Hollywood Post Alliance Announces 2015 Award Winners
Weta Digital wins Outstanding Visual Effects in a Feature Film for their work on ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’ at 10th Anniversary Gala honoring artists and innovators.
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Important Looking Pirates Sails to AWS Cloud with Avere
ILP, Scandinavia's largest visual effects and digital animation studio, meets demanding production schedules with help from Avere FXT Edge filers and cloud bursting technology.
Pluralsight Announces New Introduction to Houdini 2015 Course
Pluralsight celebrates Side Effects Software’s recent release of Houdini 15 with free courses and tools for beginners and seasoned professionals alike.
Laurent Barthelemy Merges Into Interstate
Versatile artist, director and filmmaker known for his work at Psyop joins award-winning directors' group founded by executive producer Danny Rosenbloom and director Yann Mabille.
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Humble Welcomes Jason Mayo as Director of Business Development
After 14 years at Click 3X, Jason Mayo takes new path with fast growing integrated production and content creation studio – Humble.
Fabric Software Prototypes New Editing Tools for Virtual Reality
New prototypes allow VR producers to storyboard and edit content directly within the virtual environment, as well as capture that data and bring it back into authoring applications such as Autodesk Maya.
SIGGRAPH Asia Wraps 2015 Edition
Eighth ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Conference and Exhibition brought together over 7,000 computer graphics professionals, technologists, researchers, enthusiasts and trade visitors hailing from 49 countries across the globe.
In CG, Event, Films, Games, People, Places, Short Films, Visual Effects | ANIMATIONWorld, Headline News, VFXWorld | Blogs: Animated Travels | Geographic Region: Asia
Chris Bremble: Leading the Base FX Juggernaut - Part 1
Cautious yet flexible expansion at one of China’s top VFX studios has caught the attention of both the Middle Kingdom and Hollywood’s biggest players.
HP Unveils New ZBook Mobile Workstation Line
With features that rival Apple’s 15-inch MacBookPro, the HP ZBook Studio mobile workstation is aimed squarely at the professional market.
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Former Shine CEO Alex Mahon Joins The Foundry
Design and visual effects software business The Foundry welcomes former Shine CEO.
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Moonbot Studios turns to Qube! for ‘Taking Flight’
PipelineFX's flexible render farm manager helps the Academy Award-winning Moonbot Studio's latest short overcome local rendering restrictions by taking to the cloud.
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Zoic Adds Executive Producer Jeff Blodgett
Joining Zoic Studios EPs Ian Unterreiner and Matt Thunel, Blodgett brings more than two decades of experience to his new position.
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The Crystal Clarity and Cold Breaths of Everest
One of Us and Milk VFX brave the elements in their work on Baltasar Kormakur’s action adventure.
Reallusion Upgrades Mocap Plug-in for New Kinect Xbox One
Real-time motion capture plug-in for high definition Kinect Xbox One turns iClone 6 Pro into an instant motion capture studio solution.
MAXON Joins the Khronos Group
Developer of Cinema 4D brings 3D know-how to International Consortium for Open Standards
FotoKem Taps DaVinci Resolve for ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’
FotoKem uses Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve for grading and online editing of the pilot of Starz Network’s hugely anticipated new ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ TV series.
Spin VFX Delivers Dramatic Effects for ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’
Spin VFX delivers more than 300 visual effects shots to recreate Leonardo DaVinci’s world in Renaissance Italy.
Thinkbox Software Opens Beta for Deadline 8
Latest version of Thinkbox Software’s high-volume data management solution for rendering or processing information introduces on-demand metered licensing.
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New ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ Teaser Returns to Wonderland
Packed with gorgeous imagery, new trailer for the follow-up to Tim Burton’s 2010 movie, ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ shows off work from VFX vendors Double Negative and Sony Pictures Imageworks.
Trunk Director Junior Martínez Animates Light
Junior Martínez and Pablo Barquín create a mesmerizing video for Sam Shepherd’s musical project Floating Points using a light rig that converts digital 3D data into analog movement to control the path of LED light.
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INK celebrates 80 years of Jaguar
Award-winning studio continues its plain-body series of vintage Le Mans winners with stunning Jaguar D-Type images created using VRay, 3ds Max and Photoshop.
Kitty Snyder Joins Atlanta Outpost for Beast, CO3 & Method
Post-production veteran is appointed Director of Creative Partnerships for the Atlanta branches of Beast, Company 3 and Method Studios.
Siren Lab Productions Launches in Venice, CA
Creative VFX studio led by veteran VFX Supervisor/Flame artist Karen Heston recently collaborated with director Cary Joji Fukunaga on ‘Beasts of No Nation’ for Netflix.
Autodesk 2016 Games Reel Call for Submissions Now Open
Deadline for submissions to the Autodesk Games Reel set to debut next year at GDC 2016 is December 14.
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Reel FX Takes WWE into the VR Ring for Samsung
Digital studio Reel FX teams up with WWE and Samsung to give wrestling fans an immersive, ringside look into the highly anticipated yearly SummerSlam PPV event.
