J.J. Abrams' record-shattering ‘Star Wars’ reboot earns $149.2 million domestically and $550.3 million overseas over Christmas weekend for a global cume of $1.09 billion through Sunday.
Veteran VFX producer brings more than 25 years of experience, including tenures at Eden FX, Digital Domain, RIOT, P.O.P., CIS Hollywood and MPC Montreal.
Blackmagic Design announces the public beta of Fusion 8 Studio, now available for download for both Mac OS X and Windows.
The Psyop team uses Fabric Engine to digitally knit a bunch of realistic sweaters in time for the holiday season.
Hornet Director Yves Geleyn teams with Wieden+Kennedy New York to create a picturesque spot for ESPN that asks, ‘What are you doing New Year’s Eve?’
2016 MPSE Golden Reel Awards slated for February 27th.
Cinesite delivers a major visual effects sequence for the Marvel Studios production featuring Ant-Man and his evil nemesis Yellow Jacket, creating Ant-Man’s helmet in CG and full-CG characters and effects.
Renderer delivers high-quality visuals in a short time for leading animation studio’s animated holiday short, ‘More Stuff.’
Based on cutting-edge computer graphics research, Elementacular 1.3 includes new tutorials, support for Maya 2016 and a number of bug fixes.
Overall deal includes Hasbro properties ‘G.I. Joe,’ ‘Micronauts,’ ‘Visionaries,’ ‘M.A.S.K.’ and ‘ROM.’
Emmy-nominated content creation studio serves as the ideal creative partner for an elaborate, eye-catching installation in Los Angeles’s newly remodeled Petersen Automotive Museum.
‘Ant-Man,’ ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron,’ ‘Ex Machina,’ ‘Jurassic World,’ ‘Mad Max: Fury Road,’ ‘The Martian,’ ‘The Revenant,’ ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens,’ ‘Tomorrowland’ and ‘The Walk’ to compete at the Academy VFX bakeoff on Saturday, January 9, 2016.
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See more than 40 pieces of concept art for ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens,’ featuring artworks by Ian McCaig, Doug Chiang, Thom Tenery, Glyn Dillon and Christian Alzmann.
With a five-day international debut of $279 million, the latest installment of the ‘Star Wars’ saga directed by J.J. Abrams has taken in $517 million globally.
CMC Animation Exchange to take place on March 10; CMC International Exchange to be held on July 5.
Stunning tracking shot immerses viewers in animated winter wonderland.
Trollbäck + Company designs painterly opening titles for director Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s documentary feature, ‘Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict.’
Australian post-production facilities chop render hours on Marvel-based PlayStation series ‘Powers’ with PipelineFX’s Qube!
With sci-fi feature ‘NORA’ nearing completion, Emmy Award-winning Los Angeles-based CG animation house is currently in production on ‘Pepe & Lucas’ feature.
New space is first comprehensive production and post location for companies.
Overall VFX supervisor talks about key visual effects sequences in Sam Mendes’ latest hit in the James Bond film franchise.
axisVFX completes more than 120 visual effects shots for the Christmas day broadcast of ‘Doctor Who’ on BBC One.
New trailer for the follow-up to Roland Emmerich’s 1996 sci-fi action thriller showcases visual effects from MPC, Scanline VFX, Image Engine and LUXX Studios.
Introduction of variance-based adaptive sampling makes renders easier to predict and control.
Golden Eddie award from American Cinema Editors to be presented by Steve Martin at the 66th annual ACE Eddie Awards on Friday, January 29.
