SANTA MONICA — Luma Pictures (www.lumapictures.com), which created visual effects for the first Guardians of the Galaxy film, including the powerhouse villain Thanos, returned to work on the franchise ...
May 18, 2017
VANCOUVER, CANADA — Vancouver Film School (www.vfs.edu) has opened its new commercial performance capture studio. The school partnered with Mimic Performance Capture, Inc., to build one of Canada’s la ...
NEWBURY PARK, CA — Maxon’s Cinema 4D modeling and animation software was recently used by director Ethan Shaftel to create Extravaganza (http://www.ethanshaftel.com), a new virtual reality short film ...
May 17, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO — Autodesk, Inc. (www.autodesk.com) has released SketchBook 4.0 for iOS, the latest update for its digital painting and drawing app. Now available for purchase through the Apple App Stor ...
LOS ANGELES — Boutique post production company Shed (https://shed.la), with locations in LA and London, worked on the dailies for Marvel’s latest blockbuster, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. The studi ...
NEW YORK CITY — London-based Hogarth Worldwide (www.hogarthww.com), a global advertising implementation agency, has acquired Coda, a New York City-based VFX boutique, known for high-end CG, motion gra ...
May 16, 2017
LONDON — Codex, the maker of recorders and media processing systems that are designed to streamline the transfer of digital files and images from camera through to post production, has hired Mark Ande ...
May 15, 2017
SANTA MONICA & NEW YORK CITY — Arcade’s (www.arcadeedit.com) Paul Martinez recently completed the edit for Miley Cyrus’s new music video, Malibu. The piece features breathtaking visuals of Malibu’ ...
LOS ANGELES — Brad Grey, the former chairman and chief executive of Paramount Pictures, has died at age 59 of cancer, his family said on Monday, just three months after being forced out of his Hollywo ...
PORTLAND, OR — Red Giant (www.redgiant.com) has released Universe 2.1, an update to its collection of GPU-accelerated plug-ins for editors and motion graphics artists. With six new tools and updates t ...
May 12, 2017