LONDON — The EE British Academy Film Awards (www.bafta.org) were presented last weekend during a ceremony at London’s Royal Opera House. Hosted for an eleventh year by Stephen Fry, the awards honored ...
February 16, 2016
MONTRÉAL — Cinesite has opened a new 54,000-square-foot animation studio in Montreal, Quebec. The studio will ultimately employ 500 permanent staffers and plans to begin work on nine feature-length an ...
February 8, 2016
GLASGOW, UK — The Axis group (www.axisanimation.com) of creative companies is branching out beyond animated narrative content for the games into long format television and film. The Axis team is colla ...
LOS ANGELES — Butter Music + Sound has promoted Annick Mayer to executive producer at their Los Angeles studio. She’s been with Butter for nearly four years, serving as a senior producer in New York, ...
February 5, 2016
LONDON — The Association of Motion Picture Sound (www.amps.net) has announced that The Martian is the winner of its 3rd Annual Award for ‘Excellence in Sound for a Feature Film’.
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — When many studios are limited to one facility and a small bank of computers, Australia’s Cutting Edge was sitting on a gold mine – two big VFX studios and all the hardware that cam ...
January 28, 2016
OXFORD, UK – Motion capture technology specialist Vicon (www.vicon.com) is revealing some of the key challenges that virtual reality will need to overcome in order for it to become a success. Accordin ...
January 20, 2016
TORONTO — AudioHero.com, the online, royalty-free music and sound effects market, is now offering 50 downloads of stock music or sound effects for just $9.99. The purchased tracks can be used in an ki ...
January 12, 2016
TORONTO — Los Angeles-based animatics shop Animated Storyboards (http://animatedstoryboards.com) has launched a new office in Toronto. Maria Hanafy will lead the new studio as managing director, along ...
January 11, 2016
LONDON — The Association of Motion Picture Sound (www.amps.net) has announced the nominations for its 3rd annual award for “Excellence in Sound for a Feature Film.” Five films exhibited in 2015 were s ...
January 8, 2016