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‘Alien’ VFX Artist Roger Dicken Dies Age 84

News has surfaced that cult film special effects master Roger Dicken, known for his work on Ridley Scott's iconic 1979 pic Alien, has died. The 84-year-old...

ASIFA Animation Educators Forum Announces Inaugural Hall of Fame Inductees

The Animation Educators Forum (AEF), a non-profit association of teachers and scholars whose focus is the art of animated film, announce the inaugural group...

Layout Artist Roy Naisbitt Dies at Age 90

Roy Naisbitt, a celebrated layout and background designer known for his work on Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Space Jam, Balto and 2001: A Space...

Oscar-Winning Director Brad Bird Joins TCM’s ‘The Essentials’

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) today announced that two-time Oscar-winning director, screenwriter, animator, producer and voice actor Brad Bird will join The Essentials, TCM’s popular...

VES Announces 2019 Special Honorees – Disney, Kubrick & Stan Lee Join Hall of Fame

The Visual Effects Society (VES), the industry’s global professional honorary society, announced the 2019 inductees into the VES Hall of Fame, the newest Lifetime...

Hayao Miyazaki, Black Cinema Exhibits Inaugurate Academy Museum

Kerry Brougher, Director of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, announced the details of the inaugural exhibitions that will be on view when the...

VFX Artist, Illustrator George Jenson Dies Age 87

Oscar-nominated visual effects artist, art director and illustrator George Jenson -- whose credits include sci-fi classics Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Star...

‘Independence Day’ Helmer Roland Emmerich Launches VR Startup

For all the hype around Virtual Reality as a brand new cinematic and gaming medium, a major obstacle to the form gaining a wider...

NFB Film Pioneer Colin Low Dies Age 89

Colin Low, a pioneering filmmaker whose groundbreaking career with the National Film Board of Canada spanned over six decades, died in Montreal on February...

Complying with Gravity

Double Negative goes for realism and a mix of old-school and cutting-edge effects techniques for Christopher Nolan’s new movie Interstellar. It’s not surprising that Christopher...

Otomo Packs a Lifetime in 12-Minute ‘Combustible’

During a recent interview, Katsuhiro Ŏtomo said that he wished he had a time machine so that he could travel to different periods in...

Academy Awakens ‘Sleeping Beauty’ in 70 MM

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen the 1959 Disney classic Sleeping Beauty as part of its "The Last 70mm Film Festival"...

VFX Master Douglas Trumbull to Receive Special Oscar

The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted the Gordon E. Sawyer Award to Douglas Trumbull, a...

Expanding the Magical World of William Joyce

How Hurricane Katrina and a veteran children’s book advocate in New York City inspired an award-winning animated short and popular iPad app. Many months before...

Douglas Trumbull to Receive VES Award

Filmmaker and vfx supervisor Douglas Trumbull will receive the 2012 Georges Méliès Award at the 10th Annual VES Award on February 7, 2012. The...
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