Warner Bros. hires ‘X-Men: First Class’ scribes Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz to write the untitled ‘Acme’ CG/live-action hybrid movie with Glenn Ficarra and John Requa in early negotiations to direct.
Conference to update Hollywood professionals on emerging “content technologies” and rollout progress for high dynamic range, color gamut, 4K, and UHD.
Ntropic colorist Trevor Durtschi teams up with director Colin Tilley and production company London Alley Entertainment for Nicki Minaj's talked-about “Anaconda” music video.
Autodesk boosts creative workflows with upgrades and flexible subscription models.
Governor Jerry Brown signs off on a deal that more than triples funding for California's film and TV tax-credit program to $330 million a year over the next five years.
London-based VFX house goes behind the scenes of the new Money Supermarket spot, “Epic Elephunk.”
London-based VFX studio creates visuals of Mother Nature at her most extreme for Warner Bros.’ latest release, ‘Into The Storm.’
Bi-coastal design-driven production company adds prolific director, designer, illustrator and artist amid growth stage.
Google acquires Zync Render, a scalable cloud-based computing service for visual effects.
BAFTA Award-winning London VFX house creates the visual effects for the BBC’s “Deep Breath,” Peter Capaldi’s debut episode as Doctor Who, directed by Ben Wheatley for the eighth series of ‘Doctor Who.’
Rules and Procedures for the 13th Annual VES Awards are now available online, with Spanish and Japanese language versions to be made available soon.
'Star Wars' filmmaker George Lucas to receive honorary membership in the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, the highest accolade handed out by the global engineers society and standards-setting body.
Montreal-based visual effects studio is rewarded with a prestigious Emmy Award for its contribution to the visual effects on ‘Game of Thrones.’
Post production and visual effects company appoints Jennifer "JT" Tellefsen Vice President of Business Development, VFX for Encore offices worldwide.
New interactive online course brings together students and professional animators from triple-A studios to teach specialized animation techniques for games creation.
Toymaker Hasbro names Josh Feldman head of development of the company’s film and TV division, where he will focus on both franchise and new brands in live-action and animation.
Dr. Alvy Ray Smith, Glen Keane and Tom McGrath highlight the 15th annual conference, Italy’s largest computer graphics conference, October 14-17.
After trailing Paramount and Nickelodeon’s ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ for the past two weeks, Marvel's ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ moves back in to first place, passing ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’ to become the highest-grossing movie of the summer at the domestic box office.
Sony Pictures Entertainment taps ‘Iron Man 3’ director Shane Black to helm its adventure-action movie ‘The Destroyer.’
Select visual effects sequences for blockbuster film completed at Imageworks in tandem with lead VFX facility MPC.
Creative allies Alex Czetwertynski and Hooligan join New York-Based design studio to transform live-action footage using 3D technology.
Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Naomie Harris, Tom Hollander, Eddie Marsan and Peter Mullan join Benedict Cumberbatch in the Warner Bros. adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book.”
Expanding its services within broadcast, as well as other non-broadcast opportunities, creative strategic design agency eyeball hires Executive Producer Tony Kadillak.
Cogswell College’s unique MediaWorks initiative marks one-year anniversary with nine completed audiovisual projects for real-world clients.
VFX studio adds veteran Los Angeles producer Jason Cohon to its staff, joining CG/VFX supervisor TJ Burke, lead Flame artist Louis Mackall and VFX supervisor and lead Flame artist Andrew Eksner.
