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
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
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
CULVER CITY, CA — Better pixels or more pixels? Nearly 50 percent of US homes will own a 4K TV by 2020, yet both Netflix and Amazon Prime say High Dynamic Range (HDR) is more important. Meanwhile, edi ...
LOS ANGELES — The 35th edition of The Reel Thing (www.the-reel-thing.com) technical symposium returns to Los Angeles this month, with two full days of sessions that look at the preservation of media a ...
August 13, 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 ...
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
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 ...
BIRMINGHAM, AL — Post studio Outpost Pictures (https://outpostpictures.tv/) has introduced Postgenie, a new Web-based tool that takes an “à la carte” approach to post production needs. Customized shot ...
MORRISVILLE, NC — Lenovo is at SIGGRAPH 2015 in Los Angeles with the beginning of a new family of mobile workstations. The 15-inch ThinkPad P50 and 17-inch P70 are the first two releases in the line-u ...
August 11, 2015