Visual Effects

Digital Domain Appoints Terry Clotiaux Head of Feature Film

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Digital Domain names Terry Clotiaux VP of Feature Film, as well as elevating Joanna Capitano to Executive Producer and Lisa Beroud as a member of the company’s senior management team.

Bent Image Lab Helps Animate Comedy Central's Kroll Show

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Bent Image Lab helps animate “Demo Monster” skit for Comedy Central’s new sketch comedy series, “Kroll Show.”

Scratch! Fest Issues Call for Entries

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The Scratch! International Animation Film Festival, to be held June 14-15, 2013, in Lecce, Italy, issues a call for entries.

Faceware Unveils Retargeter 4.0 with AutoSolve at GDC

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New software upgrade creates quality markerless facial motion capture from video at unprecedented speed.

Calabash Animates More Lucky Charms

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Award-winning studio’s latest project for General Mills amps up the energy and the creativity.

FriendsWithYou Makes Wish Come True

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Ontario’s public educational media organization TVO joins Guru Studio and Home Plate Entertainment to develop new CG Preschool series from FriendsWithYou called “Wish Come True.”

CAKE Gets Ready to Soar with Space Racers

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Kids’ and family entertainment content distributor CAKE announces a distribution deal for new pre-school animation series “Space Racers.”

JS Communications Pulls Rhythm & Hues Bid

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South Korean entertainment and media company JS Communications withdraws its bid to acquire the El Segundo-based visual effects company Rhythm & Hues.

Thomas Newman to Score Pixar’s Good Dinosaur

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Thomas Newman, the composer of the musical scores for “Finding Nemo” and “WALL-E,” reveals that he will be collaborating on the upcoming Pixar feature, “The Good Dinosaur.”

New Despicable Me 2 Trailer Released

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Universal Pictures releases a new trailer for Illumination Entertainment’s “Despicable Me 2,” in theaters July 3, 2013.

a52 Hires CG Lead Andrew Romatz

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CG and VFX artist Andrew Romatz joins the ranks of award-winning visual effects studio a52.

Geomerics Launches Major Update to Enlighten Middleware

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New workflow features, new platform support and future game lighting technology on display at GDC 2013.

VFX Artist Jeanette Vera Joins Athena Studios

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3D artist and compositor Jeanette Vera joins Athena Studios as a visual effects artist.

NVIDIA Unveils Industry's First Visual Computing Appliance

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NVIDIA GRID VCA delivers remote GPU acceleration and turnkey simplicity for small and medium-size businesses.

Adobe and MAXON Form Strategic Partnership

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MAXON and Adobe announce strategic alliance to bring creative professionals new levels of digital media content creation.

Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away Flies Onto DVD

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The stunning worlds of Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away are released on Blu-ray 3D DVD.

Rhythm & Hues Posts 200 Taiwan Job Openings

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Two weeks after reports that troubled VFX studio Rhythm & Hues would be establishing operations in Taiwan, the company courts new employees for its facility in the city of Kaohsiung.

Gaumont Signs Digital Deal for Calimero

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Gaumont Animation signs a digital deal with BulkyPix to produce an app for iOS and Android based on the animated series “Calimero.”

Vision Globale Turns World Upside Down

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Vision Globale provides postproduction for Juan Diego Solanas’ “Upside Down.”

Intelligent Creatures Taps eyeon Fusion

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Intelligent Creatures returns to their production roots with eyeon Fusion.