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
LOS ANGELES — The Academy has voted fifteen students as winners of the 42nd Student Academy Awards competition. The Academy received a record number of entries this year — 1,686 films from 282 domesti ...
August 26, 2015
BURBANK, CA — Modern VideoFilm colorist Bryan McMahan recently participated in a 4K/HDR panel discussion presented by Key Code Media. The event took place on the Sony lot and gave McMahan ( Knight of ...
August 25, 2015
WHITE PLAINS, NY — Aug. 20, 2015 — The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, a worldwide leader in motion-imaging standards and education for the communications, media, entertainment, an ...
August 21, 2015
SHERMAN OAKS, CA — Marketing agency The Refinery AV (www.therefinerycreative.com) has hired Josh Olson as SVP of theatrical/creative director. He brings more than a decade of experience in entertainme ...
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
SUN VALLEY, CA — ALT Systems (www.altsystems.com), the full-service systems integrator and workflow solutions provider, has promoted Michael Ogorek to VP of sales and marketing. Ogorek will be respons ...
August 18, 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 ...
NEW YORK — Post Factory NY continues to grow its resources for motion picture finishing with the recent hiring of Colin Davis, who will serve as DI producer. Davis held a similar position with Company ...
CULVER CITY, CA — Better pixels or more pixels? Nearly 50 percent of US homes will own a 4K TV by 2020, yet both Netflix and Amazon Prime say High Dynamic Range (HDR) is more important. Meanwhile, edi ...
August 14, 2015