SAN RAFAEL, CA — Fourteen movies nominated for Academy Awards made use of Autodesk’s Digital Entertainment Creation (DEC) software, particularly nominees in the “Best Visual Effects” and “Best Animate ...
February 17, 2012
LAS VEGAS — Hewlett Packard, at their Global Partners Conference, released the Z1, a workstation the company claims is the first workstation-class, all-in-one system on the market. The Z1 was designed ...
February 15, 2012
LOS ANGELES — Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpson, has donated $500,000 for the endowment of The Matt Groening Chair in Animation to the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (www.tft.ucla ...
February 13, 2012
LOS ANGELES — The Visual Effects Society (www.visualeffectssociety.com) announced the winners of its 10th Annual VES Awards last night at a ceremony held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The annual event ...
February 8, 2012
LOS ANGELES — VFX pros Vico Sharabani and Alex Frisch are launching COPA (Co-Op of Artists), a global collective of VFX artists working in the commercial and feature film space. COPA is a network of c ...
February 2, 2012
NEW YORK — As promised by Apple in June when they introduced Final Cut Pro X, the new release cycle for the product would be pretty consistent and frequent. With an update in September and a bug fix i ...
January 31, 2012
LOS ANGELES — Pixomondo (www.pixomondo.com), an international visual effects company with a network of 11 facilities throughout the world, recently completed work on 546 of the 1,524 VFX shots feature ...
January 27, 2012
LOS ANGELES — Pixomondo, an international visual effects company with a network of 11 facilities throughout the world, is gaining attention for its work on Martin Scorsese’s Hugo. The company has been ...
January 26, 2012
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND — Research and development company CoreCG (www.core-cg.com) has released MentalCore, a cross-platform plug-in that’s designed to help artists achieve maximum creativity and effic ...
January 25, 2012
SANTA MONICA — Escape Studios will present a free Webinar on February 15 highlighting the capabilities of Side Effects’ Houdini application. The Webinar is geared towards pros who want to get to know ...