LONDON - Cinesite (www.cinesite.com) has named Caroline Garrett head of its London VFX studio. The accomplished production executive takes the helm to usher in a new phase of leadership and oversee da ...
October 8, 2018
PORTLAND, OR — Will Vinton, the award-winning animator known for pioneering the Claymation technique, has died at age 70. The LA Times reports that Vinton had been battling multiple myeloma for the la ...
October 5, 2018
LOS ANGELES — The Television Academy today announced the recipients of the 70th Engineering Emmy Awards, honoring an individual, company or organization for developments in broadcast technology. Kirst ...
October 3, 2018
TUSTIN, CA — Luxion has announced the release of KeyShot 8 (keyshot.com). The company is a developer of advanced rendering and lighting technology. KeyShot is a realtime ray-tracing and global illumin ...
October 2, 2018
LOS ANGELES — The Visual Effects Society (www.visualeffectssociety.com) has announced the 2018 class of VES Fellows. The Fellows distinction, bestowed by the VES Board of Directors, signifies that the ...
September 26, 2018
BURBANK, CA — The Hollywood Professional Association has announced the 2018 nominees for the HPA Awards (www.hpaawards.net) creative categories. Launched in 2006, the HPA Awards recognize outstanding ...
LOS ANGELES — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has published its list of upcoming submission deadlines for 91st Academy Awards consideration. Submissions for individual categories and t ...
September 25, 2018
NEW YORK CITY — PowerHouse VFX (www.powerhousevfx.com) opened last fall in a new facility in Chelsea, built from the ground up in partnership with Sixteen19, with whom they maintain a strategic allian ...
September 24, 2018
LOS ANGELES — The Academy (oscars.org) has voted 19 students as winners of the Student Academy Awards 45th competition. This year, the Student Academy Awards competition received a total of 1,582 entr ...
September 19, 2018
AMSTERDAM — At IBC 2018, Blackmagic Design announced the public beta of Blackmagic RAW, a new codec that combines the quality and benefits of RAW with the ease of use, speed and file sizes of traditio ...