VFXWorld Magazine
DNeg Honored at BAFTAs for 'Blade Runner 2049'
Autodesk Celebrates Awards Success for Projects Using its Tools
All five Oscars best visual effects nominees used software made by the company, whose employees also were honored by the Television Academy and at the Sci-Tech Awards.
Piecing Together the Puzzle: Bringing ‘Black Panther’ to the Screen
Production VFX Supervisor Geoff Baumann assembled and managed the movie’s heavy-hitter vendor lineup to complete more than 2,000 visual effects shots for Marvel’s most recent hit.
Can Three Caesars Add Up to One More Oscar for Joe Letteri?
Weta’s four-time Oscar-winning senior VFX supervisor talks about the complexities of creating believable digital ape performances in the final film in Fox’s ‘Apes’ trilogy reboot, director Matt Reeves’ futuristic action adventure ‘War for the Planet of the Apes.’
Chaos Group Sets Total Chaos Event for 3D Artists and Developers
Wacom Introduces Cintiq Pro 24-inch Pen Display
High-performance, mid-size display is built for creative and design applications including augmented and virtual reality.
Jeff White Named Creative Director of ILM Vancouver
Academy Award winner and visual effects supervisor of ‘Kong: Skull Island’ takes creative reins of ILM’s Canadian studio.
The 2018 VFX Nominees: Doubling Down on Digital Effects
Group of 20 nominees draws on two decades of experience and technological advances, delivering shots that were previously unimaginable.
Do Digital Characters Deserve Academy Awards?
Academy governors Richard Edlund and Bill Kroyer weigh in on how to acknowledge and reward the growing number of stellar CG character performances.
Center for Visual Music Restores Oskar Fischinger Work for DVD
Release makes available classic and rare films by the ‘Father of Visual Music’ and the great-grandfather of motion graphics.
axisVFX Blends VFX with Stop Motion for 'Early Man'
Bristol-based VFX outfit delivers effects across 1,350 shots on Nick Park’s most-recent Aardman feature.
PETA's Oscats Recognize 'Ferdinand,' 'Last Jedi,' 'Jumanji'
Animal-rights group rewards films for storylines positive to animals and use of CG imagery instead of live creatures.
Double Negative Delivers the Joi of ‘Blade Runner 2049’
DNeg VFX supervisor Paul Lambert details the creation of futuristic Los Angeles cityscapes, the holographic Joi, and the visuals for the final act of director Denis Villeneuve’s follow-up to the 1982 sci-fi film noir classic by Ridley Scott.
'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Comes Home in March
Digital and Blu-ray editions in HD and 4K include extensive bonuses including a feature-length making-of documentary and 14 deleted scenes.
Annie Winner Tuna Bora Joins Nexus Studios
Poland's CeTA Played Key Role in 'Loving Vincent'
Center assisted painters by providing detailed reference, visual effects, compositing and editing for Oscars-nominated feature.
MPSE Honors 'Coco'; ASC Lauds 'Blade Runner 2049'
Sound editors’ guild also honored sound work in short-form animation, games and non-theatrical long-form animation.
Framestore Celebrates BAFTA VFX win for 'Blade Runner 2049'
SIGGRAPH, FlyOver Canada Present Themed Entertainment Contest
Winner will receive $10,000 prize as well as a trip to the conference for a premiere event for their content.
The 90th Oscars: The Visuals of ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’
One of five films to receive a nomination for best visual effects in this year’s race for Oscar gold, ‘Episode VIII’ mixes new characters with those from the 1977-1983 films in wholly new environments.
‘Coco,’ ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Win BAFTA Awards
Pixar feature wins BAFTA Award for best animated film; Roger Deakins wins fourth BAFTA for Cinematography for ‘Blade Runner 2049,’ which also wins for special visual effects.
On the Road to the 90th Oscars: The VFX of ‘Kong: Skull Island’
VFXWorld takes a closer look at the Oscar-nominated effects that brought the biggest version of King Kong ever to the big screen.