The VFX and animation studio settles into its new Manhattan Beach digs, offering small shop creative/budgetary advantages with the underlying muscle of extensive European roots; The Mill alumni Aurelien Simon and Gawain Liddiard will head new office.
Harnessing enhanced virtual production workflows based on real-time rendering, the studio blends live-action and VFX in an epic battle set on the surface of a Google Pixel phone in a live actor’s living room.
Studio collaborates with Psyop on CG short taking fans into the unknown lore of the latest chapter in the hugely popular ‘Apex Legends’ game franchise.
Former PlayStation and EA executive will head studio’s efforts in producing cinematics, trailers and marketing content for game publishers.
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.’
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.
Axis and director Stuart Aitken collaborate with Bungie, Activision and Ant Farm to create a new game trailer teasing ‘Destiny: Rise of Iron’ at E3.
Game developer Signal Zero taps Chicago-based animation studio Calabash for a trailer with a modern retro feel that perfectly captures popular mobile game’s distinct look.
Glasgow-based CG animation studio collaborates with Canadian game developer Relic Entertainment to create a trailer for the launch of ‘Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III.’
State-of-the-art cinematics for 12 different scenes further immerse players in the series’ most ambitious narrative available for next-gen gaming platforms.
Deadline for submissions to the Autodesk Games Reel set to debut next year at GDC 2016 is December 14.
‘Robot Chicken’ creators Stoopid Buddy Stoodios partners with Ubisoft to create a hybrid stop-motion live-action launch trailer for ‘Toy Soldiers: War Chest.’
Trailer premiering at Xbox gamescom 2015 briefing introduces new strategy game set in the Halo universe.
Psyop teams up with Finnish game developer Next Games on “The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land,” the cinematic trailer for their upcoming mobile game based on AMC’s critically acclaimed TV series “The Walking Dead.”
Art studio Atomhawk Design releases a new show reel to launch the company’s enhanced animation services.
Los Angeles and London-based previs studio The Third Floor opens a new office in Montreal.
Creative studio Mill+, the concept, design and animation arm of VFX company The Mill, contributes its visually stunning cinematics to Activision’s blockbuster Call of Duty: Ghosts, the new installment in the global phenomenon Call of Duty series.
Thomas J. McLean takes a peek under the hood of the hot new cinematics for Halo 3, Mass Effect, Hellgate: London and Tabula Rasa.
Digic Pictures, a computer animation studio based in Budapest, Hungary, announced work on the cinematics for the new WARHAMMER: MARK OF CHAOS RTS game. The anticipated classic will be published by Namco Hometek Inc. in 2006. A subsidiary of Cinergi Interactive, Digic Pictures previous works include rendered cinematics for ARMIES OF EXIGO, an RTS PC game, as well as 60 visual effects created for the Hollywood blockbuster, TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES.
Henry Turner investigates the advancing and detailed production of gaming cinematics.
