21 January 2025
VFX Weekly
Stan Lee, Walt Disney and Stanley Kubrick will be posthumously inducted into the VES Hall of Fame, and Susan Thurmond O’Neal, Michael Fink and Mike Brodersen will receive VES honors. (Visual Effects Society)
FuseFX Visual Effects Supervisor Greg Anderson on the VFX of Netflix’s WHEN THEY SEE US (VFX Voice)
New ‘Performer’ markerless facial animation software provides facial tracking trained directly from scans as well as a direct solve onto a Maya rig (Animation World Network)
Creative Software Suite Includes VFX Tools, Image Editor (Studio Daily)
The Los Angeles-based shops join forces to become a multidisciplinary creative studio under the Roger name, offering expanded creative talent and resources for projects that require branding, design, animation, VFX, VR/AR, live action and content development (SHOOT Online)
The Visual Effects Society releases work project submissions guidelines for upcoming Awards consideration, including information on a new category, qualification changes and deadlines. (Visual Effects Society)
In a newly released video, Chaos Group previews major features coming to Project Lavina, its groundbreaking application for 100% ray tracing in real-time (Animation Magazine)
Jon Favreau’s remake of The Lion King, now the highest-grossing animated film of all time, has generated a a good deal of confusion over how it was made (Cartoon Brew)
Facility based out of London and Windsor in the UK, offering access to Habor’s US talent pool (Broadcast)
Steffen Wild will partner with storytellers to bridge the gap between filmmakers and VFX throughout the production pipeline (Post Magazine)
Industry veteran with 20+ years of creative and commercial experience to bolster studio’s continued growth in animation and VFX (Animation World Network)
Bryan Farhy has been named managing director, West Coast, for Method Studios, while Michael Bennett comes aboard as sr. VP and executive producer, West Coast, for MethodMade, the design-focused arm of Method Studios (SHOOT Online)
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