"Abiogenesis was a labor of love. A doodle taken to the nth degree," says artist Richard Mans, describing his first animated short film. After spending several years as a freelance animator, Mans want ...
January 30, 2012
LOS ANGELES — Pixomondo (www.pixomondo.com), an international visual effects company with a network of 11 facilities throughout the world, recently completed work on 546 of the 1,524 VFX shots feature ...
January 27, 2012
ALISO VIEJO, CA — Smith Micro Software, Inc. Productivity and Graphics Group and Wacom Americas ( www.wacom.com ) have formed a partnership to bring the ease of multi-touch functionality to animators ...
LOS ANGELES — Pixomondo, an international visual effects company with a network of 11 facilities throughout the world, is gaining attention for its work on Martin Scorsese’s Hugo. The company has been ...
January 26, 2012
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND — Research and development company CoreCG (www.core-cg.com) has released MentalCore, a cross-platform plug-in that’s designed to help artists achieve maximum creativity and effic ...
LOS ANGELES — The Visual Effects Society (www.visualeffectssociety.com) recently elected its 2012 Board of Director officers.
SAN FRANCISCO — The 12th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA) have announced the recipients of two special honors.
LONDON — Double Negative, which won an Oscar in 2011 for its work on Inception, has been nominated for a Visual Effects Oscar for the studio’s contributions to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Par ...
January 25, 2012
SANTA MONICA — Escape Studios will present a free Webinar on February 15 highlighting the capabilities of Side Effects’ Houdini application. The Webinar is geared towards pros who want to get to know ...
BOSTON — Mercury Learning and Information (www.merclearning.com) has published “Video Game Writing from Macro to Micro,” a new book that explores the challenging and evolving world of the games writer ...