NFB Appoints René Bourdages as Head of Interactive
New NFB Director General, Creation and Innovation to oversee the interactive studios in Vancouver and Montreal and both the French and English programs at the National Film Board of Canada.
New NFB Director General, Creation and Innovation to oversee the interactive studios in Vancouver and Montreal and both the French and English programs at the National Film Board of Canada.
Groundbreaking collaboration between Google ATAP, creative studio Bullitt, VFX house The Mill and director Justin Lin honored with two Gold Digital Craft Lions at the 2016 Cannes Lions Awards Show.
Trailer comes on the heels of a sneak preview of ‘Rain or Shine’ from Google Spotlight Stories at the Annecy International Animation Festival.
VR Village will celebrate ‘Summer of VR’ with unprecedented number of cutting-edge experiential virtual reality and augmented reality installations.
Purchase of game development studio Digital Funk Machine continues drive in creation of groundbreaking virtual reality entertainment content.
Latest installment of the Google Spotlight Stories series from the Academy Award-winning director of Disney’s ‘Feast’ is now available for both Android and iOS.
Technical papers selected to participate at SIGGRAPH 2016 include an exploration of Shadow Theatre, Virtual Reality mapping techniques, sketch-based motion editing for articulated characters, and more.
Disney falls short of analyst expectations for the second quarter of 2016; discontinues ‘Infinity’ gaming line with plans to lay off 250-300 artists and other staff.
‘Data Materialities’ exhibit to feature unique collection of 10 highly interactive installations created from 2003–2016.
Industry Advisory Board for new certificate program includes Citrix Systems’ Fabien Bourdon, CloudPic founder & CEO Richard Chuang, Geomedia’s Jeremy Kenisky, Jaunt VR’s Curt Miyashiro, and Azimyth Creation Studio founder & CEO Stephanie Riggs.
Noted animation, VFX, digital media and previs executive Christopher Bellaci named head of business development & sales for dedicated Virtual Reality division.
360-degree version of the film available for preview at the Tribeca Film Festival’s 2016 Interactive Playground.
Internationally recognized director has created interactive films for Nike, interstitials for MTV, and a dystopian interactive VR music video for electronic artists MODERAT.
Interactive animated short from Oscar-winning director of ‘Feast’ is set to have its world premiere as part of the ‘Rock and a Hard Place’ shorts program at the Tribeca Film Festival.
First-time exhibitors for world’s leading computer graphics and interactive conference running July 24-28 in Anaheim, CA announced; ‘Spirit of SIGGRAPH’ design contest launched.
Created in collaboration with Google ATAP’s Spotlight Stories and Evil Eye Pictures, animated short made for mobile and VR devices contains hidden surprises, including a musical homage to Queen.
Visual, puzzle-filled point-and-click sci-fi adventure with stylized cartoon designs is nominated for ‘Best Upcoming Game’ at the 12th edition of the International Mobile Gaming Awards.
Philadelphia-based creative agency creates a cinematic, projection-mapped recreation of Vincent Van Gogh's bedroom at Arles as well as custom interactive installations as the key components of the institute’s sensational new exhibition, ‘Van Gogh's Bedrooms.’
Former Troika EP with more than a decade of production experience spanning broadcast design, integrated content, traditional on-air spots, branded content, digital and social has worked with a wide range of brands.
VFX company’s third office opens its doors in Hell’s Kitchen led by executive producer Colleen Bachman.
Tech-savvy animated original series from Industrial Brothers and The Jim Henson Company is based on the book by author and executive producer Randi Zuckerberg.
Winduna Enterprises secures co-production agreement with Discovery Kids Latin America for new 2D animated children’s series based on the ‘Winnie the Witch’ books by Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul.
Belgium’s Grid Animation to co-produce animated vlogs for multimedia girls fashion brand from ‘Whissper’ and ‘Waybuloo’ creator Dan Good.
Artanim delivers new technology allowing users to experience, physically interact, and collaborate in a virtual 3D environment using Vicon motion capture technology.
Accomplished directors join live-action division; company adds Roxanneanco as East Coast rep for live action, design and animation.