Manny, Diego, Sid and Scrat Return in ‘Ice Age: Collision Course’
Director Mike Thurmeier and producer Lori Forte discuss Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios’ fifth installment of their storied animated action-comedy franchise.
Director Mike Thurmeier and producer Lori Forte discuss Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios’ fifth installment of their storied animated action-comedy franchise.
New update to the SCRATCH ecosystem features enhanced 3D workflow, HDR update, increased format support & improved data management.
Animated sketch-based children’s TV series from One Animation launches U.K. toy line with global rollout to follow.
Motion design studio Swordfish and audio house Source Sound design an immersive, animated company logo for VR environments for virtual reality technology startup Pixvana.
Award-winning production company specializing in virtual production and visual effects, announces a new management team that includes Al Lopez (President), Peter Ware (Head of Production), Jason Lucas (CFO) and Reid Paul (VP of International Operations).
Multi-faceted director/designer who has worked with companies including The Mill, Psyop, R/GA and Moonbot Studios joins animation studio’s creative roster.
Deal expands Animatrik’s industry-leading performance capture and virtual production from Vancouver and Toronto into the United States.
Led by VFX supervisors Glenn Melenhorst and Andrew Hellen, Deluxe-owned visual effects studio completes 500 shots for Sony’s ‘Ghostbusters’ reboot.
Former Psyop executive producer and managing director to oversee development and management of Luma Toons original animated content and animation service work.
New release of high-end 2D & 3D rendering software features expanded VFX toolset along with new licensing and rental options aimed at small-to-mid-size studios.
Technology partnership still in private beta combines PresenZ and V-Ray to enable artists to create photorealistic pre-rendered, volumetric VR design spaces with free movement and full parallax without the help of a game engine.
Dover Studios co-founder Andrew Hazelden releases renderer for Maya that creates hardware rendered panoramic images using OpenGL or DirectX, allowing users to create immersive previs renderings of Maya scenes in LatLong, angular fisheye, domemaster, cylindrical, and cubic panorama formats.
Joint demonstration of a VDI workstation designed by GPL engineers and employing NVIDIA’s powerful GRID technology will feature a remote workstation running Mechdyne’s TGX desktop software.
Parent company NBCUniversal will reportedly greenlight two DWA films a year, beginning in 2019 with ‘Shrek 5,’ and ‘Shadows’ from Edgar Wright and David Walliams.
New division creates facial motion-capture technologies that enable virtual humans and characters to interact with people in real time.
New international trailer for Walt Disney Animation Studios’ forthcoming animated feature directed by Ron Clements and John Musker introduces a baby Moana as she meets the Water for the first time.
Special event taking place at Universal Studios Hollywood’s Globe Theatre August 5-14 will showcase the evolution of LAIKA’s unique blend of handcrafted stop-motion animation and visual effects magic in an extensive display of original sets, puppets and props.
Blocks make visual programming even more powerful and easy-to-use; new release to be shown publicly for the first time at SIGGRAPH 2016.
Byron Howard, director of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ ‘Zootopia,’ to deliver keynote address; deadline for entries to 2016 VIEW Awards is September 15.
Autodesk’s Vision Series at SIGGRAPH 2016 includes presentations from Academy Award-winning director Patrick Osborne, Portland-based animation studio LAIKA and VFX outfit Atomic Fiction.
Studio behind ‘The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore’ animates the life of Usain Bolt, the fastest man alive, in a new short film for Gatorade.
Award-winning animated kids series from Cheeky Little Media available to stream on Netflix outside of Australia and the U.K. beginning August 19.
Developer of tools for CG content creation hosting behind-the-scenes presentations from a raft of customers including Pixar Animation Studios, MPC and Sony Pictures Imageworks.