Visual Effects

Framestore Opens L.A. Branch Amid VFX Industry's Troubles

Movies
 June 12, 2013 By Brent Lang 6 days ago

The visual effects company believes there are huge opportunities for commercials work.

  

VFX House Pixomondo Shuts Shanghai Office, Will Move Away From Film (Exclusive)

Movies
 April 1, 2013 By Sharon Waxman 11 weeks ago

CEO and founder Thilo Kuther said Pixomondo, which just completed work on the Tom Cruise thriller “Oblivion,” has laid off about 20 animators and artists in the Shanghai office

  

Tippett Studio Chief on Layoffs: 'Why the Hell Doesn’t California Do Something?'

Movies
 March 29, 2013 By Lucas Shaw & Brent Lang 11 weeks ago

Tippett Studio has laid off 50 employees, almost 40 percent of its staff, as part of a "hibernation"

  

Christian Kubsch Named President of Method Studios

Movies
 March 27, 2013 By Brent Lang 11 weeks ago

Visual-effects company taps Darin Grant as chief technology officer

  

Visual-Effects Company Prime Focus Gets $10M Investment

Movies
 March 20, 2013 By Brent Lang 12 weeks ago

Prime Focus World is now valued at $250 million

  

Digital Domain CEO: We Can Still Save the Visual-Effects Industry

Movies
 March 18, 2013 By Brent Lang 13 weeks ago

Digital Domain CEO Ed Ulbrich says companies need to stop acting like visual-effects vendors and start acting like digital production companies. 

  

After Rhythm & Hues, Visual-Effects Community Asks: What Now?

Movies
 March 13, 2013 By Brent Lang 13 weeks ago

The visual-effects community struggles with whether to unionize, form a trade association or change the way they do business in order to survive

  

Visual-Effects Protest Spreads to Twitter, Facebook (Updated)

Movies
 February 27, 2013 By Brent Lang 15 weeks ago

Visual-effects artists are filling their social media profiles with blank green screens to protest the bankruptcy of Rhythm & Hues and layoffs at DreamWorks Animation

  

Oscars 2013: 'Life of Pi' Effects Winner Concerned for Rhythm & Hues' Future

Awards | Oscars
 February 24, 2013 By Alexander C. Kaufman & Brent Lang 16 weeks ago

Rhythm & Hues filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this month

  

Rhythm & Hues Sued by Fired Employees

Media
 February 15, 2013 By Brent Lang 17 weeks ago

Anthony Barcelo is filing suit on behalf of 250 laid-off employees, asking for unpaid wages and benefits

  

Oscar Rule Changes Include More Songwriters, Bigger VFX Shortlists

Awards | Oscars
 June 28, 2012 By Steve Pond 50 weeks ago

Adjustments to the Academy Awards rules will increase the number of potential Best-Song nominees to four, and tweak the processes for Foreign Language, Makeup and Visual Effects categories

  

Apes, Wizards and Transformers Make the Cut in Oscar VFX Race

Awards | Oscars
 January 4, 2012 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

"Hugo" and "The Tree of Life" also advance to the Academy's "bakeoff" round

  

'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' Among 15 Films in Running for Visual Effects Oscars

Movies
 December 9, 2011 By Tim Kenneally 1 year ago

The final "Harry Potter" movie and "Hugo" also in the Academy's initial mix

  

'Tron' Artwork a Geek's Delight

Movies
 April 7, 2011 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

A "Tron: Legacy" designer shares some amazing artwork, and some incomprehensible explanations

  

Academy Expands VFX Nominees, Tweaks Animation

Awards | Oscars
 July 8, 2010 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

Visual Effects category adds two nominees, while animated features get a new definition

  

Sony Names Theater After Ray Harryhausen

Movies
 June 29, 2010 By Steve Pond 2 years ago

On his 90th birthday, special effects pioneer honored with Sony's effects, animation theater

  

Notes from NAB: 'Zombies' on the Cheap

Movies
 April 13, 2010 By Josh Dickey 3 years ago

Making "Zombieland": How a small(ish) budget can put the "creative" in creative types

  
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