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Outpost VFX Headline News

Outpost VFX Delivers Ghostly Effects for ‘Under the Shadow’

Bournemouth, U.K.-based VFX studio provides 88 complex shots for director Babak Anvari’s BAFTA-nominated film set in in 1988 during the Iran-Iraq war, including cloth simulations, CG characters, digital doubles, and digital matte paintings.

Lucasfilm Headline News

Lucasfilm Won’t be Using a CG Carrie Fisher in Upcoming ‘Star Wars’ Films

Lucasfilm publishes a statement on the official Star Wars website dispelling rumors of a possible CG Princess Leia or General Leia Organa in future installments.

Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Headline News

Deluxe Promotes Jackie Lee & Dave Grove

Former EFILM exec Grove named SVP of Global Feature Sales; Lee, formerly the SVP of Feature Services for Deluxe’s Company 3, takes on expanded role as SVP, Global Client Strategy, Creative Enterprise Sales.

Rising Sun Pictures Headline News

Rising Sun Pictures Nominated for VES Award for ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’

Nomination for Outstanding Composition in a Photoreal Feature comes for RSP’s work on the Quicksilver Extraction sequence in ‘X-Men: Apocalypse.’

Virtual Reality Headline News

Deluxe VR and PROXi Join Forces to Deliver Cinematic VR

New partnership with Virtual Reality production company co-founded by ‘Suicide Squad’ VR experience creators Guy Norris and Harrison Norris merges production expertise with best-in-class global VFX, real-time rendered VR and on-set data services.

Disney Headline News

Ariana Grande, John Legend to Perform Title Track for Disney’s Live-Action ‘Beauty and the Beast’

New images, poster and a TV spot support upcoming live-action remake of the classic 1991 animated feature.

Awards VFXWorld

2017 Academy VFX Bake-Off: Finding the Five Motion Picture Nominees

By Dan Sarto | Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at 6:40pm

From fiery photorealistic oil rig disasters and fractal geometry-based inter-dimensional mind-bending psychic excursions, to a digitally recreated Carrie Fisher as young Princes Leia, this year’s crop of ten best visual effects productions presented at the Motion Picture Academy represent another reminder of the breadth, depth and range of creative artistry and talent within the industry.

call for entries Headline News

Motion and Advertising Juries Announced for ADC 96th Annual Awards

Twenty-two creative jurors representing 10 countries to judge entries from around the world; deadline for entries is January 31, 2017.

Awards Headline News

2017 BAFTA Nominations Announced

Pixar’s ‘Finding Dory,’ LAIKA’s ‘Kubo and the Two Strings,’ and Disney’s ‘Moana’ and ‘Zootropolis’ (‘Zootopia’) receive nominations for best animated feature; British short animation nominees are ‘The Alan Dimension,’ ‘A Love Story’ and ‘Tough.’

Awards Headline News

Visual Effects Society Announces Nominees for 15th Annual VES Awards

‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ receives most feature film nominations; ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ is top animated film contender; ‘Game of Thrones’ leads the broadcast field and scores most nominations overall.

MPC Headline News

MPC Heads into Deep Space for ‘Passengers’

Working alongside production VFX supervisor Erik Nordby, MPC VFX supervisor Pete Dionne and VFX producer Tomi Nieminen oversaw a team of around 600 artists to create more than 1,100 shots for director Morten Tyldum’s space adventure.

Disney ANIMATIONWorld

Jon Favreau Looks Back at ‘The Jungle Book’

Heading into Awards Season, the director of Disney’s 2016 photoreal live-action/CG hybrid action-adventure hit reflects on his initial skepticism and concerns adapting an animated feature film classic.

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