LOS ANGELES — Gentleman Scholar (http://gentlemanscholar.com) created a :30 spot for Otterbox that uses rapidly-cut vignettes, evocative imagery and dynamic typography to promote the company's new Alp ...

August 28, 2014

LOS ANGELES — The Television Academy awarded the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards last night from the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles. The awards honored programming that aired during the 2013-2014 s ...

August 26, 2014

MONTREAL — Rodeo FX received an Emmy Award for its visual effects contributions to HBO’s Game of Thrones. Acting as one of the main VFX vendors on the series, the Montreal-based company created a tota ...

August 26, 2014

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - Google has acquired Zync Inc., the developer of the Zync Render cloud-based rendering solution. A visual effects cloud rendering technology, Zync Render has been used on features s ...

August 26, 2014

ATLANTA — John Penn is an independent film/music composer, 3D sound designer, producer, media-tech entrepreneur, and owner of Undercurrent Labs (www.undercurrentlabs.com), the company he founded in 20 ...

August 25, 2014

NEW YORK — Nutmeg Post (http://nutmegpost.com) has added Emmy Award-winning sound designer/engineer Brian Beatrice to its creative team. He is known for his short-form work for Nickelodeon, Food Netwo ...

August 22, 2014

NEW YORK — Last week, I received an “Anonymous” email with a letter attached to it that was said to have been prepared by a core group of former Look Effects employees. The visual effects studio, whic ...

August 21, 2014

LONDON – Imagination Technologies (www.imgtec.com) showed their PowerVR graphics, GPU compute and ray tracing technologies at the recent SIGGRAPH show in Vancouver. The company’s solutions span across ...

August 20, 2014

BEVERLY HILLS — The Scientific and Technical Awards Committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (www.oscars.org) announced that 21 scientific and technical achievements have been sele ...

August 18, 2014

NEW YORK - Former Penny Lane owner and senior mixer Bobby Sorrentino (www.audioengine.net) will make his new home at AudioEngine|NYC after the closure of Penny Lane studios in mid-August. Penny Lane i ...

August 18, 2014