Visual Effects

Paramount Unveils Star Trek Into Darkness Photos

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Paramount releases new photos from the highly-anticipated Star Trek Into Darkness, in theaters May 17, 2012.

MPC Creates New Campaign for Virgin Atlantic

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MPC delivers Virgin Atlantic's new campaign, “Flying in the Face of Ordinary,” featuring CG planes, a hologram chair and cast of exceptional Virgin staff.

Escape Studios Launches Reseller Business

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Education provider starts new company called Escape Technology, which will provide the media sector with a dedicated reseller that offers consultancy, sales and support of leading IT technologies.

Look Effects Hires VFX Supervisor Everett Burrell

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Industry veteran Everett Burrell joins Los Angeles-based VFX house as visual effects supervisor.

Holland Animation Film Fest Calls for Submissions

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The deadline for submissions to the Holland Animation Film Festival is January 1, 2013.

The Hobbit Passes $500M Worldwide

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“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” surpasses the $500 million benchmark at the worldwide box office, with the film earning $179.7 million domestically.

PBS Teams with Joey Shanks for VFX Web Series

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Self-taught filmmaker Joey Shanks teams up with PBS Digital Studios to produce a weekly series that explains how to produce DIY special effects for low-budget productions.

Pixologic Releases ZBrush 4R5

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Pixologic releases ZBrush 4R5, which includes usability upgrades such as Dynamic Brush Size control, Mouse Wheel support and Quick/Auto Save functions.

MPC Creates Labyrinth World for Utopia

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MPC and 4Creative create an enigmatic labyrinth world for new series "Utopia".

eyeon Generation AM Now Shipping

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eyeon Software’s Generation AM, a visual effects and post production workflow management system, is now shipping.

Noise Industries Introduces Tokyo PiPinator to FxFactory

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Noise Industries introduces Tokyo PiPinator, which brings advanced but simple-to-use Picture-in-Picture functionality to FCP X, without the need for keyframes.

Evil Eye Creates 3D VFX for Cirque Du Soleil Worlds Away

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Evil Eye Pictures serves as lead visual effects house for the 3D feature produced by James Cameron, “Cirque Du Soleil Worlds Away.”

Valhalla & Toei Team for Gaiking Feature

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Valhalla Entertainment and Toei Animation team with All Nippon Entertainment Works (ANEW) to develop Toei’s iconic anime property “Gaiking.”

Loyalkaspar adds Creative Director Darryl Mascarenhas

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Loyalkaspar adds Creative Director Darryl Mascarenhas; scares up co-branded assignment for AMC’s “The Walking Dead” and Windows 8.

Free Shade 3D for Unity for Windows Now Shipping

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Publisher Mirye Software and e frontier announce the immediate availability of the free 3D content modeler and animator tool for Windows.

Simon Mowbray Joins Luma Pictures

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Luma Pictures brings aboard creative director/VFX supervisor Simon Mowbray, formerly of Zoic Studios.

Carbon Scatter 2 Now Available

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e-on software announces the availability of Carbon Scatter 2, the company's advanced instancing plugin for 3ds Max, Maya and Cinema 4D.

Brickyard VFX Delivers Winter for GMC

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Digital production studio Brickyard VFX winterizes the hero car reveal for the GMC Sierra holiday campaign, turning a desert landscape into a seasonally snow-covered expanse.

Autodesk Releases Extension 2 for Flame & Flame Premium

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New extension release integrates customer feedback into product development to optimize high-end visual effects and editing workflow.

Syfy Acquires Doctor Who Spinoff K9

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Syfy acquires the U.S. rights for the "Doctor Who" spinoff, “K9”, to premiere on Christmas Day.