Content
Framestore animates Putin in new BBC chat show
Tonight With Vladimir Putin employs "ground-breaking live VFX"
VFX
Technology
Ziva introduces anatomy transfer
Lets artists automatically fit one character's anatomy onto the mesh of another
Business
“Apply for settled status” UK Screen Alliance tells EU VFX workers
Issues guidance for VFX, post production and animation industries
Technology
The Future Group, Arraiy collaborate for AI-based real-time VFX solutions
Live virtual production system will be integrated with Arraiy’s AI-based camera tracking
Features
Diving into the Aquaman edit
TVBEurope talks to Kirk M. Morri about editing DC's latest blockbuster
Uncategorized
Technicolor London partners with Cinelab London on Front-End Services hub
Aims to provide a "holistic front-end service"
Business
Former DNEG team to head up new ILM TV division
ILM's new 47,000 square foot London studio will be supported by the Disney-owned company’s global locations in San Francisco, Vancouver and Singapore
News Release
StarTrackerVFX brings Hollywood-grade VFX to all-sized budgets
Mo-Sys has combined Unreal Engine’s interface and Live Link capabilities as well as the ray-tracing render strengths of Chaos Group’s V-Ray with its real-time...
News Release
Ncam introduces lighting and depth solutions for AR
IBC2018 will see the first European presentation of Ncam Technologies’ portfolio of augmented reality products and solutions. The company will also show its newest...
Production & Post
Technicolor recreates Victorian London for Vanity Fair
Company provided various post production processes for ITV's new adaptation
Business
UK equity company acquires majority stake in Game of Thrones VFX studio
Mayfair Equity Partners has bought into Pixomondo
Production & Post
VFX studio Milk expands; celebrates fifth birthday
Expansion increases artist capacity to 250 and includes two 4K Baselight screening rooms
Production & Post
Foundry chooses Google Cloud for Athera
Google Cloud will host Foundry's new platform which enables vfx artists to move their entire pipeline into the cloud
Features
Extending the Star Wars story
Jonathan Cheetham, visual effects supervisor at Jellyfish Pictures, talks to TVBEurope about working on Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Business
UKTV hires The Mill for streaming service advertising campaign
60, 40 and 20 second adverts are to promote UKTV Play
Production & Post
BECTU launches campaign for all VFX artists to receive credit
BECTU says often less than half of the people who worked on a project get a mention in the credits
Business
Jellyfish Pictures opens two new VFX facilities
Jellyfish Pictures has opened two new virtual visual effects (VFX) facilities in Oval, London. The production studio, which claimed it has created the first...
Production & Post
UK VFX workers oppose Conservative proposals for Immigration Skills Charge
Conservative Party proposes to double the cost of Immigration Skills Charge over course of the next parliament
Analysis
2016 – a big year for post
When seeking to gauge how 2016 has been for the post production sector, an obvious barometer to check is how some of those in...
Features
Surreal VFX makes an impact in two very different docs
High-end drama usually commands the biggest budgets for broadcast CG animation and VFX in the UK, and tends to be from a clutch of...
BVE
That’s entertainment!
As part of London Entertainment Week and in recognition of the increasing convergence between the broadcast and audio visual, the AV and Live Entertainment...
News Release
Nexus selects Pixstor storage solution for evolving production workflow
Shoreditch-based production company and animation studio Nexus has extended its technical capabilities with an investment in Pixit Media’s PixStor software-defined scale-out storage platform. The...
Business
Flix opens £1 million MediaCityUK facility
Flix has launched a new £1 million facility which features finishing suites and theatres across 5,500sqft on the seventh floor of MediaCityUK’s White Tower.
News Release
Carbon Digital lends support to government’s UK Creative Industries in careers competition
MediaCity-based video FX specialist Carbon Digital is taking part in the Government’s UK Creative Industries initiative, giving one lucky individual the opportunity to experience...
