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Sohonet and Moxion Partner to Provide Synchronous and Asynchronous Remote Review for the Production, Post and Visual Effects Communities
Sohonet announced their partnership with Moxion and its revolutionary platform for HDR Immediates and Cuts.
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Boris FX Releases Free Particle Illusion Application for Motion Graphics, VFX, and Editorial
Particle Illusion delivers easy-to-use motion graphics and particles that render at lightning speeds
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RSP Education Helps Aspiring Artists Pave a Path to Long-term Success
Rising Sun Pictures Education has earned a stellar reputation among aspiring visual effects artists both because it offers a unique opportunity to train in...
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Boris FX Releases Sapphire 2020.5, Adds New Monthly Subscription Program
The industry leader for high-end visual effects plugins unveils its mid-year update.
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Rising Sun Pictures Marks 25 Years of Creating Movie Magic
Rising Sun Pictures (RSP) today marks its 25th anniversary. It’s another milestone for the visual effects studio which, from humble beginnings, has gone on...
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RSP Education Delivers Swift, Innovative Solutions for Teaching During Pandemic
The corona virus pandemic has impacted people and businesses world-wide. The strict quarantine restrictions have made it difficult for educational institutions to continue to...
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Boris FX’s New Silhouette Paint Plugin Delivers Affordable Award-winning Paint Tools
The Academy and Emmy Award-winning paint software favored by the film and television industry’s top visual effects artists is now available as a plugin...
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Rising Sun Pictures’ Female Artists Making Strides in an Industry Once Dominated by Men
Adelaide, South Australia—Historically, the visual effects (VFX) industry has had a male-dominated workforce. Gender disparity runs across the board, but is especially evident in...
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Rising Sun Pictures’ Jennie Zeiher: Resilience and Riding the Wave of VFX
As Head of Business Development and a member of the Executive management team at Rising Sun Pictures, Jennie Zeiher leads the team responsible for...
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Rising Sun Pictures Education Prepares Students for Success in a Thriving VFX Industry
Next month, nearly three dozen aspiring visual effects (VFX) artists will arrive to study full-time at Rising Sun Pictures (RSP) in Adelaide, South Australia...
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Rising Sun Pictures Recreates an Auto Racing Icon for Best Picture Nominee “Ford v Ferrari”
Rising Sun Pictures helped to recreate one of the most thrilling events in the history of auto racing for Ford v Ferrari, the new...
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SMPTE Hollywood Presents The Irishman Now With 10 Oscar Nominations
Please join the Hollywood Section of SMPTE®, the organization defining the future of storytelling, this Thursday, Jan. 16, at the historic Hollywood American Legion...
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Face to Face: “Gemini Man” (American Cinematographer)
Making a return to HFR filmmaking, director Ang Lee jumps the uncanny valley with the first plausible computer-generated human character.
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Fusion Studio Used to Create Animated Feature “Latte & The Magic Waterstone”
Grid VFX relied on Fusion Studio throughout its in house compositing pipeline to deliver newly released children’s animated feature, “Latte & The Magic Waterstone.”
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Rising Sun Pictures Co-Founder, Gail Fuller Named as Santos Leader-of-the-Year Award
Gail Fuller, Rising Sun Pictures (RSP) Co-Founder, was recognised for her ongoing commitment to leadership in the creative industry by receiving the ‘Santos Leader...
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Rising Sun Pictures Wins Australian 2019 Export Awards “Creative Industries” Honor
Adelaide, South Australia— World-leading visual effects company, Rising Sun Pictures (RSP) won the Creative Industries award at the 57th Australian 2019 Export Awards. The...
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Emmy Award-winning Boris FX Sapphire Releases 2020 Version
The high-end visual effects plugin suite adds industry-standard OpenColorIO support, trendy Instagram-worthy effect, new Mocha parameter tracking and improved masking tools, and faster renders
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Boris FX Silhouette Releases 2020 Version Of Two-Time Award-Winning Advanced Rotoscoping, Paint & Compositing Tools
The winner of both an Academy Award for technical achievement and an Engineering Emmy Award adds new magnetic spline tools, a paint detail separation...
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Rising Sun Pictures’ Thomas Maher Helps Young Artists Turn Their Passion into Careers
Thomas Maher is the youngest member of the teaching staff at Rising Sun Pictures Education.
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HPA Awards Announce 2019 Creative Category Nominations
The HPA Awards Committee has announced the nominees for the creative categories for the 2019 HPA Awards. A standard bearer for creative excellence and...
