VFXWorld Magazine

A Nov. 4 story on MPC in Hollywood trade ‘Variety’ is met with negative commentary from the VFX community, including descriptions of deplorable working conditions and a toxic corporate environment.

MACOM, NVIDIA and Wohler/Cinnafilm Joint Venture to receive Engineering Excellence Awards; the American Society of Cinematographers and DigitalFilm Tree to receive the HPA Judges Award for Creativity and Innovation in Post Production.

Emily Whinnett joins Soho Square Productions as Director of Programmes.

We Think Things, founded by motion graphics artists and directors Pascal Monaco and Felix Mayer, signs with The Academy for commercial representation.

Ahead of the Fall 2014 semester, USC School of Cinematic Arts installs OptiTrack motion capture and tracking systems in three key locations within the Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts.

Ntropic partners with mcgarrybowen to create a humorous take on the adventures of today’s business travelers in ‘Travel for Work,’ a multi-spot campaign for Marriott.

‘The Looking Planet,’ directed by Eric Law Anderson, wins Best Animated Film at the 17th annual Savannah Film Festival.

Second annual free, all-ages event to be held at the Old Mint Building in San Francisco’s Mint Plaza on Saturday, November 1, 2014.

IMAX signs deal to release four of Twentieth Century Fox's upcoming films: DreamWorks Animation's ‘Penguins of Madagascar,’ Ridley Scott's ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings,’ ‘Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb’ and EuropaCorp's ‘Taken 3.’

Charles Dance to play the lead role of the alien Overlord Karellen in Syfy’s upcoming miniseries ‘Childhood’s End’ based on the book by Arthur C. Clarke.

Haim Saban, Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan and Jeremy Zag join forces to launch ZAG Animation Studios, with plans to release two films per year beginning in 2017.

Gala event on November 2 to honor ‘Simpsons’ director David Silverman, TV animation icon Phil Roman, DreamWorks Animation producer Bonnie Arnold, and voice talent of the year Jim Cummings.