Category: Visual Effects

Ascent 142 completed full picture post and Rushes all 250 VFX shots on LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS, the debut feature from Phil Claydon, starring James Corden and Matthew Horne and the first U.K. movie to be shot entirely on RED camera. Both companies were involved in working closely with the director and production team early on in pre production to assist with the new post pipeline required camera data and with planning the vfx.

Big Stage Entertainment, Inc., a media technology company that lets consumers project themselves photo-realistically into digital life, has unveiled its new iStage application that offers the company's 3D facial modeling and personalization system for branded mobile campaigns and games on the iPhone.

PipelineFX, makers of Qube! software, the render farm management software for film and post production, product design, game development, and digital media education around the world, has announced a partnership with Texas-based BOXX Technologies to bundle Qube! with BOXX render servers for a low-cost, turnkey render farm solution.

Dassault Systemes has announced Xbox 360 support in the latest release of its game development engine, 3DVIA Virtools 5. With the new addition of Xbox 360 support, 3DVIA Virtools 5 continues to help reduce development time and costs by allowing developers to create a game within the 3DVIA Virtools 5 engine once and publish it to multiple platforms, including Xbox 360, Wii, PC, Mac or the Web, without any code modifications.

Jason Anderson, one of the original FALLOUT design team members, has joined the inXile Entertainment as creative director for a new, unannounced role-playing game (RPG) from inXile. Anderson recently left Interplay, where in his second tenure there served as creative director working on the next generation MMO Project: V13.

Tippett Studio is integrating Tweak Software's RV company-wide as its playback tool of choice. RV will replace Flipper, the proprietary playback software developed at Tippett Studio, as the backbone of its VFX digital pipeline.

Tippett Studio was founded 25 years ago and has earned a reputation for groundbreaking animation and visual effects. The studio has launched a major initiative to retool its pipeline to accommodate increasingly complex artistic and technical demands -- without disrupting existing workflows.

Universal Pictures has hired Dan Harris to write the screenplay for EA videogame adaptation DANTE'S INFERNO, per VARIETY. Harris co-wrote X-MEN 2 and SUPERMAN RETURNS.

EA VP Patrick O'Brien and game creator Jonathan Knight are involved in developing the film, about a journey through the depths of hell. Strike Ent.'s Marc Abraham and Eric Newman are producing with EA Entertainment. Universal bought the rights last fall, before the game's title had even been officially announced, in a four-studio bidding war.