ENSCHEDE, THE NETHERLANDS – Universal Pictures and MRC’s blockbuster Ted convinced cinema audiences that the world’s most outrageous bear was real. But for Ted 2, the new comedy from writer/director a ...
June 29, 2015
While the BYU Center for Animation is accustomed to being in the national spotlight, it’s usually for student-made animated shorts, not for award-winning video games.
In the May/June issue of CGW magazine, and here online, we are offering readers extensive coverage of the VFX and previs/post work studios such as ILM, Trixter, and The Third Floor completed for the s ...
June 15, 2015
What do you get if you combine kung fu, Hitler, time travel, Vikings gods, anthropomorphic arcade cabinets – a tiny dash of David Hasselhoff – and then cover it in lashings of retro neon? Well there’s ...
June 3, 2015
“Thunderbirds Are Go” is a new animated episodic reboot of the 1960’s cult hit “Thunderbirds” series. With a number of vendors serving up content, continuity was important.
HDR is the current buzzword, as the feature story “It’s an HDR World” in the May/June 2015 of CGW details. Yet, despite the headlines from NAB 2015 and those since the conference, there is more news i ...
May 28, 2015
The lure of financial advantages, diverse locations, a sophisticated technical infrastructure, and a talented workforce is proving irresistible to film and television studios (see “Change in Direction ...
Reallusion, maker of the iClone animation package, is hosting a Game Character Animation contest, and are hoping to attract newbies and intermediate animators alike. (For more information on the conte ...
May 20, 2015
Zoic Studios turned on the switch for aquatic time travel in MGM and Paramount’s recent Hot Tub Time Machine 2.
Doner Company, the ad agency behind the new “Dodge Law” campaign, recently reached out to Berkeley, CA’s Tippet Studio (www.tippett.com) to create a computer-generated plush monkey to co-star in a ser ...