BATON ROUGE, LA — Pixomondo (www.pixomondo.com), which offers visual effects services through a network of worldwide locations, has plans to open a new facility in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The facility ...
February 29, 2012
HOLLYWOOD — The 84th Annual Academy Awards took place last night, and while Hugo came into the evening with the most nominations (11) and took home statuettes for VFX, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing, ...
February 27, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO — Mixamo (www.mixamo.com), the online character animation service, recently made available free scripts for Maya and 3DS Max users that allow a 3D artist to realize a fully rigged 3D cha ...
February 24, 2012
CAMBRIDGE, MA — GenArts ( www.genarts.com ) recently introduced Monsters GT Version 7, a new suite of visual effects plug-ins. Monsters GT features more than 50 effects that are designed to enrich art ...
February 23, 2012
SAN ANTONIO, TX — NewTek (www.newtek.com) is now shipping LightWave 11, the latest version of its professional 3D modeling, animation, and rendering software. LightWave 11 incorporates many new featur ...
February 21, 2012
LOS ANGELES — COPA recently worked on “Turn Me On,” the new music video for David Guetta and Nicki Minaj. Directed by Sanji at Wondros Productions via EMI Music, the video is set in an antique world, ...
SAN RAFAEL, CA — Fourteen movies nominated for Academy Awards made use of Autodesk’s Digital Entertainment Creation (DEC) software, particularly nominees in the “Best Visual Effects” and “Best Animate ...
February 17, 2012
LAS VEGAS — Hewlett Packard, at their Global Partners Conference, released the Z1, a workstation the company claims is the first workstation-class, all-in-one system on the market. The Z1 was designed ...
February 15, 2012
LOS ANGELES — Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpson, has donated $500,000 for the endowment of The Matt Groening Chair in Animation to the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (www.tft.ucla ...
February 13, 2012
LOS ANGELES — The Visual Effects Society (www.visualeffectssociety.com) announced the winners of its 10th Annual VES Awards last night at a ceremony held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The annual event ...
February 8, 2012