03 April 2024
VFX Weekly
The VFX teams behind Marvel’s THE AVENGERS movies explain the visual effect innovations created by the blockbuster film series (VFX Voice)
News that the company was shuttering its Vancouver location appeared on a Reddit thread on Wednesday (Vancouver Sun)
What viewers will get right away are the astonishingly photoreal characters and environments, the phenomenal detail in textures in everything from fur to water to reflections of light (Los Angeles Times)
Facebook spent $3 billion to acquire virtual-reality leader Oculus back in 2014, and it isn’t about to risk letting that asset flounder. For further evidence of that, consider its latest spending spree, which may have a total price tag above $1 billion (USA Today)
Cereal, fire-suppressant foam and even asbestos have been used to simulate wintry weather (The Economist)
FuseFX Head of Studio-NY and Senior VFX Supervisor Greg Anderson participated in a interactive live webcast with VES, sponsored by Autodesk (Vimeo)
The visual effects pros behind the year’s most innovative films share how they generated two Will Smiths, dropped 50 years from Robert De Niro and created the Disney remake’s landscape (The Hollywood Reporter)
The new studio is home to 200 artists and, in addition to its other four studios spread across South London and Sheffield, will be the company’s official headquarters (Computer Graphics Weekly)
Laika Studios has been Oscar-nominated for its first four films. Their track record is likely to continue with MISSING LINK (Variety)
Rooster Teeth, a WarnerMedia company, announced Thursday that Doreen Copeland has been promoted to VP, Head of Production, and Joe Clary and Sean Hinz have been promoted to Co-Heads of Animation (Animation Magazine)
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