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In a recent interview, Stability AI board member James Cameron warned high budgets threaten theaters, urging cheaper VFX and new tech to cut costs.
The Avatar franchise has long been driven by animation, with Cameron’s new anthology plans set to explore Pandora through new narratives.
Last year, Cameron had warned against the dangers of artificial intelligence.
With 14 nominations, “Avatar: The Way of Water” is the most-nominated project ever at the VES Awards.
The sci-fi film is back in theaters.
Well, it’s about time!
A photoreal animated character stars in Robert Rodriguez’s new mega-budget action film.
A fully-animated cg character leads the cast of “Alita: Battle Angel.”
The James Cameron-produced manga adaptation is being pushed back five months.
Morphing has been an important part of vfx for quite a while. Here’s 10 memorable morphs that made us go wow!
Mark Dippé and Steve ‘Spaz’ Williams, who created groundbreaking vfx work on “Jurassic Park,” “T2,” and “The Abyss,” talk about what’s different about the vfx industry today.
Early digital effects were mixed in with breakfast cereal and matzo crackers to create one of the iconic sequences in contemporary cinema.
What do you call a ‘live-action’ film that’s 90% animated?
Dreamworks Animation CEO recently said his company is “in the toilet,” but he seems to be doing fine himself.
Last night when “Gravity” director Alfonso Cuarón won best director at the Golden Globes, he began his acceptance speech by saying, “This is for the hundreds of people that made this film possible,” a reference to the film’s crew, including countless vfx/animation artists.
Last July we posted the amended Oscar rules that stated motion capture would no longer be eligible for the best animated feature Oscar. …
Filmmaker David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en, Benjamin Button, etc.), who began his career working for Lucasfilm in special effects (Return …
In last week’s LA Times, James Cameron continued to assert his position that Avatar isn’t animation, though at least he’s acknowledging …
(Pocatar image by Chad Regan) An article from today’s Hollywood Reporter says that Avatar producer Jon Landau labeled the Oscars “a …
News media stories about the Oscars are cropping up all over and all of them are parroting the same factoid: Up is only the second time …
A video in which Jim explains that, “the thing that people need to keep very strongly in mind is that this is not an animated film.” So …
I was thinking today, If Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel has enough animation in it to be eligible for Best Animated Oscar, and A …
I saw James Cameron’s Avatar last night and I feel a talkback post here would be appropriate. Did I like the film? Yes, very much so. …
File this under “People who don’t know when to quit while they’re ahead”: The producers of Delgo – the biggest bomb of 2008 – are …
James Cameron unveiled the trailer to his eagerly awaited science fiction spectacular Avatar this week and, to me, it certainly looks …
It was announced yesterday that the Academy will now nominate ten films for Best Picture. From their press release:For more than a decade …