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VES to Give Cameron Lifetime Achievement Honor

The Visual Effects Society will honor director James Cameron with its Lifetime Achievement Award at its 8th annual VES Awards Ceremony.

The award will honor Cameron for his vision and dedication to the craft of storytelling and visual effects as a tool for achieving that goal. Cameron’s credits include The Terminator, Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgment D... more

Toon Boom Releases Flip Boom All-Star for Teens

Toon Boom Animation is helping animation revisit its youths, with the release of Flip Boom All-Star — an easy-to-use software application for teens.

The software makes it easy to create moving images, allowing digital images to be imported and integrated with animation, zoom and rotate features, a drag-and-drop library and text features.

The program lets users im... more

Imageworks, Foundry to Share Technology

Sony Pictures Imageworks and software makers The Foundry have teamed up to share their visual effects and digital production technology.

The deal gives The Foundry access to Katana, Sony’s 2-D/3-D lighting technology, while Sony will incorporate Foundry’s compositing package Nuke to its pipeline.

The companies also plan to work together on updates and new discove... more