SUNNYVALE, CA — Cogswell College (www.cogswell.edu/) has hired 17-year film and video game industry veteran Jerome Solomon as assistant professor in the Digital Arts & Animation department. He wil ...
January 23, 2013
GREECE — Mindbomb (http://www.mindbombapps.com/gfxhotkeys/) has released Version 3 of Gfx Hotkeys, which includes the hotkeys for 51 applications used by visual artists. The release features a redesig ...
January 22, 2013
EMERYVILLE, CA – Animation Mentor, a state-of-the-art online animation and VFX school, has announced the AMP studio production pipeline — the first-of-its-kind, fully distributed production pipeline — ...
January 15, 2013
BEVERLY HILLS — Nominations for the 85th Academy Awards were announced this morning by this year's Oscar (www.oscar.com) host, Seth MacFarlane, and actress Emma Stone. Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln leads ...
January 10, 2013
LOS ANGELES — The Visual Effects Society (VES) has announced the nominees for its 11th Annual VES Awards, which recognize outstanding visual effects artistry in 24 categories of film, animation, telev ...
January 7, 2013
LOS ANGELES — Pixologic (www.pixologic.com) recently released ZBrush 4R5, which includes usability upgrades such as Dynamic Brush Size control, Mouse Wheel support and Quick/Auto Save functions. With ...
December 24, 2012
BRISTOL, UK — Aardman Animations (www.aardman.com) created a new spot for Google featuring the studio’s familiar Wallace and Gromit characters. The commercial highlights Google+ Hangout, which allows ...
December 19, 2012
LOS ANGELES — Royale (www.weareroyale.com) has launched The Bell Ringer, its own interactive holiday fundraiser. Proceeds that the studio collects will be donated to The American Red Cross Disaster Re ...
December 17, 2012
NEWBURY PARK, CA — Maxon Cinema 4D training resource Cineversity (www.cineversity.com) has released a new plug-in that allows users to easily add Adobe Illustrator or PDF artwork to Cinema 4D Release ...
December 12, 2012
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND — VFX artist Derek Scherer (www.derekscherer.com) recently contributed to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey while working with Weta Workshop. Weta Workshop is the special effec ...
December 11, 2012