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box office Headline News

DreamWorks Animation’s ‘Boss Baby’ Unseats Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’

DreamWorks Animation and distribution partner 20th Century Fox’s ‘The Boss Baby’ brings in $50.2 million from 3,773 theaters for its debut, the ninth largest opening for a DWA title.

MPC Headline News

Multi-Award Winning Character Studio Launches MPC Life

New character and creature group to offer MPC Advertising’s proprietary ACE animated character engine tool for character-driven storytelling across a range of digital platforms.

NAB Headline News

Robert Legato to Present Keynote at 2017 NAB Show’s ‘The Future of Cinema Conference’

Emmy and Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor will discuss ‘Jungle Book,’ photorealism, and the future of filmmaking

Chaos Group Headline News

Chaos Group Releases V-Ray 3.5 for Maya

Fast adaptive lights and major GPU rendering improvements now available in latest update of Academy Award-winning renderer recently used on ‘The Fate of the Furious,’ ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ and ‘Stranger Things.’

Halon VFXWorld

Halon Entertainment Delivers Previs/Postvis for 20th Century Fox’s ‘Logan’

Halon previsualization/postvisualization supervisor Clint Reagan oversees key sequences for director James Mangold’s latest installment in the X-Men universe.

Previs VFXWorld

Halon Takes On Previs, Postvis and Final VFX for ‘Kong: Skull Island’

Postvis/VFX supervisor Teftt Smith II discusses the Santa Monica studio’s work on nearly 300 shots from previs through final delivery.

Films Headline News

Paramount Releases Five-Minute Action-Packed Clip from ‘Ghost in the Shell’

New clip from the forthcoming sci-fi adaptation directed by Rupert Sanders showcases stunning production design and visual effects with a mind-boggling attention to detail.

Polynoid Headline News

Polynoid, Woodblock Tease ‘Shark in the Park’ Short

First in a series of CG-animated edutainment films aimed at discovering the real magic of the world we live in approaches the explanation of natural phenomena in a fantastical way.

box office Headline News

Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Delivers Record-Setting $170M Debut

Live-action remake of the animated Disney classic debuts with a record-setting March opening weekend, delivering seventh-largest domestic opening of all time.

Squeeze Headline News

Squeeze Launches MOOV, First Motion Capture Animation Studio in Québec City

New mocap division under the leadership of video game and film veteran Dave Massicotte to provide high-quality animation services to video game and film producers.

SIGGRAPH 2017 Headline News

Registration Now Open for SIGGRAPH 2017

More than a dozen new experiences planned for 44th international conference and exhibition on computer graphics and interactive techniques to be held in Los Angeles July 30 through August 3.

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