AUSTIN, TX — NewTek’s VP/head of 3D software development, Rob Powers, served as supervisor of the Virtual Art Department (VAD) for Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s The Adventures of Tintin prior t ...
January 17, 2012
LOS ANGELES — According to the Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA), independent films won nine top awards at the Golden Globes, including Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical.
January 16, 2012
There has been a lot of discussion concerning the 2011 films in the running for Best Picture, and the first major awards event, the Golden Globes, has set the stage for this and other categories durin ...
Steven Spielberg’s War Horse opened on Christmas Day in the US and on January 13 in the UK. Based on Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 novel, the film stars Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, Peter Mullan and David T ...
BEVERLY HILLS — Visual effects technologist Jonathan Erland has been voted the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (www.os ...
January 13, 2012
LONDON — Framestore (www.framestore.com) has been nominated for three VES Awards. The VES awards, now in its tenth year, recognize and honor outstanding visual effects work.
Leading motion-capture and animation service company House of Moves (HOM) created a fully CG world in an epic video game-inspired 30-second television commercial for Levoreact, via Great Guns director ...
HOLLYWOOD — Rob Marshall, who directed Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” is set to direct a film adaptation of the Broadway musical “Into the Woods,” featuring Stephen Sondheim’s ...
January 12, 2012
CHICAGO — SIGGRAPH (www.siggraph.org), the conference for computer graphics and interactive techniques, has selected the sites for its 2013 and 2014 North American conferences. SIGGRAPH 2013 will retu ...
BEVERLY HILLS — The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences approved documentary and short films rules for the 85th Academy Awards at its most recent meeting.