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Special Effects News - 12 February 2007
Ray Harryhausen Presents Comic Line Starts In May 2007BlueWater Prods. is moving from production studio to publisher beginning in May 2007, in conjunction with legendary filmmaker, Ray Harryhausen.
Falling in Love Again : Jon Hollis
Meet legendary London FX artist and director Jon Hollis of Nice Shirt Films, who was a co-founder of Smoke and Mirrors. In almost all respects his career has been a statement as of the current state of the art for post-production. Hollis is among his generation's best and brightest, his career can be seen as a bellwether for a generation of flame artists at the cutting edge of vfx. Hollis once lead the boutique post house movement -- he now shines the light on a new path for senior artists.
My Date From Hell Wins Animex Awards
The winners and runners up in this year's Animex Awards were announced at Cineworld Multiplex in Middlesbrough by Shelley Page, European representative for feature animation DreamWorks.
Electric Picture Solutions joins forces with Hula Post Production
Plan to work together to serve post-production rental and technical needs.
Visual Effects for Super Bowl 2007 Commercials with Autodesk Solutions
Many of this year's memorable Super Bowl commercials were created with Autodesk products.
2007 Super Bowl : Pick Your Favorite VFX Spot
The hype is over and the commercials have aired. The FxGuide site wants to know what you think about the spots which aired in the Super Bowl. Pick your favorite and they'll get the details of the making of the spot straight from the vfx artists themselves.
FxGuide's All-Time Top 10. Any '07 Super Bowl Spots Make It?
Just when you feel creativity has died, nothing on air is cool anymore, and the ennui seemed to have settled on your soul - along comes the new Super Bowl ads, proving at least a bit of creativity is still alive in TVC. Well...just a bit. We look back at the last ten or so years and came up with our top 10 TV spots of all time from around the world..ones that involved vfx anyway. With some great (and not so great spots) shown during Super Bowl 2007, we ask... were any of this years spots worthy of being one of the best visual effects based spots we've seen in the last ten years?
Haunted High School Musical Scares Up Bigscreen Deal
The Walt Disney Co. is transporting its mega-hit franchise, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL, to the silver screen in HAUNTED HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL...
Bristol School of Animation Offers Three Month Animation Course
The University of the West of England's Bristol School of Animation presents its "Three Month Animation Professional Training Course" from June 25 -- Sept. 7, 2007.
Autodesk Systems Team Roundtable
Here's an interview with key members of the newly reorganized systems team from Autodesk in Montreal.
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