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 ...
August 18, 2015
LONDON — Absolutely Anything, the British sci-fi/comedy starring Simon Pegg, was graded by Mytherapy (http://mytherapy.tv) founder/chief colorist Dado Valentic using Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolv ...
August 14, 2015
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 ...
August 12, 2015
LOS ANGELES — At SIGGRAPH 2015, The Foundry (www.thefoundry.co.uk) is demonstrating Mari 3, the latest version of its 3D paint package. Mari is well suited for texturing and look development, particul ...
August 11, 2015
GUILDFORD, UK — IKinema (www.ikinema.com), a developer of realtime inverse kinematics technology, announced at SIGGRAPH a brand new concept in animation that will enable anyone to create animation usi ...
August 10, 2015
LOS ANGELES — Editor Charlie Harvey has moved to the Los Angeles office of international editorial company Whitehouse Post. She had been based at Whitehouse in London, but made frequent trips to the W ...
August 4, 2015
LONDON — VFX studio MPC (www.moving-picture.com), here, has established a creative and technology-led VR team it’s calling MPC VR. The group will focus on immersive exploration across industries, incl ...
July 31, 2015
HOLLYWOOD — Technicolor (www.technicolor.com) has expanded its animation and games division with the appointment of Sean Mullen as creative director and David Kern as games technical director. Mullen ...
July 28, 2015
LONDON — Soho-based sound design and audio facility Factory (www.factory.uk.com) has expanded its offerings with the addition of two new studios, including one of the area’s first Dolby Atmos-certifie ...
July 27, 2015
LONDON — FilmLight (www.filmlight.ltd.uk) recently expanded its presence in China with the addition of Eric Liu, who will operate the company’s new Beijing office. FilmLight develops color grading sys ...
July 24, 2015