‘Namoo,’ ‘Eternals: AR Story Experience’ Lead PGA Innovation Award Nominations
Award recognizes outstanding innovations in VR, AR, Experiential and other emerging media.
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Lucasfilm’s Lynwen Brennan to Receive VES Lifetime Achievement Award
The Visual Effects Society to honor her integral role in the creation of ILMxLAB, as well as her exemplary support of the education and development of women artists and engineers.
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New Cast Joins Stephen King’s ‘The Boogeyman’ Adaptation as Filming Begins
The forthcoming horror-thriller from 20th Century Studios and ‘Host’ director Rob Savage has begun shooting in New Orleans; film set to stream on Hulu in 2023.
How NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise Impacts Remote Animation and VFX Workflows
New free White Paper from BOXX Technologies details how the platform is built to address the increasingly common and complex challenges faced by animation and VFX teams across the M&E space.
Digital Domain Helps ‘Bridge’ the Multiverse in ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’
VFX supervisor Scott Edelstein, nominated for an Oscar alongside Kelly Port, Chris Waegner, and Daniel Sudick, led his team in delivering more than 520 shots and 600 unique assets, including recreating 2.5 square miles of New York City for the dramatic Doc Ock – Spidey bridge fight, in Marvel’s smash action-adventure hit.
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Realtime Conjures More VFX Magic for ‘A Discovery of Witches’ Season 3
UK animation and VFX studio returns for the Sky TV drama's third and final season; VFX breakdown reel highlights studio’s work crafting a range of subtle, magical visual effects grounded within the tone of the storytelling.
Unreal Engine 5 Preview Released
Users can now access the software with all features intended for final release, and are encouraged to experiment with new tools and workflows and otherwise put the program through its paces to help identify any remaining glitches.
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George R.R. Martin Teams With Marvel on ‘Wild Cards’ Comic Series
The prolific ‘Game of Thrones’ author says his partnership with the comics giant ‘brings me no end of joy.’
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Nice Shoes Names John Koltai Creative Director
Experienced art director and multidisciplinary visual media expert will focus on the studio’s innovative motion graphic design for film, television, advertising, and other media.
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Framestore Goes on the Hunt in ‘Dexter: New Blood’
Leading VFX company’s New York studio recreates a white stag – a key symbol in the show – in the highly anticipated ‘Dexter’ sequel, now playing on Showtime.
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Scanline VFX Heads Off to War in ‘The Battle at Lake Changjin’
VFX studio tackles a series of long, digitally stitched-together riverbed battle sequences in the Korean War drama, China’s most expensive, and highest grossing movie ever.
Walton Goggins to Star in Prime Video’s ‘Fallout’ Video Game Adaptation
New series, based on Bethesda Softworks’s popular dystopian videogame franchise, will start shooting later this year, with ‘Justified’ star’s character expected to be based on a ‘ghouls’ from the games.
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MELS Unveils 10,000 Square-Foot Virtual Production Stage
Company continues its push into virtual film production services with investment in new state-of-the-art Montreal facility.
Tom Hanks, Robert Zemeckis, and Eric Roth Team Up to Adapt Graphic Novel ‘Here’
Decades after making ‘Forrest Gump,’ the three will reunite as creative partners to bring Richard McGuire’s innovative art comic to the screen.
AFX Creative Channels ‘Austin Powers’ for GM’s ‘EVil is Back for Good’ Campaign
Creative studio teams up with McCann Detroit to produce a comedic, VFX-driven narrative featuring the return of Mike Myers’ Dr. Evil; created for the car maker’s Super Bowl LVI campaign, the spot paid homage to the iconic 1990’s spymaster spoof while dealing with topical issues of climate and reduced emissions.
Epic Games Shares 2022 Unreal Engine Growth
Check out the real-time round-up: explore emerging trends in the metaverse and impact on real-time 3D technology; and watch the ‘Virtual Production Sizzle Reel 2022’ to see how Unreal engine, virtual production and in-camera VFX is feeding an explosion of creativity.
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A ‘BioShock’ Film Adaptation is Coming to Netflix
The streaming giant, along with 2K and Take-Two Interactive, will at long last make the dystopian deep-sea sci-fi shooter game into a movie, after previous efforts to do so were abandoned years ago.
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Paramount Gives Knuckles His Own Show Set in the ‘Sonic’ Universe
In a new spin-off series set to debut in 2023, Idris Elba will return to voice the red-furred rogue, who makes his first live-action appearance in ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’ coming this April.
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Mathematic Crafts the Dystopian Auto-Racing World of Pink Noise’s ‘Sky Cry’ Music Video
The creative studio delivers ‘Crashtag,’ the world's first robot influencer, using a variety of 3D tools to design and build the futuristic sci-fi world of director Kim Chapiron’s new short film.
John Cena to Play Looney Tune Land Lawyer in ‘Coyote vs. Acme’
Audiences will be seeing the ‘Suicide Squad’ and ‘Peacemaker’ star in court, defending ACME Corporation from a looney lawsuit over its faulty mail-order devices, in the just announced Warner Bros. live-action / CG animation hybrid film.
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VES to Honor Academy Award-Winning Director Guillermo del Toro
The Visual Effects Society names the acclaimed filmmaker this year’s recipient of the VES Creative Excellence Award; his film, ‘The Shape of Water’ received 2 Oscars and his most recent, ‘Nightmare Alley’ has garnered 4 nominations at the upcoming Academy Awards.
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‘Godzilla,’ ‘Evangelion,’ ’Ultraman,’ and ‘Kamen Rider’ Join Up for Shin Japan Heroes Universe
The companies behind the four iconic properties have partnered to bring them all together in one MCU-style world-building venture.
Oscar Isaac Embraces His Inner-Chaos in New 'Moon Knight' Trailer
In Marvel Studios’ new series, dissociative identity disorder creates a world of madness for its protagonist and a world of possibilities for its VFX team.
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‘Blade Runner 2099’ Live-Action Series in Development at Amazon Studios
The spinoff, set 50 years after the events of ‘Blade Runner 2049,’ has a pilot and bible ready to go, with series stalwart Ridley Scott attached to executive produce and possibly direct.
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‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Gets New Trailer and In-Depth First Look
New footage, photos, and plot details from the highly anticipated Prime Video series tease never-before-explored settings and storylines, and signal to fans that it won’t be going the route of ‘Game of Thrones.’
