The Visual Effects Society (VES) has just released their latest set of rules and procedures for submission of work for the 18th Annual VES Awards, being held this coming January 29, 2020. According to the VES announcement, “We at the VES are very gratified by
Walt Disney put it best when he said he’d rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. It’s this sentiment – from one of the world’s geniuses of animation and design – that artist-scientist Dr. Tomasz Bednarz
Matthew Bristowe. LONDON — VFX and animation studio, Jellyfish Pictures, has announced the appointment of Matthew Bristowe as director of operations. With both a creative and commercial background in some of the biggest VFX studios in the world, Bristowe’s hire solidifies Jellyfish Pictures’ continued expansion.
The SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 Technical Briefs program is an international forum for presenting new and thought-provoking ideas, techniques, and applications in graphics, especially at the intersections of graphics with vision, image, video, visualization, HCI, VR, and CAD. The entry deadline is fast approaching – projects
HOAX Films, a Los Angeles based VFX and motion graphics company, provided animation and character design for Dairy Queen and The Coca-Cola Company’s “The hAPPiest Sweeps Ever” interactive mobile app under the creative direction of Hathaway agency’s Anibal Suarez. This app provided the platform for
Veteran casting director David Rubin has been elected was elected the new president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences after a Tuesday night vote by the organization’s Board of Governors. The Academy’s board of governors also elected a set of new officers:
Another set of layoffs hit the Walt Disney Company Wednesday as a direct result of the recent 20th Century Fox acquisition, bringing the total number of film employees let go so far to around 250, according to Variety. As reported, the most recent cuts
Image courtesy of Tendril. At SIGGRAPH 2019, Booth #1203, AWS Thinkbox is demonstrating a complete studio in the cloud workflow, including rendering, virtual workstation, and storage solutions that help creative studios iterate faster and take on more projects. Cloud rendering allows studios to increase productivity since visual effects
Adobe has just announced that After Effects has been selected as one of the initial products in the new VFX category of the Netflix’s Post Technology Alliance, a program committed to serving the evolving needs of the post-production community through innovation and support. Adobe Premiere Pro
One small step for man… one giant leap for real-time rendering and ray tracing. All happening on the surface of a virtual moon this week at SIGGRAPH 2019 in Los Angeles. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, NVIDIA is showcasing