Over 50 Marvel VFX Artists Bid for IATSE Unionization
The brave group have signed authorization cards to help bring the VFX industry towards union representation in the face of shocking firings, long hours, and 7-day weeks.
The brave group have signed authorization cards to help bring the VFX industry towards union representation in the face of shocking firings, long hours, and 7-day weeks.
Women in Animation’s president announces the ‘Animating Resilience: Surviving and Thriving in an Uncertain Industry’ series to empower and support industry professionals and students during ‘these tough times.’
‘Foundry Learn and Education’ meetups and presentations at the conference include techniques in compositing from Unity Wētā Tools, Boxel Studios, and Action VFX and lighting and 3D techniques from Foundry product experts.
Set in Elemental City, the film features fiery Ember Lumen and the go-with-the-flow Wade Ripple. who find out how fire, water, earth, and air can mix; the original 3DCG animated feature comes to digital August 15 with 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD coming home in September.
New Unreal Engine 5 plugin leverages existing render setups and scalability so cloud-based resources can accelerate final-pixel outputs; also updates DCC apps, including Adobe After Effects 2023, Autodesk Maya 2024, Autodesk 3ds Max 2024, Autodesk VRED 2023 and Maxon Cinema 4D 2023.
Leading platform for real-time 3D (RT3D) content and experience creation will showcase groundbreaking work in character creation, environment building, rendering, and compositing; live keynote today from August 7 2pm - 3pm PDT.
Jake S. Friedman’s seminal book, 'The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation’s Golden Age,' about an important, mostly unreported piece of Disney studio history, the 1941 animator’s strike led by the famed Art Babbitt, now available in hardbound, will arrive in a softbound version this Fall.
The sale includes almost 6,500 titles, but notably omits popular franchises such as ‘Peppa Pig,’ ‘Transformers,’ ‘Dungeons & Dragons,’ ‘Magic: The Gathering,’ ‘My Little Pony,’ ‘Power Rangers,’ ‘Play-Doh,’ ‘Monopoly’ and ‘Clue,’ which will receive ‘significant development, production and financing capabilities.’
Signe Baumane’s award-winning animated feature about a spirited young woman determined to find love in a bewildering world will begin its U.S. cinema run at the Quad in NYC on October 6 and the Laemmle Glendale in LA on October 13.
Reallusion’s newest plugin helps artists harness the power of Character Creator and Zbrush pose tools.
The 4th edition of Egypt’s largest annual animation festival will be held in Cairo September 7-9.
For Jeremy Zag, the film’s writer, producer, and director, his aspirational origin story about finding the courage to believe in yourself and trust your friends, set in the beautiful city of Paris with cinematic-quality, action-packed animation and 10 new songs, makes a winning combination for new audiences and ‘Miraculer’ superfans alike; now streaming on Netflix.
The conference, taking place March 18-21, 2024 in San Jose, California, seeks submissions for talks, posters, and training labs by September 8, 2023.
TAFF, a competitive festival for animated shorts, returns for its 8th edition August 23-27; this year, animation meets video games.
The festival, a non-competitive exhibition aimed at artists who use animation as an instrument for their personal expression, will be held February 15-18, 2024; submissions are being accepted until October 16, 2023.
The International Animation Festival selected 37 films for the 2023 competitive program taking place August 16-19.
Many big-name execs and actors have now contributed to the Entertainment Community Fund, formerly the Actors Fund, to lessen the hardships of the work stoppage on actors and writers, with Seth MacFarlane most recently dropping a $1 million donation.
Taking the four brothers back to their early years, the newest ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ film’s director and his team continually referred to how a teenage boy would handle the situation at hand - sometimes antsy, sometimes psyched, usually bored – in the Paramount Pictures 3DCG action-comedy hitting theaters today, August 2.
Take ‘A Look Inside’ the new film, based on a single chilling chapter from Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula,’ that tells the terrifying story of the merchant ship ‘Demeter,’ which was chartered to carry private cargo and one infamous vampire, in theaters August 11.
The visual effects veteran brings 20+ years’ experience to his new role, including an Oscar win on Sir Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator’ and a BAFTA win on ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.’
Catch the second chapter of the Spider-Verse, as Miles Morales meets a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse, coming on Digital August 8, and 4K UHD & Blu-ray September 5.
Ellen Burstyn reprises her iconic role as Chris MacNeil, an actress who has been forever altered by what happened to her daughter Regan five decades before in the newest installment of the ‘Exorcist’ franchise, haunting theaters starting Friday, October 13.
The logos for both upcoming direct-to-video features were revealed during the DC Studios panel at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, with further details kept deeply under wraps.
The noted comedian, writer, producer, voice artist, and actor, best known for his ground-breaking kids’ show, ‘Pee-Wee’s Playhouse’ and films including Tim Burton classics ‘Pee-wee’s Big Adventure’ and ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas,’ passed away July 30 from cancer.