Disney and Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier makes history at the global box office, debuting to a record-breaking $96.2 million in North America for an early worldwide total of $303.3 million.
UK-based Union VFX re-creates Renaissance-era Florence for the second season of STARZ Original series Da Vinci’s Demons.
Galaxy 61 celebrates its 10th anniversary with a re-branding and a new website showcasing the company’s capabilities that are tailored to animation and VFX-driven projects with big ideas and small budgets.
MPC LA partners with Deutsch LA and RESET Director Johnny Green to launch a new campaign for HTC that unveils the new HTC One M8 smartphone with the help of Gary Oldman.
Devil and Demon announce a line of supercomputers launching at NAB 2014 that feature great computing muscle in small footprints.
Universal Pictures debutes the first official trailer for Luc Besson's upcoming feature Lucy, starring Scarlett Johansson and Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman.
The veteran Oscar-nominated VFX supervisor discusses Marvel’s latest Iron Man saga as well as the future of high frame rate filmmaking.
Rampant Design Tools announces a strategic partnership with That Studios, a partnership that will provide targeted, high quality, and practical visual effects for studios and indie filmmakers.
HBO taps BigStar to create a teaser campaign featuring three spots, ‘Dungeon,’ ‘Desert,’ and ‘Forest,’ for the upcoming season of Game of Thrones premiering April 6.
Framestore heads to zero gravity to prove Robinsons’ SQUASH’D can be made anywhere.
London VFX house Nvizible announces its further expansion with the launch of Nvizible Belfast.
Adobe announces plans to significantly update all the video apps in Adobe Creative Cloud and will showcase these innovations at the NAB 2014 show in Las Vegas next week.
Digital compositing supervisor Patrick David talks spiders and multiple Gyllenhaals.
Imagineer System releases MochaImport+ for NUKE, a new VFX utility that provides tight integration between NUKE’s node-based workflow and mocha Pro, connecting high-end 3D and stereo compositing with groundbreaking planar tracking.
Red Giant announces a new update to BulletProof, version 1.2, which provides users with greater camera support and other improvements to its footage backup and preparation tool.
MGM is developing a new a live-action/animated hybrid Pink Panther movie, with The Simpsons director and producer David Silverman set to direct.
RE:Vision Effects announces ReelSmart Motion Blur version 5, a new version of the software which allows users to add natural-looking motion blur to a sequence and which now features GPU support for Adobe After Effects, Apple, Final Cut Pro, and more.
Red Giant announces Magic Bullet Looks 2.5, a free update to current users, which features new color correction tools, better previewing of presets, and a major bump in speed.
Jake Banks, Matthew Marquis, and Guillaume Marien partner to launch Golden, a new production and post-production company.
Powerful, easy-to-use render farm management tools let artists in MPC’s motion design studio become their own render wranglers for high-profile rebrand job.
Darren Aronofsky's controversial biblical epic Noah opens to a stellar $44 million in North America, while Summit Entertainment’s Divergent comes in second place at the box office, followed by Disney’s Muppets Most Wanted.
CNN taps entertainment branding agency loyalkaspar to create a multi-platform marketing campaign for The Sixties: The British Invasion.
The first full-length trailer for the Michael Bay-produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is released onto the web.
UK visual effects house Nvizible completes 350 VFX shots for Disney’s Muppets Most Wanted.
Red Giant announces a Public Beta of Trapcode Mir 2, a motion graphics tool that allows users to create 3D surfaces for use in motion graphics and visual effects.
