Dr. Toon: Mouse, Marvel and Mythos
Dr. Toon dissects Disney's Marvel Purchase as a cultural benchmark.
Category: CG
Spike Jonze Takes a Walk on the 'Wild' Side
The director of Where the Wild Things Are tells us the secret to his animated success.
London Production Studio Hits Stateside with Creative 3-D Commercial Campaign
Taylor James, the London-based creative production studio (www.taylorjames.com), has released a cutting-edge one shot TV commercial combining striking photorealistic CGI with live-action.
FlickerLab Heads to MIPCOM to Introduce The Wild Life
FlickerLab, LLC, the international content and technology company, will introduce the entertainment content market at MIPCOM to their newest animated series, a marquee property called The Wild Life.
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BLITZ Delivers First Augmented Reality Marketing Solution for FOX
BLITZ, a leading integrated marketing agency, today unveiled a new augmented reality application to promote the second season of FOX’s popular TV series “Dollhouse.”
The Jim Henson Company Signs Deal With Discovery Kids Latin America
On the eve of MIPCOM, The Jim Henson Company has finalized a new broadcast agreement with Discovery Kids Latin America to air the all-new CGI-animated series, Dinosaur Train, across the region.
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HIT Entertainment Reveals Exciting Progress of New Development Slate
HIT Entertainment, one of the world’s leading independent children’s entertainment producers and rights owners, reveals new property ‘Hippo’s House’ and strong progress of its development slate.
Getting into a 'Zombieland' Mood
Mark Breakspear tells VFXWorld what it was like making a zombie flick.
Pixar Releases RenderMan Pro Server 15.0
Pixar Animation Studios today released version 15.0 of its Academy Award® winning RenderMan Pro Server software.
Filoni Talks Second Season 'Clone Wars'
The director of Star Wars: The Clone Wars discusses "Rise of the Bounty Hunters" and a host of new animated wrinkles in season two.
mental images Unveils iray
mental images introduced iray today at NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California. iray is the first fully GPU accelerated, commercially supported, turn-key rendering solution for a wide range of 3D graphics application developers.
Thomas & Friends on Track for the Big Screen
Children's book character Thomas the Tank Engine from the THOMAS & FRIENDS series in the 1940s is gearing up for the big screen, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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A Previsualization Society is Born
Previs practitioners form their own society and VFXWorld has the exclusive.
Terminator Rights May Hit the Auction Block
The rights for the TERMINATOR franchise may soon be on the auction block as rights-holder Halcyon Holdings vies to become solvent again, according to The Los Angeles Times.
Disney Announces DVD, Blu-ray Release Schedule for G-Force
Press Release from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Charging home on December 15th comes Walt Disney Pictures¹ action-packed comedy-adventure G-Force. Packaged as an exciting Disney ³Combo Pack² (a Blu-ray + DVD + DisneyFile Digital Copy of the movie in a single package), families can finally look forward to enjoying this thrilling story about a covert group of feisty furball Guinea Pigs anytime, anywhere and on a compatible format of their choice --Blu-ray player, car, PC and/or portable device.
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'Surrogates': Definitely Not More Human Than Human
Mark Stetson unravels the vfx mysteries of Surrogates.
Danielle Harris Joins Cast of Night of the Living Dead: Origins
Danielle Harris, who starred in Halloween II, has been cast as Barbara in Night of the Living Dead: Origins, ShockTilYouDrop.com reports.
Starz are the Limit: The Word on the Growing Studio
Rick DeMott had a chance to chat with Heather Kenyon, Head of Sales and Project Development at Starz Animation, to find out more about the growing studio.
BRB Presents First Stereoscopic Animated TV Series
“Does it have a beak of a thousand colors? Are its ears enormous? Does it only eat rinds? What creature is hiding in the box? Guess and say ZOO-KA-BOO!” That is the narrative essence of the new series being prepared by BRB Internacional, set to become the first series to use 3D Stereoscopic technology -- visual effects through special glasses – for broadcast on TV, Low-Demand Internet Video and BluRay.
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Rising India Builds Noah's Ark
Rising India and Unified Pictures will co-finance a NOAH'S ARK animated feature, reports VARIETY.
Terminator Salvation Gets DVD/Blu-ray Release Date
Witness the battle between man and machine in the gritty action epic as TERMINATOR SALVATION blasts its way onto Blu-ray and DVD on December 1st from Warner Home Video.
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Ubisoft Unveils Assassin's Creed II: Discovery For Nintendo DS
Today Ubisoft announced that ASSASSIN'S CREED II: DISCOVERY for the Nintendo DSi and Nintendo DS systems will launch on November 17 for the manufacturer's suggested retail price of $29.99. The game is rated "T for Teen” by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB).
Autodesk Expands Options for Mac Users
Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), a leader in 2D and 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, and Parallels, a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software, announced that they have signed an agreement to make Parallels Desktop for Mac Autodesk's preferred Mac virtualization software.
Blue Sky Looks Up for Wedge's Leaf Men
Blue Sky and director Chris Wedge have announced their next project — an adaptation of William Joyce's LEAF MEN, reports VARIETY.
Columbia Rides with Ghost Rider 2
VARIETY reports that Columbia is in works on a sequel to GHOST RIDER.
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