Production & Post
RealtimeUK brings gaming CGI to factual TV series
Manchester-based animation studio RealtimeUK has embarked on a major documentary series project for TV channel Yesterday.
Business
1.2 million digital and creative skilled workers needed by 2022
The digital and creative sector is expected to need 1.2 million new workers by 2022; equivalent to half the current workforce, according to training...
Business
Women still earning less than men in TV industry
Creative Skillset, the industry training and skills body, has announced the results of its creative media workforce survey.
Production & Post
BBC’s Poldark composited in Fusion Studio
Poldark, the new BBC drama which had its finale last weekend, featured visual effects production by Lexhag, including lavish set extensions and 3D matte...
Business
Milk VFX opens new studio in Cardiff
London VFX house Milk is opening a second studio in Cardiff, Wales, to support its expanding roster of TV and feature film projects.
Production & Post
Thunderbirds are Go at Milk VFX
London visual effects house Milk is working with ITV Studios as the creative and collaborative VFX production hub for the new TV series Thunderbirds...
Production & Post
Rodeo FX recreates war-torn Pacific for Unbroken
Rodeo FX produced 240 visual effects shots for Angelina Jolie’s World War II biopic Unbroken. Partnering again with Industrial Light & Magic, the VFX...
Production & Post
Codex supports first ARRIRAW workflow on TV series
Codex equipment is playing a key role in the making of the hit ABC television series Marvel’s Agent Carter.
Business
Bait Studio restructures and invests
Cardiff-based Bait Studio has restructured and invested in a new facility, bringing its visual effects and motion graphics, animation and interactive divisions together on...
BVE
Fusion VFX for free and bundled for studios
The 64-bit visual effects and motion graphics suite for Windows features an infinite 3D workspace and node-based workflow for quickly building unlimited effects.
News Release
LipSync Post prowls Wolf Hall
LipSync Post provided full post production services for the highly anticipated 6x60min drama adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s multi-award-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up...
Business
Boris FX to acquire Imagineer Systems
Boris FX has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Imagineer Systems, the UK-based developer of the Planar Tracking and masking tools.
Business
BVE 2015 registration now open
BVE 2015 is gearing up once again to be the UK’s only event for the broadcast and production industry
Production & Post
Denzel Washington thriller finished on Baselight
The Equalizer, the new thriller starring Denzel Washington, was graded on Baselight EIGHT at Colorworks, the finishing facility on the Sony Pictures lot at...
Production & Post
Brazil’s largest post house installs Da Vinci
Brazil’s O2 Post is installing 80 DaVinci Resolve licenses and three DaVinci Resolves, forming one of the largest DaVinci Resolve workflows in the world.
Production & Post
Scrub supplies Avid S6 consoles for Smoke & Mirrors
Scrub, a division of HHB specialising in post production, has supplied three Avid S6 control surfaces and the latest Pro Tools systems for Smoke...
Production & Post
RVX delivers carbon neutral vfx for Verne Global
Verne Global, a UK-based developer of energy efficient data centre campuses, today announced that RVX is creating its visual effects for Hollywood film projects,...
Business
TVBAwards: The Capture nominees
Today we highlight the nominations in the Capture category, one of four that comprises the Awards
Production & Post
Tiger Aspect chooses Aframe for Peaky Blinders
Caryn Mandabach Productions and Tiger Aspect Productions has used Aframe’s cloud video production platform on gangster drama, Peaky Blinders.
Production & Post
Grupo Secuoya invests in Mistika
Content creation communications company Grupo Secuoya has purchased a Mistika DI 4K system with DCP creation capabilities from SGO
Business
SMPTE announces 2014 Honorees and Award winners
SMPTE has revealed the outstanding industry members who will be recognised 23 October at the SMPTE 2014 Honors & Awards Ceremony.
Business
Milk creates visuals for BBC’s Doctor Who
London VFX house Milk has created the visual effects for the BBC’s Deep Breath, directed by Ben Wheatley for the eighth series of Doctor...