Category: Motion Graphics
Bodega Adds IAMSTATIC To Animation Roster
Toronto-based studio has done award-winning work in commercials, film, television and digital content.
MPC Hires Antar Walker as Design Creative Director
Veteran of advertising, design, animation, film and digital joins London-based company from ManvsMachine.
Allegorithmic Releases Update for Substance Painter
Simple Export to Project Felix Enhances 3D Material Workflow for Artists and Graphic Designers; Five Additional Tools and Updates Now Available
Categories Announced For 2018 British Animation Awards
‘Westworld,’ ‘Gotham’ Recognized for Outstanding VFX at 69th Creative Arts Emmy Awards
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ wins award for Outstanding Production Design; Netflix series ‘Strangers Things’ awarded for Outstanding Main Title Design.
SOME THOUGHTS ON VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) STORYTELLING
The essence of storytelling is directing the attention of another. So what happens when the other has the power to direct his own attention?
Supernova Outdoor Digital Animation Festival Returns September 23rd
Ultimate international showcase for digital motion art returns to downtown Denver, CO with seven hours of digital animation and artworks presented simultaneously.
NVIDIA Announces External GPUs
Available starting in September, Quadro eGPU solutions will now allow interactive rendering, VR, AI development on PC Notebooks, and will be available through qualified partners such as Bizon, One Stop Systems/Magma and Sonnet with more to come.
MAXON Announces Cinema 4D Release 19
The new release includes features and enhancements that streamline motion graphics, VFX and VR content creation workflows and sets a path for the future of Cinema 4D.
Rok Predin’s ‘Pok’ Evokes Sunday Morning Cartoons
The Trunk director’s beautifully graded short has the look of a well-watched VHS tape, which, along with Barnaby Templer’s (Fonic) sound design and Sebastian Duh’s score further ground the audience in the 1980s.
Winners Announced for The Rookies 2017
Representing more than 600 academic facilities located in over 80 countries worldwide, worldwide, Autodesk-sponsored student competition received 8,725 digital projects created by 2,752 students.
Peter Sluszka Celebrates Retail Whimsy with Stop-Motion Paper Animation for Amazon
Hornet director’s signature stop-motion papercraft returns for Amazon’s Prime Day 2017 with characters new and old.
PipelineFX Announces Release of Qube! 6.10
New features include an integrated Shotgun user interface, perpetual license keys, command line access to Microsoft Azure during the beta and Clarisse renderer support.
Axis Group Unites Brands Under Axis Studios
The new global identity unites U.K. brands Axis Animation, Flaunt Productions and axisVFX under one banner, accompanies company growth and is being celebrated with a limited-edition art book showing the behind-the-scenes work that goes into ‘delivering the unexpected.’
Sarofsky’s ‘Guardians’ Return Yields Engaging Main Titles and End Crawl for ‘Vol. 2’
The Chicago-based design house rose to the challenge of creating both an animated, custom typeface and a bold main title sequence logo for the return of Peter Quill, Rocket, Baby Groot, Gamora and Drax the Destroyer in 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.'
Laundry Names James Sweigert Managing Director
The former executive producer of TV & streaming at mOcean brings extensive experience in marketing, brand strategy, design and TV and film production to his new role spearheading business development at Laundry.
Alma Mater Welcomes Ben Apley and Ronnie Koff
Sixty40 Amps Up Roster with Fresh Directorial Talent
Sixty40 continues to attract globally celebrated directors, adding Brazilian mixed media director Boca, French animation director Skull and design storyteller Kyra Bartley to their talent pool.
Trollbäck+Company Creates Minimalist Animation to Unveil AICP Logo
Trollbäck+Company‘s striking show-opening animation revealed the first new AICP logo in 45 years at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
Goodbye Kansas Consolidates Brands
Fast growing Swedish VFX and CGI company Goodbye Kansas has replaced previous brands Fido, Bläck, Imagination Studios and Pixel Grinder with Goodbye Kansas Studios, an integrated company consisting of 150 artists and producers.
Ant Farm Creates Intricate 5K Ident for Amazon Studios
The LA-based creative agency used PipelineFX’s intelligent render farm manager to create the logo animation shown in films like Oscar-winner ‘Manchester by the Sea.’
Bent Image Lab Showcases Surreal CG Spots
Joshua Cox and the Bent Design Lab team evoke imaginative landscapes in CG shorts “Clouds,” “Cards,” and “Circus,” as part of a web and print campaign for Cramer Krasselt and ArcBest.
Kaleidoscope and 1stAveMachine Join Forces for Virtual Reality Creation Hub
Production company 1stAveMachine combines resources with VR community and platform Kaleidoscope to focus on producing branded VR content.
Animation Showcase ‘SVA Premieres’ Returns to Hollywood
SVA ushers in a new wave of animators, artists and filmmakers with Hollywood showcase and alumni networking opportunities.