Goodbye Kansas Opens Vancouver Pop-Up Studio
Entirely financed by VFX projects, the studio will initially use a work-for-hire model. With an unprecedented demand for VFX services and personnel born out of the pandemic, the new location is a cost-effective way to come closer to potential customers…
‘Flee’ Kicks Off Awards Season With Best Documentary Nom At Gotham Awards
Nominations are determined by committees of critics, programmers, and other professionals. The winners are chosen by separate panels of industry people. To qualify, films must have been made for no more than million. Flee, a…
Fox’s Tubi Picks Up ‘The Freak Brothers,’ Its First Original Animated Series
Here are the details: The Freak Brothers, which wrapped production in April, has a home. It will stream on Fox’s Tubi, which is entering original programming. The series centers on three stoners who, after smoking a magical strain of weed in 1969,…
Six Point Harness Tapped for ‘The Great Wolf Pack’ Animated Feature
Great Wolf Resorts’ newly launched entertainment umbrella, Great Wolf Entertainment, has transformed its popular woodland characters in preparation for their Hollywood debut. The updated characters will hit the big screen as part of the…
“Chroniques de L’eau Salée” GOBELINS 2021 Graduation Short Film
“We had a few leading ideas that we all agreed on and started to build off each other’s ideas from there. Posted on Wednesday, October 20, 2021 · Leave a Comment School: GOBELINS, l’école de…
Netflix Releases Italian Comedy ‘Tear Along the Dotted Line’ Trailer and Key Art
In a narrative full of flashbacks and anecdotes, from his childhood to the present day, Zerocalcare tells the story of a train journey with his old friends Sarah and Secco. Everything is told as an existential complaint of his own incompleteness –…
SCAD Alumni Share Valuable Industry Advice At AnimationFest 2021
As effects artists, we tend to want to create these awesome systems and setups — you want to make it more robust so anybody could open the file and click one button and make it work. Sometimes it’s just easier to just do some simple fix…
Coming Soon To Streaming: ‘Olaf Presents,’ ‘Marvel’s Hit-Monkey,’ ‘Harriet The Spy’ (Trailers)
Who made it? The shorts are produced at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Disney animator Hyrum Osmond, Olaf’s supervising animator on Frozen, directs, and Jennifer Newfield produces. Which is why we’ve started a new series of articles to…
Burberry “Open Spaces” by Megaforce and MPC
VFX: MPCPost Producer: Ryan Hancocks2D CD: Alex LovejoyColorist: Emiliano Serantoni Building on the success of Burberry’s breakout 2020 holiday ad, Riff Raff directors Megaforce and MPC’s VFX team regroup to conjure more weather-driven…
Marvel’s ‘Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings’ Coming to Digital and Blu-Ray
Sam is a part-time English instructor, journalist, and full-time fiction writer, and if he writes one more word, it will be the most he’s ever written. The non-stop thrill ride is crammed with amazing fight scenes, witty dialogue, and hilarious…
“Unknown 9: Awakening” Teaser Trailer by DIGIC Pictures
Posted on Monday, October 18, 2021 · Leave a Comment The game tells the story of Haroona, a girl raised in Kolkata, India, who struggles to understand her mysterious abilities to manipulate the unseen. Client: Reflector…
Ua City Smiths Trailer | Premieres July 22 on AMC+
I had the pleasure of working for Stoopid Buddy Stoodios as the first Assistant Director on Steve Conrad’s series Ultra City Smith. We had an amazing team of artist, animators, fabricators, lighting and camera and production crew making this…
Sick Kids “Be A Light” by Mark Zibert and The Vanity
Designed to recruit monthly donors and powered by a cover of Simple Minds’ 1985 anthem “Don’t You (Forget About Me)”, the spot was produced by Scouts Honour thru Cossette. Color: Alter EgoColorist: Wade Odlum Client: Sick…
All That Glitters Isn’t Gold in ‘Birds of Paradise’ VFX
The team had to create their own “glitter engine” to facilitate it’s dispersal to ensure the glitter moved naturally with the characters as they danced. The initial plan was to create simple 3D glitter cannon FX, render those as…
Netflix Shares ‘Big Mouth’ Season 5 Trailer and Key Art
[embedded content] Oy! Season 5 of Big Mouth is coming soon, as if we need a reminder why Junior High sucked! All our favorite (?) characters return just a little bit older, wiser, and hornier – jumping feet first into whatever existential angst…
Attend A Free Virtual Making-Of Session About Disney’s ‘Encanto’ At View Conference
The list goes on: some 280 speakers will take part in more than 160 talks. To explore the full program and find out how to register, head to View Conference’s website. Italy’s View Conference has finalized its program ahead of its 22nd…
DreamWorks’ ‘Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous’ Season 4 Set at Netflix
— DreamWorks Animation (@Dreamworks) October 15, 2021 48 days = 1,152 hours = 69,120 minutes… we can totally wait that long, right? #JurassicWorld #CampCretaceous pic.twitter.com/0MfWlAFFnQ Source: DreamWorks Animation Inspired by…
Report: Warner Bros. Animation And Cartoon Network Are Leading The Way In Warnermedia’s Onscreen Diversity Push
Here are some key stats (true as of 2020): Warnermedia has published “The Power of Stories” [download PDF] a report on its equity and inclusion initiatives as they stood in 2020. While the document is mostly concerned with the…
Discord “Sticker Loop City” by Yeah Haus
From the team at Yeah Haus in Detroit: “When Discord asked us to team up on their new Sticker feature, we were thrilled to work with their cute cast of characters. “This was a new product for Discord so the stickers we collaborated on needed…
Disney+ Is Getting Serious About Anime (At Least In Japan)
Disney said it will stream the series on Disney+ in Japan. It will also release Black Rock Shooter Dawn Fall, Summer Time Rendering, and Tatami Time Machine Blues worldwide, though whether on Disney+ or other services is unclear. At the APAC upfront,…
Moon Panda “Vacationer” Music Video by Simona Mehandzhieva
Currently working in London, Mehandzhieva shares a writing credit on Laura Jayne Hodkin’s breakout RCA grad film Hot and Tasty and describes herself as “a loud, awkward Sagittarius, who grew up glued to the screen watching wacky cartoons like…