3D Training Institute to Host Live Recruiting Webinar with MPC
3D Training Institute live webinar featuring MPC global recruiter Christina Zervos and MPC animator Julien Deragon held on Wednesday, April 29 will focus on how to start a career in 3D animation.
Executive Producer Danixa Diaz Joins Oishii Creative
Following seven years leading business development at Imaginary Forces, creative, production and design industry vet founded representation firm iartists in 2012.
Hulu, Turner Sign Multi-Year Broadcast Agreement
Hulu to become exclusive subscription video on-demand home to popular programming from Adult Swim and Cartoon Network.
Framestore Delivers High-Octane Shape Shifter for Shell
U.K.-based visual effects house works with agency J. Walter Thompson to deliver a shape-shifting, oil and metal based creature for Shell’s latest spot.
PipelineFX's Qube! Helps Vision Globale Deliver Superpowered VFX
Render farm manager's ability to define custom job types lets visual effects studio manage complex multi-application workflows for blockbuster movie projects such as ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past,’ ‘Race’ and ‘The Colony.’
Snorri Bros Direct ‘Your World’ for Texas Health Resources
Custom 360-degree camera rig delivers innovative stereographic imagery.
2015 Bangkok International Digital Content Festival Kicks off April 27
The second Bangkok International Digital Content Festival will take place in Bangkok, Thailand from April 27 through May 3.
MPC Details Plans for FMX 2015
Scheduled events include “CG Creature Showcase – Monty’s Christmas and a Black Swan,” “Pipeline for Feature Film VFX,” “Commanding the Exodus,” and “MPC Motion Design -- From Small Beginnings to Big Ideas.”
Should a Short Stay Short?
A desperate Hollywood may be misguided turning short films into features.
New ‘Tomorrowland’ Trailer Offers Action and Robots Galore
Special presentation of the film -- featuring more than six minutes of footage to be introduced by director Brad Bird -- will screen exclusively in IMAX theatres beginning May 1.
BENT Slam Dunks Interactive Campaign for Ruffles
‘Epic Bracket’ interactive campaign for Ruffles includes fantasy players such as vampires, dinosaurs, sloths and manatees.
Artemple-Hollywood Expands In-House Creative Team
Richard Kidd is named Creative Director/Senior VFX Supervisor; Scott McCullough named Live Action Director & DP.
OptiTrack Enables Immersive VR at New York’s New Museum
Artist Daniel Steegmann Mangrané taps motion capture for the 2015 Triennial exhibition.
Cinesite Launches Feature Animation Talent Program
‘iAnimate at Cinesite’ apprenticeship program provides the opportunity of online training and a two year contract as a trainee animator with Cinesite.
Dolby Vision to Launch with Disney’s ‘Tomorrowland ‘and Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’
Disney’s live-action remake of ‘The Jungle Book,’ due out April 15, 2016, will also be presented in Dolby Vision, with more titles to be announced.
Box Office Report: ‘Furious 7’ Three-peats, Jumps $1B Globally
Universal’s ‘Furious 7’ wins its third consecutive weekend at the North American box office this with $29.1 million; jumps the $1 billion mark globally with $1.153 billion in worldwide ticket sales.
Warner Bros. Taps Patty Jenkins to Direct ‘Wonder Woman’ Feature
‘Monster’ director previously hired to helm Marvel’s ‘Thor: The Dark World,’ but exited the project over “creative differences.”
HP Introduces New Mobile Workstation, Storage & Displays at NAB 2015
HP DreamColor Z32x Display offers color-accurate 31.5-inch diagonal, 4K, 8-million pixel display.
Manson Joins Not To Scale Directorial Roster
Directing collective’s latest project -- an animated short that tells the fascinating story of Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh -- was made in collaboration with BH Los Angeles for Google Play and The California Sunday Magazine.
Disney Planning Live-Action ‘Pinocchio’
Peter Hedges (‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape’) is writing a script for the feature loosely based on the ‘Pinocchio’ story originally brought to the screen in 1940.
PlayblastVR Renderer for Maya Released
Renderer for Maya creates hardware rendered panoramic images using OpenGL or DirectX formats, allowing users to create immersive previz renderings of Maya scenes in fulldome, latlong, and cubic panorama formats.
Autodesk Tech Helps Create Immersive Experience for Björk’s ‘Black Lake’
Director Andrew Thomas Huang, Wolf & Crow and xRez Studio use Autodesk Maya, Flame, Mudbox, ReCap and Memento to create a new CG landscape and VFX for short film.
Silverdraft Unleashes Next-Gen Supercomputing Systems at NAB 2015
Devil and Demon computers run 20 percent faster than before and deliver screaming performance for DGx extreme gaming system.
AJA Releases CION v1.2 Firmware Update at NAB 2015
Free field-upgradeable software update brings additional image improvements and new features to 4K/UltraHD and 2K/HD professional production camera.
Blackmagic Design Delivers Fusion 8 for Mac OS X and Linux
Fusion 8 release opens the door to millions of motion graphic artists, broadcast designers, video editors, visual effects compositors and 3D animators.
