Caroline Gomez Joins Big Block
New director of business development formerly worked with Motion Theory & Mirada Studios.
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SIGGRAPH 2015 Debuts ePosters
A great way for people to share research hot off their hard drives, this year’s Posters will be featured on 10 digital display kiosks with each poster scheduled for a 25-minute presentation throughout the week.
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Ntropic Signs NYC Creative Director Ryan Duggan
Former senior art director at Click3x has worked with high-profile commercial and broadcast clients including Verizon, HBO, Olay, MasterCard, Nat Geo, Wendy’s and Movado
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Chaos Group to Host VR Bar at SIGGRAPH 2015
Virtual reality installations include Legend3D’s project for ‘Crimson Peak’; the return of V-Ray Days to feature Method Studios, Atomic Fiction and Ruairi Robinson.
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Post Facility Cognition Launches in Hollywood
Hybrid studio offers integrated services for feature film and broadcast color, visual effects and emerging technologies.
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WATCH: Sony Releases New Trailer for Bond Movie ‘Spectre’
New two-minute, 20-second trailer from Sony Pictures Entertainment is filled with plenty of action and intrigue as Bond uncovers the existence of the sinister organization known as SPECTRE.
ZOIC Studios Taps RealFlow for ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’
Led by VFX/CG Supervisor Timothy Hanson, ZOIC Studios employs RealFlow to help create simulations for Marvel blockbuster ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron,’ completing nearly 100 shots for the movie.
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Disney Unveils Feature Film Slate for D23 EXPO 2015
Can’t-miss offerings include ‘Frozen’ Sing-Along, ‘Toy Story’ 20th Anniversary, ‘Star Wars,’ and secret special guests.
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‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Headed to Blu-Ray on September 1
Blu-ray combo pack includes more than 90 minutes of high-octane special features; ‘Mad Max 4-Film Blu-ray Anthology’ set also available September 1.
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Leon Silverman to Receive HPA Lifetime Achievement Award
Leading trade organization honors esteemed post-production executive with special award on the 10th anniversary of the Hollywood Post Alliance Awards.
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Disney Sets Live-Action Remake of ‘Sword in the Stone’
Disney continues its recent trend of remaking its animated classics into live-action films that started with ‘Maleficent’ and ‘Cinderella’ and now includes ‘Mulan,’ ‘Winnie The Pooh,’ ‘The Jungle Book,’ ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ ‘Dumbo,’ a new movie starring ‘Peter Pan’s Tinker Bell, and the ‘Bald Mountain’ sequence in ‘Fantasia.’
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Deadline Cloud Wizard for Amazon EC2 Now in Open Beta
New feature in Thinkbox Software’s scalable solution for managing compute resources across platforms on physical and virtual machines automates the configuration of render farms on Amazon EC2.
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Trojan Horse Was a Unicorn Announces London Meetup
Digital art festival meetup set for July 24th In London to host talks with Ninja Theory graphic designer and art director Alessandro Taini and concept artist Chris Rosewarne, whose film credits include ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ and the forthcoming ‘Star Wars Episode VIII.’
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Bron Studios Launches Genre Film Label The Realm
New division to be headed by Garrick Dion; First project will be ‘Collared,’ written by Chris Osbrink and directed by ‘Juan of the Dead’s Alejandro Brugues.
Marvel Returns to Sarofsky for ‘Ant-Man’ Main-On-End Titles
Chicago-based creative studio builds on its past successes with Marvel’s ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ and ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier.’
Imagination Studios Creates Immersive Experience for DreamHack Summer 2015
Team captures data from more than 160 attendees in four days with OptiTrack motion capture technology.
Box Office Report: Marvel’s ‘Ant-Man’ Sees Pint-Sized $58M Debut
Peyton Reed’s ‘Ant-Man’ makes $58 million domestic debut, the second-lowest bow for Marvel Studios since ‘The Incredible Hulk’ opened to $55.4 million in 2008.
DigitalFilm Tree Uses DaVinci Resolve to Remotely Grade ABC’s ‘Mistresses’
DigitalFilm Tree employs Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve as a core component of its remote dailies grading and transcoding services.
‘San Andreas’ Arrives On Blu-Ray October 20
3D combo pack, Blu-Ray combo pack, DVD and Digital HD from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment available on Digital HD on October 6; Blu-ray Combo Pack debuts on October 20.
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Pixeldust Teams with NASA for ‘The Year of the Pluto’
Pixeldust Studios animates remarkable journey by NASA’S New Horizons spacecraft into furthest edge of our solar system as presented in the new documentary film, ‘The Year of Pluto.’
Cartoon Network’s ‘Over the Garden Wall’ Receives Emmy Nod
The five nominees for Outstanding Animated Program are FX’s ‘Archer,’ Fox’s ‘Bob’s Burgers’ and ‘The Simpsons,’ Cartoon Network’s ‘Over The Garden Wall’ and Comedy Central’s ‘South Park.’ VFX nominees include Starz’ ‘Black Sails,’ The CW’s ‘The Flash,’ HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones,’ Marvel’s ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,’ and the History Channel’s ‘Vikings.’
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SDCC 2015: The Future Arrives at San Diego Comic-Con International
Comic-Con 2015 delivers the year of the future, complete with robots, haute couture, and Virtual Reality experiences galore.
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Animal Logic Creates Innovative 3D Concept Reel for 360-Degree Data Arena
Animation and VFX studio pushes the boundaries of digital storytelling with the creation of a 3D concept reel for a state-of-the-art research facility at the University of Technology Sydney.
Mackevision Unveils VFX Reel for ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 5
Emmy award-winning CGI and digital solutions company Mackevision creates some of the most iconic scenes in the smash-hit HBO series, including the city of Braavos and King’s Landing.
Pixomondo Taps cineSync to Wrangle CG Dragons for ‘Game of Thrones’
Alongside the increasingly complex evolution of three fully-grown CG fire-breathing dragons, VFX house Pixomondo leverages Cospective’s cineSync review and annotation tool for global production pipeline for HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones.’
