MPC Delivers Photo-Real VFX for ‘American Sniper’
Led by VFX supervisor Greg Butler, MPC completes 200 shots -- including complex 3D work -- for Clint Eastwood’s Oscar-nominated feature.
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Nurulize’s NuReality: Desert Home VR portal on show at SXSW 2015
New Virtual Reality experience shows glimpse into the future of VR.
Gallery: Concept Art - Creation of Ancient Egypt Sets on ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’
A selection of concept art images showing various aspects of the creation of ancient Egypt from 20th Century Fox and Ridley Scott’s most recent epic, ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings.’
Hybride Produces Undetectable Olympic Games Sequence VFX for ‘Unbroken’
VFX studio handles 50 shots including crowd sims and Berlin Olympic Stadium virtual replica.
Disney Sets Release Date for 3-D Live Action ‘Beauty and the Beast’
Belle and the gang big screen retelling starring Emma Watson set for March17, 2017 release.
2015 Student Academy Awards Competition Announced
The Motion Picture Academy begins accepting entries for the 2015 student film competition.
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Practical Magic: The State of the VFX Industry in 2015, Part 1
Hopefully Steve’s crushed dreams from 1999 can be healed with a great new ‘Star Wars’ movie.
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Bob Iger Announces First ‘Star Wars’ Stand-Alone Film ‘Rogue One’
Gareth Edwards to direct first new film set outside core Star Wars saga.
AWN Professional Spotlight: FMX 2014 – Max Solomon
As part of AWN’s Professional Spotlight series -- a series of exclusive video interviews shot during FMX 2014 – Max Solomon, an animation supervisor at Framestore, talks about the animation, previs and onset virtual technology used on the Oscar-winning film ‘Gravity.’
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SolidAnim, Vicon and Unity to Showcase Virtual Production Workflows
Orly event demonstrating synergy and unified configurations for filming with special effects in real time set for next Wednesday, March 18, 2015.
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AWN Professional Spotlight: FMX 2014 – Russell Earl
Russell Earl, a visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic, discusses the extensive previs and visual effects work done on Marvel’s 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' and more as part of AWN’s series of exclusive video interviews from FMX 2014.
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New Trailer Debuts for Disney’s ‘Tomorrowland’
Your questions about the future might just be answered in the new trailer for Brad Bird and Disney’s upcoming fantasy flick.
DUCK Signs Aatma Studio
San Francisco-based broadcast and interactive media studio joins Los Angeles-based DUCK Studio’s directing roster.
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AWN Professional Spotlight: FMX 2014 – Alex McDowell
Alex McDowell, world-building expert and Professor at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, discusses world building, film and animation production design, and more as part of AWN’s series of exclusive video interviews from FMX 2014.
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First Poster Unveiled for Disney and Brad Bird’s Upcoming ‘Tomorrowland’
First Poster Unveiled for Disney and Brad Bird’s Upcoming ‘Tomorrowland’
Asset Supervisor Dave Cardwell Joins Spin VFX
The creator of the now Autodesk-owned 3D sculpting tool, Mudbox, Cardwell was a recipient of the Academy’s Technical Achievement Award in 2013.
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Kevin Aratari Joins Troika
Former mOcean exec to oversee sales and marketing and help spearhead new business development and thought leadership initiatives.
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Valerie Petrusson Named President of Beast
Post production industry veteran will be responsible for overseeing creative editorial company’s seven offices across New York, Santa Monica, San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit and Austin.
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PipelineFX’s Qube! Releases Autodesk VRED Job Type
Artist workstation batch render support extends ability to optimize render farm manager’s path to visualization software.
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Breakthrough Ent. Appoints New Distribution VP
Industry veteran Craig McGillivray rejoins Toronto-based production and distribution company in a senior-level role focused on international sales and programming acquisitions.
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Red Giant Introduces New Volume Licensing Program
Designed for organizations with multiple artists, workstations and facilities, new program features easy-to-manage floating license model for world-class motion graphics and visual effects plug-ins.
SolidAnim Introduces SolidTrack at CABSAT 2015
Latest version of markerless camera tracking and previs solution for real-time visual effects and on-set visualization to be showcased at Dubai conference.
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Harrison Ford Seriously Injured in Plane Crash
The ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Indiana Jones’ star crash lands vintage plane on Venice, California golf course.
AWN Professional Spotlight: FMX 2014 – Andy Serkis
Andy Serkis, actor, director and producer, discusses his pioneering performance capture work in roles like Gollum, Caesar, and more as part of AWN’s series of exclusive video interviews from FMX 2014.
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Marvel Releases New 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' Trailer
The Avengers team up again to stop the villainous Ultron’s plans for mankind’s destruction.
