The Career Coach: Discrimination
The Career Coach takes time to look at sexism, racism and homophobia (and all the other phobias) in the 3D animation industry.
The Career Coach takes time to look at sexism, racism and homophobia (and all the other phobias) in the 3D animation industry.
In this months Digital Eye column, Peter Plantec looks at the nomadic nature of the visual effects industry.
On April 6, 2005, animation designer/comic strip artist Gene Hazelton passed away at age 85.
Hazelton was born in 1919 and by his teens was assisting cartoonist Jimmy Hatlo on the popular newspaper panel, THEY'LL DO IT EVERY TIME. In 1939, he took an entry-level job at Disney, where he worked his way from gag-man to animator. His most notible work at Disney was animating the goat kids and cherubim in FANTASIA and several sequences in PINOCCHIO.
In celebration of April Fools, the Career Coach looks at all the wisdom written about foolishness and applies it to career matters.
Bob Miller chronicles the new kind of fantastic Framestore CFC had to appeal to bring dragons to life in Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real versus their groundbreaking work on Walking with Dinosaurs.
Due to a new condominium project, the Animation Academy, which was operating at 3407 W. Olive Ave., will now hold classes at the Burbank Association of Realtors offices and Trinity Foursquare Church, reports the DAILY NEWS. The location were the school use to be is now part of a 3.8-acre Media District site designated for a Platt Cos. project that will include 220 condo units, 20,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, a church and a child-care facility.
Marisa Materna talks with the artists behind Gang of Seven, a collective of animators who have pooled their talent to form their own privately owned studio.
Bill Desowitz talks with visual effects supervisors from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, I, Robot and Spider-Man 2 about each others work.
This week in AWN's Forums, theres a thread raging about contracts and companies not paying for work completed. Others are discussing the new MADAGASCAR trailer. Other posts are looking for animators to work on various projects. Other members are posting their sketches, animation and shorts are other to check out and critique. More people are chiming in on the meaning of anime debate. Others are still discussing FOSTERS HOME FOR IMAGINARY FRIENDS.
Tara DiLullo goes behind the scenes to discover how vfx artist Joe Laffey made the attention-grabbing spec spot, X-Games Skateboard.
Northern Lights Post has added noted comedy/lifestyle editor John Laskas to its roster of talented editors and named Rich Schafler of Schafler Artist Management, New York, as its east coast commercial sales rep.
In Part 1 of this series, Ellen Besen sits down with maverick CG director Chris Landreth, creator of Bingo and the new, breakthrough film Ryan, to discuss the current state of CG human characters and realism.
Karen Raugust investigates how business, creative and technological trends are transforming the vfx industry and the artists place in it.
Visual effects supervisor Kim Libreri explores the emerging trends in the industry and looks ahead with 12 predictions.
Kim Libreri, former vfx supervisor at ESC Ent., played a key role in the inception and development of Iridas FrameCycler Digital Daily System and SpeedGrade, the new non-destructive color grading and film finishing application. Both products were used extensively in the two MATRIX sequels as well as CATWOMAN.
Last week, 70 British companies, including most of the Soho post players, convened the first U.K. Showcase at the Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood. More than a chance to escape the freezing London weather for sunny L.A., the thriving vfx companies, in particular, were able to tout their recent successes and do a little off-site business with Warner Bros., Fox and Universal, who have outsourced the bulk of their tentpole vfx work to the U.K. over the last few years.
Anil Wanvari and Anand Gurnani explore the blossoming visual effects industry in India, where 70% of the movies utilize digital magic to wow viewers.
Jim Whittington of TrendWatch analyzes the 3D market in the U.S. and reports back with the emerging trends and changes.
A few years ago, 3D animator Justin Leach shared his experiences in Japan at Production I.G with AWN. That was prior to his involvement on the recently released GHOST IN THE SHELL 2: INNOCENCE. Now he returns with excerpts from his personal production diary about working on the acclaimed anime, which VFXWORLD is pleased to bring its readers.
In this second installment, Greg Singer speaks with animation directors of the Green Screen Show to learn how they are integrating animation with the show's live-action improv.
Los Angeles visual effects and animation studio KromA has hired producer Bob Yukich to head vfx production. He is a former freelancer with broad experience in commercials, music videos, feature films and episodic television and will oversee production, day-to-day operations and sales. He will also seek to expand the company beyond its base in commercial and music videos into effects work for film and television.
Gianluca Dentici takes us on a trip to Italy to discover what the visual effects community is like in Rome and beyond.
The Animation Pimp returns with a third installment in his unsung animators series. This time riding with Stephanie Maxwell.