VES launches new webcast series, VFX Pros: Home Edition – your new channel for VFX stories behind-the-scenes, live conversations about cutting-edge technologies and techniques, discussions around the VES 70 most influential visual effects films and more! (Visual Effects Society)
As the coronavirus pandemic started to sweep the country and subsequently shut down businesses in the U.S., post-production houses with global offices were paying close attention, watching and strategizing (Variety)
Advertisers are increasingly turning to production companies with computer-generated imagery, visual-effects and animation capabilities to add the finishing touches to campaigns already in progress and — in some cases — start discussions about creating entirely new ones from scratch (Digiday)
Amid numerous reports of layoffs throughout the visual effects industry, global vfx producer Double Negative has shut down its tv vfx unit in Los Angeles (Cartoon Brew)
The museum plans to show life-size models and prosthetics, make-up, props, special effects, and interactive horror scenes (BBC)
The visual effects industry is adapting to face the challenges of the coronavirus shutdown (ScreenDaily)
Consumption of media and home entertainment are way up, as we crave news and content while we follow lockdown mandates. What will be the net economic effect on the industry? (Forbes)
The news comes in the wake of FuseFX adding a fourth location in Atlanta in February (Variety)
As animation and VFX producers around the world adjust to the work-from-home realities of pandemic lockdown, Mainframe Studios shares its swift transition to a fully remote workforce (Animation Magazine)
EightVFX has bolstered its management team with the appointment of Ashley Ford, who will serve as executive producer. (Post Magazine)