Ridley Scott’s ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’ easily tops the U.S. box office with a $24.5 million debut; Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’ opens in 37 international markets, earning a massive $117.6 million.
Award-winning industry vets Kymber Lim, Dan Schrecker, Dan Levitan and Marshall Krasser push visual effects expertise into the newly-formed Psyop Film & Television division.
Improved render speeds, new Microfacet GTR / GGX BRDF, and major advancements in GPU rendering now available.
Montreal VFX studio welcomes former Hatch FX team to extend its Hollywood presence.
Digital Domain 3.0 COO Amit Chopra named executive vice president of parent company Digital Domain Holdings Limited.
VFX supervisors Andy Boyd and Jake Montgomery team with executive producer Asher Edwards to open artist-driven creative studio.
Kansas City-based 3D animation/VFX boutique restructures and expands its reach to include projection mapping, digital media and mobile applications.
Digital artists use Autodesk Maya and Mudbox to help bring 3D model of President Obama to life.
Framestore dishes out Christmas cuteness with the “cutest ad ever,” including puppies, kittens, piglets, and a gloriously incongruous CG Narwhal.
New update dramatically extends workflow flexibility and adds zoom and pan of images and movies in review toolset.
Leading industry professionals share top-notch innovations at Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center.
With no new wide releases in the U.S. this past weekend, Lionsgate's ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay -- Part 1’ topps the box office for the third time in a row, followed by DreamWorks Animation's ‘Penguins of Madagascar’ and R-rated comedy ‘Horrible Bosses 2.’
Final list of Oscar nominees to be selected following the VFX bake-off on January 10, 2015.
Created by Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg students Roman Kaelin, Falko Paeper and Florian Wittmann, diploma project has won several awards at animation and visual effects events around the world.
Devastating computer hack contains data for authoritative industry-wide survey on compensation information.
Three class-action lawsuits over anti-poaching and wage-fixing deals by Disney, DreamWorks Animation, Sony Pictures Imageworks and other animation studios have been consolidated into a single complaint under the jurisdiction of antitrust federal judge Lucy Koh.
Design software leader expands reach of free education offering to prepare an industry-ready workforce.
Projects in development include live-action comedy feature at Sony based on toymaker Mattel’s popular doll, Barbie.
Joe Strike finally takes a look at Disney’s latest “reimagineering” following its release on Blu-Ray.
Former Stardust creative director has completed high-profile spots for brands such as Air Jordan, Samsung and Starbucks.
Bristol and Glasgow-based visual effects studio delivers magical effects for the third series of the BBC’s hit kids series.
Alex Pejic, Stephane Nazé, Nigel Denton-Howes and Oscar-winner George Murphy join Framstore’s London and Montreal film offices.
Imaginative campaign draws back the curtain on Santa’s gift-giving magic, unlocking the secret of how he delivers Lexus vehicles to the driveways of three different families on Christmas morning.
Design veteran joins The Foundry as Head of Design for Commercial Products.
First software product from ZERO’s new software division, Code Zero, eliminates the pre-render guesswork: preview and fix banding, artifacting, color shifts before compressing.
