Visual Effects

Zoic Creates VFX for Falling Skies

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Zoic Studios creates a new sneaky teaser, Clear Gaze, for the new season of TNT’s Falling Skies.

DigitalFilm Tree Taps TerraBlock for ABC Series

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DigitalFilm Tree taps Facilis TerraBlock to facilitate the workflow on the ABC series Mistresses and Perception.

Skyfall Title Sequence Wins Design Week Award

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Visual effects company Framestore wins the 2013 London Design Week award for Best Broadcast Design for its work on the main title sequence for James Bond feature, Skyfall.

Imagineer & Curious Turtle Launch Advanced Training Series

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Imagineer and Curious Turtle launch their latest training course, “Master mocha Volume 1; Production Effects with mocha and After Effects.”

MassMarket Paints a Picture for APES

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MassMarket partners with Ogilvy & Mather Chicago to create a spot to help raise awareness for wildlife conservation for APES, a branch of The Conservation Trust

Thinkbox Launches Deadline 6.0

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Thinkbox launches the latest version of their render farm management solution, Deadline 6.0.

Pixar’s RenderMan Celebrates 25 Years

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Pixar celebrates the 25th anniversary of its pioneering computer graphics software, RenderMan.

Stun Creative Produces New Promo Campaign for Bravo

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Stun Creative creates a new multi-platform promo campaign for Bravo, celebrating the network’s pop culture brand and original programming.

Elastic Takes a Colorful Ride with Chevy

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Elastic’s Angus Wall takes five ladies on a colorful ride through Paris for Chevy.

Collider Conference & NYU Launch VFX Survey

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The COLLIDER Digital Production Conference and NYU announce a survey to gauge current attitudes and perceptions among visual effects industry artists and professionals, with the results to be revealed at the June 10 VFX Town Hall meeting.

VFS Unveils New Animation Campus

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The Vancouver Film School announces the addition of an Animation & Visual Effects campus located in a 106,000 square foot city-owned space in Gastown.

Framestore Officially Opens LA Facility

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Framestore's LA operation announces the opening of its new permanent home: a specially designed and ultra-spacious studio in Culver City, heartland of the moving image.

Dive Provides VFX for After Earth

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DIVE provides 250 VFX shots for M. Night Shyamalan’s After Earth.

American Cinematheque to Honor Ray Harryhausen

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The American Cinematheque presents a tribute to legendary visual effects artist Ray Harryhausen at the Aero Theatre.

Modus FX Makes Magic for Now You See Me

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Modus FX provides 227 visual effects shots for Summit Entertainment’s Now You See Me.

Former Mill VFX Team Launches Milk

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Milk founders behind VFX on Doctor Who and Mirror Man in Snow White and the Huntsman.

Proof Provides Previs, Visual Effects for Fast & Furious 6

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Leading visualization house Proof Inc. provides previs and postvis services to Universal Pictures’ Fast & Furious 6, as well as the production of 200 visual effects shots.

MPC Releases Life of Pi Breakdown

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While everyone waits to see MPC's work on Man of Steel, World War Z and The Lone Ranger, the London-based visual effects company releases a breakdown of the effects it handled for the Oscar-winning Life of Pi.

John Fragomeni Appointed President of Mirada Studios

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John Fragomeni is appointed President of the creative studio, Mirada.

Sony Releases New Oz VFX Featurette

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A new featurette from Sony Pictures Imageworks goes behind-the-scenes of Disney’s Oz The Great and Powerful.