delivering shots that were previously unimaginable.
Academy governors Richard Edlund and Bill Kroyer weigh in on how to acknowledge and reward the growing number of stellar CG character performances.
Animal-rights group rewards films for storylines positive to animals and use of CG imagery instead of live creatures.
‘Game of Thrones’ wins five awards; ‘Coco,’ ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ win four awards each; Samsung sweeps all three commercials categories; and ‘Blade Runner 2049’ wins a pair.
All five nominees for best visual effects for the past 10 years have used the company’s Quadro GPUs to create their work.
As the sole visual effects vendor on the final instalment of the prequel trilogy based on the 1968 science fiction classic ‘Planet of the Apes,’ Weta Digital is in the midst of a creative and technological renaissance.
‘The Breadwinner’ takes indie feature honor; ‘Disney Mickey Mouse’ and ‘Samurai Jack’ each score three awards in TV categories.
Leading up to March 4th, use our handy guide to catch up and keep up with AWN’s coverage of the films and creative teams nominated for Best Visual Effects at the 90th Academy Awards.
Studio entries ‘Boss Baby,’ ‘Coco’ and ‘Ferdinand’ face off against indies ‘The Breadwinner’ and ‘Loving Vincent’ for the Best Animated Feature Oscar.
Winners in 24 categories will be announced Feb. 13 at a gala awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Creative teams from 10 Oscar hopefuls present their contributions at the Academy’s annual Visual Effects Bake-off held on Saturday, January 6 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, CA.
Visual Effects Branch’s Executive Committee narrows down the list to 10 films that will be voted on for nominations for the 90th Academy Awards.
VFX Branch’s executive committee will the list down to 10 films that will be voted on for nominations.
Models supervisor Florian Fernandez talks about his team’s use of proprietary Manuka ray tracer to create photorealistic apes and more for Matt Reeves’ futuristic action-adventure hit.
‘War for the Planet of the Apes,’ ‘The Jungle Book,’ ‘Kong: Skull Island,’ ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,’ ‘Ghost in the Shell,’ ‘Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets’ and ‘Doctor Strange’ receive awards for feature film VFX at 2017 Australian Effects & Animation Festival.
Renowned Weta Digital senior visual effects supervisor to present the evolution of visual effects technology and artistry behind the final film in the trilogy at VIEW 2017 running October 23-27, 2017 in Torino, Italy.