‘Gumball’ Dominates British Animation Awards Winners
Magic Light’s ‘Revolting Rhymes,’ Studio A.K.A.’s ‘Hey Duggee’ and Blue Zoo’s ‘Mamoon’ also among the top honorees.
Category: Motion Graphics
The Rookies Opens its 2018 Competition
Young creatives in film, animation, games, VR, motion graphics and 3D visualization offered evaluation by top professionals and exposure to the industry.
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Center for Visual Music Restores Oskar Fischinger Work for DVD
Release makes available classic and rare films by the ‘Father of Visual Music’ and the great-grandfather of motion graphics.
Cheer and Loathing in Animation: Episode LI - We Don't Need to Know Who You Are
Every Friday Chris Robinson unleashes improvised and hastily scribbled cheer or loathing on the animation community to be digested, swallowed or... expelled. Today: Just what the hell is animation anyway?
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Le and Roberts Launch Motion Design Studio BIEN
Industry vets launch bicoastal studio based out of Los Angeles and Raleigh, N.C.
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The Rookies Adding Online Courses, Certification Process
Mentor and awards program looks to establish industry approved review process to help students be better prepared to work in the VFX, animation and games industries.
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The Long Road to The Rookies
Set to introduce online courses and an official certification review process in 2018, The Rookies co-founders Andrew McDonald and Alwyn Hunt reflect on their journey to help students make the transition from school to real-world production environments.
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Adobe Expands, Updates Creative Cloud Applications
Additions include Character Animator CC, Adobe XD CC, Dimension CC and Photoshop LIghtroom CC.
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Bodega Adds IAMSTATIC To Animation Roster
Toronto-based studio has done award-winning work in commercials, film, television and digital content.
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MPC Hires Antar Walker as Design Creative Director
Veteran of advertising, design, animation, film and digital joins London-based company from ManvsMachine.
Allegorithmic Releases Update for Substance Painter
Simple Export to Project Felix Enhances 3D Material Workflow for Artists and Graphic Designers; Five Additional Tools and Updates Now Available
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Categories Announced For 2018 British Animation Awards
Bienniel event will present the 12th edition of the honors March 15 at London’s BFI Southbank.
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‘Westworld,’ ‘Gotham’ Recognized for Outstanding VFX at 69th Creative Arts Emmy Awards
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ wins award for Outstanding Production Design; Netflix series ‘Strangers Things’ awarded for Outstanding Main Title Design.
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SOME THOUGHTS ON VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) STORYTELLING
The essence of storytelling is directing the attention of another. So what happens when the other has the power to direct his own attention?
Supernova Outdoor Digital Animation Festival Returns September 23rd
Ultimate international showcase for digital motion art returns to downtown Denver, CO with seven hours of digital animation and artworks presented simultaneously.
NVIDIA Announces External GPUs
Available starting in September, Quadro eGPU solutions will now allow interactive rendering, VR, AI development on PC Notebooks, and will be available through qualified partners such as Bizon, One Stop Systems/Magma and Sonnet with more to come.
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MAXON Announces Cinema 4D Release 19
The new release includes features and enhancements that streamline motion graphics, VFX and VR content creation workflows and sets a path for the future of Cinema 4D.
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Rok Predin’s ‘Pok’ Evokes Sunday Morning Cartoons
The Trunk director’s beautifully graded short has the look of a well-watched VHS tape, which, along with Barnaby Templer’s (Fonic) sound design and Sebastian Duh’s score further ground the audience in the 1980s.
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Winners Announced for The Rookies 2017
Representing more than 600 academic facilities located in over 80 countries worldwide, worldwide, Autodesk-sponsored student competition received 8,725 digital projects created by 2,752 students.
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Peter Sluszka Celebrates Retail Whimsy with Stop-Motion Paper Animation for Amazon
Hornet director’s signature stop-motion papercraft returns for Amazon’s Prime Day 2017 with characters new and old.
PipelineFX Announces Release of Qube! 6.10
New features include an integrated Shotgun user interface, perpetual license keys, command line access to Microsoft Azure during the beta and Clarisse renderer support.
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Axis Group Unites Brands Under Axis Studios
The new global identity unites U.K. brands Axis Animation, Flaunt Productions and axisVFX under one banner, accompanies company growth and is being celebrated with a limited-edition art book showing the behind-the-scenes work that goes into ‘delivering the unexpected.’
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Sarofsky’s ‘Guardians’ Return Yields Engaging Main Titles and End Crawl for ‘Vol. 2’
The Chicago-based design house rose to the challenge of creating both an animated, custom typeface and a bold main title sequence logo for the return of Peter Quill, Rocket, Baby Groot, Gamora and Drax the Destroyer in 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.'
Laundry Names James Sweigert Managing Director
The former executive producer of TV & streaming at mOcean brings extensive experience in marketing, brand strategy, design and TV and film production to his new role spearheading business development at Laundry.
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Alma Mater Welcomes Ben Apley and Ronnie Koff
Former Imaginary Forces A-team reunites with Alma Mater co-founders Brian Mah and James Anderson.
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