01 October 2024
VFX Weekly
Framestore Visual Effects Supervisor Stuart Penn on creating Smart Hulk for AVENGERS: ENDGAME (VFX Voice)
Now that the final episode of Game of Thrones has aired on HBO, and fans have stopped analyzing every detail of the series’ concluding eighth season, the show’s VFX supervisor Martin Hill can finally reveal some of the secrets of his trade (Animation Magazine)
With the inclusion of four of the most iconic monsters in the entire history of celluloid, Godzilla: King of the Monsters is packed with Easter eggs and callbacks to more than five decades of wanton kaiju destruction wrought by Toho (Forbes)
OTOY, Inc. unveiled Octane X – the 10th anniversary edition of OTOY’s industry leading GPU renderer OctaneRender at Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (Yahoo Finance!)
Studio provides elaborate VFX, including full CG derailment, previs, matte paintings and digital background replacements, for 90-second Western-themed “Train” commercial. (Animation World Network)
Women in Animation has launched the WIA Global Fund to expand its programs and initiatives internationally and support its efforts to achieve 50/50 parity in creative leadership in the animation industry by 2025 (Variety)
New action-adventure series inspired by Universal and Amblin’s hit franchise set for 2020 debut on streaming giant (Animation World Network)
The software tools are called ARKit 3, and Apple created them to entice developers to use them and take them to the next level. (USA Today)
Immersive entertainment company Felix & Paul Studios has been using Shotgun Software (shotgunsoftware.com) for several years, as part of its VR pipeline. The studio has team of 60 spread across offices in Montreal and Los Angeles, where they provide end-to-end creative capabilities and proprietary tool development (Post Magazine)
Gaumont has appointed Courtney Arumugam to the post of Vice President, Creative Development, Animation & Family, based in London (Animation Magazine)
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