Christopher Columbus has directed ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians; The Lightning Thief’ for Twentieth Century Fox. MPC Vancouver provided a range of visual effects and post production work for 160 shots across 9 sequences for the movie. Their main areas of work involved creating Greek Gods and simulating a firey inferno.
The team [...]
From start to finish, software from Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), played a pivotal role in helping James Cameron and Lightstorm Entertainment pioneer new methods of virtual moviemaking, for Cameron’s history-making motion picture “Avatar.”
“When James Cameron conceived the idea for ‘Avatar’ 15 years ago, the technology wasn’t available to make it,” said Nolan Murtha, digital effects [...]
VFXTalk.com, the leading visual effects and computer graphics community, is pleased to announce the return of the popular VFXChallenge Series. Now into its fourth season the competition is co-sponsored by Sputnik7.com and returns on a grander scale with some incredible prizes.
Throughout the course of 2010, VFXTalk will host a series of ten challenges to be [...]
A carefully orchestrated series of mysterious catastrophes is dragging Shanghai, China to the brink of ruin, and now the Army of Two must fight their way through ravaged city districts as they try to beat the odds and uncover the secret of the 40th Day.
Army of Two: The 40th Day has been built from the [...]
Another great new spot for Coke edited by Cut + Run for Wieden + Kennedy and director Daniel Kleinman; with visual effects created by Moving Picture Company.
The commercial, titled ‘Finals’, opens with a young man lying asleep at his bedroom desk, exhausted after long hours of revision. A digital alarm clock shows that time [...]
FUEL TV commissioned motion design and production studio Royale to collaborate with commercial and fine artist Adam Haynes to create the latest station ID for the network’s popular Signature Series. Royale & Haynes delivered ID #24 of the ongoing series, which is slated to culminate into one hundred unique installments. Created as a way for [...]
Prime Focus VFX, formerly Frantic Films VFX, has completed 175 visual effects shots for the Summit Entertainment release, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” directed by Chris Weitz. Prime Focus contributed a majority of the film’s most frequently featured visual effects, including CG water, atmospherics, CG matte painting and environment work, and the “Diamond Skin” effect [...]
Boutique visual effects studio Ingenuity Engine has collaborated once again with director Joseph Kahn on a futuristic new music video for R&B singer Chris Brown’s track “I Can Transform Ya,” the first single off his forthcoming album Graffiti (due Dec. 8). Ingenuity Engine created a VFX-intensive and hyper-stylized world for the video, which premiered Oct. [...]
Rhino Creative Director Vico Sharabani recently completed yet another close collaboration with the Snorri Bros., this time creating all the VFX for a carefully choreographed :30 promoting the new season of Starz’ acclaimed series, Crash. The unique spot captures Los Angeles through the lens of a camera continuously swinging across the cityscape, the masses jostling [...]
The newly released animated film “Astro Boy” brings the iconic Japanese manga character to movie theaters. Filmmaker Imagi International Holdings Limited (HKEx: 585) created “Astro Boy” with Autodesk Maya software from Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK). Maya was at the core of Imagi Studios’ around-the-clock production pipeline spanning Hong Kong and Hollywood.
Osamu Tezuka [...]
