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January 2, 2015

Visual Effects: Are Computer Graphics Always the Answer?

Models used in the battle on Hoth in Star Wars Episode V

By Kristy Barkan Up until the mid ‘90s, effects artists were people who made things with their hands. They wore paint-spattered clothing and rifled through tool boxes. They created aliens out of latex, turned foam into granite and constructed nine-foot spaceships from odds and ends found on dusty workshop shelves. The Millennium Falcon was a […]

Film, Graphics, Visual Effects

November 4, 2014

Mortadelo and Filemon Film to Screen at SIGGRAPH Asia

Mortadelo and Filemon Pelicula

Mortadelo & Filemon is a beloved Spanish comic book series about the slapstick exploits of two secret agents in the TIA (Técnicos de Investigación Aeroterráquea, a spoof on the CIA). This year, the series has been adapted to a feature-length computer animated movie by Madrid-based Ilion Animation Studios. The film, entitled "Mortadelo & Filemon: Mission […]

Animation, Film, SIGGRAPH Asia

September 23, 2014

J.J. Abrams to Receive VES Visionary Award

JJ Abrams at Comic Con 2010.

Today, the Visual Effects Society named renowned director J.J. Abrams as the next recipient of the VES Visionary Award. The award, which has been bestowed upon such luminaries as Christopher Nolan, Ang Lee and Alfonso Cuarón, serves to recognize individuals who have "uniquely and consistently employed the art and science of visual effects to foster imagination […]

Film, Visual Effects

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