In this Boris TV episode, Kevin P. McAuliffe works with a clip of the sun's rays peeking through the trees of a forest, and he would like to enhance the sun's light with a lens flare effect.
The AMPAS Board of Governors has voted the Gordon E. Sawyer Award to Douglas Trumbull, a visionary filmmaker who has worked as a designer, director, inventor and entrepreneur, for his lifetime of technical contributions and leadership in the motion picture industry.
France's Studiocanal has taken a majority stake in boutique TV production/sales operation Tandem Communications, the Munich-based outfit behind the Emmy-nominated miniseries The Pillars of the Earth and its upcoming sequel World Without End.
Absolute is following the addition of VFX heavyweight Dan Dixon to its staff with the hiring of two additional grade-A talents: Senior Producer Melissa Stephano and Senior CG Artist/Lighter Kevin Couture.
Seth Worley shows you how to create an awesome 2.5D comic book-style title/credit sequence.
Paramount Pictures and Cirque du Soleil jointly announced that the studio has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the Cirque du Soleil 3D feature film entitled Cirque du Soleil Worlds Away.
Denmark’s Egmont International Holdings has bought the half of Norwegian network TV2 it didn’t already own for US$350M.
International television and cross-media animation festival Cartoons on the Bay has extended the deadline for submissions for its Pulcinella Awards to February 1, 2012.
Presented by The 5D | Institute and the USC School of Cinematic Arts,FLUX: Digital Design and Worldbuilding for Narrative Media is a three-part exploration into design as the backbone of digital narrative media.
Guillaume Schiffman, AFC (The Artist), Jeff Cronenweth, ASC (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Robert Richardson, ASC (Hugo), Hoyte van Hoytema, FSF, NSC (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), and Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, AMC (The Tree of Life) have been nominated in the feature film category of the 26th Annual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Awards.
Disney XD will launch Marvel Universe, a dedicated Marvel programming block, with the new series Ultimate Spider-Man as its centerpiece, on Sunday, April 1.
NewTek announced that Carter Holland has joined the company as executive vice president of worldwide marketing, with responsibility for NewTek’s global brand image and integrated marketing efforts.
Disney Junior, a 24-hour basic cable/satellite channel expressly for kids age 2-7 and their parents/caregivers, will launch Friday, March 23 in the U.S., joining 28 other Disney Junior channels around the world.
Blur Studio was tapped by director David Fincher to create the opening title sequence for his highly-anticipated film, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
Universal will mark its 100th anniversary in 2012, and will commemorate its centennial with a yearlong celebration including major film restorations, a new logo unveiling, home entertainment offerings, theme park celebrations, signature events and a sweeping social media campaign.
Yahoo! has joined forces with with Playtone and Reliance Entertainment to bring Tom Hanks' multi-dimensional animated series Electric City to Yahoo! in 2012.
Director Mike Maguire is joining biscuit filmworks for commercial representation.
Disney Channel and Disney XD Present Phineas And Ferb – Time Shift Weekend Beginning Friday, January 13.
From MoCCCA press release:
Thursday January 12th, 2012 Admission: $7/ FREE for MoCCA Members
University of Creative Arts graduate Chloe Rodham won the Open/Drawn category of the inaugural Red Bull Canimation contest.
