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WATCH: Co-Founder Peter Lord Shares 40 Years of Aardman’s Animation Excellence and More at FMX 2017

By Dan Sarto | Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 3:34pm

The veteran producer talks about creating some of the world’s funniest, most popular and endearing animated films, TV series, shorts and commercials as well as new challenges like storytelling in VR.

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WATCH: Co-Founder David Sproxton Shares 40 Years of Aardman’s Animation Excellence and More at FMX 2017

By Dan Sarto | Friday, May 26, 2017 at 3:38pm

The veteran producer talks about creating some of the world’s funniest, most popular and endearing animated films, TV series, shorts and commercials as well as new challenges like storytelling in VR. 

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WATCH: Ed Hooks Talks the Need for Better Acting in Animation at FMX 2017

By Dan Sarto | Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at 5:41pm

The well-known and insightful acting coach and author discusses the fundamental principles of acting in animation, how acting intersects with performance capture as well as common acting mistakes.

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WATCH: Weta’s Guy Williams Talks Marvel’s ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’ at FMX 2017

By Dan Sarto | Thursday, May 18, 2017 at 4:44pm

The Weta Digital VFX supervisor discusses his work on director James Gunn’s latest MCU superhero franchise hit. 

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WATCH: ILM’s John Knoll Talks ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ Development and More at FMX 2017

By Dan Sarto | Friday, May 12, 2017 at 11:21am

Industrial Light & Magic’s chief creative officer discusses story development as well as VFX production, virtual tools and Death Star weapon sequences on Gareth Edwards’ ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.’

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WATCH: ILM’s Christian Alzmann Talks BB-8 and ‘Star Wars’ Concept Art at FMX 2017

The Industrial Light & Magic senior art director discusses his iconic droid design as well as duties as a concept artist on both ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ and ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.’

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24th ITFS Now Underway in Stuttgart, Germany

2017 edition of the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film kicks off with screening of Tomer Eshed’s animated feature, ‘Our Wonderful Nature: The Common Chameleon,’ and ‘The Head Vanishes’ by Franck Dion.

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WATCH: OIAF’s Chris Robinson Talks Indie Animation and More at FMX 2016

By Dan Sarto | Friday, April 28, 2017 at 4:30pm

The Ottawa International Animation Festival artistic director and author shares his insights on independent animation, festival judging, evaluating films and animation education. 

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WATCH: Dr. Jon Peddie and Kathleen Maher Talk CG and VR Industry Trends at FMX 2016

By Dan Sarto | Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 11:08am

The Jon Peddie Research duo talk in-depth about computer graphics industry growth trends, including hardware, software and immersive content creation. 

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WATCH: NYU Professor Ken Perlin Discusses the Future of AR and VR at FMX 2016

By Dan Sarto | Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 9:55am

Dr. Perlin talks about AR and VR products and how they will be used by humans in ways we haven’t yet discovered to become a seamless part of our existence.

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WATCH: Epic Games’ Haarm-Pieter Duiker Talks Real-Time Game Engines and VFX at FMX 2016

By Dan Sarto | Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 7:00am

The VFX supervisor about convergence in VFX and game development tools, real-time game engines and digital content production methodologies.

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‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,’ ‘Ghost in the Shell’ & ‘Pearl’ Set for FMX 2017

Newly-announced production sessions to explore the VFX of Marvel’s ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,’ virtual production for ‘Ghost in the Shell’ and the newly-released ‘Ghost in the Shell’ VR experience, and an inside look at Google Spotlight Stories’ ‘Pearl,’ the first VR film to ever receive an Oscar nomination.

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WATCH: Epic Games’ Brian Karis Talks Real-time Game Engine Performance at FMX 2016

By Dan Sarto | Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 3:04pm

The senior graphics programmer discusses the challenges of optimizing real-time game engine performance and how the technology produces increasingly photorealistic virtual characters and creatures.

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WATCH: UNIT 9’s Anrick Bregman Talks VR and Transmedia Economics at FMX 2016

By Dan Sarto | Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 11:38am

The interactive filmmaker talks in-depth about creative and economic realities for immersive storytelling development in transmedia and VR.

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WATCH: Patrick Lin Talks ‘Inside Out’ Cinematography at FMX 2016

By Dan Sarto | Monday, April 24, 2017 at 2:32pm

The director of photography goes in-depth about virtual cameras, layout, scene composition choices and workflow on Pixar’s Oscar-winning animated feature film.

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ITFS Announces ‘Animation without Borders’ Theme for 2017

Twenty-fourth International Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart to feature screenings of ‘Zootopia,’  ‘Finding Dory,’ ‘Kung Fu Panda 3,’ ‘Ice Age: Collision Course,’ ‘Storks,’ and Japan’s ‘When Marnie Was There,’ as well as German productions ‘Die Häschenschule – Jagd nach dem goldenen Ei,’ ‘Ritter Rost 2 – das Schrottkomplott,’ ‘Mullewapp – eine schöne Schweinerei,’ and a tribute to ‘The Little Polar Bear’ filmmaker Thilo Graf Rothkirch.

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WATCH: Epic Games’ Kim Libreri Talks ‘Paragon’ Cinematic Trailer and More at FMX 2016

By Dan Sarto | Friday, April 21, 2017 at 5:00pm

The studio’s CTO discusses producing the stunning, real-time rendered visuals of their brand new MOBA game experience.

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WATCH: Dr. Richard Marks Talks PlayStation Magic Lab and VR at FMX 2016

By Dan Sarto | Thursday, April 20, 2017 at 1:41pm

The Sony Computer Entertainment lab director discusses R&D efforts in VR, games and innovative interactive experiences.

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WATCH: Jennifer Yuh, Max Boas and Raymond Zibach Talk ‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ at FMX 2016

By Dan Sarto | Thursday, April 20, 2017 at 12:26pm

The DreamWorks Animation director, art director and production designer discuss their work on the studio's hit animated feature.

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Luc Besson’s ‘Valerian’ in the Spotlight at FMX 2017

Production sessions at Germany’s international conference on animation, visual effects, VR, games and transmedia also to include ‘Star Wars: Rogue One’ and Kraftwerk 3D.

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WATCH: Weta Digital’s Michael Pangrazio Talks Feature Film Look Dev and Art Direction at FMX 2016

By Dan Sarto | Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 5:44pm

The veteran art director and concept artist discusses his work across a number of Weta feature film projects.

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WATCH: Proof’s Ron Frankel Talks ‘Star Trek Beyond’ Previs and More at FMX 2016

By Dan Sarto | Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 4:54pm

Proof Inc’s founder and creative director discusses recent previs, postvis, virtual production and virtual reality projects including his team’s work with director Justin Lin.

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