Steve Hanson's Hanson Inc. has licensed the film rights to Kahlil Gibran's famed 1923 collection of poetic essays, THE PROPHET, reports VARIETY.

Philips and ad agency DDB approached RSA Films to commission five films under the banner Parallel Lines. 45 RSA Directors submitted concepts surrounding a single script supplied by the agency. From those, five diverse concepts were chosen for production; the result is a testament to both directorial interpretation and social media promotion.

Find out the secret behind a hot VFX short and a feature deal with Sam Raimi.

Autodesk has announced the 2011 releases of its creative finishing products for visual effects, editorial finishing and color grading: Autodesk Flame, Autodesk Flare, Autodesk Flint, Autodesk Smoke and Autodesk Lustre.

Autodesk Inc. has announced that a modified version of PixelActive's CityScape 1.8 will be shipped with Autodesk 3ds Max 2011 and Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2011 software, to provide users with rapid urban development capabilities within a more intuitive user interface.

BOXX Technologies, a leader in dedicated rendering and high-performance computing systems for visual effects, post production, product design, and advanced visualization, announced that they will feature renderBOXX and ROW (RenderFarm on Wheels) rendering systems, as well as the demonstration debut of the upcoming BOXXpro desk side rendering module, at NAB 2010.

TEAK VFX Artist Mark Everson, working with @radical.media Director Steve Miller via Butler, Shine, Stern and Partners, handled the post and FX for the latest in Priceline's well-regarded faux-superhero Priceline Negotiator campaign.

Unleashed on Coruscant, the Massive Zillo Beast Strikes Back in an All-New Episode of STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS this Friday, April 16, 2010 at 9:00 pm on Cartoon Network.

As reported on CGTantra, DQ Entertainment, a global animation, gaming and live action entertainment production and distribution company announced a deal to make 26 half hour episodes of The New Adventures of Peter Pan in animated 3D.

A friend of mine once showed me a little blue book he owned that contained the hand-written visual effects budget for a film his grandfather made in the 1930’s. . The overall budget for the particular film that he showed me was under five hundred dollars all in. If grandpa could only see us now.

Let's take a sneak peek at some of the summer's hottest VFX-laden films.

In summer 2010 ANOMALIA  organizes series of Masterclasses in 3D animation as part of initiative to long-term development modern animation in Central and Eastern Europe. Subjects and skills taught correspond to the shortage of skills in the animation industry and labour market.

Please, go to http://www.anomalia.eu

The training program  is developed in detail with the knowledge and experience of renowned European and American professionals, all of them have a significant tutoring experience and have delivered such high-end courses before across the globe.  We will welcome the following names:

Rich Quade / PixarAndy Schmidt / PixarBZ Petroff / LucasFilm, formerly PixarDripha Benseghir / Mac Guff Ligne and SparxSunnit Parekh Gaihede / HydraLab

Therefore, we are confident that this course is the real opportunity for those of you that would not be otherwise able to travel abroad to gain such training.

Training program will introduce three Masterclasses during which participants will get combination of lectures with practical student assignments in following masterclasses:

3D character animation3D Studio productionRigging and MEL for Technical Developers

Training program is held in rented facility of The European Training Center in the town of Litomysl (about 140km from Prague).

 

Marc talks about shooting stills to create High Dynamic Range Images (HDRIs).

Discovery Channel announced today that it is working to develop a new mini-series project with Academy(R) Award-winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg, DreamWorks Television and DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (Nasdaq: DWA) entitled FUTURE EARTH (wt).

Every year fans and industry insiders alike wonder whether Comic-Con’s days in San Diego are numbered. VARIETY reports that San Diego has made a big move to keep the Con right where it is.

Multi award-winning studio Aardman Animations has scooped up a brace of awards at the eighth British Animation Awards held tonight at the BFI Southbank.

The ever-expanding GenArts announced its latest product line on the eve of NAB in Las Vegas next week and compatible with Adobe's new CS5, which launches on Monday: Monsters GT for Adobe After Effects, Sapphire 5 for Adobe After Effects and Sapphire for Autodesk Smoke on Mac (also based on version 5).

'Bob the Builder'(tm), the beloved children's television character, returns to TV screens next Monday, 12 April from 8.40am on CBeebies.

“The Secret of Kells” is an “illuminating” tale about friendship, wisdom, overcoming fear, and discovering your own creativity. It has splendid visual, haunting music, and amazing storyline built upon historical facts.

Nelvana Enterprises will showcase several exciting properties at MIPTV this year...