Stockholm-based studio Bläck transforms Stockholm into a postapocalyptic nightmare in ‘State Zero,’ a live-action short film directed by Andrée Wallin.
Bonus features include three all-new original mini-movies, deleted scene and behind-the scenes interviews, artwork, image galleries and more.
Special presentations on the future of video games and ‘Everest’ planned for remarkable gathering of talent in Turin, Italy.
New trailer for Pixar Animation Studio’s second film of 2015 provides a look at Arlo’s origin story, taking viewers through a sequence of events that leads him to the little boy who becomes a friend.
Produced by DHX Media and Sony Pictures Animation, animated series commissioned by Canada’s TELETOON has been picked up by Turner Broadcasting for its second flagship kids channel, Boomerang, across EMEA, APAC and Latin America.
New CG-animated family film from AMBI Group and Imprint Entertainment to be directed by Cameron Hood and produced by Foxx at Toronto-based AIC Studios.
Framestore delivers 338 out-of-this-world visual effects sequences for Ridley Scott’s ‘The Martian,’ including the space ship Hermes, CG environments on Mars, and a dazzling ending sequence.
Set to draw 7,000 participants from more than 50 countries, SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 introduces two new programs, the Symposium on Education and the Symposium on Visualization in High Performance Computing.
High-volume data management solution provides new Quick Draft options, NIM integration and support for SideFX Software’s Houdini.
Entertainment One’s new CG-animated preschool series airs on Disney Channel and Disney Junior, attracting 1.6 million viewers.
CG-animated preschool series is produced by creators QQD Ltd. in partnership with U.K. producers Belly Up Productions, Israel’s Candy Bear Studios, and Singapore’s Infinite Frameworks.
New 5.3 update provides one-click switch between real-time and Iray rendering, real-time post processing with Yebis, complex real life and emissive materials, and the ability to render at unlimited resolution.
German animation and VFX studio grows global management team with the appointment of COO Jens Pohl.
New generation of Quadro processors allows artists to run the same professional applications as desktop workstations at nearly the same level of performance.
Studio 100 Media signs deal with NBCUniversal’s preschool TV network Sprout for the rights to CG-animated series and Stereoscopic 3D feature, ‘Maya the Bee.’
Animation Experts and VFX Luminaries behind ‘Minions,’ ‘Terminator: Genisys,’ ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘The Hobbit,’ ‘Paddington,’ ‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E,’ and more will be guests at the animago AWARD & CONFERENCE running October 15 & 16, 2015.
Two-thousand rendering servers and workstations now managed by Qube! render farm management software; burst licensing new hallmark of finals routine.
“My dad always said, ‘If you read the comic strip you know who I am,’ and you can see that all the characters in the comic strip are really elements of him.”
Final version of the Chinese-made CG-animated feature took 80 million CPU render hours, compared to 60 or 70 million render hours for recent Hollywood-made animated films.
Next generation of development platform now available with Canvas visual programming.
Three-minute short, ‘The Seed and the Moon,’ employs photo-real CG environments and VFX to create the rich and organic texture of magical realism.
Commissioned by Netflix, original CGI animation series from 41 Entertainment is targeted at kids and introduced through a feature-length film that will be followed by 12 half-hour episodes starting in 2016.
The animated opening to ‘Halo 5: Guardians’, while technically proficient, is mostly sizzle with little drama.
Brazil’s ParaRaio Filmes and Hero Live Studio tap Xsens motion capture to help shed light on the black youth homicides that are plaguing Brazil.
VFX powerhouse Industrial Light & Magic to present two special sessions, ‘40 Years of Creating the Impossible’ and ‘The Park Is Open: Journey to Jurassic World,’ during the 2015 VIEW Conference in Turin, Italy.
