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VES Summit ‘17 to Honor Carstensen, Finance, Burns
The Visual Effects Society has announced its special honorees to be recognized at the 9th Annual VES Summit, set for Saturday, October 28. Venerated...
Q&A: Hilmar Koch Joins Autodesk as Director of R&D
Hilmar Koch, former tech head of advanced development at ILMxLAB, has joined Autodesk as its first Director of Research & Development, The Future of...
Zoic Ups VFX Supe Jeffrey Baksinski to Creative Director
Visual effects house Zoic Studios has promoted Emmy-nominated VFX supervisor Jeffrey Baksinski to Creative Director. With continued series growth across all three of the...
SIGGRAPH Opens Registrations for Event in LA Digital Hub
Registration is open now for SIGGRAPH 2017, running July 30-August 3 in Los Angeles for its 44th conference and exhibition, which Conference Chair Jerome...
Zoe Saldana Joins ‘My Little Pony’ Movie, New Logo Revealed
Guardians of the Galaxy and Star Trek and Avatar star Zoe Saldana is officially the latest top talent to join the voice cast of...
‘Your Name’ LA Oscar Run Set for Dec. 2-8
Funimation Films will present the Oscar-qualifying theatrical run for Makoto Shinkai's animated feature Your Name at the Laemmle Music Hall in Los Angeles, December...
Hybride Speaks in Alien Effects for ‘Arrival’
Quebec-based Hybride, a division of Ubisoft, took to alien dialects to translate the vision of local filmmaker Denis Villeneuve through visual effects in his...
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Game of Thrones Shatters Emmy Record with Most Wins Ever
The HBO show's triumph at the 2016 awards (including winning the Outstanding Drama Series category...
‘Masha and the Bear’ Season 2 Launches on Netflix
As of August 1, an all-new second season of 26 episodes of hit Russian kids' series Masha and the Bear launches on Netflix, available...
SIGGRAPH: Blackmagic, Faceware, Thinkbox and More
Blackmagic Design has totted up the numbers and announced that over 20 of this summer’s hottest films utilized its cameras and products such as...
VFX Supe Eric Gambini, Two More Join FuseFX
FuseFX Vancouver announces the arrival of fresh talent to its ranks, with VFX Supervisor Eric Gambini coming on board along with VFX Producer Graeme...
‘Zootopia’ Hits $1B Worldwide
Disney's animated feature Zootopia crossed the $1 billion mark this weekend, making it the studio's second billion-dollar release of 2016 (and 11th ever). Zootopia...
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The Simpsons Get Disney-fied Couch Gage from Animator Eric Goldberg
Legendary Disney animator sprinkles some fairydust over the first family of Springfield, inspired by (some...
Animation Architects
Industrial Light and Magic has created pure movie wizardry for four decades — and we look back at some of the best animated moments...
‘Force’ Still Stuns at Box Office
The New Year could scarcely slow Star Wars: The Force Awakens' box office rampage, with the movie posting a record domestic gross of $88...
Animatrik Licenses Giant, Breaks Mo-Cap Record
Vancouver’s Animatrik performance capture and virtual production house has licensed LEI/Giant technology from film production company Lightstorm Entertainment for use in its work for...
‘Maleficent’ Director Among Gumby Fest Guests
This year’s Gumby Fest Stop Motion Festival (gumbyfest.net) will be celebrating the iconic claymation character’s 60th birthday with 16 presentations by TV and film...
Academy Invites 26 to Join Animation; 23 VFX
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 322 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves...
Hometown Hero
Animex steps up to show what Mexican animation can do with the CG feature El Americano.
Mexico has a long and rich history, a...
Disney’s ‘Penn Zero’ to Materialize Feb. 13
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero, an animated comedy adventure series about a regular boy who inherits the not-so-regular job of part-time hero, is set for...
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