Category Archives: VFX/Animation

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A New York State of Post

According to a 2012 report by the Motion Picture Association of America, the film and television industry grew by nearly 25% in New York between 2008 and 2011 as a direct result of the Empire State Film Production Tax Credit. … more »

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Weta Digital’s Joe Letteri on The Hobbit

Weta Digital’s Joe Letteri has won four visual effects Oscars (for the second and third Lord of the Rings films, King Kong, and Avatar), and has received seven Oscar nominations—including this year’s nomination for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected … more »

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Oscar-Nominated VFX Supe Richard Stammers Talks Prometheus

Richard Stammers, nominated for an Oscar for his VFX work on Prometheus, joined the Moving Picture Company (MPC) as a digital compositor for the 2001 film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone after working as a compositor and visual effects supervisor … more »

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Rhythm & Hues to File for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

Animation studio Rhythm & Hues, which is widely expected to win an Oscar this year for Life of Pi, is reportedly filing today for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The El Segundo, CA-based company is said to have warned workers that … more »

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Review: Maxon Cinema 4D R14

Cinema 4D is a high-end modeling, animation, motion graphics, and special effects suite popular with professionals and amateurs alike. Cinema 4D R14, released in late 2012, adds many new features and much-needed updates — most notably a new snapping and … more »

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VFX Supervisor Bill Westenhofer on Life of Pi

Bill Westenhofer’s Oscar nomination for the visual effects in Life of Pi is his third Academy Award nomination and fourth BAFTA nomination. In 2008, he received a visual effects Oscar and a BAFTA award for his work on The Golden … more »

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Evolve Digital Cinema Baits the Hook for NatGeo’s Wicked Tuna, Season 2

Brothers Joel and Jesse Edwards run their boutique production company Evolve Digital Cinema in Chicago as one tight ship, often handling full production and remote or in suite editorial, graphics and color grading for a single client. National Geographic Channel, … more »

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Gravity Hires VFX Supervisor Alex Lemke

Gravity named Alex Lemke its new senior VFX supervisor and compositing supervisor for films and commercials. Lemke was previously at Framestore, where he worked for Joel and Ethan Coen as VFX supervisor for Inside Llewyn Davis, and for director David Chase … more »

Pixologic Releases ZBrush 4R5 for Windows and Mac

Pixologic announced another new release of its Zbrush sculpting and painting program, adding a broad array of features. Improvements to general workflow and usability in ZBrush 4R5 include new Quick Save and Auto Save features, which should help make it … more »

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Eyeon Ships Connection v1.5

Eyeon updated its Eyeon Connection plug-in for Avid's AVX2 architecture to v1.5, adding new features to its round-trip functionality between Eyeon Fusion and Avid Media Composer, Symphony, NewsCutter, and DS. By building a bridge between Avid's NLE environment and Fusion's … more »

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