Visual Effects and Animation
CoreMelt has announced ImageFlow FX V2 2.1 alongside all new video tutorials and a special bundle deal with Singular Software's PluralEyes.
Brickyard Filmworks has completed 320 VFX shots on Disney's hit comedy "The Proposal," starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, which opened worldwide on June 19.
SIGGRAPH announces the selection of award nominees for the SIGGRAPH 2009 Computer Animation Festival to be held in New Orleans this August. Nominees were chosen from 770 submissions from around the globe, presented by both professional studios and students alike.
With the dawning of 3-D movies and entertainment, studios are looking to promote their pictures in new and exciting ways -- ways that connect with movie goers and expand the 3-D experience beyond the theater.
Cinesite created a series of shots for Fox's Wolverine, released throughout the world last week. Cinesite's work included an entirely CG plane, clouds, ground and sky. Turned around in just five weeks, the photorealistic work blends seamlessly with the action.
Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the post-production and broadcast markets announced that development partner SUGARfx is releasing two new plug-in FxPacks; RadialWave and H.U.D. (Heads Up Display).
Visual Effects studio, An Ideal World, has collaborated with Swing Productions to deliver the latest string of spots for Barona Resort & Casino's "What will your moment be?" campaign.
Mechanism Digital has just completed heavy visual effects on a music video for U Suck, a song by hot new recording artist, Just Kait. Just Kait - so named because she plays all the instruments on the record - is poised to be the latest teen-rock sensation.
Warren Franklin, CEO of Rainmaker Entertainment, announced that veteran animation producer and creative executive Catherine Winder has joined Rainmaker Entertainment as President.
DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (Nasdaq: DWA) announced today its plans to release five feature films every two years, adding an additional film every other year to its existing two picture a year release schedule on a going-forward basis.