Gravity signs Alex Lemke as Senior VFX Supervisor and Compositing Supervisor, Feature Films and Commercials.
Warner Bros.’ “The Hobbit,” Paramount’s “The Avengers” and Fox’s “Life of Pi” lead feature nominations.
Industry veteran Everett Burrell joins Los Angeles-based VFX house as visual effects supervisor.
The Visual Effects Society extends its contract with Executive Director Eric Roth until December 2018.
As sole visual effects vendor, Union VFX creates "invisible" supporting visual effects for “Hyde Park on Hudson.”
yU+co reteams with director Ang Lee to create “Life of Pi” stereoscopic typography for main title sequence and key scenes.
eyeon Software hosts a Webinar looking at the “Benefits of Multiple GPU-Enabled Environments,” on Wednesday, December 12.
The Visual Effects Society hosts “Understanding Unions: The Good, The Bad & Unknown of Forming a Visual Effects Collective Bargaining Organization” at the L.A. Film School on Saturday, December 1, 2012.
VES Chairman Jeff Okun and executive director Eric Roth issue an open letter in response to an L.A. Times Life of Pi review.
This December the 9th annual CVMP Conference returns to London.
Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences welcomes eight new members, bringing the Council's 2012–2013 membership roster to 25.
Throughout the history of the "Battlestar Galactica" franchise, LightWave 3D software has been a constant in the show’s production pipeline for everything from otherworldly atmospheres to earth-shattering visual effects.
LOOK Effects names visual effects industry veteran Janet Muswell Director of Development.
The International VFX Hub announces BFX, the first annual festival celebrating British talent and creativity in animation and visual effects.
Level 256 completes Over 70 VFX shots for Paramount Pictures’ new Halloween comedy “Fun Size.”
Cinesite opens for entries its highly successful annual internship program, Inspire.
Pixar Animation Studios simultaneously released RenderMan Pro Server 17.0 and RenderMan Studio 4.0.
Visual effects studio FuseFX adds Jason Piccioni to its ranks of full-time VFX supervisors.
Senior visual effects supervisor Dan Glass of Method Studios will give a world premiere presentation on the feature film “Cloud Atlas” at the upcoming VIEW Conference in Turin, Italy.
The Visual Effects Society announces the induction of seven fellows to its society based on their contributions to the art and science of visual effects.
The Blender Institute releases director Ian Hubert’s short film “Tears of Steel,” the fourth movie to explore an Open Source VFX pipeline, on YouTube and in Hollywood.
Interactive Data Visualization, Inc. and the Gnomon School of Visual Effects have announced an agreement to integrate the SpeedTree 3D tree and vegetation toolkit into Gnomon’s training curriculum.
Arc Productions is producing all of the visual effects for “Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn,” a live-action digital series based on the best-selling Xbox franchise.
ShootersNYC has gone Hollywood adding a key weapon to its creative arsenal with DIVE, the Philadelphia-based visual effects division of ShootersINC.
Fotokem’s Keep Me Posted has appointed veteran VFX Supervisor Peter Vazquez to spearhead the expansion of the company’s visual effects services.
