The 7th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia will take place from 3 – 6 December 2014 in Shenzhen at the Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center.
The SIGGRAPH conference attracts the most respected technical and creative people from all over planet Earth.
Join us at the FMX 2014 Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Transmedia April 23-26, 2013, Stuttgart, Germany.
Visual effects post production studio ArsenalFX produces visual effects featured within three celebrity-directed short films, presented as part of the 2013 Canon/Ron Howard “Project Imagination” Film Festival.
Creative studio Mill+, the concept, design and animation arm of VFX company The Mill, contributes its visually stunning cinematics to Activision’s blockbuster Call of Duty: Ghosts, the new installment in the global phenomenon Call of Duty series.
Presenters are announced for the award ceremony at the World Animation & VFX Summit Opening Night Party on November 3, 6:00 – 10:00 p.m. at the California Yacht Club in Marina del Rey, CA.
Digital Domain 3.0 announces the promotion of VFX Supervisor Eric Barba to Chief Creative Officer/Senior Visual Effects Supervisor.
Ntropic founder & creative director Nate Robinson receives a Special Recognition award in the Artistic and Technical Achievement category at the 2013 Flame Awards.
VFX Producer Sophie Orde joins Framestore’s film department, where she has been hired to run the production for Universal’s ‘Dracula Untold.’
CVMP Conference to explore cutting-edge advances in post production technology; speakers include Tim Webber, VFX Supervisor on ‘Gravity.’
The Visual Effects Society names Academy Award winner John Dykstra recipient of VES Lifetime Achievement Award.
Get a taste of what some of the industry’s leading technology developers have on tap for SIGGRAPH 2013, including product announcements and demonstrations, Exhibitor Tech Talks and User Group meetings.
Zoic Studios VFX Supervisor Ralph Maiers and VFX Producer Lauren Weidel lead a team of artists into the dizzying world of Delhi’s slums during the end of British Colonial rule for Indian-born, Toronto-based director Deepa Mehta’s motion picture “Midnight’s Children.”
With the arrival of director Ian Hubert and concept artist David Revoy next week, the Blender Institute in Amsterdam hosts another Open Movie.
Veteran vfx supervisor John Dykstra will direct SUPER ZERO, an adaptation of Jeff Lemire's graphic novel TALES FROM THE FARM, reports Variety.
Artist owned and operated bi-coastal effects boutique Brickyard VFX recently worked on a new campaign for Volkswagen via Deutsch LA. Brickyard provided compositing, beauty work and color correction throughout the campaign.
Universal and Illumination's HOP bounced to #1 at the U.S. box office for the weekend of April 1-3, 2011.
Artist owned-and-operated bi-coastal effects boutique Brickyard VFX recently completed work on their third consecutive Titleist campaign via Arnold Worldwide.
In an effort to get some distance from Halloween juggernaut SAW 3D, Wes Craven's MY SOUL TO TAKE has moved from Oct. 29 to Oct. 8, reports ShockTillYouDrop.com.
Artist owned and operated, bi-coastal effects boutique Brickyard VFX recently completed compositing, color grading, and CG work on a new spot for Sprint's webOS Palm Pixi - a smartphone that falls squarely into the 'for fun' camp. Titled "Pass the Pixi," the spot was directed by the Snorri Brothers of The Cartel for agency Modernista! and first aired November 17 in North America.
VFXWorld gets a sneak peek at the first VES Production Summit, which takes place Saturday at the Ritz Carlton, Hotel, Marina del Rey.
Erik Nordby of MPC Vancouver tells how they transformed Megan Fox into a demon.
THE FINAL DESTINATION (WB/NL, with vfx by Amalgamated Pixels) was #1 at the Box Office, grabbing $28.3M.
It's no wonder that bigger vfx and more attention-grabbing 3D animation are predicted for 2008: Last year they continued to dominate the record-breaking $9.62 billion box office, which also saw Universal Pictures posting its biggest domestic and global grosses ever ($1.099 billion and $2.133 billion, respectively). The top 10 featured three animated hits (SHREK THE THIRD, RATATOUILLE and THE SIMPSONS MOVIE) and six vfx-intensive blockbusters (SPIDER-MAN 3, TRANSFORMERS, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END, HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, 300 and I AM LEGEND).
STAR WARS: EPISODE III REVENGE OF THE SITH continued its box office dominance for the second consecutive week, grabbing $70M for the four-day Memorial Day weekend ended May 30, 2005. That means that the final STAR WARS saga has earned $270.4M for Fox domestically, continuing to set records for nine-day to 12-day grosses. SITH has also earned $248.9M overseas.
