Design Festa is an international art event open to all artists from all over the world to exhibit their creative talent. Anyone who has original work can take part and express themselves through this freestyle event. There are no restrictions. Express your ideas at Design Festa for an opportunity at experimentation and the next step in your artistic lives. About 7,000 artists attended last time with more than 55,000 visitors.
Creature designer Aaron Sims will be making several appearances in conjunction with the 2008 SIGGRAPH conference and exhibition. Sims will divulge his creative process to hundreds of SIGGRAPH attendees representing all facets of the industry as well as members of the media. In addition, one of his most compelling pieces of work to date will be revealed during a VIP event introducing the RabbitHoles hologram exhibition at 7:30 p.m. on August 12 at Hollywood's Gnomon Gallery, located at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects.
Smoke & Mirrors New York has added award-winning VFX Supervisor/Flame Artist Nicholas Seresin to its growing roster of talented artists. Most recently, Seresin was a vfx supervisor/Flame and Inferno artist at London-based The Moving Picture Company. Prior to MPC, Seresin operated the flame for film, TV and commercials projects at The Mill.
Joe Strike talks to the creators of the new documentary American Teen about turning teenage fantasies into animated vignettes.
Framestore was one of only a handful of digital effects studios chosen to work on THE DARK KNIGHT by director Christopher Nolan, who notoriously prefers to work in-camera and practically as much as possible, turning to digital effects only when they offer him otherwise unachievable and un-improvable results. Framestore's shots for the film encompassed matte paintings, digital doubles (including a CG Batman), vehicles, crowds, and the highly sensitive Harvey Dent/Two-Face CG work.
Animation World Magazine has extended its deadline for its annual Hot Spots Showcase, a collection of the best of animated and visual effects commercials, IDs and music videos.
Alain Bielik concludes his two-part report on The Dark Knight with Double Negative, Framestore and Buf.
From Bakshi and Disney to Riddick and beyond, the cutting-edge animator continues to do things his own way.
Ellen Wolff gets deeper into Meet Dave with VFX Supervisor Mark Stetson.
Tara Bennett talks to Ken Hahn and Carey Villegas of Sony Imageworks about the unconventional yet satisfying demands of Hancock.
London-based animation studio Not To Scale has signed an exclusive dual representation deal with Yellow House Paris for them to represent most of their U.K. roster in France. National TV, Coan & Zorn, Ubik, Chris Ketchell and other Not To Scale directors will now be available for work locally in Paris.
Similarly, Not To Scale will have access to produce work with Yellow House's eclectic roster in the U.K. Adding the work of the surreal and enigmatic DouDouBoy and Laurent Bebin to the U.K. roster.
Vfx in animated features takes center stage this month on VFXWorld. So, let's open with a little quiz.
In July, Animation World Magazine will be running its annual Hot Spots Showcase, a collection of the best of animated and visual effects commercials, IDs and music videos.
Tara Bennett asks VFX Supervisor Joe Bauer about reinventing Get Smart for the big screen and the 21st century.
When audiences head to theaters on June 20 to see Warner Bros. feature GET SMART, they will not see the work of Digit. That's because the premier digital studio led by Creative Director/Founder Elad Offer (and known in the feature realm as Moneyshots) was hired to produce 100 invisible vfx shots.
Bill Desowitz chats with ILM's Pablo Helman and Steve Rawlins about the challenges of pulling off Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Video game developer and publisher Data Design Interactive has opened a U.S. office in Sarasota, Florida.
The purpose of opening this new studio is to help provide the correct creative atmosphere required to work effectively on today's projects. The emphasis has been placed on providing both a natural and open work environment with sunshine 320 days of the year, a central location, a ten minute walk to the ocean and a two-hour drive to Walt Disney World in Orlando.
Academy of Art University is the nation's largest private art and design university with nearly 12,000 students. Established in 1929, the university offers accredited AA, BFA, M.Arch and MFA programs in 13 areas of art and design emphasis, online or in San Francisco. Students from the School of Animation and Visual Effects are highly recruited by companies such as Pixar.
In his month's column, Mark Simon reports on alarming new developments in his continuing campaign against the Orphan Works Act.
CG-GIG.com, is now online to help CG artists find freelance and full-time opportunities in the film, animation and game industries. CG-GIG is designed to help users look for "gigs" in the same way one person naturally seeks multiple resources. CG-GIG users are connected to all the best available CG job-seeking and career tools -- which means the more places there are to look for CG work, the more useful CG-GIG becomes.
Ellen Wolff talks to the animator/illustrator about his reversion to childhood in order to create the artwork for the highly anticipated indie film.
Raytheon Company's newest research facility in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, is developing a robotic suit for the soldier of tomorrow.
Known as an "Exoskeleton," it is essentially a wearable robot that amplifies its wearer's strength, endurance, and agility. In its May issue, POPULAR SCIENCE magazine likens the Exoskeleton to the IRON MAN in the movie of the same name and suggests a blurring of the lines between science fiction and reality.
Jon Hofferman talks to composer extraordinaire Normand Roger about how to score with animators.
In this month's edition of "The Digital Eye," Roma O'Connor, exec producer of CIS London, reports on the advantages and challenges of CIS' presence in three far-flung countries.
Karen Raugust reports on how the famed AI-based 3D animation system is being adopted by key VFX/animation schools.
