VFX Oscar Bakeoff 2011: Staying Alive
Diverse animation and a new synthesis of techniques, a bevy of naturalistic environments, photoreal superheroes and a graphical mash-up are among the highlights of this year's VFX Oscar contenders.
Diverse animation and a new synthesis of techniques, a bevy of naturalistic environments, photoreal superheroes and a graphical mash-up are among the highlights of this year's VFX Oscar contenders.
The full list of nominees for the 2011 Orange British Academy Film Awards were announced today at BAFTA's headquarters in Piccadilly.
MATTE-EFFECT (www.matte-effect.com) has recently started a Digital Matte-Painting Challenges in it's forum, known as the 'MATTE-EFFECT Digital Matte-Painting Challenges.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the winners of the 68th Annual Golden Globes on Sunday, January 16, 2011.
The Visual Effects Society (VES) today announced the nominees for the 9th Annual VES Awards ceremony recognizing outstanding visual effects artistry in 24 categories of film, animation, television, commercials and video games.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 scientific and technical achievements represented by 22 individual award recipients will be honored at its annual Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation at the Beverly Wilshire on Saturday, February 12, 2011.
The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) have announced nominations for outstanding achievement in videogame writing during 2010.
Animazing Spotlight’s international panel has completed scoring the animated shorts entries for the first quarter of their 2011 season.
After the very successful 2010 Edition, I'VE SEEN FILMS International Film Festival announced, along with its founder, international artist Rutger Hauer, that the Festival’s 4th Edition will be held from October 5 to 14, 2011 in Milan, Italy.
The Academy's visual effects branch exec committee met last night to narrow the list of 15 contenders down to seven for the Jan. 20 bakeoff.
Rick DeMott looks at how the standard of heart and humor plays into which films might receive Oscar nominations.
The Librarian of Congress has named the annual list of 25 motion pictures selected for preservation as part of the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. The Empire Strikes Back, Airplane, The Exorcist, The Pink Panther and McCabe and Mrs. Miller are just a few of the films selected for 2010.
Nomination ballots for the 83rd Academy Awards® were mailed today to the 5,755 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The Online Film Critics Society today announced their 2010 OFCS Awards nominations, with Toy Story 3 among their list of 6 Best Picture nominees.
TELETOON Canada inc. is pleased to announce that Fugget About It, an animated comedy originally developed for the TELETOON at Night Pilot Project, has been greenlit for production into a 13-part series in English and French.
Nickelodeon has named three new participants for its 11th annual Fellowship for Diverse Writers, it was announced today by Karen Kirkland, Executive Director, Nickelodeon Fellowship for Diverse Writers.
Several weeks ago, I went to the Academy screening of all the eligible animated shorts – about 30 films. It's one of my favorite events, because often I discover films I've never seen before and I always have a film that I'm trying to get nominated.
Special Guest: Ottawa International Animation Festival - Part 1. Full laurels, keys to capitals, and banks of international accolades might weigh down other comedy podcast journaltarians of animation, but never for the lion-hearted, docu-brave, master news-making martyrs (and hyperbolically humble) Joel Frenzer and Alan Foreman. Join them as they interview animation's brightest and best about books, inappropriate cartoons, competing podcasts, pirates, and pumpkins - live from North America's largest festival of international animation in Ottawa, ON in 2010 at the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2010.
Cartoon Network and Kids Foot Locker are coming together for the first-ever Cartoon Network Hall of Game Awards to provide one lucky viewer the opportunity to attend the awards show in early 2011.
In touting his Golden Globe nomination for DreamWorks' HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON, director Chris Sanders told AWN that he is most excited about the fact that "people have been treating it like a movie. Animators or not, people are talking about it in terms of the lighting and the acting, which is really thrilling because animation has come into its own."
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominations for "The 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards" this morning and you can view them below.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 15 films have been selected as semifinalists for Achievement in Visual Effects for the 83rd Academy Awards.
Cartoon Network and Hewlett-Packard today announced the winners of the 2010 Toon Creator Awards, selecting from over 160,000 animations created by kids across the Asia Pacific Region.