Featuring new tools and performance enhancements for faster animation, improved working environments, higher quality previews and improved pipeline integration.
Creative studio’s advanced motion-capture technology and new pipeline for integrating live-action with CG dolls help director visualize true story of photographer Mark Hogancamp’s recovery from a vicious hate crime.
Exhibition hall highlights included algorithms driving increased 2D character animation production speed and more immersive virtual reality experiences.
Winners in 24 categories will be announced February 5 at 17th annual gala awards ceremony.
Story artists and contributors on 1994 animated classic, made outside Writers Guild of America jurisdiction, may not be credited or compensated by upcoming live-action summer release.
Marvel superhero films awarded for both Best Animated Feature and Best Visual Effects; Netflix’s ‘BoJack Horseman’ wins for Best Animated Series.
Digital pioneer Bob Greenberg to receive Empire Award; VFX innovators Jonah Friedman and Andy Jones to receive Empire Tech Award.
‘Incredibles 2,’ ‘Isle of Dogs’ and ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ receive nominations in the Animated Film category; ‘Avengers: Infinity War,’ ‘Black Panther,’ ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald,’ ‘First Man,’ and ‘Ready Player One’ nominated for Special Visual Effects.
Ten Oscar hopefuls vie for nominations at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ annual Visual Effects Bake-Off.
Alfonso Cuarón, Bradley Cooper, Spike Lee, Adam McKay, and Peter Farrelly receive nominations for the DGA’s top feature film award.
Awards celebrate “Landscape of the Imagination” February 2 at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown.
Ten new Disney releases set for 2019 include super hero blockbusters, sci-fi adventures, live-action remakes of classic animated films, and the highly anticipated animated sequels ‘Frozen 2’ and ‘Toy Story 4.’
Winners of the 33rd Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards will be named at the awards gala on February 9.
Sentient dairy products, werewolf soldiers, robots gone wild, garbage monsters, cyborg bounty hunters, alien spiders and blood-thirsty demons from hell converge in an 185-minute genre orgy of *NSFM* (not suitable for mainstream) shorts.
VFX supervisor Ken McGaugh and animation supervisor Dennis Yoo face the challenges of creating a steampunk-inflected dystopian world inhabited by giant, predator cities on wheels for Oscar-winning VFX artist-turned-director Christian Rivers’ feature adaptation.
In the second part of AWN’s two-part interview, the director of Paramount’s new ‘Transformers’ sci-fi action adventure discusses the magic behind a compelling and emotional digital character performance.
‘Black Panther’ to vie for top producer award; ‘Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch,’ ‘Incredibles 2,’ ‘Isle of Dogs,’ ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ and ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ to contend in animated feature category.
Alongside a new featurette produced by primary visual effects vendor DNEG, Oscar-winning VFX supervisor Paul Lambert details the hybrid of practical and digital techniques employed for the cinematic adaptation of ‘First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong.’
Alongside primary visual effects vendor DNEG, Oscar-winning VFX supervisor Paul Lambert and production designer Nathan Crowley employ a hybrid of practical and digital techniques for the cinematic adaptation of ‘First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong.’
VFX producer Kimberly Nelson LoCascio wrangles two VFX supervisors and multiple VFX houses to help deliver more than 2,300 visual effects shots for director James Wan’s take on the DC Comics super hero.
Get ready for virtual reality with Chinese characteristics.
VFX supervisors Dan DeLeeuw and Kelly Port discuss the challenges of capturing the nuanced performance of Josh Brolin as the philosophical antagonist in ‘Avengers: Infinity War.’
In the first part of AWN’s two-part interview, the director of Paramount’s new ‘Transformers’ sci-fi action adventure shares how love, empathy and connecting with others lies at the heart of his new film.
Donald Duck’s biggest fan steals the show in new ad campaign from agency BETC Paris.
Annie-nominated character designer James Woods details the development of a host of characters for the animated sequences in the Disney sequel, including a new look for the iconic four penguins.
