VFXWorld Magazine
SMPTE Hollywood Section Elects New Officers and Managers
Newly elected to one-year terms as Hollywood Section officers are Jim DeFilippis as Section chair and Steve Wong as secretary/treasurer. Ramon Breton, Tom Mikkelsen, and Erik Weaver have been elected to two-year terms as Section managers.
Gentleman Scholar Helps Lenovo Bring Gaming to Life
New CG-animated cinematic trailer for Lenovo’s Legion brand via agency Ogilvy & Mather helps launch dedicated sub-group for gaming PCs.
WATCH: Volker Engel Talks ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ VFX and More at FMX 2017
The veteran VFX supervisor and producer discusses the differences in visual effects he supervised on the new sequel compared to his Oscar-winning VFX work 20 years ago on the original Roland Emmerich hit film, Independence Day.
Epic Games Releases Real-Time Compositing Tool Composure
New compositing tool inside Unreal Engine 4.17 enables users to composite real world images or video footage with CG imagery in real time.
Maxon Receives Industry Awards for Cinema 4D R19 at SIGGRAPH 2017
Latest version of acclaimed 3D software application recognized by CGW and postPerspective News Sources for technology innovation and positive industry impact.
Framestore Appoints Josh King as Senior VFX Producer
Visual effects producer has overseen widely-recognized commercial campaigns for Three, Cravendale and Harvey Nichols, among others.
Australian Effects & Animation Festival Announces 2017 Winners
‘War for the Planet of the Apes,’ ‘The Jungle Book,’ ‘Kong: Skull Island,’ ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,’ ‘Ghost in the Shell,’ ‘Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets’ and ‘Doctor Strange’ receive awards for feature film VFX at 2017 Australian Effects & Animation Festival.
Director Patty Jenkins Returning for ‘Wonder Woman’ Sequel
Zoic Studios Promotes John Kilshaw to Creative Director
VFX veteran has lent his talents to a slew of major feature films including ‘The Avengers,’ “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,’ and ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.’
animago Award & Conference Readies 2017 Edition
Thirty-three projects from all over the world nominated for animago AWARDS in eleven categories; international VFX experts set to meet at the animago CONFERENCE in Munich September7-8, 2017.
Acclaimed Visual Futurist Syd Mead to Deliver Keynote Address at 2017 VES Summit
Featured speakers at interactive forum to be held Saturday, October 28 include Hollywood data hack expert Hemanshu Nigam and IMAX home entertainment president Jason Brenek.
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Walter Schonfeld Appointed President, Deluxe Distribution
Former CEO of localization company SDI Media Group is tapped to oversee delivery, localization and digital cinema operations; Robert Julian appointed company CFO.
Jean-Marie Marbach Creates Mesmerizing New Music Video for Tennyson
Made entirely using Red Giant’s Trapcode Suite, the popular Adobe After Effects plugins for motion graphics and custom AE scripting, ‘L’oiseau qui danse’ is an homage to the abstract animation style of Visual Music.
Framestore Ups Helen Hughes to Head of Advertising
Hughes has been an integral part of Framestore’s production department since 2010, leading a growing team of producers across Framestore’s core VFX artistry.
Box Office: ‘The Nut Job 2’ Cracks Open Third Place Debut
Animated sequel following the 2014 independent animated hit produced by ToonBox Entertainment and Redrover earns worst debut ever for a film opening in more than 4,000 locations.
Jellyfish Pictures Ramps up Development Team with Appointment of Charlotte Loynes
Loynes brings 20 years of insight to the Jellyfish development team from her previous posts at Seed Animation, Amp London, MPC, UNIT 9 and Aardman.
17th Annual Tribeca Film Festival Announces 2018 Dates and Call for Submissions
Tribeca selects Withoutabox to be the exclusive third-party film submission service for the 2018 Festival as part of a new, multi-year agreement.
VR Bound Announces AMD, Foundry and HP as VR Awards Partners
With an awards ceremony and dinner, the partnership will see AMD, Foundry and HP collaborate in celebrating outstanding achievement in the virtual reality industry on the new date of 9th October 2017.
‘Extraordinary: Stan Lee’ Tribute to be Broadcast Live
The event will be broadcast in 180 theaters in the U.S. and Canada and feature live appearances by David Hasselhoff, Morgan Spurlock, Michael Rooker, Pom Klementieff, Tom Bergeron, Todd McFarlane, and Lou Ferrigno to pay homage to the legendary creator on August 22nd at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills.
Piranha Bar Mould Memories in Hybrid Animation
‘Katherine,’ a moving new campaign by Vhi Healthcare, Publicis Dublin, and Piranha Bar sheds a reassuring light on people’s experience of medical treatment, bringing their subscribers’ testimonials to life.
Couldn’t Make It to SIGGRAPH? Watch the Epic Games User Group Presentation Online
Epic Games showcases advancements in virtual, augmented and mixed reality as well as the impact of the Cloud, AI and machine learning on production pipelines, at is first-ever User Group meetup at SIGGRAPH 2017.
'Wonder Women' Leaps onto Blu-ray with Bonus Deleted Scene
On August 29, 'Wonder Woman' will be available to own for streaming and download to watch anywhere in high definition and standard definition on favorite devices from select digital retailers, and on September 19, 'Wonder Woman' will be made available digitally on Video On Demand services from cable and satellite providers and on select gaming consoles.
LIMA Annual Survey Shows Growth for Licensing Industry
The report presents a detailed Breakdown of the US$262.9B industry by property type, product category and geography, indicating a 4.4% growth from the previous year.