Music and Sound

Nice Shoes Underwrites Ricky Martin’s New Musical Direction

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Ricky Martin's new single The Best Thing About Me is You marks a new musical direction for the Puerto Rican superstar.

Nice Shoes and JLo Collaborate on Good Hit

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Building upon a longstanding relationship with Hello! Director Alex Moors, Nice Shoes recently handled all color grading and VFX on Jennifer Lopez's latest video, Good Hit.

Toy Story 3 Wins Two Oscars

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The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences handed out their coveted Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011.

DreamWorks Cleans Up at the Annies

ASIFA-Hollywood handed out its annual Annie Awards at UCLA's Royce Hall on Feb. 5, 2011.

MERGE@Crossroads Pellington Launches Michael Jackson/Akon Video

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Michael Jackson lives on in an uplifting posthumous music video directed by Mark Pellington at MERGE@Crossroads.

Going Absolutely Naked

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If you're tired of watching music videos featuring people with clothes on, or, worse yet, videos in which people's bodies are constructed according to the basic laws of biology, then you need to check out the Klaxons' Twin Flames, which both dispenses with the excess outerwear and gives us a whole slew of new ways to look at the human body.

Michael Jackson's Thriller Dances into Feature

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GK Films is in talks to acquire the rights to a feature project based on Michael Jackson's legendary THRILLER music video, reports Deadline.com.

Not To Scale’s Birdy Nam Nam Animated Video Part of YouTube Play

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Announced last night in New York from the infamous Guggenheim Museum, Steve Scott's 'Parachute Endings' for Birdy Nam Nam is to be shown at the Guggenheim Museums around the globe (New York, Bilbao, Berlin, Venice & Abu Dhabi) as part of YouTube Play.

IMAX Develops Ground-Breaking Audio Calibration Technology

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IMAX Corporation today announced the launch of its new nXos Calibrator, a patent-pending technology designed to tune and automatically monitor IMAX audio systems.

O’Reilly’s The External World Takes Grand Prix at Ottawa

The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) comes to an end with a highly anticipated closing ceremonies which were held this evening at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. OIAF organizers announced the 2010 winners of the official competition during the ceremonies.