Tag: ILM
Academy Releases List of Possible Sci-Tech Honorees
The Scientific and Technical Awards Committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Friday (August 16) that 14 scientific and...
Moves Like Jaegers
Led by John Knoll and Hal Hickel, the brilliant team at ILM helps create Pacific Rim's epic battle between giant robots and sea creatures.
Pacific...
Delivering Digital Dystopia in 4K
Vfx supe Peter Muyzers details the labor-intensive process of creating the realistic worlds of Elysium for director Neill Blomkamp's sci-fi thriller.
In 2009, South African...
ILM and Sony Picture Imageworks Release Alembic 1.5
Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI) and Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) have released their jointly developed, open sourse project Alembic 1.5. The new tool facilitates...
Chaos Group Outlines Special SIGGRAPH Activities
Rendering solution producer Chaos Group will join forces with various vfx industry artists to present two special events at SIGGRAPH in Anaheim on July...
Pixar’s ‘Monsters’ to Fight Zombies This Weekend
This weekend is shaping up to be an interesting battleground between new arrivals Disney/Pixar's much-awaited prequel Monsters University and Paramount's intriguing Brad Pitt zombie...
Lights! Camera! Summer Eye Candy!
How two of this season's biggest blockbusters Iron Man 3 and Star Trek: Into Darkness delivered their spectacular CG visuals.
Time was the biggest challenge...
John Knoll Upped to ILM’s Chief Creative Officer
Oscar-winning vfx veteran John Knoll has been promoted to Chief Creative Officer at Industrial Light & Magic. Knoll, who joined ILM In 1986, has...
Method Appoints Christian Kubsch President
Method Studios, a Deluxe Entertainment Services Group company, has announced that industry veteran Christian Kubsch has joined the studio as president. Kubsch will oversee...
Animation Mentor Accepting New VFX Program Applicants
Online animation and visual effects school Animation Mentor is now accepting applications for the inaugural Summer 2013 term of its new VFX Fundamentals program....
Imageworks Adds Dowdeswell, Nichols to Vancouver Studio
Sony Pictures Imageworks has further plumped up its Vancouver, Canada vfx and digital character animation studio (established in 2010) with the appointment of Jason...
All the Pretty Digital Pictures
A passing glance at the list of the 10 features which made the vfx Oscar shortlist and will present 10-minute clips at the January...
The Top 12 Tech Tools of 2012
Our in-the-know visual effects expert and critic picks his favorite releases of the year (in no particular order!):
Digital Molecular Matter. Physical simulation system found...
When You Wish Upon a ‘Star Wars’
The big news in showbiz over for the last week has, of course, been the Walt Disney Company’s purchase of Lucasfilm for some four-billion-dollars...
Disney Buys Lucasfilm, Plans 2015 ‘Star Wars 7'
Big business news today as The Walt Disney Company announces it has agreed to acquire Lucasfilm Ltd.—including the popular Star Wars franchise—in a stock...
Method Studios Create Epic ‘Cloud Atlas’ FX
Method Studios combined efforts of three of its locations—Los Angeles, Vancouver and London—to complete a total of 398 shots for, and was the main...
The World Animation Feature Films & VFX Summit
Toons’ Top Talent and Producers to Converge and Converse on the Future of international Co-production at the World Animation Feature Films & VFX Summit
Set...
The Foundry and Luxology Team Up
U.K.’s leading visual effects software developer, The Foundry has today announced a merger with US- based technology company, Luxology LLC for an undisclosed sum.
The combined...
Sony, DWA, Pixar Directors Top VIEW 2012 Slate in Italy
Top animators Genndy Tartakovsky, Eric Darnell and Mark Walsh will take the lead at the VIEW digital technology conference, set for Oct. 16-19 in...
Tartakovsky to Present ‘Transylvania’ Footage at VIEW
VIEW Conference has announced that award-winning animation guru Genndy Tartakovsky of Dexter’s Laboratory fame will present exclusive footage from his feature film debut, Sony’s...
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