Tag: King Kong
Jennifer Yuh Nelson, Andy Serkis Among Student Academy Awards Presenters
The Academy has announced a slate of presenters for this year’s Student Academy Awards, including DreamWorks Animation director Jennifer Yuh Nelson, as well as...
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Vivid Increments: The Making of Stop Motion Animation at Tracy, CA’s Grand Theater
The art center will close its 10th season with a fascinating exhibit...
TIFF Plans Major Stop-Motion Retrospective
The Toronto International Film Festival (www.tiff.net) will be presenting a pan-genre retrospective on the art of stop-motion animation at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in...
Rare Rambaldi ‘E.T.’ Painting Up for Auction
An original painting of the titular alien from Steven Spielberg's classic E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial by the character's designer, Carlo Rambaldi, is up for auction...
‘Godzilla 2’ Coming in 2018
The giant monster madness will continue thanks to super sized box-office results, with Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures announcing they have slated a sequel...
Blue Sky’s ‘Epic’ Opens Nationwide on Friday
Epic, the new animated adventure from director Chris Wedge and his gifted team at Blue Sky Studios, opens the door to a world inhabited...
Stop Motion Legend Ray Harryhausen Dies at 92
Visual effects icon Ray Harryhausen, whose stop-motion creations brought many monsters alive in movies such as Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the...
Gollum, You Never Looked Better!
The Hobbit’s vfx supervisor Joe Letteri talks about the vfx challenges of returning to J.R.R. Tolkien’s world nine years after the last Lord of...
Weta VFX Producer Eileen Moran Dies in New Zealand
Eileen Moran, a well-respected vfx producer at Weta Digital who worked on Avatar, King Kong, The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the upcoming...
Italian VFX Artist Carlo Rambaldi Dies at 86
We were saddened by the recent death of Italian special effects wizard Carlo Rambaldi, who is best known for this work on Steven Spielberg’s...
Jeffrey Okun Re-Elected as VES Board Chair
The Visual Effects Society (VES) has announced the 2012 Board of Director officers who were elected at the January 18, 2012 board meeting. The...
A Grand Adventure
Global sensation Tintin finally arrives in America, thanks to a spectacular movie directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Peter Jackson.
Spielberg, Jackson, Tintin. Those...
Ray Harryhausen Talks Technique
There are legends, and then there are legends, and then there is Ray Harryhausen. The genius behind such stop-motion animation classics as The Seventh...
Digital Domain Taps Barnes for In-Three Conversion Unit
Digital Domain has hired Jeff Barnes, co-founder and former CEO of The Computer Cafe Group, to lead its In-Three stereo conversion business.
Barnes will assume the title of...
The Hub to Air Second Season of ‘the WotWots’
New Zealand-based Pukeko Pictures is close to completing production on the second season of the animated series the WotWots, which will air in the United...
Seeing the (Green) Light!
Sony Imageworks vfx supervisor Jim Berney and his team revisit the classic comic book and use real-world references to construct the luminous world of...
Cast, Composer Added to Laika and Focus’ ‘ParaNorman’
ParaNorman, the next 3D stop-motion animated feature from Laika and Focus Features, has added composer Jon Brion to its ranks, as well as cast...
Fox Taps Scribes for Animated ‘King Kong’ Feature
Few things are as perennially popular as King Kong — something Fox is counting on for a new animated project.
The studio has hired up-and-coming...
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