Award-winning AR startup founders discussed their cutting-edge projects and their predictions for AR at our Digital LA – Augmented Reality: What’s Next? panel at Phase Two in Culver City. Speakers included: Rene Amador of ARwall, which won the SXSW Accelerator … Continued
War for Planet of the Apes, Coco, and Games of Thrones swept the film and TV award categories at the Visual Effects Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. The 16th Annual VES Awards recognizes outstanding visual effects artistry and … Continued
BEVERLY HILLS – The Academy’s SciTech awards recognized 11 scientific and technical achievements including animation, compositing, cameras, and more that have made major contributions to filmmaking at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills on Feb 10. Sir Patrick Stewart hosted … Continued
Disney Pixar’s Coco won the Animation Award at the Golden Globes, held Jan 7 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. Other digital nominees included Boss Baby and Ferdinand. The Animation Award is the only digital VFX award at the … Continued
VFX teams from 10 Oscar-nom potential films from Star Wars: The Last Jedi to Blade Runner 2049 described their cutting edge work at the Academy’s annual VFX Bake-Off at the Academy HQ on Saturday. Academy voters will vote for five … Continued
You can disguise as a Stormtrooper to infiltrate the Empire in the VOID’s new Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire VR experience, which held its grand opening today at Downtown Disney. The VOID’s partnership with Disney’s Star Wars IP content … Continued
Disney Star Wars partnered with an augmented reality company to send fans on a Labor Day weekend scavenger hunt to thousands of retail locations nationwide to take photos or videos of more than 15 characters, including BB-8, R2-D2, C3-PO, Stormtroopers, … Continued
DOWNTOWN LA – “You never need to make Baby Groot cuter because he’s already so cute” was one of the mantras of the VFX teams that worked on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2. The VFX teams from Marvel Studios, … Continued
DOWNTOWN LA – The creators of the Overwatch animated shorts discussed how they created content, from story development to character animation to visual effects, at the annual SIGGRAPH digital animation conference in downtown LA. The Overwatch animated shorts are based … Continued
DOWNTOWN LA – Our VFX mixer got animated with attendees from DreamWorks, TCL, animation studios, and more at CTRL Collective Downtown LA. The event was our first event post SIGGRAPH, the computer animation and graphics show at the LA Convention … Continued