VFX

Business

Milk acquires Lola Post Production

Lola's credits in 2022 include Dangerous Liaisons (Starz/Lionsgate) and Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough (BBC)

Production & Post

The Power of the Doctor is Doctor Who’s most VFX-heavy episode ever

Show includes longest pre-credits sequence the show has ever done, reveals showrunner Chris Chibnall

Business

New issue of TVBEurope out now

The October/November edition of TVBEurope is now available to read and download. Our cover feature this issue sees senior VFX supervisor Michael Shelton...

Production & Post

New Lord of the Rings series involves over 9,500 VFX shots

Among the studios involved in the production were Industrial Light and Magic, Weta, Ncam, Blackmagic Design, DNEG, ARRI and DNEG

Production & Post

VFX studio Milk aims to take viewers back in time with Surviving Earth

Milk will develop and create digital environments, landscapes and creatures for the series which takes audiences on a journey to learn the lessons from...

Production & Post

Territory Studio acquires Cantina Creative, forms new group

New company will draw from a global source of artists and studios who work across interactive experiences, such as augmented reality and holographic technology

Production & Post

Vicon launches ‘highest-fidelity’ motion capture cameras

The range includes a 26-megapixel (MP) model and a high-speed capture mode at up to 2,000 Frames Per Second (FPS)

Business

VFX company DNEG drops plans to go public

Namit Malhotra, DNEG chairman and CEO, insisted the company feels "incredibly optimistic" about its future despite the decision

Production & Post

Creating the visual effects for Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs Maisel

VFX supervisor Lesley Robson-Foster discusses how she used Blackmagic Design's URSA Mini Pro 12K digital film camera to capture visual effects plates for the...

Production & Post

DNEG signs multi-year VFX and virtual production agreement with Netflix

The non-exclusive agreement will see DNEG provide premium VFX services for Netflix across domestic and international markets

Production & Post

DNEG wins big at VES Awards

Company picked up four awards for its work on Denis Villeneuve's Dune

Production & Post

Bringing a 19th century Spanish galleon to life for La Fortuna

How Madrid-based post production house Twin Pines worked on 1,000 digitally retouched shots for new drama, La Fortuna

Production & Post

American Society of Cinematographers releases short film on testing and calibration

Project tested how HDR, diverse skin tones, high resolution detail, in-camera VFX, fast moving action, and visuals tax compression algorithms and image processing software

Business

The Fellowship of Unity, Weta Digital

The acquisition will make cutting-edge VFX tools available for next generation of 3D creators

Production & Post

Technicolor Creative Studios plans global network of creative hubs

The London hub will see The Moving Picture Company and The Mill share studio space

Production & Post

Pixomondo to open London studio for VFX and virtual production

Studio will be closely integrated with the company's existing German operations, located in Frankfurt and Stuttgart

Production & Post

New tool aims to help organise VFX libraries

The libraries can store VFX practical elements as well as textures, reference images, clips from the internet or the matte painting library

Production & Post

The Crown in the cloud

How the award-winning in-house VFX team for the Netflix drama completed 600 shots in eight months on AWS

Production & Post

The impact real-time technology is having on VFX

Martin Izzard, head of media and entertainment at Red Lorry Yellow Lorry takes a look at the rise of virtual production

Business

Streamland Media finalises acquisition of Technicolor Post

Deal, worth €30 million, was first announced in January

Production & Post

Framestore lights the FUSE for VFX workflows with real-time technology

Company's CCO Tim Webber to direct short film to test pipeline and demonstrate its potential

Production & Post

Case study: Union VFX bursts into the Cloud with ngenea

How the VFX studio employed pixitmedia's on-demand data management solution for its work on Apple TV's For All Mankind

Production & Post

Disney Plus (and Baby Yoda) win their first Emmy Awards

The Mandalorian won the streamer's first ever Emmys

Production & Post

New VFX house to RISE in London

Will include a state-of-the-art screening room, space for 50 artists and editorial as well as an original traditional British pub

Production & Post

‘We took the Shoggoth to the gym’: Creating Lovecraft Country’s monster

Framestore's Grant Walker talks to TVBEurope about creating Lovecraft Country's big monster

Media Management

Movistar Plus selects ATEME’s head end, Foundry introduces Nuke Indie

TVBEurope rounds up the latest product and tech news from ATEME, Riedel, 24i and Foundry

Production & Post

Netflix launches VFXaaS platform

Cloud-based platform which aims to make it easier for vendors, artists and creators to connect and collaborate

Media Management

Post house Warner Bros De Lane Lea introduces Alfred

New platform enables users to store, distribute and manage assets and data through a a fully integrated Cloud-based system

Media Management

Jellyfish Pictures goes globally remote

VFX house is utilising Microsoft Azure’s backbone to set up hubs all over the world, which will connect back to the Jellyfish Pictures’ data...

Production & Post

Case study: CBBC’s The Snow Spider

The five-part adaptation of Jenny Nimmo’s bestselling fantasy novel series promises to keep the kids entertained while delivering a grown-up, eighties aesthetic

Case Studies