ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA — Aspiring visual effects artists have an opportunity to learn the basics of compositing through a new course offered by Rising Sun Pictures (www.rsp.com.au), here. “Introduc ...
August 25, 2015
LOS ANGELES — The Scientific and Technical Awards Committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 20 scientific and technical achievements, involving 11 distinct investigat ...
August 24, 2015
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
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 ...
August 18, 2015
BURBANK — FuseFX (http://fusefx.com) has hired veteran visual effects supervisor/executive Jason Dowdeswell to lead their facility in Vancouver. Previously VP of production operations at Sony Pictures ...
LOS ANGELES — NIM Labs (http://nim-labs.com/) recently unveiled NIM, a browser-based studio management tool that tracks the production pipeline from start to finish. The secure environment serves as a ...
August 17, 2015
LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK — Michael Waldron, TV Land’s VP creative director art and design, recently directed 19 different artists from around the world for his second installment of The Exquisite Corpse P ...
August 13, 2015
SHERMAN OAKS, CA — At the SIGGRAPH show in Los Angeles, Faceware Technologies (www.facewaretech.com), the provider of markerless 3D facial motion capture solutions, launched the Faceware Live plug-in ...
August 12, 2015
LOS ANGELES — Reallusion (http://www.reallusion.com) is at this week’s SIGGRAPH show with three disruptive innovations for 3D animation: iClone 6, Character Creator and the iClone Live Motion Capture ...
SOFIA, BULGARIA — At SIGGRAPH 2015, Chaos Group (www.chaosgroup.com) launched V-Ray for Nuke, a new approach to lighting and compositing that integrates production-quality ray traced rendering into Nu ...