PARIS — Technicolor (www.technicolor.com) has acquired London-based VFX and content creation studio The Mill for $292 million. Founded in 1990, The Mill provided VFX services for both advertising agen ...

September 15, 2015

BEVERLY HILLS — On Thursday, October 1st, Oscar winners John Lasseter, the chief creative officer of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, and Ed Catmull, the studios’ president, will take the stag ...

September 15, 2015

MONTREAL — For the second straight year, Rodeo FX (www.rodeofx.com) has won the Emmy Award for its contribution to the visual effects on HBO’s Game of Thrones. The VFX studio took home the award for “ ...

September 14, 2015

PARIS — SolidAnim (www.solidanim.com), which specializes in virtual production products, is showing its framing software SolidFrame at the IBC show in Amsterdam. SolidFrame is an interactive tool desi ...

September 10, 2015

TURIN, ITALY — The 16th annual VIEW Conference will take place in Turin from October 19th through 23rd, bringing together professionals across the digital arts industry. The conference recently announ ...

August 31, 2015

LOS ANGELES & VANCOUVER — Character-effects firm MastersFX (www.mastersfx.com) has named longtime VFX producer Scott Coulter as its new VP/EP of visual effects. He worked with the studio and its f ...

August 28, 2015

ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA — Aspiring visual effects artists have an opportunity to learn the basics of compositing through a new course offered by Rising Sun Pictures (www.rsp.com.au), here. “Introduc ...

August 25, 2015

LOS ANGELES — The Scientific and Technical Awards Committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 20 scientific and technical achievements, involving 11 distinct investigat ...

August 24, 2015

SUNNYVALE, CA — Two original apps developed by students at Cogswell College (www.cogswell.edu) have been named as finalists in Google’s 2015 “Project Tango Developer” Contest. These two projects are n ...

August 19, 2015

PLAYA VISTA, CA — Academy Award-winning visual effects studio Digital Domain (www.digitaldomain.com) has appointed O.D. Welch president. He will manage all aspects of the day-to-day operations at Digi ...

August 18, 2015