VES releases On-Set VFX Data Guide
The VES drops a CC-BY on set data guide and hosts a May 12 webinar, because nobody enjoys rebuilding reality from half a slate photo.
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FMX gehts a new head for the 30th Birthday
FMX celebrates its 30th edition with a planned handover: Mario Müller steps down after 2026 and Agon Ushaku takes over the mantle for 2027 and onwards.
VES Awards 2026 names winners and honours
VES Awards 2026 winners named across 24 categories, with Bruckheimer and Taylor receiving top honours.
VES Handbook of Visual Effects, Fourth Edition, coming soon
The VES Handbook enters edition four with 95 contributors, new chapters on AI, NeRFs, real time engines and more. Pre orders open now, release Dec 18.
Beyond VFX dives into AI Ethics
AI meets VFX and ethics: Beyond VFX returns on 26 Nov 2025 with VES and ICE.ART. Join Ben Lock, Victor Perez, Frank Govaere & Dr Jana Sedlakova and Agon Ushaku for a free panel.
“A Model of Madness” Scott Ross Why VFX Fails as a Business
Scott Ross: VFX is “a model of madness.” ILM, Digital Domain, and decades later, the business still cannot stand on three legs.
VES Awards 2025: Apes Ascend, Dune Dazzles, Robots Rule
Visual Effects Society Awards, VES Awards 2025, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes VFX, Dune Part Two visual effects, The Wild Robot animation, Shōgun TV series VFX, VES, Awards, VFX, Animation
VES Awards 2025: Nominees Unveiled—Prepare Your Applause (and Renders)!
The Visual Effects Society has announced the nominees for the 23rd Annual VES Awards, celebrating excellence in visual effects across film, television, animation, and more.
Event: Project Arena – Redefining Virtual Production Workflow
Join the VES Society for "Project Arena: Redefining Virtual Production Workflow," a event focused on emerging technologies and standards in VP - free admission, invaluable knowledge ! THe event is in Berlin.
Elected: Board members 2023 of the Visual Effects Society!
Chair Lisa Cooke was re-elected. As the first Chair(woman) in VES history, she has many years of experience at Tippett Studio and Tippett Productions.
Visual Effects Society announces nominees!
Avatar breaks its own record: A total of 14 nominations for the James Cameron sequel! New Emerging Technology Award category nominated for the first time.
The Visual Effects Society adjusts its regulations
The revised Rules and Procedures of the VES Awards illustrate the changing VFX industry. Award categories have been merged, new ones have been created - submission deadline: 30.11.2022.
These are the winners of the 20th VES Awards!
Which films are among the winners of this year's Visual Effects Society awards? Were the hopefuls "Dune" and "Encanto" able to convince?
VES Survey Maps VFX Studio Platforms
A VES survey representing 88 studios and 60,000 artists examines Linux, CentOS migration, security and software support.
Visual Effects Society announces the nominees
VES Awards host Patton Oswalt & Friends are delighted: "Dune" is one of the big winners!
Visual Effects Society Names 2021 Special Honourees
The Visual Effects Society named James Cameron and Gary Demos honorary members, announced four new VES Fellows and revealed its 2021 Hall of Fame class.
Matt Aitken on Weta’s Digital Characters
Matt Aitken traces Weta Digital’s character pipeline from Gollum and Kong to Thanos, facial solvers, Manuka and cloud rendering.
19th VES Awards Honour 2020’s Visual Effects
The 19th VES Awards recognised work across film, episodic production, animation, games, commercials and special-venue projects.
Marc Angele at The 3D and Motion Design Show
Swiss CG and VFX supervisor Marc Angele discusses Cinema 4D, Arnold and his work in animation and visual effects.
19th VES Awards Open for Visual Effects Submissions
The Visual Effects Society opened submissions for the 19th VES Awards across film, television, games, animation, VR and new media.
Visual Effects Society Announces 2020 Honourees
The Visual Effects Society named new honorary members, regular members and Hall of Fame inductees for its 2020 recognition programme.
The Beauty | Student Academy Award
The award goes to Animago and Visual Effects Society winners.
VES Handbook Third Edition
The third VES Handbook expanded coverage of scanning, HDR, VFX editorial, realtime work, virtual production, AR and VR.
