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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Embassy Visual Effects is pleased to announce that its work on director Neill Blomkamp’s “District 9″ was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Visual Effects. “District 9″ marks the second time in two years that The Embassy’s work has contributed to a visual effects Academy Award-nominated film.
Extraordinarily, it is only the second feature [...]
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 [...]
CS Films provided the color correction, online editing and finishing for writer/director Matt Osterman’s film, the supernatural thriller “Phasma Ex Machina.” The film, which marks Osterman’s debut as a feature film director, is also the first project for CS Films, the turnkey post house recently launched by CRASH+SUES, the award-wining commercial-based company to meet the [...]
For the current re-release of the lauded series “Red Riding,” in select theaters nationwide starting February 19, Superfad was asked to design a title sequence for the chapter 1980, which focuses on the investigation into the Yorkshire Ripper murders and the police corruption surrounding the case.
Set against a backdrop of serial murders including the Yorkshire [...]
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 [...]
Escamotage is an exciting live action short film created by Canadian director Patrick Kalyn. Inspired by the Bourne series of films, Escamotage tells the story of a violent man from a world of organised crime, who finds an unexpected love.
Nominated for Best First Film at the 2008 South Africa International Film Festival, Escamotage is an [...]
The official website for Planet 51 has been launched and includes in depth character profiles, fun games and a brilliant ‘create your own avatar’ feature. Planet 51 is a galactic sized animated alien adventure comedy revolving around American astronaut Captain Charles “Chuck” Baker, who lands on Planet 51 thinking he’s the first person to step [...]
