24th Annual VES Awards Special Honorees Announced
Filmmaker Jerry Bruckheimer and Wētā Workshop co-founder Sir Richard Taylor to be honored at February gala ceremony hosted by the Sklar Brothers.
Filmmaker Jerry Bruckheimer and Wētā Workshop co-founder Sir Richard Taylor to be honored at February gala ceremony hosted by the Sklar Brothers.
The trailblazing VFX artist, who co-founded Robert Abel and Associates, helped usher in modern effects with his seminal work on Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.’
Last year, the VFX company’s artists and production teams delivered outstanding work across a wide range of shows, including ‘The Gorge,’ ‘The Old Guard 2,’ ‘Tron: Ares,’ and ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ Season 2.
The offering includes native support for Gaussian Splats, which allows users to import, view, manipulate, and render with a range of new Field nodes.
The Best Animated Feature and Best Visual Effects winners were joined by ‘South Park’ and ‘Frankenstein’ in the Best Animated Series and Best Production Design categories at the January 4 ceremony.
Best Animated Feature nominees ‘Elio,’ ‘Little Amélie or the Character of Rain,’ ‘KPop Demon Hunters,’ ‘The Bad Guys 2,’ and ‘Zootopia 2’ top the expansive list of category nominations; animation’s biggest awards ceremony is scheduled to return live on Saturday, February 21 at UCLA’s Royce Hall
Streaming January 27 on Disney+, the new series, a satirical, tongue-in-cheek show about a famous superhero movie remake by a famous director, with 2 actors doggedly pursuing roles, stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Sir Ben Kingsley
It’s the final battle in the Upside Down as the hugely popular show finishes its 5-season run; the fight to find and kill Vecna debuts December 31; Volume 1 and 2 are now streaming.
Watch the breakdown reel: from de-ageing Bill Nighy to shaping psychological landscapes, the studio was the sole VFX vendor on the mind-bending thriller series, now streaming on Prime Video.
Adobe will serve as generative AI video company’s preferred API creativity partner to offer creators exclusive early access to new models, starting with Gen-4.5; now available in the Adobe Firefly app.
The Oscar-winning director returns to cinemas with his biggest film yet, bringing Homer’s foundational saga to IMAX for the first time; in theaters July 17, 2026.
Boasting nearly 30 years’ experience, the visual effects vet joins from the Cinesite group, where he served as VFX Supervisor on projects including ‘Black Widow,’ ‘Loki,’ and ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.’
The project, based on the popular Bernard Werber novel, will be produced using live-action for the human narrative and VFX for the ant world.
VFX Supervisor Karen Heston talks gender-changing and shrinking/growing characters, moveable silicone blood mats, and capturing as much as possible in-camera on the second season of the Prime Video ‘The Boys’ spinoff about students at Godolkin University whose lives are complicated by injections of Compound V.
Watch the VFX breakdown reel featuring the studio’s work crafting 210 visual effects shots across 4 episodes; highlights include the parasite-ridden Greylock, reimagined Roach Hounds, and the unsettling Mother and Little Rusalka swamp duo.
Head back to the Upside Down; the next episode set of the fight to find and kill Vecna premieres December 25, followed by The Finale on December 31; Volume 1 is now streaming.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro’s most complete work to date transforms Mary Shelley’s iconic 1818 novel from a cautionary tale of the perils of hubris into a redemptive fable about the ability to forgive.
VFX category narrowed down to 10 films, animated shorts to 15; voting for nominations runs next month, January 12-16, with nomination announcements set for January 22, 2026.
The announcement was made with a Wasteland transformation on the Exosphere of Sphere in Las Vegas; premiere set for today, December 16.
New V-Ray updates include a host of new features and functionality that aim to accelerate playblasts, previs, and lookdev for professional VFX and animation teams.
The studio contributed visual effects across multiple episodes of the Netflix fantasy series, including two technically complex fight sequences in Episode 6; work includes choreographed battles, magic, blood, and CG swords.
The 2 giants have signed an MOU to explore the development of new rendering and AI tools aimed at optimizing visual effects production workflows.
The six-episode season, set a century before the events of ‘Game of Thrones,’ debuts January 18; will also stream on HBO Max.
‘KPop Demon Hunters’ scores nods for best animated feature, best cinematic and box office achievement, and best original song, while ‘Arco,’ ‘Demon Slayer,’ ‘Elio,’ ‘Little Amélie or the Character of Rain’ and ‘Zootopia 2’ are all nominated for best animated motion picture; awards ceremony set for January 11.
The cash and stock transaction, valued at $27.75 per share of WBD and approximately $82.7 billion overall, is expected to close in the next 12-18 months.