Kim Davidson has been re-elected as Board Chair, with Susan O’Neal elected First Vice Chair, David Tanaka as Second Vice Chair, Rita Cahill as Secretary, and Jeffrey A. Okun as Treasurer.
‘Dune: Part Two,’ ‘Shōgun,’ and ‘Wicked’ are among the nominees for the 39th Annual ASC Awards, recognizing outstanding achievement in cinematography; ceremony set for February 23.
The Advanced Imaging Society just shared that due to the impact of the tragic Southern California fires, they are canceling the 15th Annual awards celebration; winners will still be announced February 7.
‘Flow,’ ‘Inside Out 2,’ ‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,’ and ‘The Wild Robot’ get the nod for Animated Film with ‘Better Man,’ ‘Dune: Part Two,’ ‘Gladiator II,’ ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,’ and ‘Wicked’ selected for Special Visual Effects.
After shedding its writers and directors back in 2023, the all-new Marvel Studios series starring Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio reprising their roles as Matt Murdock, aka Daredevil, and Wilson ‘Kingpin’ Fisk finally hits the streamer March 4.
Led by VFX supervisor James Brennan-Craddock, the studio delivered postvis and 317 visual effects shots on Tim Burton’s hit ‘Beetlejuice’ sequel, including digital versions of a miniature plane, simulated oceans, stretched faces, and sequences featuring the famed sandworm.
Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi thriller tops all feature film contenders, while Chris Sanders’ animated drama leads all animation contenders and the HBO and FX dramas top all episodic contenders as nominees are announced in 25 categories across film, television, real-time, and special venue projects; ceremony set for February 11 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in LA.
Nominations voting period extended due to the ongoing Los Angeles fires and their impact; AMPAS has changed some key dates and events on its awards season schedule.
The Oscar-winning VFX supervisor helped plan, design and deliver 500 visual effect shots for the Steve McQueen period drama about a 9-year-old evacuee who tries to journey back home to find his mother, turning back the clock to depict the devastating effects on the city and its people of the Nazi aerial attacks on England.
Designed to support the creation of spatial content, the system accurately captures real-world objects, human motion, and backgrounds, recreating them in virtual environments for 3DCG production.
Author and VFX veteran Joseph Bell talks about his unique research report, published as a free downloadable eBook, that organizes and charts data on more than 55,000 individual artists around the world who work in visual effects.
The VFX and animation studio led a team of over 1,700 artists, technologists, and production crew across 4 continents, collaborating remotely as well as using VR and virtual production tools to navigate digital environments.
Enhancing safety, reducing costs, and maximizing creative freedom compared to traditional methods, the new system offers an ‘all-in-one’ solution for filming vehicles using virtual production in any setting.
The move will bring hundreds of detailed and authentic 3D botanical assets, materials, and tools to the software platform, which provides solutions for content creators working in 2D/3D design, motion graphics, and visual effects.
The upcoming season of the hit series, based on Naughty Dog’s PlayStation video game franchise, will debut this April on HBO, also streaming on Max.
From depicting dinosaurs and the Ice Age to a massive tidal wave and idyllic neighborhood, the leading VFX and animation company helped create and then seamlessly move between scenes, shot from a stationary camera, spanning millions of years, in Robert Zemeckis’ latest film.
The leading visual effects company handled both client side and vendor side production on Netflix’s limited series that tells the story of the late Brazilian Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna.
‘Despicable Me 4,’ ‘Flow,’ ‘Inside Out 2,’ ‘Memoir of a Snail,’ ‘Moana 2,’ ‘That Christmas,’ ‘Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,’ and ‘The Wild Robot’ advance in the Best Animated Film category as voting begins for the coveted British film awards; nominations announced January 15, with awards revealed at February 16 ceremony.
After years of rumors, Momoa has confirmed his casting as the badass interstellar mercenary and bounty hunter hailing from the utopian planet of Czarnia.
Previously slated to swoop into theaters in 2025… then in 2026… Matt Reeves’ film will now premiere October 1, 2027; an untitled Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Tom Cruise flick will take the vacated October 2, 2026 slot.
Led by VFX supervisor Matthew Krentz, the studio delivers 253 visual effects shots on Tim Burton’s hit ‘Beetlejuice’ sequel, including baby Beetlejuice, a stop-motion Charles Deetz being bitten by a shark, and the famed ghost’s dismembered ex-wife Delores.
The highly stylized sci-fi project focuses on a remote planet on the brink of collapse, where most of its inhabitants are ensnared by a powerful addiction.
As if this was in doubt… plot details are under wraps for the fourth cinematic installment, as ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 3,’ which follows Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails as they reunite against the powerful adversary Shadow, quickly soars past $200 million at the global box office.
The Emmy Award-winning EFX supervisor helped creator Ian McCulloch produce a series of gruesome human and animal bodies seemingly pulled apart in layers in the horror thriller series now streaming on Peacock.
From Atomic Monster and Blumhouse for New Line, the film, ‘will be unlike any Mummy movie you ever laid eyeballs on,’ hitting theaters April 17, 2026.
