‘Animal Behaviour’ Leads Animation Nominees for Canadian Screen Awards
Winners will be announced during Canadian Screen Week running March 25-31 in Toronto.
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The 17th Annual VES Awards: Reactions, Photos, Jokes & More Jokes
Take a closer look at the winners of the 17th annual VES Awards, both onstage and off, at this year’s Visual Effects Society gala.
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Computer Graphics in the Spotlight at 2019 Academy Sci-Tech Awards
Adobe After Effects and Photoshop, the Medusa Performance Capture System, and -- for the first time -- Maxon Cinema 4D among nine scientific & technical achievements to be honored at this year’s annual presentation.
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SIGGRAPH 2019 Set to Thrive in 46th Edition
Submissions open for summer 46th annual computer graphics conference running July 28 through August 1 in Los Angeles.
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‘Black Panther,’ ‘Isle of Dogs’ Among Motion Picture Winners at 23rd ADG Awards
‘Mary Poppins Returns’ director Rob Marshall honored with the Cinematic Imagery Award.
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‘Infinity War,’ ‘Into the Spider‐Verse’ & ‘Lost in Space’ Top 17th Annual VES Awards
‘Avengers: Infinity War’ garners top feature film with four awards; ‘Spider‐Man: Into the Spider‐Verse’ is top animated feature film; ‘Lost in Space’ leads broadcast wins.
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Visual Effects Society Announces 2019 Board of Directors
Mike Chambers returns as Board Chair; Brooke Lyndon-Stanford is first elected officer from outside North America.
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FMX 2019 Announces ‘Spider-Man’ Talk, Indie Animation Track and ‘CatPlanets’ Trailer Reveal
Sony Pictures Imageworks VFX supervisor Danny Dimian will present work on hit animated feature; animators Sophie Koto Gate, Michael Frei, Boris Labbé and Tomek Popakul will share their distinctive work.
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Meet the AIs
Chinese TV hosts introduce their virtual replacements.
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On the Road to the 91st Oscars: The Visual Effects Nominees
Leading up to Oscar Sunday on February 24th, catch up on AWN’s coverage of the films and creative teams nominated for Best Visual Effects at the 91st Academy Awards.
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Warner Bros. Developing Sequel for ‘Detective Pikachu’
‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ and ‘Jump Street 22’ writer Oren Uziel tapped to write the screenplay.
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Google Cloud, Sony Pictures Imageworks Collaborate on Open-Source OpenCue
Open-source, high-performance render manager based on Sony’s in-house queuing system, Cue 3, is purpose-built for the needs of the visual effects and animation industry.
WATCH: New ‘Alita: Battle Angel’ Mirror Punch Clip Sheds Light on Hero’s Past
James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez’s long-awaited epic sci-fi thriller opens in theaters February 14.
VFX Supervisor João Sita Joins Framestore Montreal
Veteran artist previously earned VES Award and Primetime Emmy nominations for work on Netflix series ‘Lost in Space.’
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Inaugural 2019 BRIC Talent and Innovation Summit Set for February 9
First-ever all-day interactive summit aims to support the next generation of creative leaders and industry disrupters.
Epic Games Acquires Digital Humans Technology Developer 3Lateral
Serbia-based group will lead Epic and Unreal Engine’s worldwide digital human efforts.
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Adobe Acquires French 3D Creative Tool Developer Allegorithmic
Substance design software, used in 3D editing and authoring for games and entertainment production, is coming to Creative Cloud.
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91st Oscars: Disney Earns Best Picture Nomination for ‘Black Panther’
Blockbuster Marvel feature that almost launched its own Popular Film category at the Oscars racks up seven Academy nods, including a groundbreaking nomination for production designer Hannah Beachler.
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91st Academy Awards: Animated Feature, Short Film and VFX Oscar Nominees React
Contenders in the animated feature, animated short film and visual effects categories share their initial reactions to their nominations for Oscar gold.
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Nominations Announced for 91st Academy Awards
Brad Bird’s ‘Incredibles 2,’ We Anderson’s ‘Isle of Dogs,’ Mamoru Hosoda’s ‘Mirai, Disney’s ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet,’ and Sony’s ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ receive nominations for Best Animated Feature.
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Go Behind the Scenes of ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ at SPARK FX 2019
Special Friday night program featuring Sony Pictures Animation’s hit animated superhero adventure highlights annual visual and digital effects conference and career fair coming February 8-10 in Vancouver.
MPSE Announces Nominees for 66th Golden Reel Awards
Animation and games featured in seven outstanding achievement in sound editing categories, while VFX-driven film and TV take spots in eight others.
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ILM’s Rob Bredow to Present ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ at FMX 2019
Studio’s head and executive creative director will share inner workings of their visual and physical effects work on Disney's BAFTA and VES-nominated sci-fi adventure.
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Autodesk Maya 2019 is Here
Featuring new tools and performance enhancements for faster animation, improved working environments, higher quality previews and improved pipeline integration.
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Framestore Delivers Dazzling VFX in Robert Zemeckis’ ‘Welcome to Marwen’
Creative studio’s advanced motion-capture technology and new pipeline for integrating live-action with CG dolls help director visualize true story of photographer Mark Hogancamp’s recovery from a vicious hate crime.
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