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Gnomon 2021 Student Reel Showcases Emerging VFX Artists
Gnomon’s 2021 student reel presents visual-effects, games and animation work created by students at the Los Angeles school.
Rodeo FX Is Coming to Munich!
A new location for the Canadian company: Rodeo FX is now also coming to Munich and is already looking for new artists!
Invisible VFX for “Southpaw”
“Rocky” is back in cinemas; boxer Billy Hope, alias Jake Gyllenhaal, was there in 2015. Zero VFX supplied invisible effects for the bloody fight.
Winners of the VES Awards
The Filmakademie project "Wrapped", which already won an animago AWARD last year, has won the VES Award. Plus many more familiar names from DP...
Winners of the Sci-Tech Oscars
It is now known which prizewinners will receive their Technical Oscar awards from the "Scientific and Technical Awards Committee" on February 7.
Oscar-Worthy VFX
These ten feature films have a chance of a golden Oscar statuette in the Best Visual Effects category in 2015. There are no surprises in the selection.
Rodeo FX Opens Location in Los Angeles
Canada's Rodeo FX, which has already supplied us with numerous excellent making-of articles, is opening another location in Los Angeles. Includes a making-of article PDF for "Enemy".
20 Animated Films in the Oscar Race for 2015
The range of films shortlisted by the Oscar Academy for an award in the "Best Animated Feature Film" category is broad.
Did Noah Kill LookFX?
"Noah" also brought the flood over LookFX. The studio was closed, the name is gone, but almost all employees are continuing in Mass Market’s film department.
ToonBox Entertainment Expands
Expanding from Canada to Los Angeles has become unusual these days – for financing reasons, it is usually the other way round. But ToonBox is doing exactly that.
Academy Awards for Technical Achievements
Nineteen scientific and technical developments will be honored with an award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on February 15.
First Candidates for the Technical Oscar
Although the Oscars in February 2014 are still some time away, 14 candidates have already been considered for the 2013 Scientific and Technical Awards.
Digital Domain Under New Ownership
VFX studio Digital Domain not only has a new owner from Hong Kong; its CEO has also been replaced.
Reel Showcase
Los Angeles artist Cenk Cevdet Kilar has put not only an impressive demo reel but also an excellent tool-demo video online.
Nominees for the VES Award
The VES Award nominees have been announced—three projects from Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg are nominated in the same category.
The Best of Gnomon School
The Gnomon Best of Term Competition honours the best work by Gnomon students each year—here you can view the most interesting works.
And the VFX Oscar Goes to…?
The list of selected Oscar film candidates for the best VFX of 2011 is shrinking increasingly. Here is an overview of which ten films have so far made the shortlist for this year's Oscar ceremony on February 26.
Bleeding Light
Energy waste – David Parker gave this rather dry subject a visually powerful treatment in his short film, with leaking lamps in the city of lights, Los Angeles.
Disney and Pixar Reunited with the Annie Awards
There was great anger at the last Annie Awards in Los Angeles in February. Animation giant Disney/Pixar boycotted the festival and did not attend the ceremony. The company was protesting the Annie rules and the ASIFA jury’s assessment. But the wind now seems to have shifted again.
Adobe MAX 2010
International meeting point for designers and developers focusing on the future of digital media and the web.
SIGGRAPH Video: Autodesk Announces Maya
Autodesk product manager Rob Hoffmann announced the new Maya 2009 at a press conference. We filmed his presentation.
SIGGRAPH: Exclusive Video of Trade-Show Setup
DP secretly slipped onto the SIGGRAPH show floor and filmed the booths being set up. Here is the video.
Video: First Impressions of SIGGRAPH 2008
Setup is in full swing in LA. SIGGRAPH 2008 opens in Los Angeles on Monday. DP has a team on site reporting live. Here are our first impressions on video.
Fire at Universal Film Studios in Hollywood
It Was No Film, but a Real Emergency: A Major Fire at the World-Famous Universal Film Studios in Hollywood Caused Millions in Damage on Sunday.
Two Months in Hollywood for Emerging Talent
MedienCampus Bayern is offering three emerging filmmakers the opportunity to spend two months learning about the film industry in Los Angeles.
CGI Conference CgAM: Computer generated Imaging Conference for Advertising & Marketing Professionals
The CgAM Conference is a new global networking event for the leading representatives of the CGI industry and offers engineers, creative and product designers, advertising agencies, multimedia companies, marketing departments and suppliers an ideal communication and meeting platform.
The CgAM Conference will take place on 10 and 11 March in Los Angeles, California/USA.
Filming begins on “The Informers”
The first clapperboard fell on October 17 for the Marco Weber production THE INFORMERS, the film adaptation of the bestseller of the same name by Bret Easton Ellis (“American Psycho”). It is directed by Gregor Jordan (“Buffalo Soldier”, “Ned Kelly”). THE INFORMERS is the first film adaptation of a book by Bret Easton Elllis for which he wrote the screenplay himself and which he also co-produced.
SIGGRAPH 2007: More than 24,000 Visitors
The event was alos able to record a 12 percent increase in exhibitors. Next year in Los Angeles and Singapore