Business
UK TV and film industry reacts to Autumn Statement
Organisations including the UK Screen Alliance, British Film Commission, BFI and Bectu have reacted to Jeremy Hunt's plan to provide more additional tax relief...
visual effects
Business
The importance of mentoring at every career level and stage
With statistics suggesting half of women will leave tech-based businesses by age 35, UpliftHER aims to help women elevate their careers by learning together,...
Production & Post
VFX breakdown: How Moonraker created Prototaxities for the BBC’s Earth
Writing exclusively for TVBEurope, Moonraker VFX’s creative director, Graham Stott, provides commentary on a scene from the BBC’s five part Earth series, for which...
Media Management
IaaS: A future-proof solution for media production companies
Sean Baker, managing director at ERA Ltd, explains why media production companies must find faster, more efficient hardware and software systems to support flexible...
Production & Post
A race against time
The team at VFX studio Lux Aeterna was behind the visuals on the glossy BBC Studios documentary series Ancient Powers. The battle was telling...
Artificial Intelligence
Generative AI: ‘neither as revelatory nor as scary’ as first thought
Framestore's chief creative officer Timothy Webber discusses some of the ways Generative AI is already impacting production workflows
Production & Post
Visualising the history of Great Britain in Union with David Olusoga
How the visual effects team at Lux Aeterna used subtle 3D lighting, dust effects, and precise compositions to establish the new visual style of...
Production & Post
Navigating the boundless seas of visual artistry
Laura Usaite, VFX lead on No Escape, tells Robert Shepherd about the intricate process of breathing life and vitality into the Paramount+ tropical thriller
Production & Post
BlueBolt brings visual effects to The Great season 3
BlueBolt delivered 369 VFX shots for season three; recreating 18th century Russia with crowd duplication in key settings, squib hits, and muzzle flashes, in...
Production & Post
The Greatest Show on Earth: How Framestore brought Sky Sports’ new ad campaign to life
Sky Sports' new advertising campaign turns some of the biggest names in sport into circus performers. TVBEurope speaks to the team at Framestore to...
People
DNEG hires Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor
Tim Burke joins DNEG having most recently served as production VFX supervisor for Disney’s The Little Mermaid
Production & Post
Universal Pixels sees Good Omens with in-camera VFX
The Universal Pixels team joined the second season shoot at Glasgow’s Wardpark Studios, to provide in-vehicle driving sequences and rear projection for the show's...
People
VFX company iGene Media appoints Kevin Doogan to lead UK operations
Doogan has over 15 years of experience having previously worked at The Mill, Gramercy Park Studios and Prime Focus
Business
TVBEurope August 2023 issue now available
In our new issue, we talk to the re-recording mixer on the latest Transformers movie, hear how this year's Eurovision Song Contest made a...
Production & Post
Milk spills into Barcelona
Studio opens new base in the @22 district in Poble Nou, an area known for innovation, tech and VFX
Virtual Production
‘It takes an industry to advance virtual production’: SMPTE’s Rapid Industry Solutions initiative turns two years old
TVBEurope talks to Ryan Hendricks, PhD, senior manager, RiS Initiative, at SMPTE, about its work in the virtual production space, the challenges its faced...
Production & Post
Watch: Behind-the-scenes of Mount Doom’s eruption in The Rings of Power
Cinematographer Alex Disenhof discusses the workflow behind one of the show's pivotal sequences
Eurovision 2023
ReadySet Studios provides virtual production and ICVFX for Netherlands’ Eurovision entry
The set included a central ‘portal’ with doors to ‘connect’ the multiple virtual scenes the artists walk in and out of from one location...
People
Tom Williams joins DNEG as managing director, episodic
Williams has been tasked with driving DNEG's episodic VFX services globally
Business
TVBEurope April 2023 issue now available
The new issue focuses on sustainability in the media technology industry, as well as looking at high-end TV, mental health and the TV and...
Production & Post
Milk VFX opens Dublin studio
The studio will be led by Milk VFX supervisor and Dublin native, Ciaran Crowley
Production & Post
WFTV to celebrate women in post production
The award "recognises someone who consistently goes above and beyond the expectations of the role and shows a genuine curiosity and passion for post...
Production & Post
Adobe’s creative applications bring ten Oscar-nominated films to the big screen
The company's technology was used on Best Picture winner Everything Everywhere All at Once, as well as Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Top Gun:...
Production & Post
The visual Power of the Doctor
2022 saw the end of Jodie Whittaker’s time as the Doctor. Her final episode has more visual effects than any other in Doctor Who’s...
Production & Post
30 seconds or less: How The Mill showcased HP’s new high-powered workstation’s rendering capabilities
Tim Kafka, head of creative operations at The Mill Los Angeles, reveals how the company worked with HP to drop a Z8 Fury workstation...
Production & Post
Avatar: The way of Water, The Rings of Power, ABBA Voyage win at Visual Effects Society Awards
Annual awards celebrate work that "elevates the art of storytelling and exemplifies the spirit of adaptation and ingenuity"
Media Management
How Netflix is using the cloud to get productions over the finish line
Netflix's director of production strategy Jeff Shapiro, and Peter Cioni, director of production business development, talk to TVBEurope about how the streamer is using...
Production & Post
VFX studio One of Us looks outside London to find new talent
Company is working with Doncaster-based Firebrand which supports the VFX community with extra capacity and staff
Production & Post
Creating a visual effects community across Europe
TVBEurope catches up with ACCESS:VFX's founder Simon Devereux and new European chapter lead Chris Kiser to talk about the need for a European-wide organisation...
Production & Post
CoreWeave acquires Conductor Technologies to expand burst rendering solutions for VFX studios
According to CoreWeave, the acquisition will enable it to deliver burst rendering solutions to visual effects studios while "removing friction" in the setup process
Media Management
How the cloud met the “eye-watering” compute requirements of Avatar: The Way of Water
TVBEurope talks to AWS' Nina Walsh about the company's involvement in James Cameron's latest epic
Production & Post
Milk launches VFX studio in France
New Bordeaux base has been built to be "client, artist and technology-driven from the outset" said the company
Production & Post
Territory Studio opens new London HQ
The new headquarters has been built to accommodate up to 200 permanent members of staff
Production & Post
‘The future of filmmaking is cloud-based production’
The Rings of Power producer Ron Ames discusses how cloud was a major part of the show's production process, enabling the production team to...
Production & Post
Netflix, AWS partner to bring rendering in the cloud to visual effects companies
Netflix said the aim of the partnership is to support a healthy VFX ecosystem, and helping VFX studios move toward the cloud is a...
Production & Post
Latest Unreal Engine update includes dedicated in-camera VFX editor
Unreal Engine has now been used on over 425 film and TV productions, and is integrated into over 300 virtual production stages worldwide
People
Steve MacPherson joins Milk as chief technology officer
He joins Milk after a decade as CTO at Framestore London
Production & Post
Territory Studio expands into Germany
New studio will be located at Penzing Studios in Munich
Production & Post
VFX coalition ACCESS:VFX creates European chapter, Netflix sponsors
European chapter intends to promote initiatives such as its e-mentoring scheme, industry apprenticeships and awareness-building events
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
Production & Post
Case study: Baselight helps George Miller achieve his vision for Three Thousand Years of Longing
Colourist Eric Whipp discusses how using Baselight helped him create the look of the fantasy drama