Returning Council co-chairs for 2016-2017 are two members of the Academy’s Visual Effects Branch: Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor and Academy governor Craig Barron, and USC adjunct professor and Google VR senior staff engineer Paul Debevec.
From Steel Wool Studios, ‘Bounce’ for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift combines narrative elements of animated features the intricate gameplay mechanics of VR to create the ultimate puzzle adventure.
Soho-based VFX studio tackles character animation for Hugh, a boy inhabited by bees, for the Tim Burton film from 20th Century Fox.
Collaboration on the colorful, fast-paced music video for ‘Super Hero,’ serving up hypnotic imagery from eye charts to kaleidoscopic wheels, included several key stages of production from ideation and design to compositing and rendering.
Led by VFX supervisor Everett Burrell, Zoic Studios delivers big Hollywood explosions and high impact antics to amplify the humor of the film’s chance encounters and secret missions.
Third annual UCFTI Expo to host senior executives from 20th Century Fox, Huayi Brothers, IMAX, Lionsgate, Wanda, LeVision, iQIYI, Warner Bros. China and STX Entertainment.
Grasshorse Studios uses ToonBoom Harmony and open-source Blender to create a music video for the band’s new single, ‘Roll Up.’
Innovative technologist, algorithm developer and scientist to lead the productization of Cubic Motion’s award-winning real-time technology.
Funded by Creative Europe, 16 aspiring technical directors, animation directors, producers and writers from Denmark, Germany, England, France, Hungary, Italy and The Netherlands visit the Animationsinstitut at Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg.
Fifth annual gala event will honor Cartoon Network’s founding president Betty Cohen, ‘Fairly OddParents’ creator Butch Hartman, Nelvana and Teletoon founder Michael Hirsh, LAIKA president and CEO Travis Knight, VFX visionary Ellen Poon, and Cyber Group Studios chairman & CEO Pierre Sissmann.
An estimated 63 comic book adaptations are set to hit the big screen by 2020 from creators ranging from ‘Captain America’ directors the Joe and Anthony Russo to comic book powerhouse Stan Lee.
Using scientific photos and data for reference, Method artists deliver seven minutes of content for the IMAX presentation of director Terrence Malick’s ‘Voyage of Time.’
Blur Studio co-founder exits 20th Century Fox’s blockbuster sequel due to a series of creative differences with star Ryan Reynolds.
Audio technology company originally founded by George Lucas to operate as an independent startup, retaining all management and employees.
Five-time Academy Award recipient -- including a Special Achievement Oscar for the visual effects ‘Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi’ -- served as VFX supervisor on the revolutionary ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit.’
The 2016 VIEW Conference in Turin, Italy promises once again, as it does each year, an inspirational week spent watching the best work from animation, VFX and game industry greats.
Additional third-party applications available on demand via Thinkbox include The Foundry’s NUKE and KATANA, Chaos Group V-Ray, NVIDIA Iray and Mental Ray, Redshift, and Peregrine Labs’ Yeti.
Visual artist Ronen Tanchum to serve as the head of the New York studio’s newly-launched Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality division.
November 17 event organized by The Children’s Media Conference aims to educate companies and freelancers about key factors for business success in the VFX and animation industries.
Cinema Audio Society’s Filmmaker Award to be presented at the 53rd Annual CAS Awards on February 18, 2017.
Character effects supervisor Eric Maurer and asset supervisor Oded Raz to bolster studio’s leadership team as the company gears up for the next round of feature work by Blur co-founder and ‘Deadpool’ director Tim Miller.
Comcast-owned studio reaches a settlement in the class-action lawsuit filed in December 2014 claiming it and other Hollywood studios violated antitrust laws by conspiring to suppress the wages of animation and VFX artists.
The International Emmy Kids Awards will take place on April 4, 2017 in Cannes.
The International Emmy Awards Gala will recognize original Short-Form Series, fiction and non-fiction programs, in November 2017.
Industry powerhouse David Shepheard joins newly-created Vancouver Film & Media Centre to drive growth and innovation in Vancouver’s booming digital entertainment and interactive business sectors.
