VES Expands Influential VFX Films List to 70
Additions celebrate group’s 20th anniversary, adding both contemporary and classic titles.
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Abrams Returns to Write, Direct ‘Star Wars: Episode IX’
‘The Force Awakens’ helmer returns to wrap up the franchise he launched after Colin Trevorrow’s exit from the project.
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KitBash3d Launches 3D Asset Store for VFX Artists
New 3D architectural kits for CG Environments, concept art and matte paintings available now online; Learn Squared presents ‘The KitBash3d Festival,’ and free Livestream tutorials featuring artists Ash Thorp, Darek Zabrocki, Jan Urschel, Nick Hiatt, Justin Goby Fields and Maxx Burman.
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'In a Heartbeat' Tops 2017 animago AWARD & CONFERENCE Winners
Projects from France dominated the winners at the 21st edition of the animago AWARD & CONFERENCE, announced Sept. 8 in Munich, Germany.
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‘Westworld,’ ‘Gotham’ Recognized for Outstanding VFX at 69th Creative Arts Emmy Awards
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ wins award for Outstanding Production Design; Netflix series ‘Strangers Things’ awarded for Outstanding Main Title Design.
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Method Studios Reshuffles Global Leadership
Eric Combrié promoted to COO and Tom Wild to VP global production operations to unify Method, Iloura, VR/AR operations across Los Angeles, New York, Vancouver, Sydney, Melbourne & Pune; Jeff Werner returns as director of digital studio, Method LA.
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Double Negative To Open New Montréal Studio
New location due to open in early 2018 will be Academy Award-winning VFX company’s sixth international facility.
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Ava DuVernay to Deliver Keynote Address at 2017 VES Summit
Director of the upcoming Disney feature ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ joins speaker lineup at ninth annual VES Summit to be held Saturday, October 28.
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Zoic Studios Unveils VFX Breakdown for ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 7
Emmy Award-winning VFX house gives a behind-the-scenes glimpse into how they brought Episode 1’s shocking removal of one of Arya’s ‘many faces’ to life.
Framestore Ups Mathieu Bertrand to Head of CG
Montréal local served as CG supervisor on films including BAFTA-nominated ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,’ Denis Villeneuve’s BAFTA-nominated ‘Arrival,’ Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien: Covenant’ and the upcoming ‘Geostorm.’
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VIEW Conference 2017 Announces Final Program
Registration now open for 18th annual computer graphics symposium running October 23-27; entries underway for ‘View Awards’ and ‘Games Bootcamp.’
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Visual Effects Society Announces Special 2017 Honorees
Toni Pace Carstensen named recipient of the 2017 VES Founders Award; visual effects producer and longstanding member of the VES Awards Committee Chuck Finance designated with Lifetime VES Membership; legendary VFX archivist and practitioner Bob Burns given Honorary VES Membership.
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VRLA Announces 2018 Expo Dates
World’s largest VR/AR convention returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center May 4th & 5th.
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WATCH: Synthespian CEO Jeff Kleiser Talks Stereo Dome Projection and VR at FMX 2017
The veteran VFX supervisor talks about his recent work on VR and animated stereoscopic 3-D dome projection projects as well as feature films in development.
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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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