VES Honours Ray Scalice and Lifetime Members
The VES named Ray Scalice its 2020 Founders Award recipient and honoured Debbie Denise, Thomas Haegele, Richard Hollander and Eugeen Rizzardi.
RISE Rebuilds Babylon Berlin in VFX
RISE’s season-three VFX reel reveals the digital extensions and period reconstruction behind Babylon Berlin’s interwar cityscapes.
Weta Digital Opens Animation Division
Weta Digital launched an animation division under CEO Prem Akkaraju, extending the Wellington studio beyond visual effects production.
Hybride Breaks Down IG-11 VFX
Hybride’s Mandalorian breakdown shows the design and hyper-articulated animation work behind bounty-hunter droid IG-11.
DNEG Builds Godzilla’s Sunken City
DNEG’s Godzilla breakdown reveals a submerged city built from carved architecture, shipwrecks, ZBrush decay and layered marine growth.
Oscars 2021 Delayed by Pandemic
The 93rd Academy Awards moved to 25 April 2021 as COVID-19 disrupted production, eligibility deadlines and technical-award scheduling.
RISE Builds Kingdoms of Fire Battles
RISE’s Kingdoms of Fire breakdown shows CG armies and horses, flags, fire, explosions and battlefield extensions across Tunisian dunes.
The Beauty wins VES Award
Deep Dive with "The Beauty" - the short film from the Animation Institute of the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg now also wins the VES Award - read the making-of from the DP.
Meeting Robots, Spiderman and Women in Animation: The Animation Meeting 2017
Around 250 professionals and students met at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) for the 20th Animation Meeting. The talks revolved around Hollywood VFX, robots and current developments in the industry.
VES Awards 2018: Submission Deadline
Anyone who still wants to submit a project for the VES Awards 2018 has until the end of November: The deadline is November 30.
Nuke and Hiero 11.0 are here!
Live Groups, VFX Reference Platform 2017 standards, GPU support for AMD, Denoise improvements and more in the new release of Nuke.
The 2017 VES Award Winners
“The Jungle Book” and “Game of Thrones” dominated yesterday’s VES Awards as winners in the most categories. Here is an overview of the 24 categories.
VES Section Now Also in Germany
VFX supervisor Florian Gellinger of Rise | Visual Effects Studios initiated a German section of the Visual Effects Society, which has now been founded.
VES Nominees 2017
The VES Awards will be presented for the 15th time on 7 February. Here is an overview of this year's nominees.
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...
VES Award Nominees
The nominations for this year's VES Awards have been announced. They include many projects that we have presented, or will present, in our DP magazine.
VES Handbook in a New Edition
The ultimate VFX handbook has been thoroughly updated for the second edition. The publisher is the Visual Effects Society.
VES Student Award
Be quick and take part—students can still submit their work for the annual VES Award until November 30.
VES Award for Loom
The DIGITAL PRODUCTION editorial team was delighted to find a familiar acquaintance, “Loom”, among the winners of this year’s VES Awards.
Visual Effects Society Student Award Winner Realises His Inspirations with Autodesk Software
Student creates compelling environmental film project with Autodesk Maya software.
MAXON Congratulates Nominees for the 6th VES Awards
MAXON Computer congratulated Sony Pictures Imageworks and Framestore CFC on their VES Award nominations.
fmx/08 Partners with Visual Effects Society
The Visual Effects Society joins fmx/08 as a programme partner for the Stuttgart conference's visual-effects track.
VES Awards
On February 11, 2007, the Visual Effect Society (VES) presents the VES Awards for the 5th time for the best Visual Effects in 23 categories, including Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture or Visual Effect of the Year.
The submission deadline ends on December 2, 2006.
European VFX supervisors in particular are also addressed, because the invisible effects in cinema films (such as Perfume, Viktor Muller) or commercials (noitulovE, CFC Framestore) and TV movies (Dresden, Denis Behnke) need not fear international comparison.
Visual Effects Society Announces the 5th VES Awards
“Pirates of the Caribbean 2” in first place among the nominations / VFX pioneer Dennis Muren receives honour for his life's work
VES Award: Submission Deadline Ends December 2
23 competition categories / awards ceremony in Hollywood
eDIT 2005: New Pricing Structure
At the same time as the announcement of the new prices, advance ticket sales began for the eDIT 8. Filmmaker's Festival, which will take place from October 9 to 11 at CineStar Metropolis in Frankfurt am Main.