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Education Headline News

The Rookies Adding Online Courses, Certification Process

Mentor and awards program looks to establish industry approved review process to help students be better prepared to work in the VFX, animation and games industries.

Education & Training VFXWorld

The Long Road to The Rookies

Set to introduce online courses and an official certification review process in 2018, The Rookies co-founders Andrew McDonald and Alwyn Hunt reflect on their journey to help students make the transition from school to real-world production environments.

Visual Effects Headline News

Allegorithmic Releases Update for Substance Painter

Simple Export to Project Felix Enhances 3D Material Workflow for Artists and Graphic Designers; Five Additional Tools and Updates Now Available

69th Emmy Awards Headline News

‘Westworld,’ ‘Gotham’ Recognized for Outstanding VFX at 69th Creative Arts Emmy Awards

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ wins award for Outstanding Production Design; Netflix series ‘Strangers Things’ awarded for Outstanding Main Title Design.

VR Blogs

SOME THOUGHTS ON VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) STORYTELLING

The essence of storytelling is directing the attention of another. So what happens when the other has the power to direct his own attention?

Festivals Headline News

Supernova Outdoor Digital Animation Festival Returns September 23rd

Ultimate international showcase for digital motion art returns to downtown Denver, CO with seven hours of digital animation and artworks presented simultaneously.

SIGGRAPH 2017 Headline News

NVIDIA Announces External GPUs

Available starting in September, Quadro eGPU solutions will now allow interactive rendering, VR, AI development on PC Notebooks, and will be available through qualified partners such as Bizon, One Stop Systems/Magma and Sonnet with more to come.

SIGGRAPH 2017 Headline News

MAXON Announces Cinema 4D Release 19

The new release includes features and enhancements that streamline motion graphics, VFX and VR content creation workflows and sets a path for the future of Cinema 4D.

Trunk Headline News

Rok Predin’s ‘Pok’ Evokes Sunday Morning Cartoons

The Trunk director’s beautifully graded short has the look of a well-watched VHS tape, which, along with Barnaby Templer’s (Fonic) sound design and Sebastian Duh’s score further ground the audience in the 1980s. 

Awards Headline News

Winners Announced for The Rookies 2017

Representing more than 600 academic facilities located in over 80 countries worldwide, worldwide, Autodesk-sponsored student competition received 8,725 digital projects created by 2,752 students.

Hornet Headline News

Peter Sluszka Celebrates Retail Whimsy with Stop-Motion Paper Animation for Amazon

Hornet director’s signature stop-motion papercraft returns for Amazon’s Prime Day 2017 with characters new and old.

Axis Studios Headline News

Axis Group Unites Brands Under Axis Studios

The new global identity unites U.K. brands Axis Animation, Flaunt Productions and axisVFX under one banner, accompanies company growth and is being celebrated with a limited-edition art book showing the behind-the-scenes work that goes into ‘delivering the unexpected.’

Sarofsky Headline News

Sarofsky’s ‘Guardians’ Return Yields Engaging Main Titles and End Crawl for ‘Vol. 2’

The Chicago-based design house rose to the challenge of creating both an animated, custom typeface and a bold main title sequence logo for the return of Peter Quill, Rocket, Baby Groot, Gamora and Drax the Destroyer in 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.'

Laundry Headline News

Laundry Names James Sweigert Managing Director

The former executive producer of TV & streaming at mOcean brings extensive experience in marketing, brand strategy, design and TV and film production to his new role spearheading business development at Laundry.

Sixty40 Headline News

Sixty40 Amps Up Roster with Fresh Directorial Talent

Sixty40 continues to attract globally celebrated directors, adding Brazilian mixed media director Boca, French animation director Skull and design storyteller Kyra Bartley to their talent pool.

Visual Effects Headline News

Trollbäck+Company Creates Minimalist Animation to Unveil AICP Logo

Trollbäck+Company‘s striking show-opening animation revealed the first new AICP logo in 45 years at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

Visual Effects Headline News

Goodbye Kansas Consolidates Brands

Fast growing Swedish VFX and CGI company Goodbye Kansas has replaced previous brands Fido, Bläck, Imagination Studios and Pixel Grinder with Goodbye Kansas Studios, an integrated company consisting of 150 artists and producers.

Visual Effects Headline News

Ant Farm Creates Intricate 5K Ident for Amazon Studios

The LA-based creative agency used PipelineFX’s intelligent render farm manager to create the logo animation shown in films like Oscar-winner ‘Manchester by the Sea.’

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