World Famous Adds David Kleinman & Kelly Green
David Kleinman named Executive Producer; Kelly Green to serve as Head of Production.
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Vancouver VFX Artists Rely on Shotgun for ‘Galactic Battles’ Short
Vancouver-based VanCG meetup group taps Shotgun production management and review software for its latest open-movie live-action/CG project, ‘Galactic Battles.’
Nirad ‘Bugs’ Russell Joins MassMarket
Industry veteran to serve as Executive Producer at New York office of award-winning bi-coastal visual effects studio.
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Method Brings Tecate’s Black Eagle to Life
FX Lead Tomas Slancik builds a robust custom feather system that allows artists to specify feather shape and easily populate designated areas.
ArsenalFX Expands into New Santa Monica Headquarters
Newly built, 7,000-square foot headquarters features state-of-the-art proprietary software as well as hardware capable of delivering short-form creative media via integrated global dark-fiber services housed within a secured environment.
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AWN Professional Spotlight: FMX 2014 – Don Parker
Don Parker, senior director on Autodesk’s Shotgun team, talks about the software’s use on 300: Rise of an Empire as well as how integrating production technologies impacts a studio’s ability to manage movie production as part of AWN’s series of exclusive video interviews from FMX 2014.
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FATface Standardizes Production Management with Shotgun
Shotgun review and asset management software enables efficient production management for Hong Kong-based VFX and animation studio.
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2015 TAAFI Animation Job Fair to be Held May 2
Free annual animation recruitment event presented by the Toronto Animation Arts Festival International is targeted at connecting top studios with animation, visual effects and gaming job seekers from across Ontario.
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Pixar Releases Free Non-Commercial RenderMan
Featuring Pixar’s new RIS technology, RenderMan is now completely free for use in research, education, evaluation, plug-in development, and personal projects that do not generate commercial profits.
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Box Office Report: ‘Insurgent’ Sees $54M Domestic Debut
Overseas, DreamWorks Animation’s ‘Home’ opens in nine markets, earning an outstanding $19.2 million debut.
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AWN Professional Spotlight: FMX 2014 – David Morin
David Morin, a driving force at Autodesk in virtual production standards and technology, talks about the growing significance and future role of virtual production technologies in moviemaking as part of AWN’s series of exclusive video interviews from FMX 2014.
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NVIDIA Unveils Updated Multi-Product Roadmap at GTC 2015
Updates include the new Quadro M6000 GPU with 12 GB of memory and Maxwell GPU architecture, new features and performance in Iray 2015, and an upgraded Quadro Visual Computing Appliance.
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The Academy to Host ‘Deconstructing Big Hero 6’ April 23
Special guests to include Disney directors Don Hall and Chris Williams, producer Roy Conli, visual effects supervisor Kyle Odermatt, head of animation Zach Parrish, and director of cinematography lighting Adolph Lusinsky.
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China’s Jiangye Technology Park Taps PipelineFX’s Qube!
Chinese business development program ensures render efficiency for growing community of more than 100 new media, film and gaming companies.
MPC Delivers Magic Effects for Disney’s ‘Into the Woods’
As lead VFX studio, MPC was responsible for a variety of 3D and 2D effects, including creating Jack’s beanstalk, creatures such as Cinderella’s birds, mice, snakes and a cow, magic effects, fantasy environments, and transformation shots.
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New Rosto Film, ‘Splintertime,’ Premieres at HAFF 2015
International premiere of new short film by Dutch filmmaker and artist, Rosto, kicks off the 2015 edition of the Holland Animation Film Festival in Utrecht.
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Digital-Tutors Announces Free Training for TurboSquid CheckMate Certification
Digital-Tutors releases three new tutorials for Maya, 3ds Max and CINEMA 4D taught by a former Sony Imageworks artist to help 3D artists get CheckMate certified for TurboSquid's online store.
Cogswell College to Host ILM’s Wajid Raza
Lighting Technical Director at Industrial Light & Magic to present special guest lecture on Wednesday, March 25.
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Passion Pictures Signs Director Joshua Harvey
Award-winning Los Angeles-based director has helped create campaigns for clients such as Guinness, MTV, Honda and Google.
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Milk Delivers VFX for ITV’s ‘Thunderbirds Are Go’
London visual effects house partners with ITV Studios for the CG-animated reimagining of the beloved ‘Thunderbirds’ series set to premiere this spring.
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MAXON Opens New Canada Office
New Montreal team to focus on development of MAXON products and SDK Support for strategic partnerships and third-party developers.
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MPC Puts New Xsens Motion Capture System to Work
With new systems already in production, famed VFX studio can quickly source production-ready mocap data anywhere.
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Timber Expands Into New Space
Design and digital production shop adds digital effects supervisor Nicholas Hiegel.
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FMX 2015 to Spotlight VFX in Commercials, TV
Conference on animation, effects, games and transmedia announces ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘VFX in Commercials’ and ‘Animation Wild 'n Strange’ program events, as well as Tech Talks covering the latest innovations in filmmaking.
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Jason Schugardt Joins MPC LA as Head of 3D
VFX veteran has worked on four Oscar-winning films, including David Fincher's ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ and Peter Jackson's ‘King Kong.’
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