LONDON — Double Negative, which won an Oscar in 2011 for its work on Inception, has been nominated for a Visual Effects Oscar for the studio’s contributions to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Par ...
January 25, 2012
BEVERLY HILLS — Patton Oswalt ( Young Adult, Ratatouille ) will host the 10th Annual Visual Effects Society (VES) Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Tuesday, February 7, 2012. This will be the come ...
January 24, 2012
HOLLYWOOD — The hit CBS TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation will use the expertise of VFX company Dilated Pixels (www.dilatedpixels.net) as its sole VFX vendor for Season 12. In related news, the ...
January 23, 2012
LONDON — The Foundry (www.thefoundry.co.uk) has begun open beta for its latest VFX innovation, Hiero. The solution is designed to address challenges and improve efficiencies in collaborative workflows ...
January 20, 2012
NEW YORK — Deluxe Entertainment Services Group’s Encore facility has expanded with a new location in NYC. Encore in Hollywood, and its sister facility Level 3 in Burbank, specializes in television pos ...
January 19, 2012
HALF MOON BAY, CA — GoPro (www.gopro.com) has released a new version of its pro family of 2D and 3D production software: GoPro CineForm Studio Premium and GoPro CineForm Studio Professional (www.cinef ...
January 18, 2012
SAN RAFAEL — A group of former ILM and Kerner Optical employees have launched 32Ten Studios (www.32ten.com, a new company based at the former site of ILM. The venture is employee owned and will be hea ...
January 17, 2012
BEVERLY HILLS — Visual effects technologist Jonathan Erland has been voted the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (www.os ...
January 13, 2012
LOS ANGELES — Motion capture system developer Vicon (www.vicon.com) recently collaborated with the Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts at the USC School of Cinematic Arts to upgrade their motion c ...
January 11, 2012
BEVERLY HILLS — The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted the Gordon E. Sawyer Award to Douglas Trumbull, a visionary filmmaker who has worked as a desi ...