Previous winners of the VES Lifetime Achievement Award include James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, Ray Harryhausen, George Lucas, Robert Zemeckis, John Dykstra and Frank Marshall & Kathleen Kennedy.
Warner Bros. feature set for a 2017 release will star Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman.
Meet the real heroes behind the studio’s first Marvel-inspired film: Walt Disney Animation Studios CTO Andy Hendrickson, principal systems engineer Marc Jordan, and senior research scientist Rasmus Tamstorf.
An 88-second teaser trailer for J.J. Abrams’ ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ is set to play at select North American theaters November 28-30.
Lionsgate's ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay -- Part 1’ rules the box office both domestically and overseas, posting the top opening of the year domestically and grossing $275 million worldwide.
GenArts’ Sapphire 8 public beta includes new and updated effects including Grunge, LightLeak, and a new builder which allows users to create their own effects.
Based on cutting-edge computer graphics research, Elementacular 1.2 includes a wide range of demonstration scenes, full 32-bit HDR pipeline, much-improved noise generation, and a new plug-in deployment that allows easy install and updates.
Introducing the RIS rendering framework for visual effects and animation.
American Society of Cinematographers announces television nominees, led by HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones.’
BUTCHER’s David Henegar collaborates with director Jamie Marshall to design the opening titles for the upcoming feature, ‘The Guilty Innocent.’
Disney releases the first full trailer and a new poster for the live-action adaptation of ‘Cinderella.’
iPi Soft will sponsor Machinima Expo 7 on November 23; the just released iPi Motion Capture V. 3.0 software will be awarded to the grand prize winners of the filmmaking contest.
John McAslan + Partners taps PipelineFX’s Qube! to add speed and efficiency to creating captivating visuals.
Rodeo FX announces their Outstanding Visual Effects – Television win at the Hollywood Post Alliance Awards for their work as one of the main VFX vendors for HBO’s ‘Game of Throne.’
Digital Domain collaborates with the agency Mistress to create a stylized depiction of the historical action-adventure video game, ‘Assassin’s Creed Unity.’
Facial animation developer expands executive team with the appointment of one of its key advisors.
Animator Matt Danner and comics writer/illustrator Tony Millionaire team up to create a first look at a CG/live-action hybrid film adaptation of ‘Sock Monkey: Into The Deep Woods.’
The Marvel-inspired ‘Big Hero 6’ is in second place with a domestic total of $111.7 million and early worldwide haul of $148.4 million; Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ passes $300 million globally.
SIGGRAPH 2015 officially opens its Call for Submissions; deadlines for entries begin in January.
Book signing and Q&A session with visual futurist and a neofuturistic concept artist Syd Mead to be held Saturday, November 22 at the memorial park’s Glendale location.
Pen-based desktop sketching application for Mac and Windows blends sophisticated underlying technology with an elegant, clean interface.
Held in Vienna, 4th annual European Immersive Education Summit to showcase immersive technologies with demonstrations and hands-on workshops.
Four-part project shot on film shared between New York and Los Angeles facilities.
Toronto-based conference features two days of sessions by worldwide Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and 3D experts.
The former Pixar director is busier than ever, completing his next short film ‘Home’ and in the production and pre-production stages of two new projects employing Virtual Reality.
