Technicolor Unveils New Division with The Mill, MPC, Mikros Animation, and Mr. X
Production Services division becomes Technicolor Creative Studios, with new leadership team focused on design, direction, and production in VFX, XR, and animation.
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Yelena Opens the Door to Adventure in ‘Black Widow’ Clip
New ‘You Got a Plan?” clip shows Florence Pugh’s imaginative problem-solving skills during a high-speed chase in the highly anticipated action-packed spy thriller; first film in Phase Four of the MCU hits theaters and Disney+ with premier access on July 9.
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Hope is on the Way in ‘Sweet Tooth” Official Trailer
Can the bond between a man of violence and a hunted, hybrid deer boy searching for others like him survive a world ravaged by the worst in human behavior? Season 1 premieres June 4 on Netflix.
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Dwayne Johnson Gets Us Ready for Disney’s ‘Jungle Cruise’
Coming July 30, the epic adventure down the Amazon, inspired by the Disneyland ride, also stars Emily Blunt, with VFX by ILM, DNEG, Weta Digital, Rising Sun Pictures, Rodeo FX, and UPP; see the trailer and Johnson announce his role in the film.
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Mac Users Head to the Cloud with Teradici and MacStadium
Companies collaborate to enable high performance remote access to Apple hardware as if it were on a local machine; CAS technology brings PCoIP support to Mac users around the world.
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Call for Submissions: SIGGRAPH Asia 2021 Computer Animation Festival
Entries now being accepted in multiple categories, including shorts, visualizations, VFX sequences, game cinematics, and real-time pieces; deadline to enter is August 1, 2021.
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Creating a More Human Kong in ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’
Weta Digital animates key emotional sequences that capture the battling primate’s older, wiser, and more humanoid side; studio also delivers 13 hero environments including Hollow Earth and a military base in Antarctica.
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Animafest Zagreb 2021 Announces VR Selections
Nine works from an international slate of entries will compete in the VR Animation category.
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FuseFX Gets a Room with a New York City View
The visual effects studio has opened a new office in NYC’s Financial District; the new digs are part of the company’s global expansion strategy and will accommodate its growing staff.
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NVIZ and George Clooney Take a Virtual Spacewalk on ‘The Midnight Sky’
Leading visualization company and their ARENA virtual camera system helped the filmmaker and his VFX team plan, visualize, shoot, and deliver key astronaut spacewalk and airlock death sequences on their Oscar-nominated, VES Award-winning sci-fi drama.
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GMUNK Creates Hypnotic Fluid Sims for ‘The Living System’ Short
The renowned digital artist, aka Bradley Munkowitz, uses a water and smoke system to simulate a swell of energy for the collaborative Z by HP project.
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Unlock 15 Minutes of ‘Army of The Dead’ on Netflix Livestream
Join the May 13 interactive event on Netflix’s YouTube channel - first 15 Minutes of Zack Snyder’s highly anticipated zombie heist thriller will be revealed.
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Netflix Drops ‘Sweet Tooth’ Featurette
Executive producers Susan Downey and Robert Downey Jr. explore the post-apocalyptic fairytale about a hybrid deer-boy embarking on an epic journey; show, based on Jeff Lemire’s groundbreaking DC comic, premieres on Netflix June 4.
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Realtime Conjures VFX Magic for ‘A Discovery of Witches’ Season 2
UK animation and VFX house provides previs, ‘scrying magic,’ a fire drake, and host of supernatural elements in Sky TV’s hit series.
Platige Image Creates Work-Weary Mandrill for the Tajawal Travel Agency
The music-video inspired commercial features an emotionally nuanced CG primate portraying an everyday, burned out businessperson needing a break from life’s mundane routines.
Have a First Look at ‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’ Trailer and Key Art
Tom Hardy returns to the big screen as Marvel’s lethal protector Venom in Columbia Pictures’ action thriller, only in theaters, September 24, 2021.
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Marvel Drops New ‘Black Widow’ Character Posters
Highly anticipated MCU Phase Four action flick comes to theaters and Disney+ with Premier Access July 9, 2021.
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FMX Concludes 2021 Virtual Conference
Conference’s first digital event presented 388 speakers, with 2,200 participants from 45 countries.
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‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Synopsis Revealed
The vaguely worded Marvel announcement states the sequel will ‘continue to explore the incomparable world of Wakanda, and all of the rich and varied characters introduced in the first film.’
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FuseFX Goes Otherworldly on NBC’s ‘Debris’
Award-winning visual effects company creates a mysterious alien ship, its crash wreckage, and a dimensional window, all obviously engineered by beings not of this world, for the new sci-fi mystery series.
Crafty Apes is ‘My-T-Sharp’ in ‘Coming 2 America’
Led by VFX supervisor Aldo Ruggiero, the visual effects studio helped recreate the signature barbershop storefront, a library, and other New York environments that couldn’t be shot due to the pandemic, in Eddie Murphy’s ‘Coming to America’ sequel now streaming on Amazon Prime.
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Hannah John-Kamen is the New ‘Red Sonja’
Marvel and Dynamite Entertainment’s chain mail bikini-clad warrior will hit the big screen for the first time since 1985, after decades of roadblocks and no shortage of drama.
Disney Drops ‘Becoming Cruella’ Featurette
Watch fashionista bad-girl Cruella Deville’s origin story with Emma Stone; ‘Cruella’ the movie comes to theaters and Disney+ with Premier Access May 28.
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New ‘Stranger Things’ Season 4 Teaser Reveals… What Exactly?
We know the new season of Netflix’s hit sci-fi thriller is officially in production, Hopper may be alive, and there are some kids with telekinetic powers, in hospital gowns, playing in a sterile facility… with a special room just for Eleven?
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‘Loki’ Series Coming 2 Days Early
The mischievous horned God’s Disney+ series will now premiere Wednesday June 9, moving back from June 11, avoiding competition with subsequent Friday ‘The Bad Batch’ releases as well as ‘Black Widow’s July 9 launch.
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