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FotoKem Expands Footprint in Santa Monica
FotoKem has expanded its creative post production services in Santa Monica, furthering the company’s ongoing commitment to filmmakers in the Los Angeles area. By providing access to its talented roster...
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Pace Pictures and ShockBox VFX Forge an Alliance
Pace Pictures, a full-service sound and picture post-production facility based in Hollywood, and ShockBox VFX, a bi-coastal specialist in visual effects, animation and motion...
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MOD Delivers VFX for VMA Nominees
Ariana Grande, Cardi B, H.E.R., Lizzo and Normani are not only among the top contenders in this year’s MTV Video Music Awards, all are...
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Francesca Milde Used Training at RSP Education to Launch a Thriving Career as a VFX Artist
Former RSP Student Returns to RSP as a Compositor Adelaide, South Australia— A little more than three years into her professional career, Francesca Milde...
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HPA Lifetime Achievement Award to go to Robert Legato
The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) has announced that Robert Legato, the legendary visual effects supervisor and renowned creative, will receive the organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the HPA...
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Deluxe Toronto Senior Colorist Bill Ferwerda Helps Reveal the World Beyond Gilead for “The Handmaid’s Tale” Season Three
Deluxe Toronto Senior Colorist Bill Ferwerda, who provided the series’ color finish for the two previous seasons, built on existing looks and developed new...
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Conductor Enhances Cloud Rendering Capability with Amazon EC2
Cloud Rendering Platform Expands Scalability with AWS Compute Resources
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Encore Vancouver Senior Colorist Claudio Sepulveda Helps Modernize the Look of “Child’s Play”
Director Lars Klevberg updates iconic slasher film “Child’s Play” for today’s hyper-connected world with a fresh take on the tale of a sinister toy...
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SHED Montreal Delivers High-End Animation & Motion Design for Commercials with Shotgun Software
Character animation, photoreal CG and high-end motion design are all a signature of the production work from boutique creative studio SHED. Based in Montreal,...
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EFILM’s Efficient Dailies-to-Final Color Finish Workflow for “Brightburn”
A sinister take on the superhero genre, “Brightburn” follows a teenaged alien who uses his superhuman capabilities to inflict pain and destruction on those...
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Worldwide FX UK Taps Conductor to Create ‘Hellboy’ Prologue
Using Conductor allows Worldwide FX to turn around 4K shots quickly and receive timely feedback, ensuring high quality delivery. “The sheer power of Conductor...
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Creative Categories Call for Entries Opens for HPA Awards
The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA®) has opened its call for entries in creative categories for the HPA Awards. The Awards, now in their 14th...
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Red Giant Universe 3.0 is Here
Universe 3.0 boasts a powerful new Dashboard that makes it simple to explore and apply effects and presets in Adobe Premiere Pro and After...
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2018 HPA Award Winners Announced
The 13 annual Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) Awards took place tonight, honoring the accomplishments of industry luminaries, behind-the-scenes artists and outstanding engineering teams. The...
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VFX Legion Creates Effects for ‘Superfly’
VFX Legion created over 100 digital effects for ‘Superfly,’ Sony’s highly anticipated remake of the iconic ‘70’s Blaxploitation film. The deadline was only five...
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VFX Legion Wraps Three-Year’s Work on ABC’s ‘Scandal’
The recent airing of the series finale of ‘Scandal’ on ABC capped off VFX Legion’s three-year run as the sole visual effect company for...
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The Colonie’s Nathan Rodgers Cuts Towkio’s Music Video, ‘Symphony’
The Colonie's Nathan Rodgers recently helped set the pace for Chicago rapper Towkio's music video, ‘Symphony,’ a new single dropped from the artist’s...
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Time Travel: Visual Effects Challenges on ‘The Crown’
The production team faced making a drama series set in the 1950s and '60s using cutting-edge technology that's a million miles from the grainy...
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Cinesite Reigns With ‘American Gods’ Visual Effects
The challenge, Perceval says, "was finding the balance between developing realistic effects to support the narrative whilst inviting the audience to believe in other...
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Arcade & Timber Champion Surrealism In Kendrick Lamar’s New Music Video “Humble”
Arcade editor Greg Scruton and Timber’s team of visual effects artists have joined forces in the execution of postproduction elements for Kendrick Lamar’s highly-anticipated...
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The Difference Between Cinematography and Visual Effects
The Dolby blog speaks to cinematographer Daryn Okada ( Mean Girls; Let’s Be Cops ) who explains the difference between cinematography and visual effects...