Tag: ILM
Game School Online Opens Winter Enrollment
Game School Online -- the first and only tuition-free online videogame development school, launched in April -- has opened enrollment for its winter term,...
Erika Burton Joins Method Studios as Global Head of Features
As Method Studios continues to build its visual effects slate, the Deluxe company announces Erika Burton has been hired to lead the films division...
Animation Mentor Unveils Digital Campus
Pioneering online school Animation Mentor (www.animationmentor.com) has announced its new “digital campus” -- a social learning platform where students will virtually attend classes, interact...
Zoic Ups John Kilshaw to Creative Director
VFX company Zoic Studios has promoted John Kilshaw to the post of Creative Director, to steer the vision of studio projects out of the...
2017 AEAF Awards Winners Announced in Sydney
The 2017 Animation Effects Awards Festival (AEAF) was held August 16 in Sydney, Australia, with a full day of top visual effects and animation...
SIGGRAPH: Winners & Wrap-Up, Pixar Peeks RenderMan 22 & Giraffe-gate
SIGGRAPH 2017 has come to a close, having attracted more than 16,500 attendees to the Los Angeles CGI confab. The conference covered over 600...
MOVA Inventors File Infringement Suit Against Disney, Marvel
The inventors of Oscar-winning movie technology MOVA Contour Reality Capture have filed suit against Disney, Marvel Studios and ILM, alleging copyright, patent and trademark...
SIGGRAPH ’17 Details 11 Production Sessions
The SIGGRAPH 2017 conference & exhibition will take over the Los Angeles Convention Center from July 30 to August 3, offering papers and presentations,...
Lucasfilm & ILM Launch Open Source MaterialX Library
Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic announced the inaugural open source release of MaterialX Library, a CG tool developed by Lucasfilm's Advanced Development Group...
SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater & New VR Program Revealed
SIGGRAPH’s prestigious Computer Animation Festival has slated its Electronic Theater screenings for the 2017 event, taking place in Los Angeles from July 30-August 3....
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...
Marc Chu Joins Atomic Fiction as Animation Department Supervisor
Atomic Fiction has hired animation guru Marc Chu to lead the studio's animation efforts across its Oakland and Montreal locations.
Chu joins Atomic Fiction from...
Annecy, Mifa Report Record Attendance for 2017
The Annecy International Animation Festival and its market, Mifa, reported record attendance at this year’s event, which wraps Saturday.
An estimated 3,000 professionals — an...
VIEW Conference Names First 2017 Speakers
Registration is now open for the 2017 VIEW Conference (www.viewconference.it) -- Italy's premiere computer graphics, digital media and games confab. The 18th edition will...
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Miike Takashi to Present the World Premiere of 'JoJo's Bizarre Adventure' at the NIFFF 2017
Neuchâtel Int'l Fantastic Film Festival attendees will be among the...
Brazen Animation Braves a Mighty ‘Tempest’ in Original Teaser
Dallas, Texas-based Brazen Animation has unveiled a dramatic teaser for its first original content offering: Tempest. Featuring a mix of animation techniques, the three-minute...
Annecy Details 2017 Highlights, People and Participants
France's Annecy animation festival (June 12-17) and MIFA market (June 13-16) is just around the corner, and this year's event highlights are jelling nicely....
NAB Show ‘17 Animation Highlights
The NAB confab (www.nabshow.com) is underway in Las Vegas this week. Amid all the crazy new broadcasting tech on display, there’s always a few...
FMX Adds ‘Valerian,’ ‘Rogue One’ to VFX Track; Plus ‘LEGO Batman,’ ‘Moana,’ ‘Smurfs’
The audiovisual confab FMX is rapidly approaching, with the organizers announcing even more cutting edge additions to its informative tracks on animation, effects, VR,...
Monstrous Assignment
Kong: Skull Island pulls out all the digital stops in recreating an updated version of the original monster movie.
Unlike a group of explorers and...
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