VENICE, CA — Digital Domain (www.digitaldomain.com) has hired veteran visual effects supervisor Carey Villegas. Villegas was nominated for a 2010 visual effects Oscar for work on Alice in Wonderland. ...
May 19, 2011
LONDON — Mill TV and Film won a BAFTA Craft Award for the studio’s work on Merlin Series 3, EP 2: The Tears of Uther Pendragon part 2. The studio was honored in the Visual Effects category by the Brit ...
May 9, 2011
EMERYVILLE, CA — System integration company Advanced Systems Group (ASG) will present an Animation & Compositing Tools Workshop on Wednesday, May 25. The free event will take place from 10am to 4p ...
NEW YORK — Absolute, with locations in New York and London, recently completed work on a spot for Verizon that promotes the speed of its fibre-optic FiOS network.
May 3, 2011
NEW YORK — The Visual Effects Society (www.visualeffectssociety.com) has formed a Section in New York. The Section will include members from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
April 25, 2011
LAS VEGAS — At NAB, HP (www.hp.com) is introducing a new entry-level workstation to its Z-series family. The HP Z210 will be available in a choice of form factors when it ships later this month.
April 13, 2011
LAS VEGAS — Winnipeg-based Thinkbox Software (www.thinkboxsoftware.com) set up a demo suite at the Las Vegas Hilton this week, where the company showed Version 5.0 of its Deadline 5.0 renderfarm manag ...
April 11, 2011
LOS ANGELES — Visual effects company Pixomondo ( www.pixomondo.com ) has standardized on Thinkbox Software’s Deadline network rendering solution. The studio will used Deadline across its facilities in ...
April 4, 2011
LAS VEGAS — NewTek (www.newtek.com) is giving away four TriCaster TCXD850 HD portable live production systems at NAB as part of the company’s TriCaster-A-Day Giveaway.
March 28, 2011
LOS ANGELES — Integrating live-action photography with virtual characters has always been a tremendous technical challenge. Virtual stages are fantastic tools for filmmakers to take actors and place t ...
March 22, 2011