SPW Releases
Global creative agency ATTIK (www.attik.com) and Scion are heralding the September launch for their campaign for the all new 2011 Scion tC sports coupe with cross-media promotions now appearing in U.S. print, online, and cable television, and on billboards...
AvatarLabs is the winner of five awards in three categories from the recent 2010 Communicator Awards. The agency received a Gold 'Award of Excellence' in the Rich Media category for its "Star Trek" MTV takeover work for Paramount Pictures. The agency also received two Silver 'Awards of...
The Visual Effects Society (VES) is proud to announce that The VES Handbook of Visual Effects is now available to everyone who wants to learn or needs to know about the art and science of visual effects.
Written by 89 top leading visual effects practitioners and edited by VES...
Leading production and post-production house Optimus today announced that ONE at Optimus has promoted Joe Tipre to producer and Sarah Slevin to associate producer. The promotion of the creative, hardworking pair is well deserved.
"Joe and Sarah have consistently performed at higher levels...
Circle of Sound, the dynamic Los Angeles based boutique music house, has contributed original compositions to Toyota's recent inspiring "Auto-Biography" campaign that reveals, "Every Toyota has a Story." Having provided the music for both Camry and Corolla'...
Bully Pictures' director Fredrik Callinggard captured dramatic images of foundry workers pouring hot, molten metal into giant castings for a spot promoting Smirnoff and its People's Choice...
Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and Los Angeles Film Festival, has announced the 12 screenwriters and film projects selected for its 11th annual Screenwriters Lab, sponsored by the Writers Guild of America, West. Taking place in Los Angeles from...
Filmworkers produced positively explosive results in its latest effort for the Illinois Lottery. The post house provided visual effects, computer and motion graphics, color correction and final post services for a new ad out of Energy BBDO promoting the Lottery'...
At the ACM SIGGRAPH conference today visual effects houses Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) and Sony Pictures Imageworks announced a co-developed open source project titled Alembic. At its core, Alembic is a computer graphics interchange format focused on efficiently storing and sharing...
The Art Directors Club ((www.adcglobal.org)), the premier organization for creatives in integrated media and the first global creative collective of its kind, today announced the latest group of inductees into the prestigious ADC Hall of Fame.
The...
Director, writer and visual artist Nick Hooker has joined production company Mighty8.
Nick's music video for Grace Jones' 'Corporate Cannibal' from her long awaited album,...
Point.360 IVC/Digital Film Center, will introduce Visionary™ Archive Technology - a new technology for archiving of color motion images. It is a unique process using only a single strip of black-and-white film as opposed to the traditional YCM 3-strip separations...
Award-winning contemporary American documentary films and filmmakers are giving audiences around the world new insights into life and culture in the United States. A touring program of about 60 independently produced documentaries is traveling to almost 25 countries worldwide, where U.S....
The Visual Effects Society (VES), which represents approximately 2500 visual effects artists and practitioners worldwide, is pleased to announce it will hold the 10th Annual VES Awards Show on February 7, 2012 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. The Annual Awards show is where the most...
It just wasn't enough for full-service post-production facility STEELE ((www.steelevfx.com)) to have one of the summer's most-viewed music videos to its credit. After providing the HD online, beauty, compositing and stereo 3D finishing for Shakira's "...
Director Joel Dunn has won a 2010 Silver Telly Award for his commercial "Kids", commissioned by client GiveBackGetHired LLC of Carlsbad, California, a new online...
The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) announced today the list of international films that have been selected for Official Competition at this year's OIAF to be held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada from October 20 to 24. Hundreds of international animators will descend on Canada's...
The following is a joint filing submitted to the Federal Communications Commission today by a broad coalition of entertainment industry guilds, unions and studios, including AFTRA, DGA, IATSE, SAG and the MPAA who have combined forces to speak with one voice on the issue of Internet theft...
Some of the earliest examples of three-dimensional motion pictures will be presented at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' "3D Rarities: From 1900 and Beyond" on Tuesday, September 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. The evening will be hosted by...
Deluxe Entertainment Services Group has promoted Maggie MacConnell to Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing for its worldwide operations. For the past ten years MacConnell has been Senior Vice President of International Customer Relations, Deluxe Europe...