BEVERLY HILLS — Patton Oswalt ( Young Adult, Ratatouille ) will host the 10th Annual Visual Effects Society (VES) Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Tuesday, February 7, 2012. This will be the come ...
January 24, 2012
PORT ST. LUCIE, FL — Two films worked on by Digital Domain Media Group (www.ddmg.co) have been nominated for the visual effects Academy Award: Real Steel and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
HOLLYWOOD — Soundelux’s supervising sound editors Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis are among the nominees for Best Sound Editing in the 84th Annual Academy Awards. The team is nominated for their work ...
DALLAS — Artist, designer and Maxon (www.maxon.net) user Barton Damer recently won top honors in the Creative Catalyst: Design for Change Competition, an international contest that invites artists to ...
January 23, 2012
SANTA MONICA, CA — Image Metrics (www.image-metrics.com), a provider of digital facial animation technology and services, has sold its Faceware product line to a newly-formed, spin-off company called ...
CAMBRIDGE, MA — MOTU (www.motu.com) has unveiled Digital Performer Version 8, a major upgrade to the company’s flagship audio workstation software. Already a Mac application, Digital Performer 8 will ...
HOLLYWOOD — The hit CBS TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation will use the expertise of VFX company Dilated Pixels (www.dilatedpixels.net) as its sole VFX vendor for Season 12. In related news, the ...
ROCHESTER, NY — Eastman Kodak Company ( www.kodak.com ) announced that it and its US subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for chapter 11 business reorganization in the US Bankruptcy Court for the So ...
January 20, 2012
LONDON — The Foundry (www.thefoundry.co.uk) has begun open beta for its latest VFX innovation, Hiero. The solution is designed to address challenges and improve efficiencies in collaborative workflows ...
LOS ANGELES — Empire Post Media (www.empirepostmedia.com), a 3D TV content developer, producer, 2D to 3D converter and 3D distributor, has entered into a contract to explore the potential for a variet ...