Post production and visual effects company Encore promotes Jay Bodnar to SVP, Engineering; Tom Kendall to SVP, VFX; and Morgan Strauss to SVP, Operations.
Visual effects studio Luma Pictures standardizes render management and data processing across studios with the purchase of more than 400 seats of Deadline for its Linux-based pipeline.
Rising VFX studio establishes pipeline around Shotgun for production tracking, review, and asset management.
Led by Director Seth Epstein, the creative team at Stardust completes a new short film commissioned by DC Shoes featuring Design/Graffiti and Art Collective CYRCLE.
R&D Center for Creative Projects; Current Initiatives Include Advances in Digital Filmmaking, Virtual Reality, and the Wikihuman Project.
Former Wiredrive exec launches West Coast agency specializing in broadcast, branded content, digital and interactive with diverse and compelling roster.
Technology experts from Digital Domain, Scalar Decisions and Digital District weighing in during Birds of a Feather Event; designer-friendly licensing option set to debut.
Legacy of 3D software innovation delivers modeling, animation and rendering enhancements for ‘real-world’ workflow.
Disney announces the start of production for James Bobin’s sequel, ‘Alice In Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass.’
New customers include Activision, Microsoft Games Studios, Eidos, Ubisoft, Crytek, DICE and USC School of Cinematic Arts.
Warner Bros. dates its live-action version of ‘Jungle Book: Origins’ for October 21, 2016, a little over a year after Disney’s rival project opens.
Bill Murray joins the cast of Disney’s ‘The Jungle Book’ as the voice of Baloo the Bear.
In another victory for Marvel Studios, James Gunn's ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ opens to a record-breaking $94.3 million in North America, the top August debut of all time.
The California Film Commission’s annual report on production tax-credit incentives shows $2 billion in losses since 2010.
Burbank-based visual effects company Stereo D plans to reduce its California employee base as part of its upcoming move to open a Toronto office.
Dick Smith, the Oscar-winning maestro of makeup who helped create the effects for ‘The Exorcist,’ dies at the age of 92.
In a move to attract even greater numbers of international productions, Ireland boosts its cash rebate from 28% to 32% beginning in 2015.
The studio options the 22-volume book series from the estate of American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey, who died in 2011.
Solid Angle to showcase Arnold 4.2 with Cinema4D and Houdini plug-ins at SIGGRAPH 2014.
Following director Christopher Nolan’s surprise appearance at last week’s Comic-Con International, Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures release the latest trailer for sci-fi epic ‘Interstellar’ onto the web.
‘Tangram Jam,’ developed and produced as part of the Cogswell Game Design & Development program, will be presented at the 2014 SIGGRAPH Conference’s “Appy Hour” showcase in Vancouver.
Brad Clark puts Autodesk’s latest flagship suite release through its paces.
Encore VFX helps realize a fictional Middle Eastern nation for FX’s new drama with exotic set extensions, extravagant CG palaces and city skylines, subtle environmental work and crowd duplication.
Disney releases the first teaser and a dozen new images for ‘Into the Woods,’ arriving in theaters on Christmas Day.
Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Movies release the first trailer for the animated/live action hybrid, ‘The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.’
