LOS ANGELES & VANCOUVER — Character-effects firm MastersFX (www.mastersfx.com) has named longtime VFX producer Scott Coulter as its new VP/EP of visual effects. He worked with the studio and its f ...
August 28, 2015
CARY, NC — Epic Games has announced the first round of academic and educational recipients of Unreal Dev Grants, a $5 million program Epic launched earlier this year to provide no-strings-attached fun ...
August 27, 2015
FREMONT, CA — Blackmagic Design has released the public beta of the free version of Fusion 8, its visual effects and motion graphics software. The software can be downloaded from the Blackmagic Design ...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — Pixar in a Box is a new online resource that explores the academic concepts behind Pixar Animation Studios’ creative process. The online curriculum just went live on KhanAcademy.or ...
GHENT, BELGIUM — Graphics middleware company Graphine (http://graphinesoftware.com) is offering a new seat license for its Unreal Engine 4 plug-in, which integrates its texture streaming middleware Gr ...
For over a decade, Escape Studios has taken young people with raw talent and big dreams, and shaped them into visual effects stars. Since its foundation in 2002, over 4,000 students have passed throug ...
August 26, 2015
LOS ANGELES — The Academy has voted fifteen students as winners of the 42nd Student Academy Awards competition. The Academy received a record number of entries this year — 1,686 films from 282 domesti ...
MYRTLE CREEK, OR — Stock footage provider Artbeats has launched a new sales platform (www.artbeatsexpress.com), which offers individual downloads of 4K versions of the company’s most popular categorie ...
August 25, 2015
WHITE PLAINS, NY — The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers has revealed the outstanding industry members who will be recognized Thursday, October 29, at the SMPTE 2015 Awards Ceremony.
LOS ANGELES – At SIGGRAPH 2015 in Los Angeles, GridMarkets ( www.GridMarkets.com ), a cloud rendering service powered by thousands of high-performance servers, announced a strategic partnership with S ...