VFXWorld Magazine
China’s Base FX Secures New Investor
Beijing-based VFX house provided visual effects for Chinese box office hits ‘Monster Hunt’ and ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens.’
‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Wins Big at 21st annual Critics’ Choice Awards
‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ wins nine critics’ awards, including best director and best visual effects; Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ wins best animated feature; Netflix series ‘BoJack Horseman’ wins best animation series.
Aardman Nathan Love Animates Revved Up Intro for New Camaro App
Animation entertainment studio infuses its trademark flourish in an all-digital intro film that showcases the multi-hued models in the mysterious confines of a hangar space.
MPC Creative Creates Faraday Future Film and VR Experience for CES 2016
MPC’s content production arm produces a film and VR experience for CES 2016 highlighting the performance of Faraday Future’s technology platform with the FFZERO1 high-performance electric dream car.
Hammerhead Taps Redshift to Render Cameron Crowe's ‘Aloha’
Creative studio harnesses the power of GPU-accelerated, biased renderer to deliver high-quality visuals at a fraction of the time compared to traditional render solutions.
Pioneering Performance Capture Companies to Host Los Angeles Open House Event
Leading motion- and facial-capture companies Animatrik Film Design, Dimensional Imaging (DI4D), and Technoprops to host Open House events January 19-22 in Del Rey, CA.
Cinesite Delivers Invisible Effects for ‘The Revenant’
Under the lead of VFX supervisor Nicolas Chevallier, Cinesite provides digital matte paintings and set extensions, fluid and particle simulations, character animation, lighting, compositing and more for director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s ‘The Revenant.’
Cross Channel Film Lab Now Accepting Applications
Open to 20 selected applicants, six-month program designed to train to train filmmakers from the U.K. and France in VFX and Stereo 3D techniques runs June through November 2016; deadline for submissions is March 1.
Luxion Awarded Patent for Real-time HDR Image Editing Technology
Luxion strengthens its real-time rendering and lighting simulation focus with patent on industry-leading HDR technology.
Nominations for 88th Academy Awards Unveiled
Nominees for Best Animated Feature are ‘Anomalisa,’ ‘Boy and the World,’ ‘Inside Out,’ ‘Shaun the Sheep Movie,’ and ‘When Marnie Was There.’
Red Giant Films Presents ‘Go Bag’ VFX Short
Action-packed short film written and directed by Seth Worley showcases masterful visual effects and post-production completed with the help of Red Giant Trapcode Suite, Magic Bullet Suite, Keying Suite and more.
Visual Effects Society Manages VES Awards Production with Shotgun
From submission to entry vetting and voting, production tracking, review, and asset management software Shotgun is the center of awards tracking and management process.
ASC Announces 2016 Spotlight Award Nominees
American Society of Cinematographers nominates ‘Beasts of No Nation,’ ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Son of Saul’ for Spotlight Award recognizing outstanding cinematography in feature-length projects screened at festivals, internationally, or in limited theatrical release.
Pam Lifford Named President, Warner Bros. Consumer Products
Disney veteran to succeed Brad Globe, who will step down in February after more than a decade overseeing WBCP.
ArsenalCreative Names Andy Bate Head of 2D and Lead VFX Supervisor
MPC Goes Behind the Scenes of ‘Goosebumps’ VR Adventure
New video from MPC Creative goes behind the scenes of the ‘Goosebumps’ Virtual Reality experience created for Sony Pictures.
Nexus Directors Smith & Foulkes Cut Some Slack
Nexus directors Smith & Foulkes announce the release of ‘Animals,’ a 60-second commercial for U.S. business messaging interface Slack.
Blake Huber Joins Flavor Los Angeles as VFX Supervisor
Flame artist has previously worked with Big Block, Brand New School, Digital Domain, Fuel, Logan and MPC.
Inaugural 2016 VR/AR Summit Announces Vision Award Finalists
Competition judges include Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality luminaries from Microsoft, Oculus, Sony, PTC Unity Technologies, University of Southern California and UploadVR.
Visual Effects Society Announces Nominees for 14th Annual VES Awards
‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ leads feature film nominations; ‘The Peanuts Movie’ is top animated film contender; ‘Game of Thrones’ leads the broadcast field and scores most nominations overall.
Cinema Audio Society Announces Nominations for 52nd CAS Awards
Animated feature nominees include ‘The Good Dinosaur,’ ‘Hotel Transylvania 2,’ ‘Inside Out,’ ‘Minions’ and ‘The Peanuts Movie.’
Animated Storyboards Opens Toronto Office
Managing director Maria Hanafy to run international animatics shop’s 10th location, joining offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, São Paulo, Bangkok, Tel Aviv, Düsseldorf and Shanghai.
Student VFX Artists Get Live Critique at PauseFest Battle of the Reels
Event sponsored by Rising Sun Pictures, The Foundry and Tyroe to provide young artists with insight into the minds of visual effects studios and recruiters.