LONDON — Nathan McGuinness, former founder, CEO & creative director of the recently shuttered Asylum VFX, has joined Double Negative Singapore (www.dneg.com) as its creative director. While workin ...
December 21, 2010
LOS ANGELES — Animation and motion-capture company Vicon House of Moves (www.moves.com) was hired by Grid Productions for a week of motion capture sessions during the production of Walt Disney Picture ...
SANTA MONICA — Visual effects house Entity FX ( www.entityfx.com ) provided services — in stereoscopic 3D — for the new Warner Bros. feature, Yogi Bear, which opens in theaters on December 17. The fil ...
December 14, 2010
BEVERLY HILLS — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced 15 films that have been selected as semifinalists for Achievement in Visual Effects for the 83rd Academy Awards.
December 13, 2010
LONDON – The Foundry has launched an open beta program for their new Storm digital cinema camera workflow product. Storm is designed to address the complexity of shooting digital, performing core task ...
December 2, 2010
NEW YORK — Award-winning animation studio Nathan Love (of production company Mothership) has ventured where few directors have dared gone, particularly around the holiday season: inside the depths of ...
December 1, 2010
HOLLYWOOD — The Pixologic ZBrush User Group (ugm.pixologic.com) will meet on December 4, at The Los Angeles Film School. Notable artists Neville Page and Ian Joyner will both share their insight as to ...
November 29, 2010
MARINA DEL REY, CA — The second annual VES Production Summit took place on October 23 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, here. The VES (Visual Effects Society) represents professionals who produce, create and ...
November 24, 2010
SANTA MONICA — Last week, 11-year-old high-end visual effects house Asylum VFX closed its doors. They were another victim of our economic climate as well as, according to owner Nathan McGuinness, runa ...
November 22, 2010
HOLLYWOOD — The Gnomon School of Visual Effects (www.gnomonschool.com), here, is working with the Stan Winston Family to launch the Stan Winston School of Character Arts. The effort aims to continue t ...
November 19, 2010