Legendary leap
Two powerful TV promos have been created for the BBC’s major A History Of The World In 100 Objects series.
RTS North West Student Awards winners announced
This year’s RTS North West Student Awards have honoured work in the categories of Animation, Factual and Fiction.
Addictive TV adds mash-up guru to the mix
DJ/producer and mash-up godfather Mark Vidler has joined forces with audio/visual pioneering Addictive TV
Got Ancient Milk ?
Not To Scale has delivered the latest action-packed Cravendale commercial for Weiden + Kennedy London
Rushes Soho Shorts Festival calls for submissions
Rushes Soho Shorts is calling for submissions for its 12th “celebration of everything short.”
Who-Fu joins Nexus Productions
Nexus has signed the Japanese directing duo, Who-Fu, for worldwide representation
Framed for Cmon & Kypski
Nexus director Roel Wouters has joined forces with designer and director Jonathan Puckey to create a new concept interactive video for Dutch band Cmon & Kypski, in which fans are invited to play a starring role.
Cinesite seeks to Inspire with graduate internship
Cinesite is offering graduates a six-week paid placement at the company’s Soho facility during the summer of 2010
MachStudio Pro
MachStudio Pro is a virtual 3D real-time studio environment that allows you to add lighting, cameras, materials, compositing and finishing capabilities in a non-linear workflow.
New Dimension : Avatar Special
A insight into the visual effects of James Cameron’s Avatar, detailing work by Framestore, Prime Focus and Modern VideoFilm, with behind the scenes images.
American alien
Planet 51 is a retro-styled animated feature movie and game produced in Spain for international release, created by Ilion Animation Studios and Pyro Studios using a pipeline including Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya
Autodesk releases Smoke on Mac OS X
Autodesk is ready to start shipping Autodesk Smoke 2010 for Mac OS X for around $15k
Nuke hits Framestore
Framestore, the largest visual effects and computer animation studio in Europe, is the latest major facility to invest in a Nuke site license.
Old time tipple
Brand New School’s cross-media campaign for Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey centres around a ‘label story’ narrative depicted in stylish monochrome, evocative of both the brand and its origins.
By the numbers
Not To Scale directors Vincent have designed MTV’s end of year countdown, as well as a flurry of toy-themed stings and sequences
