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  • Reliance calls on Murphy Read More
  • NAB: Visual Effects Leaders Urge Colleagues to 'Support the Fight' Read More
  • India's Reliance MediaWorks Names VFX Veteran George Murphy Creative Head Read More
  • The VFX Biz Needs Agents Read More
  • VFX Houses in Turmoil Read More
  • U.K. Government Backs Vfx Industry with Funding Read More
  • Union VFX takes Stephen Poliakoff's Dancing on the Edge back to the 1930s Read More
  • Mike Fink named as VES Board Member Read More
  • 85th Academy Awards Nominations: The List Read More
  • Hobbit Leads VES Noms Read More
  • Union Creates Invisible Effects For Hyde Park On Hudson Read More
  • Creatures shine in vfx bakeoff - Eye on the Oscars: Vfx, Sound & Editing Read More
  • Adam Gascoyne named in The 1000: London's 1000 most influential people 2012: Creatives, Film Read More
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  • Secret Agent Man Read More
  • How James Bond Met the Queen & Other Olympics Effects Read More
  • Joe Harkins nominated for MTV VMA Award Read More
  • Mitch Glaser - Variety Below-the-Line Impact Honoree Read More
  • Union Visual Effects chosen for Summer Olympics Read More
  • Union Hires Visual Effects Supervisor Simon Hughes Read More
  • "HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2" WINS BAFTA AWARD FOR BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

    CONGRATULATIONS TO TIM BURKE!!

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  • Training your f/x eye Eye on the Oscars: Vfx, Sound & Editing

    Some inside the Acad's vfx branch once worried that if there were five visual effects nominees, the general membership would vote the Oscar to "the wrong movie... Read More

  • Exclusive: Peter Rubin Talks About Designing Logos for 'Man of Steel' and the Past and Future of Dig

    Peter Rubin once said, "Inspiration is the thing that happens between thoughts." He must have a lot of thoughts... Read More

  • Vfx & Creatures Below-the-Line Impact Report 2011

    TIM BURKE Vfx supervisor Recent Scores: Burke joined the "Harry Potter" family in 2001 with "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" as part of Tony and Ridley Scott's Mill Film, of which he was a co-founder... Read More

  • Bookings & signings Rocket Science and Innovative Artists place below-the-line clients

    Rocket Science Talent booked vfx supervisors Steve Begg on Sam Mendes' "Bond 23," Angus Bickerton on Tim Burton's "Dark Shadows," Michael Owens on Clint Eastwood's "J... Read More

  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

    It's taken 10 years and nearly 20 hours of screen time for J.K. Rowling's towering fantasy saga to reach its cinematic conclusion... Read More

  • Visual effects wizard Tim Burke says 3-D is 'very, very good' in final film

    THE LAST SPELL: "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2" closes out a decade of Hogwarts in Hollywood... Read More

  • Legend3D Honored for Industry Excellence and Technology Innovation on National and Local Levels SAN DIEGO - (BUSINESS WIRE) - May 23, 2011 - Legend3D, Inc., the leading innovator in 2-D to 3-D conversion technology, today announced the company and its team are finalists for a trio of awards- Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year(r) 2011 San Diego Award, The 2011 American Business Awards SM, and San Diego Business Journal's Information Technology Executive Of The Year Awards... Read More
  • Announcement: Academy Award Nominations Rocket Science Talent clients receive Academy Award Nominations: Tim Burke - Best Visual Effects for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Michael Owens - Best Visual Effects for Hereafter Read More
  • Riding the CG Wave One of the most challenging assignments in visual effects is simulating photoreal CG water on a large scale... Read More
  • VFX enhance pix for Eastwood, Aronofsky In this brave new digital filmmaking world, there's no shortage of grousing that visual effects have overwhelmed story... Read More
  • Clint Eastwood & Co. Talk Hereafter's Scariest Scene HEREAFTER, which opens in limited release this Friday, October 15 before going wider on the 22nd from Warner Bros... Read More
  • Legend3D taps Squires In an indication that more major studio tentpoles are going to use at least some 3D conversion, Legend3D, the San Diego-based 2D-to-3D conversion shop, has hired veteran visual effects supervisor Scott Squires... Read More
  • Wolfman a Visual Treat Now and then, a film is plagued by production problems, costs more than anticipated, opens to mediocre reviews -- yet still serves up a visual treat that dazzles the eyes... Read More
  • Agents set up their own shops Two below-the-line reps kick off new agencies. In the intensely competitive world of below-the-line agencies, two agents recently ankled their firms to start their own shingles, taking several clients with them... Read More
  • Veteran Agent Shawn Burns launches new below-the line agency Rocket Science Talent

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VETERAN AGENT SHAWN BURNS LAUNCHES NEW BELOW-THE-LINE AGENCY ROCKET SCIENCE TALENT Los Angeles, CA (January 20, 2010) - Shawn Burns, who spent over ten years as an agent for Sandra Marsh, today announced the formation of Rocket Science Talent, Inc... Read More

  • VES announces nominees 'Avatar' leads with 11 nods "Avatar" garnered 11 Visual Effects Society Award nominations and its lead vfx studio, Weta Digital, grabbed nine, to lead the field for the eighth annual VES Awards... Read More
  • These visual effects experts push the technical envelope Tim Burke, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" Director David Yates wanted to treat the sixth film in the "Potter" franchise as a drama augmented by visual effects, rather than as a flat-out CGI spectacular... Read More