Buck, the bi-coastal design-driven creative company specializing in animation, visual effects and live action, recently signed Douglas Wilkinson as VFX Supervisor.... »
BOXX Technologies Inc., an innovator in high-performance computing systems for visual effects (VFX) professionals, today announced the immediate availability of the company’s new RTX 8400 Series, specifically designed to handle intense digital intermediary (DI) and compositing workloads. The RTX 8400 is powered by Dual Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5400 Series processors and offers the freedom to play back 4K, 2K, High Definition (HD), Standard Definition (SD) and High-Definition Video (HDV) at full resolution in real-time.... »
Senior Colorist and industry veteran Steve Rodriguez has joined Riot/Los Angeles. The announcement was made by Michael Taylor, Riot's Managing Director.... »
Bicoastal International Crossroads recently added director Sanaa Hamri to their Commercial and Music Video divisions. Formerly of Anonymous Content, Hamri is currently in post production on her second feature film, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2... »
Continuing to grow its talent roster, New York-based editorial and VFX/motion design company Version2 proudly announces the addition of Editor Jane Keller. ... »
Fluid, the New York-based editorial, original music and visual effects studio, has added Editor Robin Burchill to its editorial roster, it was announced today by Marc Schwartz, company Executive Producer/Partner.... »
Creative collective Spontaneous announced today the company signed Anders Anders Hallgren (aka Ders) to their talented pool of artists. Previously a Creative Director at Headlight and Crossroad’s design arm, Halgren will serve as Senior Art Director, working closely with Creative Director John Leamy. ... »
Too technical for the arts, too creative for the sciences; Chris Smith, Jesse Casey, and Michelle Higa knew they had to work together as soon as they met at Brown University. They funneled their collective love of music, computer science and semiotics into the world of animation, and Mixtape Club was born.... »
CalDigit, Inc., the premiere manufacturer of RAID storage solutions, announced the release of their new HDOne Hardware RAID storage unit at the recent MacWorld Expo in San Francisco this year.... »
Smoke & Mirrors New York is pleased to announce the addition of senior Flame Artist, Dan Kelly. Dan most recently served at New York-based rhinofx as a Senior Inferno Artist, leveraging his extensive background in both commercial and long-form VFX projects. Founder/CD Sean Broughton commented, "Dan's going to add both a wealth of talent and experience to the effects team here at Smoke & Mirrors, New York."... »
Directors Christopher Mills and Dave Rasura have joined New York-based mixed-media and animation production company Curious Pictures, Executive Producer Mary Knox has announced.... »
Design and motion graphics agency Nth Degree has named distinguished brand and design consultant Bob English to its team as Executive Creative Director.... »
The VES Awards were given out last night
during the Visual Effects Society’s (VES) sixth annual gala event at the Kodak
Theatre Grand Ballroom in Hollywood. The sold-out event attracted more than a
thousand visual effects and animation artists, dozens of nominees and members
of the film, television, commercial and video game industries. During the
evening, filmmaker Steven Spielberg received the VES Lifetime Achievement
Award in recognition of his contribution to the art and science of visual effects.
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BOND, the creative editorial/visual effects design boutique launched in 2006 by editor Jeff Beckerman, has added editor Claudia Reda-Walker to its staff.... »
