17th Annual Tribeca Film Festival Announces 2018 Dates and Call for Submissions
Tribeca selects Withoutabox to be the exclusive third-party film submission service for the 2018 Festival as part of a new, multi-year agreement.
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VR Bound Announces AMD, Foundry and HP as VR Awards Partners
With an awards ceremony and dinner, the partnership will see AMD, Foundry and HP collaborate in celebrating outstanding achievement in the virtual reality industry on the new date of 9th October 2017.
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Couldn’t Make It to SIGGRAPH? Watch the Epic Games User Group Presentation Online
Epic Games showcases advancements in virtual, augmented and mixed reality as well as the impact of the Cloud, AI and machine learning on production pipelines, at is first-ever User Group meetup at SIGGRAPH 2017.
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CLIPS: ‘The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature’ Now in Theaters!
Animated sequel with a voice cast led by Will Arnett, Katherine Heigl and Maya Rudolph follows the 2014 independent animated hit produced by ToonBox Entertainment and Redrover.
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'Wonder Women' Leaps onto Blu-ray with Bonus Deleted Scene
On August 29, 'Wonder Woman' will be available to own for streaming and download to watch anywhere in high definition and standard definition on favorite devices from select digital retailers, and on September 19, 'Wonder Woman' will be made available digitally on Video On Demand services from cable and satellite providers and on select gaming consoles.
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WATCH: The Third Floor’s Duncan Burbidge Talks ‘Doctor Strange’ and ‘Rogue One’ Previs at FMX 2017
The GM and executive producer talks in detail about his studio’s previs work on Marvel’s ‘Doctor Strange,’ Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.’
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Jon Favreau to Receive VES Lifetime Achievement Award
The Visual Effects Society to honor writer-producer-director Favreau for his boundary-breaking use of visual effects to create a seamless and invisible background for remarkable stories and vibrant characters to play across film and television.
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Disney Ditching Netflix
The Walt Disney Company to end its content deal with Netflix and launch its own streaming service beginning in 2019.
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Allegorithmic Unveils Substance Painter 2017.2 and More at Substance Days Hollywood 2017
Allegorithmic unveils Live Link from Substance Painter to Unity, Substance Automation Toolkit, Substance Source in Unity, Substance Source in Unreal Engine 4, and more at the second annual Substance Days Hollywood held July 27-29 at Gnomon School of Visual Effects, Games & Animation.
IMAGE GALLERY: ‘Mune: Guardian of the Moon’ A Fantastical Animated Adventure
CG-animated feature from the producers of ‘The Little Prince’ set for one-day screening event from GKIDS and Fathom Events on Saturday, August 12.
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Not To Scale Launches LA Studio
Award-winning film and animation production company signs John Kahrs, the Academy Award-winning director of Disney's 'Paperman,' for exclusive commercial representation.
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Jellyfish Bolsters Team with Appointment of Dave Wells
New pipeline TD and compositor previously served as head of technical pre-sales at data storage solutions provider Pixit Media, designing high-performance storage and network infrastructures for the Media & Entertainment industry.
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Vicon Delivers Hands-on Tracking
Motion capture technology specialist for the entertainment, engineering and life sciences industries collaborates with leading developer of virtual reality gloves to allow customers to integrate Manus VR Glove finger tracking into their production pipelines.
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Nurulize Unveils Disruptive VR Development Tools
New VR solutions Atom View and Nu Design enable super-fast cinematic quality display and collaborative environment editing within the virtual environment.
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Framestore Animates Detailed Hulk for Marvel
International Oscar-winning creative studio Framestore is showing its cross-platform capabilities yet again by bringing the powerful Marvel character Hulk to life on both film and commercial platforms, with the London film team and the Los Angeles integrated advertising team collaborating on the latest CG characterization of Hulk for upcoming Marvel Studios releases and Renault’s commercial “Renault Kwid.”
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DHX Dives into New Deals for ‘The Deep’
Newly-signed deals for season two of the DHX Media and A Stark Production co-production include Universal Kids in the U.S., along with broadcasters throughout Greece, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, the Middle East, the Baltics, Russia, Angola & Mozambique, and French Canada.
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Ticket Giveaway: France’s ‘Mune: Guardian of the Moon’ in Theaters August 12
Fantastical CG-animated feature from the producers of ‘The Little Prince’ set for one-day screening event on Saturday, August 12.
‘Book of Life’ Director Jorge Gutierrez Joins ‘Billion Brick Race’
Warner Bros. taps ‘Book of Life’ and ‘Son of Jaguar’ director to develop a new animated feature in ‘The LEGO Movie’ franchise.
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Academy Announces 11 Scientific and Technical Areas Under Investigation for 2017 Oscars
2017 Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation to be held on Saturday, February 10, 2018.
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HP Rockets to Mars with VR Experience
HP teams with partners on ‘HP Mars Home Planet,’ a global co-creation project to imagine life on Mars, as part of their newly announced VR strategy focusing on enabling brands to reimagine how they innovate and engage customers.
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HP Debuts Wearable VR PC
New VR portfolio, including the world’s first professional wearable VR PC, makes HP a prime partner for immersive customer experiences.
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Animal Logic Open Sources USDMaya Plugin
Animal Logic has announced the open source release of its USDMaya plugin AL_USDMaya, which enables powerful and efficient authoring and editing of 3D graphics data using Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (USD) in Autodesk’s Maya.˙
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SIGGRAPH 2017 Concludes Strong in Los Angeles
SIGGRAPH 2017 Computer Animation Festival award winners “Song of a Toad,” “John Lewis Buster the Boxer” and “Garden Party” were presented their statues amid a conference that covered important advances and collaborations in animation, visual effects, AR/VR and robotics.
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‘Piper’ VFX Artists to Present at animago
Event highlights include hearing from international VFX professionals and the 33 animago-AWARDS nominated projects from all over the world.
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Encounters Festival Announces 2017 Program
247 films selected to compete at Oscar-qualifying festival running September 19-24 with appearances by ‘The Red Turtle’ director Michael Dudok de Wit and Illumination Entertainment’s Pierre Coffin.
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