In 2009, Rovio Entertainment released Angry Birds, one of the best-selling apps of all time. The Angry Birds property rapidly expanded into entertainment, publishing, and licensing, becoming a beloved ...
April 6, 2016
In February, Nice Shoes turned 20 — something of a landmark in such a fast-paced, ever-changing industry. During those two decades I have seen many companies, with very impressive work on their reels, ...
April 27, 2016
French visual effects veteran Cedric Nicolas-Troyan was the VFX supervisor on the 2012 global hit, Snow White and The Huntsman, which grossed nearly $400 million and won him an Oscar nomination for hi ...
April 7, 2016
TORONTO — Once again, IMAX has teamed up with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to create a large-format feature that looks at our planet and the future of humanity — all from o ...
April 29, 2016
Last summer we spoke with Holger Voss, VFX supervisor at Cinesite, about the visual effects work his studio completed for the opening sequence of the then soon-to-be-released disaster film San Andreas ...
From its earliest beginnings in the 1880s, to cutting-edge all-digital blockbusters like Avatar that transformed the industry, motion pictures ultimately have the same end goal after all these years: ...
LOS ANGELES — The docu/drama The Phoenix Incident (www.phoenixincident.com) has its LA premiere today. Produced by PCB Productions ( Titanfall, Far Cry 4, Call of Duty: Ghosts ), the film centers arou ...
April 8, 2016
I first had a chance to speak with MPC VFX supervisor Guillaume Rocheron two summers ago, not long after he had finished work on the feature, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Rocheron recently headed ...
BOSTON — Zero VFX (www.zerovfx.com) contributed services to Hardcore Henry, the new crowd-funded, first-person feature directed by Ilya Naishuller. The film takes place from Henry’s point of view. He’ ...
April 26, 2016