GALLERY: Selected Film Images From 'Despicable Me 3'
Check out a selection of images from Illumination Entertainment’s latest spy caper comedy, the third film in the studio's widly successful animated franchise.
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Gru and Crew Make a New Debut in ‘Despicable Me 3’
The producers and directors of Illumination Entertainment’s latest animated spy caper comedy talk about the film’s Annecy premiere and the challenges of keeping a successful franchise fresh.
Foundry Launches Modo 11.1 with Host of New and Enhanced Features
Innovative features in latest instalment of the Modo 11 series include a client-server bridge to Unreal Engine 4 and more.
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VIEW Conference Adds Oscar-Winning VFX Talent to 2017 Speaker Lineup
Four-time Oscar winner Joe Letteri, Oscar winner John Nelson, two-time Oscar winner Bill Westenhofer, and Oscar winner Martin Hill join the roster of more than 25 top industry professionals already confirmed for Italy’s computer graphics conference.
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Smith Global Media Acquires Distribution Rights to ‘Gnome Alone’ and ‘Charming’
Wide theatrical releases planned for 3QU Media’s CG-animated features produced at Cinesite’s Montreal studio.
SIGGRAPH 2017 Computer Animation Festival Trailer Now Online!
Student film ‘Song of a Toad’ named best in show; John Lewis ‘Buster the Boxer’ wins jury award; MOPA’s ‘Garden Party’ awarded best student project.
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Oscar-Winning Director Laurent Witz Helms ‘Cogs’ Short for AIME
CG-animated short from the director of the 2014 Academy Award-winning animated short ‘Mr. Hublot’ is produced by Luxembourg-based Zeilt Productions for agency M&C Saatchi Sydney and Australian non-profit AIME.
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We Fly Coach Partners with Believe to Bring VFX and Animation to Branded Content Marketplace
The global production company joins forces with the award-winning animation and VFX studio to expand its visual storytelling expertise to animation and design-driven projects and leverage 10-year-old studio Believe’s diverse artist roster to address the needs of the global advertising and branded content marketplace.
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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Warhammer Fans at Axis Animation Bring 'Motion Paintings' to 'Dawn of War III'
Previous 'Dawn of War' trailer creator Axis Animation and director Abed Abonamous return to the franchise to create beautiful in-game cinematics for Relic Entertainment, depicting the conflict among Space Marines, Eldar and Orks on the lost planet of Acheron.
Composer Heitor Pereira Returns for ‘Despicable Me 3’
The Grammy Award-winning musician and composer has returned to score Illumination’s story of Gru, Lucy, their adorable daughters -- Margo, Edith and Agnes -- and the Minions, in theaters Friday.
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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.'
Deluxe Unleashes The Portal for ‘American Gods’
Digital content creation and delivery leader Deluxe Entertainment Group deploys its VFX workflow The Portal for STARZ’s original series adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s ‘American Gods.’
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HALON Entertainment Ups Chris Ferriter to CEO
HALON Entertainment founder Daniel Gregoire set as chairman of the board.
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Nexus Teams with Director FX Goby on Short Film for Google I/O ‘17
Produced alongside creative studio Mighty Nice, ‘The Story of An Idea’ builds from hand-drawn 2D black-and white-animation to a full CG VFX-heavy grand finale.
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Chaos Group Releases V-Ray 3.6 for 3ds Max
The renderer update introduces CPU-GPU hybrid rendering and improves compositing output and compatibility with Autodesk 3ds Max 2018.
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Foundry and J Cube Partner to Improve Katana and Maya Pipelines
The software developer and R&D company work to boost the CG ecosystem with seamless and fast data transfer of layouts and geometry between 3D applications, as well as look to address wider industry problems, such as proper motion blur render of varying meshes in Maya and Katana.
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Box Office Report: ‘Transformers 5’ Makes $265.3M Global Debut
Michael Bay’s ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ tops the box office both at home and abroad; director Patty Jenkins’ ‘Wonder Woman’ becomes top-grossing woman-directed live-action film of all time.
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SIGGRAPH Unveils 2017 Computer Animation Festival Lineup
Ten Virtual Reality experiences and 22 features, short films, commercials and game trailers are selected for the 2017 SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival.
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Godzilla Battles Iconic Rivals in Next Film
Director Michael Dougherty helms the next installment in the Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures monsterverse, starring Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, Ken Watanabe and Zhang Ziyi, with a planned March 2019 release.
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Scanline VFX Licenses Ziva Technology for Virtual Character Simulation
Internationally acclaimed visual effects studio leverages proprietary virtual anatomy and biophysics simulation platform co-founded by SciTech Academy Award winner James Jacobs for character and creature work.
Milk VFX Secures £2M Funding Investment
Oscar-winning independent U.K. visual effects house secures investment from the Business Growth Fund to grow the company, with increased focus in the feature film market.
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‘Book of Life’ Director Jorge R. Gutiérrez Joins Spark Animation 2017 as Conference Chair
Visionary Mexican animator, character designer, painter, writer and director will be bringing his work and experience from south of the border to the Great White North to curate and host Western Canada’s largest animation event.
Outpost VFX Delivers Photoreal CG Sharks and More for ‘47 Meters Down’
Bournemouth, U.K.-based visual effects studio creates more than 420 shots as sole VFX vendor for director Johannes Roberts’ intense survival film, ‘47 Meters Down.’
Autodesk Appoints Andrew Anagnost President & CEO
Interim co-chief executive officer and chief marketing officer to lead Autodesk through next phase of growth.
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