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Women In Animation Shows You The Money Shots
Women In Animation, Los Angeles, will host a tour of post-production facility Money Shots on Wednesday, Feb 5 at 7:00 p.m. You’ll be able to see how high-end systems and software products such as Discreet’s flame and Alias/Wavefront’s Maya are used to make screen magic. In addition, the founders of [...]
Imagina.03 Set To Kick Off
The celebration of 3D creativity known as Imagina.03 will take place Feb. 3-6 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. This year, organizers are reasserting the event’s essential role as a venue for meetings and exchanges between digital image professionals in Europe. NVIDIA, Discreet-software, Alias Wavefront, Criterion Software and Virtools will [...]
Last Day to Nominate Fellow Game Developers
Today, Jan. 23, is the last day to submit nominations for the most prestigious honors in game development — the Game Developers Choice Awards. Awards will be presented on Thursday, March 6 by the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) at the Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) in San Jose, CA. All [...]
Animators Remembered In Hollywood
As the art community mourns the recent loss of famed caricature artist Al Hirshfeld, ASIFA-Hollywood, The Animation Guild and Women in Animation are preparing for this weekend’s Day of Remembrance. The non-denominational gathering will pay respects to Ward Kimball, Chuck Jones, Bill Peet, Ernie Pintoff, Pixar’s Glen McQueen and the [...]
Maya to Receive Oscar
Alias|Wavefront will be honored with an Academy Award for scientific and technical achievement on March 1 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The software developer will receive an Oscar for Maya, its 3D animation, modeling and rendering production suite. The customizable software was employed extensively in such [...]
Two Towers Up for To Producers Guild Award
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers made the Producers Guild of America’s list of awards nominees. New Line’s epic fantasy will be competing with Columbia/Sony’s Adaptation, Miramax’s Chicago, IFC Films’ My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Twentieth Century Fox/DreamWorks’ Road to Perdition for the Darryl F. Zanuck Producer [...]
Cinema in Paradise Appeals to Starving Artists
Miami’s Homestead Main Street will host its first film festival, Cinema in Paradise, on Friday, March 7 and Saturday, March 8. The deadline for entries is Feb. 3. The all-animation fest is produced by Imagine That MultiMedia and will feature computer, stop motion, clay and cell animation. It will run [...]
Oscar Nomination Ballots Mailed
Nomination ballots for the 75th Academy Awards have been mailed to the 5,816 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. All nomination and final award ballots will be tabulated by PricewaterhouseCoopers under the direction of partners Greg Garrison and Rick Rosas. Both were present at the [...]
7th Voyage of Sinbad Technicolor Screening in Hollywood
On Sunday, Jan. 26, The American Cinematheque will present a rare dye-transfer print of the classic fantasy film The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, featuring stop motion animation by Ray Harryhausen. The screening is part of an 18- film retrospective dubbed Technicolor Dreams: The 3rd Festival of Dye-Transfer Technicolor At The [...]
Game Developers Choice Awards Open for Noms
Nominations are now open for the third annual Choice Awards. The ceremony will be presented by the IGDA at the Game Developers Conference on Thursday, March 6 at the San Jose Civic Auditorium. For more information and to make your nominations, visit http://www.igda.org/awards. Nominations close on Jan. 23. Nominees will [...]
BinWeevils Appoints Henwood...
U.K.-based digital social world BinWeevils, for kids 6-12, has appointed media...
Blue Sky’s...
Epic, the new animated adventure from director Chris Wedge and his gifted team...
