Boris FX Brings Mocha & Sapphire Effects Plugins to Vegas Pro 15
Mocha planar tracking plugin now officially supports Vegas Pro.
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Chaos Group Acquires Render Legion and Corona Renderer
Market leading architectural visualization rendering companies join forces; joint development already in process.
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VR Playhouse Merges with Identity FX
Merge shifts studio led by CEO Ian Forester and EP Leo Vezzali in a more technology-focused, interactive direction.
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Timber Wins Best Visual Effects Award at MTV VMAs
Creative team celebrates their first MTV Video Music Awards win for Best Visual Effects for Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Humble.’
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Thinkbox Releases Deadline 10
New edition of compute management software leverages Amazon EC2 Spot Instances to reduce costs and improve flexibility of visual effects rendering.
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Brickyard VFX Delivers End-to-End Production and Post for Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
Whimsical 30-second spot directed by Anton Thallner employs 2D animation to illustrate CB&TL’s mobile app features.
Heckler Teams with Artist Brooklyn Whelan for New VR Experience for Samsung
Sydney-based post-production and VFX house teams with Australian contemporary artist Brooklyn Whelan to bring fine art to Virtual Reality life for Samsung at this year’s Splendour In The Grass music and arts festival.
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Cloud Imperium Games, Faceware Technologies Bring Real-Time Graphics to ‘Star Citizen’
First-of-its-kind facial tech allows players to animate their character’s face while playing the first-person universe space simulation game.
Visual Effects Society Announces Rules & Procedures for 16th Annual VES Awards
Deadline for submissions to the 16th Annual VES Awards is November 30, 2017.
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SMPTE Hollywood Section Elects New Officers and Managers
Newly elected to one-year terms as Hollywood Section officers are Jim DeFilippis as Section chair and Steve Wong as secretary/treasurer. Ramon Breton, Tom Mikkelsen, and Erik Weaver have been elected to two-year terms as Section managers.
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Gentleman Scholar Helps Lenovo Bring Gaming to Life
New CG-animated cinematic trailer for Lenovo’s Legion brand via agency Ogilvy & Mather helps launch dedicated sub-group for gaming PCs.
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WATCH: Volker Engel Talks ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ VFX and More at FMX 2017
The veteran VFX supervisor and producer discusses the differences in visual effects he supervised on the new sequel compared to his Oscar-winning VFX work 20 years ago on the original Roland Emmerich hit film, Independence Day.
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Epic Games Releases Real-Time Compositing Tool Composure
New compositing tool inside Unreal Engine 4.17 enables users to composite real world images or video footage with CG imagery in real time.
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Maxon Receives Industry Awards for Cinema 4D R19 at SIGGRAPH 2017
Latest version of acclaimed 3D software application recognized by CGW and postPerspective News Sources for technology innovation and positive industry impact.
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Framestore Appoints Josh King as Senior VFX Producer
Visual effects producer has overseen widely-recognized commercial campaigns for Three, Cravendale and Harvey Nichols, among others.
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Australian Effects & Animation Festival Announces 2017 Winners
‘War for the Planet of the Apes,’ ‘The Jungle Book,’ ‘Kong: Skull Island,’ ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,’ ‘Ghost in the Shell,’ ‘Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets’ and ‘Doctor Strange’ receive awards for feature film VFX at 2017 Australian Effects & Animation Festival.
Director Patty Jenkins Returning for ‘Wonder Woman’ Sequel
‘Historic’ Warner Bros. deal to make Jenkins the highest paid female director in Hollywood.
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Zoic Studios Promotes John Kilshaw to Creative Director
VFX veteran has lent his talents to a slew of major feature films including ‘The Avengers,’ “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,’ and ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.’
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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.
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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.
Dystopia, Brought to You By...
In our “VR-first future,” the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Walter Schonfeld Appointed President, Deluxe Distribution
Former CEO of localization company SDI Media Group is tapped to oversee delivery, localization and digital cinema operations; Robert Julian appointed company CFO.
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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.
Framestore Ups Helen Hughes to Head of Advertising
Hughes has been an integral part of Framestore’s production department since 2010, leading a growing team of producers across Framestore’s core VFX artistry.
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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.
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