Cogswell College Relocating to San Jose
600-student educational institution offering a unique curriculum fusing digital art, engineering and entrepreneurship, will relocate to a new site at 191 Baypointe Parkway in San Jose, CA.
ILM Tackles Marvel’s ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’
ILM VFX supervisor Ben Snow discusses the enormity, complexity and challenges of the work his team wrestled with on Marvel’s latest superhero adventure.
Cospective’s cineSync 3.6 Adds Shotgun Integration
Cospective and Shotgun join forces to offer VFX, animation and post studios a faster way of working with built-in Shotgun Review portal built directly into cineSync.
IKinema Plugin Gives Solver Boost to Autodesk MotionBuilder
Award-winning VFX house Framestore adopts IKinema Action for Autodesk MotionBuilder.
Cinesite and Image Engine Join Forces
New alliance gives the two VFX houses a combined staff of over 525 artists worldwide, with capacity for 675 at their studios in London, Vancouver and Montréal.
MPC Unveils VFX Breakdown for ‘Night at the Museum 3’
Led by VFX Supervisor Seth Maury and VFX Producer Laura Schultz, MPC Vancouver completed 250 shots for Shawn Levy’s ‘Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb.’
PipelineFX Intros Monthly Pricing for Qube!
New subscription licensing plan offers fully supported version of Qube! render farm management software for $15/month for commercial use and $10.50/month for educational use.
Xsens’ MVN Wearable Motion-Capture System Helps Push 'Ted 2' VFX to New Heights
Lightweight inertial capture suits allow production company MRC to lay down Ted’s performance live on set.
WATCH: VFX Supe Christopher Townsend Talks ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’
In this four-part interview from FMX 2015, Christopher Townsend, the overall VFX Supervisor on ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron,’ provides a detailed overview of the key components of the Marvel Studios tentpole.
Iloura Helps ‘Ted’ Achieve His Second Coming
Australian animation and visual effects studio completes more than 1,000 shots for Seth MacFarlane’s raunchy sequel, ‘Ted 2.’
WATCH: Scott Ross Talks the Flawed Economics of VFX at FMX 2015
In this two-part interview from FMX 2015, Digital Domain founder and former CEO Scott Ross discusses the major issues affecting today’s visual effects industry, including flawed economic models, lack of a trade association, studio wage collusion, and government subsidies.
Artifex Delivers the Futuristic VFX of ‘Continuum’ with ftrack
Vancouver-based visual effects studio relies on cloud-based creative management tool ftrack to deliver stunning effects on a tight deadline for Syfy’s ‘Continuum’ and TBT’s ‘Falling Skies.’
Marc A. Rousseau Joins Cinesite Montréal
With an extensive list of credits including ‘Jupiter Ascending,’ ‘The Best of Me,’ ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past,’ ‘Riddick,’ ‘White House Down’ and ‘Underworld Awakening,’ Marc A. Rousseau joins Cinesite’s Montréal Studio as VFX Executive Producer.
Encore VFX Envisions the Paranormal for ABC’s ‘The Whispers’
Led by Encore VFX supervisor and creative director Stephan Fleet, Encore artists in Vancouver and Los Angeles completed anywhere from 30 to 60 VFX shots per episode.
Box Office Report: ‘Jurassic World,’ ‘Inside Out’ Dominate ‘Ted 2’
Universal's ‘Jurassic World’ holds off Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ for the second weekend in a row; Seth MacFarlane R-rated comedy sequel ‘Ted 2’ underwhelms with $33 million debut.
WATCH: Warner Bros' Chris DeFaria Talks Feature Film Production Realities at FMX 2015
Chris DeFaria, Warner Bros. president of animation, digital production and visual effects, talks about assessing a film's viability, extensive industry use of previs and virtual production, as well as the studio's shock when 'The LEGO Movie' didn't receive an Oscar nomination.
Academy Invites 322 to Membership
The Academy invites 26 new members to join the Short Films and Feature Animation branch; 23 new members are invited to join the Visual Effects branch.
The Third Floor Helps Shake up ‘San Andreas’
Previs supervisor Todd Constantine talks previsualization of earthquakes, tsunamis and bursting dams on the hit disaster movie ‘San Andreas.’
2015 CG Student Awards Winners Announced
Winners of the 2015 Autodesk sponsored CG Student Awards are announced, with Gnomon School of Visual Effects named School of the Year for the second consecutive year.
Academy Approves Changes in VFX, Short Film Eligibility Rules
The Academy ups the number of eligible films in the VFX category to 20; Short films qualifying via a theatrical release must now have a theater run in Los Angeles County for at least seven consecutive days with at least one screening per day.
Winners of First iAnimate at Cinesite Apprenticeship Announced
Tim Clark and Karine Lafranchise are selected as trainee animators and will be joining the feature animation team at Cinesite’s Montréal studios to work on ‘Charming.’
Blackmagic Design Delivers Professional Results for Summer Blockbusters
Blackmagic digital film cameras were used to shoot scenes and stunt work in ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ and ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron,’ while Fusion Studio was used for compositing and to help create action sequences for ‘Spy’ and ‘Barely Lethal.’
WATCH: Kurtis Hough Creates a Captivating World in ‘To See More Light’
Immersive short from Portland-based experimental filmmaker Kurtis Hough combines animation and live action to create an awe-inspiring look at the universe.
Red Giant Launches Film Team Experiments
Monthly short form series explores experiments with practical and CGI visual effects.
animago Extends Submission Deadline to July 20
Recognizing excellence in 3D animation, visual effects, visualization and game design, the animago AWARD will be presented on Thursday, October 15 at the animago AWARD & CONFERENCE.
