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animago Headline News

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.

Visual Effects Society Headline News

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.

Motion Graphics Headline News

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.

box office Headline News

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 Headline News

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.

Tribeca Headline News

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.

Virtual Reality Headline News

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.

Events Headline News

‘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.

Vhi Healthcare Headline News

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.

Epic Games Headline News

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.

Warner Bros. Pictures Headline News

'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.

AMPAS Headline News

Cinematographer John Bailey Elected Academy President

ASC Lifetime Achievement Award recipient’s cinematography credits include ‘Ordinary People,’ ‘American Gigolo,’ ‘The Big Chill,’ ‘Groundhog Day,’ ‘As Good as It Gets,’ ‘The Anniversary Party,’ ‘The Way Way Back’ and ‘A Walk in the Woods.’

FMX Blogs

WATCH: The Third Floor’s Duncan Burbidge Talks ‘Doctor Strange’ and ‘Rogue One’ Previs at FMX 2017

By Dan Sarto | Wednesday, August 9, 2017 at 12:52am

The GM and executive producer talks in detail about his studio’s previs work on Marvel’s ‘Doctor Strange,’ Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.’

Visual Effects Society Headline News

Jon Favreau to Receive VES Lifetime Achievement Award

The Visual Effects Society to honor writer-producer-director Favreau for his boundary-breaking use of visual effects to create a seamless and invisible background for remarkable stories and vibrant characters to play across film and television.

Brickyard VFX Headline News

Brickyard VFX Welcomes Benji Davidson

Former MPC VFX supervisor’s notable projects include ‘​Seize Glory’ for Activision’s ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops III,’ Madden: The Movie’ for ’Madden NFL 16 from EA Sports, Samsung’s Do What You Can’t,’ and Super Bowl spots for Coca Cola and Acura.

Allegorithmic Headline News

Allegorithmic Unveils Substance Painter 2017.2 and More at Substance Days Hollywood 2017

Allegorithmic unveils Live Link from Substance Painter to Unity, Substance Automation Toolkit, Substance Source in Unity, Substance Source in Unreal Engine 4, and more at the second annual  Substance Days Hollywood held July 27-29 at Gnomon School of Visual Effects, Games & Animation.

Jellyfish Pictures Headline News

Jellyfish Bolsters Team with Appointment of Dave Wells

New pipeline TD and compositor previously served as head of technical pre-sales at data storage solutions provider Pixit Media, designing high-performance storage and network infrastructures for the Media & Entertainment industry.

Vicon Headline News

Vicon Delivers Hands-on Tracking

Motion capture technology specialist for the entertainment, engineering and life sciences industries collaborates with leading developer of virtual reality gloves to allow customers to integrate Manus VR Glove finger tracking into their production pipelines.

Nurulize Headline News

Nurulize Unveils Disruptive VR Development Tools

New VR solutions Atom View and Nu Design enable super-fast cinematic quality display and collaborative environment editing within the virtual environment.

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