VFXWorld Magazine
Nellie Chung Joins Brand New School
Award-winning integrated creative company announces the addition of Nellie Chung as Vice President of Strategy and Business Development.
ZEUS:Scout Brings Virtual Production to the iPad
ZEUS:Scout is a one-stop app enabling users to travel through a “virtual set” while on location, providing a powerful suite of navigation, creative and technical tools.
SIGGRAPH 2014 Brings Indie Game Showcase to Vancouver
SIGGRAPH 2014 teams up with Media Indie Exchange to bring the first-ever SIGGRAPH indie game showcase to its Exhibition, August12-14, at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, BC.
Imagineer Systems to Showcase mocha Pro 4.0 at SIGGRAPH 2014
Visit Imagineer Systems at booth 817 for demos of the newly released mocha Pro 4 with advanced support for native stereo 3D workflows, Python scripting and more improved features.
Rodeo FX Helps Create Spectacular Car Chase for ‘Lucy’
Montreal-based VFX studio completes more than 160 visual effects shots for key sequences of Luc Besson’s ‘Lucy,’ including a breathtaking car chase through the busy streets of Paris.
Box Office Report: ‘Lucy’ Puts Brains over Brawn with $44M Debut
Despite the weekend’s new offerings, North American revenue is once again down, this time by nearly 12 percent from the same weekend a year ago (the summer continues to be down by more than 20 percent).
UPDATED: Florida Sues Former Digital Domain Exec John Textor
UPDATE: Textor makes a statement regarding the Florida lawsuit, which he claims is politically motivated. The state of Florida files a lawsuit against former executives of Digital Domain Media Group Inc., saying the visual effects company was essentially a Ponzi scheme that defrauded the state out of more than $80 million in job-creation grants.
Brickyard VFX Helps Boost Mobile Move to the Head of the Class
Boutique visual effects, animation and digital production studio is tapped by 180LA for a two-spot campaign for Boost Mobile featuring NBA star Anthony Davis of the New Orleans Pelicans.
Shotgun Sets Course for SIGGRAPH 2014
Shotgun Software gears up for a lively week of events, education, new releases and more at SIGGRAPH 2014 in Vancouver.
Color House Apache Digital Opens in Santa Monica
Master colorists Steve Rodriguez and Shane Reed team with veteran EP LaRue Anderson to launch color-only specialist house Apache Digital.
MPC to Showcase a Year of Spectacular VFX at SIGGRAPH 2014
MPC is out in force at SIGGRAPH 2014 in Vancouver presenting work on some of the biggest movies of the year, including ‘Godzilla,’ ‘Maleficent,’ ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ and Marvel’s ‘Guardians of the Galaxy.’
Will Ferrell, Adam McKay to Produce 'Manimal' for Sony Pictures Animation
Will Ferrell and Adam McKay sign on to produce live-action/animation hybrid ‘Manimal’ for Sony Pictures Animation.
Warner Home Video Announces ‘Godzilla’
The king of the monsters is reborn when Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ ‘Godzilla’ arrives onto Blu-ray 3D combo pack, Blu-ray combo pack, 2-disc DVD special edition and Digital HD on September 16.
Disney Sets Release Date for ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 5’
The fifth installment of the long-running franchise, to be directed by 'Kon-Tiki's Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg, will arrive in theaters on July 7, 2017.
Vicon Customers to Take Center Stage at SIGGRAPH 2014
Framestore, The Capture Lab, Bradford University, Lumiscaphe, TechViz and Autodesk to present motion capture techniques for media, entertainment and product design.
University of Portsmouth Students Tap PipelineFX for ‘Stina & The Wolf’
Render farm management software Qube! speeds up production schedule and capitalizes on existing hardware for developing feature.
Monkeyhead Helps 'Untie The Knot' For Bravo
Fabric Engine 2.0 Adds Visual Programming
‘Arrow’ Star Stephen Amell to MC Warner Bros. TV Panel at SDCC
Three-hour event (8:00–11:00 p.m.) in Hall H features the World Premiere of ‘Gotham,’ complete pilot screening of ‘The Flash’ and exclusive footage from new series ‘Constantine’ and Season Three of ‘Arrow.’
The Academy Takes to the Air with Craig Barron And Ben Burtt
Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor Craig Barron and Oscar-winning sound designer Ben Burtt to explore the side-by-side advances in filmmaking technology and aviation at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' four-evening series, ‘Hollywood Takes to the Air.’
Thinkbox Opens Deadline 7 Beta
Thinkbox Software releases a beta build of Deadline 7 for the highly scalable management of render farms and compute resources.
Origin Digital Studios Launches
Origin Digital Studios opens in Burbank as new collective of veteran visual effects artists, producers and supervisors.