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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 [...]

Uni of North Carolina Ask Dancing Diablo For The Earth

Dancing Diablo was given a week to create the earth – as well as an eclectic galaxy of animated iconic elements that interact with it – for a :30 national brand spot for The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and marketing agency Capstrat entitled “Minds On A Mission.”

The DUMBO-based creative house, best known [...]

Superfad Directs Eye Candy For Sony Bravia

Superfad’s new in-store campaign for Sony is a startlingly beautiful and surreal homage to Sony’s global brand message of “make.believe” and a tribute to the pleasure of “Eye Candy”. Unfolding in three parts, “Birth of Color,” “Explosion of Color,” and “Release of Color,” the project was directed and produced by Superfad and will be [...]

Blind Create Heart of Stone For Raveonettes

Blind Founder/ECD/Director Chris Do, in a direct-to-client relationship with The Raveonettes, their management at The Orchard and Vice Records, just pushed out his second video for this Danish alt-rock duo. The video, set in a fantastic illustrated world, portrays the epic journey of a heartbroken man rambling across a unique and beautifully stylized landscape – [...]

Absolute Dazzles Johnny Weir for Sundance Channel

To support the launch of Sundance Channel’s newest series, Be Good Johnny Weir, the network designed a promo concept and secured Absolute Post and @radical.media’s Matthew Rolston to create the dazzling spot. The series follows the day-to-day exploits of U.S. National Champion skater Johnny Weir. The promo airs nationally on the Sundance Channel.

The promo begins [...]

Animal Logic Takes Home VES Award

Animal Logic digital artists were recognised and awarded at the 8th Annual Visual Effects Society (VES) Awards last night for ‘Outstanding Matte Painting in a Broadcast Program or Commercial’ on the Kaiser Permanente television commercial.

At the ceremony, which was held at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, Animal Logic’s Ben Walsh, Ben Walker, David [...]

Asylum Honored for Outstanding VFX at the VES Awards

Premier VFX and design studio Asylum nabbed the award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Video Game Trailer for Halo 3: ODST, The Life at last night’s 8th Annual VES Awards. Done in collaboration with MJZ’s Rupert Sanders and T.A.G, the live-action short captures the evolution of Tarkov, a ODST (Orbital Drop Shock Trooper), from [...]

Superfad Takes Shakira on a Wild Journey for SEAT

Superfad has produced a dazzling animated SEAT commercial for agency Atletico that combines a myriad of animation styles and techniques with live action, visual effects and architectural design. At the center of the eye-popping spot is international superstar Shakira who is about to embark on a European tour, which is sponsored by SEAT.

“This job encompasses [...]