LOS ANGELES — The Hollywood Post Alliance (www.hpaawards.net) has added a new craft award category for independent feature films to its 2012 HPA Awards. The category will include three separate awards ...
July 5, 2012
NEW YORK — IdeaRocket ( idearocketanimation.com ) has created the new whiteboard show open for the Showtime series Weeds, which is back for its eighth and final season. Production on the final season’ ...
July 3, 2012
Bringing a child’s teddy bear to life might sound like a warm and fuzzy VFX assignment, but Ted, the brainchild of the multi-talented Seth MacFarlane, of Family Guy and American Dad fame, is like no o ...
July 1, 2012
HOLLYWOOD — Director/writer/producer Len Wiseman, who began his career as a storyboard and conceptual artist as well as an art department assistant on such Roland Emmerich blockbusters as Independence ...
CULVER CITY — Black suits and shades. Aliens. Neuralyzers. Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. Yep, the men of Men in Black are back for the third installment of director Barry Sonnenfeld’s sci-fi c ...
VANCOUVER — Method Studios completed 223 CG VFX shots on Twentieth Century Fox’s new film, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. The plot explores the secret life of America’s famous president and the unto ...
June 26, 2012
HOLLYWOOD — Videogame creative agency Hammer Creative (www.hammercreative.com) conceived, produced, edited and provided post production services for a new, four trailer marketing campaign that promote ...
June 21, 2012
HOLLYWOOD — UnitZeroVFX, a division of The Traveling Picture Show Company (www.travelingpictureshow.tv/vfx), will serve as the sole visual effects provider for Hammer’s The Quiet Ones. The supernatura ...
June 18, 2012
SAN RAFAEL, CA — A group of artists and technologists whose credits include creating Davy Jones for Pirates of the Caribbean and the Transformers have launched a new studio in Marin County, CA. C ...
June 15, 2012
CORVALLIS, OR — Previs house Nvizage used OptiTrack’s Insight VCS to help visualize six major sequences and over 320 shots featured in Snow White and the Huntsman. By using motion capture to track the ...
June 13, 2012