All VFX articles
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NewsUS animation company Halon Entertainment to open Glasgow studio
Halon Entertainment is to invest £28m in a studio in Glasgow.
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NewsUK’s Cinesite secures renewed $215m funding package amid challenging VFX landscape
Cinesite’s credits include A24’s ’Warfare’, Lionsgate’s Michael Jackson biopic ’Michael’ and Paramount’s next ’Smurfs’ film.
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NewsMedia Production & Technology Show unveils 2025 conference programme
First set of speaker sessions for the UK’s biggest production and media tech conference and exhibition have been revealed
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NewsVFX and animation specialist Jellyfish Pictures suspends operations
London-based company says it has been ”exploring all options for sale and investment.”
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News“I am gobsmacked”: UK industry reacts to collapse of film visual effects giant MPC
The sense of shock at the sudden demise of MPC – part of the Technicolor Group – is palpable within the tightknit VFX industry, but few are surprised.
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NewsTechnicolor UK appoints administrators as majority of 440 employees made redundant
Administrator blames rising labour costs and impact of the 2023 writers’ strike.
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NewsVFX giant Technicolor on verge of administration
Paris-based vfx and post-production company owns The Mill, MPC and Mikros Animation.
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News“The IFTC is pretty great”: UK celebrates enhanced tax credit in Berlin
The UK is open for business as an international co-producer and full-service production location, said producers and experts in Berlin. It is all thanks to enhancements to the country’s screen sector reliefs.
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NewsIrish post-production house Windmill Lane Pictures closes with immediate effect
Windmill Lane recording studios remains in operation,
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FeaturesHow Weta FX turned Robbie Williams into an ape for pop-star biopic ‘Better Man’
“A lot of the technology we developed for ’Planet Of The Apes’, for ’Avatar’, was employed on this.”
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NewsPFX Group takes over VFX department of Germany’s Cine Chromatix
Cine Chromatix’s credits include All Quiet On The Western Front.
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NewsUK VFX sector sounds alarm on exclusion of generative AI from additional tax relief (exclusive)
“It doesn’t look a coherent policy decision to exclude AI,” said UK Screen Alliance CEO Neil Hatton.
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NewsScreen Ireland opens up talent academy for VFX
Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet (CCIS) has been appointed the lead organisation to manage the establishment of the new academy.
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FeaturesFrom frozen corpses to “plumper” polar bears: the VFX that shaped ‘True Detective: Night Country’
VFX supervisor Barney Curnow breaks down the most gruesome and snowiest scenes.
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NewsBerlin’s VFX sector receives €4m funding boost
Projects can be allocated up to €1 million in financing.
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NewsCinesite acquires ‘Indiana Jones 5’ VFX studio FX3X
Follows acquisitions of Imagine Engine, Trixter.
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NewsBoost virtual production in film and TV for growth and sustainability, urge experts
Covid has accelerated the technology-led transition towards virtual production in media.
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NewsDNEG exec explains decision by UK VFX company to introduce overtime pay
General manager Chris Burn said he expects other UK VFX companies will follow suit.
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NewsLocarno to honour ‘Star Wars’, 'RoboCop’, ‘Jurassic Park’ VFX maestro Phil Tippett
The festival will also world premiere Tippett’s long-awaited personal project Mad God.
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FeaturesHow ‘Welcome To Chechnya’ team digitally disguised endangered LGBTQ subjects
Director David France and VFX supervisor Ryan Laney reveal how they laid “digital veils” over persecuted LGBTQ Chechens.