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Awards Headline News

‘Zootopia,’ ‘The Jungle Book’ Win at 22nd Annual Critics’ Choice Awards

Disney films pick up awards for best animated feature and best visual effects; Netflix’s ‘BoJack Horseman’ receives award for best animated series.

Outpost Visual Effects Headline News

Outpost Delivers Beautiful VFX for Tom Ford’s ‘Nocturnal Animals’

Bournemouth-based boutique visual effects studio provides 200 shots, including extensive beauty work to take the lead characters back to their 20s, for director Tom Ford’s second feature.

Virtual Reality Headline News

m ss ng p eces Welcomes Catherine Day as Head of VR/AR/360

Former Jaunt VR exec Catherine Day and VR director Sam Smith join talent roster of Los Angeles-based new wave production and entertainment company.

Visual Effects Headline News

Sweden’s Goodbye Kansas Sets U.K. Base

New U.K. outpost led by EP James Prosser and executive director Martin Hobbs alongside VFX supervisors Matt Kasmir and Jesper Kjölsrud and art director Rafael Morant to provide effects for George Clooney’s ‘Suburbicon’ feature written by the Coen Brothers.

box office Headline News

Box Office Report: Disney’s ‘Moana’ Threepeats with $18.8 Million

Walt Disney Animation Studios feature tops the North American box office with $18.8 million; Illumination Entertainment’s ‘Sing’ rolls out to international territories ahead of its domestic debut.

Shotgun Software Headline News

Jellyfish Pictures Taps Shotgun for VFX, Animation & Motion Graphics Workflows

U.K.-based production company behind the BBC’s ‘Bitz n’ Bob’ and ‘Floogals’ employs Shotgun’s Pipeline Toolkit to automate repetitive tasks, freeing artists’ time to create.

MPC Headline News

MPC Returns to the Magical World of J.K. Rowling for ‘Fantastic Beasts’

MPC returns to the world of Harry Potter, delivering 220 VFX shots including 3D environments of prohibition-era Manhattan, set extensions, magic effects, and the creation of three beasts: Demiguise, Occamy and Billiwig.

Animationinstitut Headline News

Filmakademie’s DREAMSPACE Project Comes to Successful Close

EU-funded tablet-based on-set editing application for collaborative virtual filmmaking on display at SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 has been used on several Filmakademie productions.

Commercials Headline News

Brand New School, Carrot Creative Construct Futuristic Saga for OnePlus

Brand New School and Carrot Creative reimagine the newly launched OnePlus 3T as a sci-fi inspired human body, complete with digital organs, blood, brain and eyes.

Framestore VFXWorld

Framestore Lends VFX Wizardry to ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’

Under the lead of production VFX supervisor Christian Manz, Oscar-winning VFX house helps develop and animate a range of fantastical CG characters for J.K. Rowling’s new spinoff prequel to the Harry Potter franchise.

box office Headline News

Box Office Report: ‘Your Name’ Reigns in China, U.S. Audiences Flock to ‘Moana’

Makoto Shinkai’s anime feature debuts to $41 million in China, and passes Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘Howl’s Moving Castle’ to become the second-largest-grossing Japanese film of all time; Disney’s CG-animated ‘Moana’ rules North American box office for second weekend in a row.

Method Studios Headline News

Method Delivers VFX Magic for WB’s ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’

Deluxe Entertainment-owned VFX house contributes to the film’s opening and closing sequences in addition to environmental and creature work, as well as reimagining the look of the ‘apparate’ and ‘disapparate’ effects from the Harry Potter films through which a wizard magically teleports into or out of a scene.

Captain America: Civil War Headline News

Academy Unveils 20 Contenders in VFX Oscar Race

The Academy’s Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee to select the 10 films that will advance to nominations voting; nominations for the 89th Oscars will be announced on Tuesday, January 24, 2017.

Virtual Reality Headline News

Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2017 New Frontier Showcase

2017 edition of New Frontier showcase to include 20 VR experiences and 11 installations across three Park City venues.

Framestore Headline News

Framestore Pioneers New Path to ‘MARS’ for NatGeo

Groundbreaking hybrid genre epic from executive producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer brings together contemporary documentary footage and VFX-heavy drama to transport audiences to a not-so-distant Martian future.

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