Visual Effects

Digital Pulse Creates New Spot for Centrebet

Posted In | News Categories: Business, Commercials, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: Australia | Site Categories: Business, Commercials, Visual Effects
Digital Pulse partners with Mosaic Films to produce the latest television commercial for online betting agency Centrebet.

eyeon Announces GPU Acceleration Webinar

Posted In | News Categories: Events, Internet and Interactive, Technology, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: North America | Site Categories: Events, Internet and Interactive, Technology, Visual Effects
eyeon Software hosts a Webinar looking at the “Benefits of Multiple GPU-Enabled Environments,” on Wednesday, December 12.

Elijah Wood Stars in Flying Lotus’ Tiny Tortures

Posted In | News Categories: Commercials, People, Short Films, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: North America | Site Categories: Commercials, People, Short Films, Visual Effects
Pulse Films director David Lewandowski directs Elijah Wood in “Tiny Tortures,” a VFX-laden music video for Flying Lotus.

Digital Domain Announces Pay Cuts

Posted In | News Categories: Business, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: North America | Site Categories: Business, Visual Effects
Digital Domain announces company-wide pay cuts for its employees.

Autodesk Kicks Off 3December 2012

Posted In | News Categories: CG, Events, Internet and Interactive, People, Places, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: North America | Site Categories: CG, Events, Internet and Interactive, People, Places, Visual Effects
Autodesk Kicks Off 14th Annual 3December Celebration on December 3 honoring 3D computer graphics and artists from around the world.

VES to Host Union Panel Saturday

Posted In | News Categories: Events, People, Places, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: North America | Site Categories: Events, People, Places, Visual Effects
The Visual Effects Society hosts “Understanding Unions: The Good, The Bad & Unknown of Forming a Visual Effects Collective Bargaining Organization” at the L.A. Film School on Saturday, December 1, 2012.

10 Contenders Remain in VFX Oscar Race

Posted In | News Categories: Awards, Films, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: North America | Event: Academy Awards | Site Categories: Awards, Films, Visual Effects
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces that 10 films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 85th Academy Awards.

Framestore Animates Valentino Exhibit

Posted In | News Categories: Theme Parks - Installations, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: Europe | Site Categories: Theme Parks - Installations, Visual Effects
Framestore Labs and Design creates installation for Valentino exhibition at Somerset House.

The Foundry Launches Nuke 7.0

Posted In | News Categories: Technology, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: Europe | Site Categories: Technology, Visual Effects
Faster than ever, Nuke 7.0 adds game-changing updates to industry-standard compositing system.

Chris Noellert Joins Carbon VFX

Posted In | News Categories: Business, People, Places, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: North America | Site Categories: Business, People, Places, Visual Effects
Chris Noellert joins Carbon VFX as Creative Director/Lead Flame Artist and VFX Supervisor.

Nice Shoes Expands VFX Division

Posted In | News Categories: Business, Commercials, People, Places, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: North America | Site Categories: Business, Commercials, People, Places, Visual Effects
Flame artist Vin Roma promoted to head of VFX; Colleen Valentino joins the company as a senior VFX producer.

Red Giant Ships PluralEyes 3.1

Posted In | News Categories: Business, CG, Technology, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: North America | Site Categories: Business, CG, Technology, Visual Effects
PluralEyes 3.1 adds timeline sync and native MFX support for Avid Media Composer for Mac.

Vicon Releases Blade 2 Motion Capture Software

Posted In | News Categories: Technology, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: Europe | Site Categories: Technology, Visual Effects
Vicon announces the official release of Blade 2 motion capture processing software.

Rhythm & Hues Taps NVIDIA Technology for Life of Pi

Posted In | News Categories: CG, Films, Technology, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: North America | Site Categories: CG, Films, Technology, Visual Effects
Global visual effects giant Rhythm & Hues, which recently completed the lion’s share of visual effects shots on the acclaimed new film, “Life of Pi,” leverages NVIDIA GPUs to maximize throughput and accelerate creative workflows.

David Estis Joins MPC NY

Creative studio MPC NY fortifies its credentials with the addition of David Estis as the company’s new creative director of digital.

House of Moves Teams with Activision for Call of Duty: Black Ops II

Posted In | News Categories: Business, CG, Games, Technology, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: North America | Site Categories: Business, CG, Games, Technology, Visual Effects
Motion capture and animation service company House of Moves teams with Treyarch and Activision Publishing to provide full performance capture for cinematics featured in “Call of Duty: Black Ops II.”

Looper Available on Disc December 31

Posted In | News Categories: Films, Home Entertainment, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: North America | Site Categories: Films, Home Entertainment, Visual Effects
On Monday December 31, the mind-bending sci-fi action-thriller “LOOPER” heads to Blu-ray and DVD.

Stardust Studios Relaunches

Posted In | News Categories: Business, CG, Commercials, Motion Graphics, People, Places, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: North America | Site Categories: Business, CG, Commercials, Motion Graphics, People, Places, Visual Effects
Seth Epstein and Dexton Deboree acquire and relaunch Stardust Studios.

Swedish VFX Studio Haymaker Launches

Posted In | News Categories: Business, Commercials, People, Places, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: Europe | Site Categories: Business, Commercials, People, Places, Visual Effects
Sweden continues to deliver world-class creativity with newly-established independent post production studio Haymaker.

Steve Meyer Joins FuseFX

Posted In | News Categories: Business, Commercials, People, Television, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: North America | Site Categories: Business, Commercials, People, Television, Visual Effects
Award-winning artist and VFX supervisor Steve Meyer joins visual effects company FuseFX.