Qvisten Animation made extensive use of PipelineFX’s intelligent render farm manager and Microsoft Azure integration to complete their feature ‘Anchors Up’ on a tight timeline, relying on a shared disk image in the cloud and Qube!’s automatic resource allocation.
Director Tim Rudder and producer Bobby Beck led a team of artists in partnership with studio platform Artella to create the animated WebVR short.
The sessions will feature expert creators across film, games, computer animation, visual effects and virtual reality, presenting their work on projects like ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,’ ‘Cars 3’ and ‘Overwatch.’
The popular VR fortune teller now combines tarot reading, astrological reading and the ancient Babylonian game of Ur on Google Daydream and Samsung Gear VR devices.
Known for VFX work on major feature films Pirates of the ‘Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,’ ‘King Arthur: Legend of the Sword,’ ‘Ben Hur’ and ‘Ghostbusters,’ 3D conversion, VFX and VR studio Legend 3D, Inc. has announced additions to its executive leadership team, as a part of the digital media company’s work to expand its global footprint.
ZAG’s show, ‘Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir’ now reaches 75 million homes in the U.S. through the daily block for young viewers that launched on July 1.
Fans can celebrate Cartoon Network’s new show with an interactive booth mirrored after Gar’s Bodega -- the workplace of aspiring heroes K.O. and friends -- a supersized balloon of K.O. suspended above the booth and the opportunity to purchase a blind box containing a premium figure exclusive to Comic-Con, all alongside ‘OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes,’ ‘Steven Universe’ and ‘Ben 10’ panels and signings.
Cartoon Network’s Emmy-winning series returns with all-new algebraic episodes, kicking off Monday, July 17 at 7:45 p.m. (ET/PT) with “Abstract,” in which Jake is haunted by a mysterious dream, and will be available early, July 14, on the Cartoon Network App.
Company President Clément Calvet and Managing Director Jérémie Fajner describe her arrival as a major step in the expansion of Superprod, particularly for the newly-created digital department Brin will oversee.
Deluxe-owned visual effects studio delivers eight-foot-tall 12,000 pound CG pig for director Bong Joon Ho’s new feature film for Netflix.
Shail joins Spin VFX as Senior Visual Effects Producer after experiences as an artist, supervisor and show runner.
The brand-new series expands on the Emmy-Award winning special, stars voice talents Ashley Boettcher, Gina Gershon, Allison Mack, Jorge Diaz and Nika Futterman, and debuts on August 4th.
Fast-growing roster of directorial talent fusing technology and storytelling includes Nexus Studios, Mighty Nice, Gentleman Scholar, Assembly, The Mill's Mill+, XYZ Studios, Wizz, Carnage, independent visual director Paul Mitchell, and Blacklist directors CISMA and Terry Hall.
Brand-new episodes of Gwen Stefani’s animated series about the band HJ5 began airing on Nick Jr., Friday, July 7, at 7:30 p.m. (ET/PT), and Nickelodeon also announced that season two of ‘Teletubbies’ will premiere Monday, July 17, at 2 p.m. (ET/PT).
Hornet director’s signature stop-motion papercraft returns for Amazon’s Prime Day 2017 with characters new and old.
Following the successful launch of the mobile game in the U.S. and Canada, pre-orders for the Blu-ray, which will include bonus materials such as cast interviews, trailers and the original soundtrack CD, began on July 5th for a release later this year.
After previous experiences working in senior-level capacities with Electronic Arts and Disney Interactive, Kalson will play a key role in the development of both existing and new SYBO games, where she will apply her extensive background in AI to focus on analysis, narrative and player behavior throughout game experiences, with the goal of delivering more interactive connections between the game characters inhabiting the SYBO universe and the company’s millions of fans.
New features include an integrated Shotgun user interface, perpetual license keys, command line access to Microsoft Azure during the beta and Clarisse renderer support.
Award-winning artists, directors and animators Nicolas Ménard, Louise Bagnall, Conor Finnegan and Eimhin McNamara will screen their animated films in Chapter, Cardiff on Saturday, July 22nd as a preview event for the new Cardiff Animation Festival (April 2018), both of which are organized by Cardiff Animation Nights.
The 52 x 12’ CGI-animated series starring a cheeky koala starts on the newly launched platform after distributor Comarex brokered the pay-TV deal with National Geographic, and the series is produced by Flying Bark Productions in association with Telegael Teoranta (Ireland) and Giant Wheel (India).
