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ROKKAN and 2K Games Relaunch For Games Website

2K Games reunited with digital creative agency, ROKKAN, to redesign and relaunch their official site – www.2kgames.com. The goal of the new site was to provide a seamless intersection of games, news and community. At the cornerstone of this creative process was a key objective – staying true to 2K Games’ brand and pushing the [...]

Brand New School Take Subway To Foreign Lands

Proving the old-fashioned American jingle hasn’t gone sour, Subway’s beefed up its infectious $5 footlong ditty with two new spots served fresh by bicoastal directing collective Brand New School.
Their wholesome recipe included an award-winning Bollywood choreographer, a skilled team of CG gelatin-dessert artists, 500 pounds of sand and a bona fide Norwyptian.

Brand New School worked [...]

Autodesk Introduces Vehicle For Games

Autodesk, Inc. (ADSK: NASDAQ), has introduced its “Vehicle for Games” curriculum for post-secondary students.The 16-week curriculum provides hands-on training for the entire game development pipeline, from concept art to creating an engine-ready asset.

This free* web-based curriculum is designed to be used with Autodesk Maya modeling, animation, rendering and visual effects software, and Autodesk Mudbox digital [...]

Blind Continues Bright House Relationship

Blind Creative Director Tom Koh, working closely with Fry Hammond Barr, finished a colorful four-spot campaign promoting Bright House Networks’ various TV, phone and Internet packages. The collection of :30s is the latest project in an ongoing relationship between Fry Hammond Barr/Bright House and Blind, who worked on a similar campaign last year.

“Bright House and [...]

Asylum & Smuggler Change Life Into Art for Samsung

Asylum Design CD Simon Cassels, in collaboration with Smuggler directing team The Guard Brothers via Leo Burnett, Chicago, handled post, VFX, design and animation on an imaginative spot promoting the Android-powered Samsung Behold® II mobile phone. The :30 advertisement, Graphic Artist, continues Samsung Mobile’s overarching campaign to show off the innovative and practical uses for [...]

Rhino Beefs Up Feature Slate With Cop Out

In yet another entry to their ever-expanding list of feature film credits, Rhino has wrapped up extensive visual effects work on the Warner Brothers action-comedy Cop Out. The film is the first of several forthcoming features that Rhino is handling visual effects for, including: Phillip Noyce’s Salt starring Angelina Jolie; Adjustment Bureau, the George Nolfi [...]

Autodesk Announce Softimage 2011

Autodesk, Inc. announced Autodesk Softimage 2011, a comprehensive 3D application featuring a unique, multithreaded GigaCore architecture and innovative tools: the Interactive Creative Environment (ICE) and Face Robot facial animation toolset.
Softimage is also an ideal companion product to both Autodesk Maya and Autodesk 3ds Max software pipelines with its easily programmable effects simulations, advanced character rigs [...]

The New Tenants Wins Oscar – VFX by SMNY

Joachim Back’s The New Tenants took home the 2010 Oscar on Sunday night in the best Live-Action Short category. With VFX and Finishing courtesy of Smoke & Mirrors New York (SMNY), The New Tenants tells the terrifying story of two men who move into an apartment and discover its cursed history through a disturbed cast [...]