Adobe After Effects and Photoshop, the Medusa Performance Capture System, and -- for the first time -- Maxon Cinema 4D among nine scientific & technical achievements to be honored at this year’s annual presentation.
Submissions open for summer 46th annual computer graphics conference running July 28 through August 1 in Los Angeles.
‘Mary Poppins Returns’ director Rob Marshall honored with the Cinematic Imagery Award.
‘Avengers: Infinity War’ garners top feature film with four awards; ‘Spider‐Man: Into the Spider‐Verse’ is top animated feature film; ‘Lost in Space’ leads broadcast wins.
Mike Chambers returns as Board Chair; Brooke Lyndon-Stanford is first elected officer from outside North America.
Sony Pictures Imageworks VFX supervisor Danny Dimian will present work on hit animated feature; animators Sophie Koto Gate, Michael Frei, Boris Labbé and Tomek Popakul will share their distinctive work.
Chinese TV hosts introduce their virtual replacements.
Leading up to Oscar Sunday on February 24th, catch up on AWN’s coverage of the films and creative teams nominated for Best Visual Effects at the 91st Academy Awards.
‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ and ‘Jump Street 22’ writer Oren Uziel tapped to write the screenplay.
Open-source, high-performance render manager based on Sony’s in-house queuing system, Cue 3, is purpose-built for the needs of the visual effects and animation industry.
James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez’s long-awaited epic sci-fi thriller opens in theaters February 14.
Veteran artist previously earned VES Award and Primetime Emmy nominations for work on Netflix series ‘Lost in Space.’
First-ever all-day interactive summit aims to support the next generation of creative leaders and industry disrupters.
Serbia-based group will lead Epic and Unreal Engine’s worldwide digital human efforts.
Substance design software, used in 3D editing and authoring for games and entertainment production, is coming to Creative Cloud.
Blockbuster Marvel feature that almost launched its own Popular Film category at the Oscars racks up seven Academy nods, including a groundbreaking nomination for production designer Hannah Beachler.
Contenders in the animated feature, animated short film and visual effects categories share their initial reactions to their nominations for Oscar gold.
Brad Bird’s ‘Incredibles 2,’ We Anderson’s ‘Isle of Dogs,’ Mamoru Hosoda’s ‘Mirai, Disney’s ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet,’ and Sony’s ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ receive nominations for Best Animated Feature.
Special Friday night program featuring Sony Pictures Animation’s hit animated superhero adventure highlights annual visual and digital effects conference and career fair coming February 8-10 in Vancouver.
Animation and games featured in seven outstanding achievement in sound editing categories, while VFX-driven film and TV take spots in eight others.
Studio’s head and executive creative director will share inner workings of their visual and physical effects work on Disney's BAFTA and VES-nominated sci-fi adventure.
Featuring new tools and performance enhancements for faster animation, improved working environments, higher quality previews and improved pipeline integration.
Creative studio’s advanced motion-capture technology and new pipeline for integrating live-action with CG dolls help director visualize true story of photographer Mark Hogancamp’s recovery from a vicious hate crime.
Exhibition hall highlights included algorithms driving increased 2D character animation production speed and more immersive virtual reality experiences.
Winners in 24 categories will be announced February 5 at 17th annual gala awards ceremony.
