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The VFX of ‘Here’: Time Travel Enabled by Machine Learning
For more than four decades, audiences have come to expect stunning visual effects in Robert Zemeckis movies. The man who pioneered visual effects and...
The Year’s Top VFX Oscar Contenders
***This article originally appeared in the January '23 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 326)***
December marks moviegoers’ return to Pandora after a 13-year absence, which...
Autodesk Envisions Cloud-Based Production Ecosystem for Media & Entertainment
Demand for streaming content and games is exploding due to the global pandemic, which spurred massive changes across the media and entertainment (M&E) industry....
Autodesk Accelerates Workflows Across Maya, 3ds Max & MotionBuilder 22
Autodesk unveiled updates to Maya, 3ds Max and MotionBuilder today, bringing artists throughout the creative pipeline powerful new tools that accelerate and streamline their...
ACCESS:VFX Launches West Coast Chapter
ACCESS:VFX, an industry-led non-profit coalition of leading visual effects, animation and games studios, announced the launch of a new West Coast chapter. The global...
CalArts 2019 Producers’ Show Spotlights Animation’s Next Generation
The talented animated filmmakers of tomorrow took center stage this week as California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) celebrates the 2019 edition of its...
Former Imageworks Exec Shauna Bryan Joins Luma Pictures as EP
Los Angeles and Melbourne-based independent creative studio Luma Pictures announces the hiring of Shauna Bryan to its world-class visual effects team. Bryan will lead...
Inaugural BRIC Summit Supports Next Gen Creative Leaders
A new event aimed at uplifting a new generation of diverse talents, BRIC Talent and Innovation Summit will hold its inaugural edition on Saturday,...
Ironing Out the VFX of ‘A Wrinkle in Time’
Madeleine L'Engle’s beloved 1962 classic A Wrinkle in Time tells the story of Meg Murry travelling through space and time to save her father...
Oscars: The VFX Bake-Off Offerings
Last month, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences selected 10 titles to move forward in the visual effects category for the 90th...
Luma Hatches Vulture for ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’
As praise for Sony’s Spider-Man: Homecoming rolls in, the contributing VFX studios are stepping forward to share the secrets to their incredible CG feats....
Ben Hibon Joins Luma as Head Creative Director
Award-winning artist and animation director Ben Hibon has been hired on as Head Creative Director of visual effects house Luma Pictures as the studio...
SIGGRAPH Sets Production Sessions
SIGGRAPH has announced the complete lineup for this year's Production Sessions program for its 42nd annual conference, set for Aug. 9-13 at the Los...
Serious Assembly Required
ILM and Trixter spearhead the complex mo-cap, animation and effects wizardry that required 19 facilities to make Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron.
The stakes are...
The Animag 250: VFX Companies to Watch
The Animation Magazine 250th issue celebration continues, this time with our list of VFX companies to watch.
They are:
Animal Logic VFX
Atomic Fiction
BlueBolt
Blur Studio
capital T
Clan VFX
Crafty...
Oscar Watch: Best Visual Effects Contenders
The short list of visual effects films that will head to the annual bake-off won't be known until early in December, but the race...
‘Iron Man 3' Intl. Opening Beats ‘Avengers’ Record
You’ve got to give it Tony Stark and his alter ego Iron Man: They definitely know how to put on a show. This past week,...
Marvel to Offer Two Versions of ‘Iron Man 3'
Audiences in China will be treated to a special Chinese version of Marvel’s Iron Man the studio announced today. This special version will include...
Will ‘Oz’ Prove Great and Powerful at the Box Office?
Disney is looking to heat up a so-far tepid year at the box office with its VFX-heavy reimagining Oz: The Great and Powerful.
Directed by...
OptiTrack Introduces New Model in Prime Mo-Cap Series
OptiTrack has introduced a new family of mo-cap cameras designed for large-volume captures called the Prime Series. Offering capture volumes that extend up to...
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