Industry

Reminder: VFX Townhall is tonight at 7 PM PST

Reminder: VFX Townhall is tonight at 7 PM PST: They have increased capacity. You should be able to get in if you click on the… Read more

Scott Squires: VFX Companies Continue to Fall

Scott Squires: VFX Companies Continue to Fall

VFX Online Townhall is Monday March 29th. Register here:

VFX Online Townhall with panelists Chris deFaria, Jeffrey Okun, Scott Ross and moderated by Lee Stranahan is Monday March 29th. Register here:

C.O.R.E Digital Pictures in Toronto shut down yesterday.

C.O.R.E Digital Pictures in Toronto shut down yesterday. More at the Hollywood Reporter.

Disney to close ImageMovers Digital, laying off 450 artists.

Disney to close ImageMovers Digital, laying off 450 artists.

Mark Christiansen writes: Is a Visual Effects Guild to Materialize this Decade?

Mark Christiansen writes: Is a Visual Effects Guild to Materialize this Decade? (via @neonmarg)

AICE Announces Membership Expansion to Include Design, Motion Graphics and Visual Effect Companies and Artists

AICE, the Association of Independent Creative Editors has updated its membership eligibility requirements to now include Design, Motion Graphic and Visual Effects Companies. See here… Read more

Belgian Virtual Strike

Belgian Virtual Strike More on the strike here. The ACC’s competition charter here. Hugo Puttaert’s article that started the idea.

Fairness for Visual Effects Artists: Following-Up

Dancers by (3) on flickr. CC some rights reserved. Lee Stranahan wrote an open letter to James Cameron last week that has received a lot… Read more

Previsualization Society Launches

The Previsualization Society is a new organization, formed in September 2009 that is “dedicated to advancing previsualization (“previs”) in feature film, games, commercials and architecture.”… Read more

Lee Stranahan’s open letter to James Cameron: Fairness for VFX Workers

Lee Stranahan’s open letter to James Cameron: Fairness for VFX Workers

Saul Bass: On Making Money vs Quality Work

More here: via Grain Edit via ChalkBrighton viaDraplin

Sobering FXGuide podcast with Scott Ross

Sobering FXGuide podcast with Scott Ross

Keep Your Crises Small

I found this video through illustrator Frank Chimero’s excellent blog and listened to it while working today. It’s a speech that Ed Catmull, president of… Read more

VFXWages

VFXWages

Visual Effects Industry Gets Weaker Every Day by Richard Kerrigan at AWN

Visual Effects Industry Gets Weaker Every Day by Richard Kerrigan at AWN (via alba)

AICP Digital Board Announced

AICP Digital board members are: President Ed Ulbrich of Digital Domain, Chapter VP Justin Booth-Clibborn of Psyop; Paul Babb of Rhythm + Hues; Jake Banks… Read more

AENY Meeting 07/30/09 6:45 PM featuring Eric Epstein and The Molecule

AENY Meeting 07/30/09 6:45 PM featuring Eric Epstein and The Molecule

AICP Digital: Going Deeper

Photo by Mark Sebastian When the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) announced the formation of a new chapter, AICP Digital, we wondered what impact… Read more

Viz Effx Business Model

Viz Effx Business Model by Steve Hulett, TAG Local 839 IATSE

Poll: In these troubled times…

Photo by Nature Explorer Back in November, we asked Motionographer readers how they were doing financially. At that point in time, pieces of the sky… Read more

Passion Pictures Signs 4 New Directors

Passion Pictures used up all their ink after signing four new French directors to their roster. Keeping with Passion’s standards of excellence and individualism, each… Read more

Asif Mian joins 1st Ave Machine

1st Ave Machine has expanded their happy family by adding Asif Mian to the mix. After Matt Lambert, who joined 1st Ave a few months… Read more