MONTREAL — Québec Premier Pauline Marois visited visual effects house Cinesite on Monday, January 20, for the official announcement that the studio is opening up in Montréal. The London studio is grea ...

January 20, 2014

BEVERLY HILLS — Actor Chris Hemsworth and Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs announced the nominations for the 86th Academy Awards (www.oscar.com), which will take place on Sunday, March 2.

January 16, 2014

BEVERLY HILLS — Room on the Broom has been nominated for an Oscar in the Short Film (Animated) category. The film was directed by Max Lang and Jan Lachauer. The honor marks Lang's second nomination ( ...

January 16, 2014

BEVERLY HILLS — Known throughout Japan as Tsukomo, the animated short Possessions has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Animated Short Film category. Possessions is part of Katsuhiro Otomo’s ...

January 16, 2014

BEVERLY HILLS — MPC’s (www.moving-picture.com) work on Disney’s The Lone Ranger has been recognized with an Oscar nomination for Visual Effects at the 86th Academy Awards. MPC's VFX supervisor Gary Br ...

January 16, 2014

PORTLAND, OR — Animation and VFX company Bent Image Lab (www.bentimagelab.com) has expanded its business to Europe with the recent opening of an office in Spain. Bent offers CGI animation, stop motion ...

January 15, 2014

PALO ALTO, CA — At the CES show in Las Vegas this month, HP (www.hp.com) unveiled the Z1 G2, a new 27-inch all-in-one workstation with touch capability. The Z1 G2 is the second-generation all-in-one w ...

January 6, 2014

CULVER CITY, CA — Baraboom Studios (www.baraboomstudios.com) has opened a new facility that specializes in previsualization. The new Culver City-based studio launched with a small team of artists in l ...

January 3, 2014

HOLLYWOOD — The Hollywood Foreign Press Association recently announced the nominees for the 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards. The event (www.goldenglobes.com) will take place on Sunday, January 12, 201 ...

December 12, 2013

CULVER CITY, CA — Casey Hupke has joined visual effects house Zoic Studios as art director for the studio’s commercial and games division. He brings nearly a decade of experience as a VFX designer/ani ...

December 5, 2013