- newMore Than 200+ Hours of Activities: LightBox Expo Posts Full 2026 Program
The 8th edition brings Brad Bird, Yoshitaka Amano, Dylan Cole and Nathan Greno to the Pasadena Convention Center, October 23-25; behind-the-scenes panels on 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' and 'Avatar: Fire and Ash,' John Musker and Ron Clements together…
- 11 hours ago2 Sep 26, 4:58pm -
- AWN Jobs Roundup, September 1: 47 Animation and VFX Openings Worldwide
LinkedIn job postings digest, published Tuesdays and Thursdays, gathers summaries and direct links to some of the latest animation and visual effects positions around the globe.
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- Phil Tippett Closes His Storied Berkeley Studio
The 2-time Oscar winner sold off 4 decades of models, props, and gear - 'Star Wars' holochess pieces and an 'Empire Strikes Back' AT-AT among them - in a 3-day liquidation that wrapped Sunday; the studio's name continues under PhantomFX, with its Tor…
- 3 days ago31 Aug 26, 3:50pm -
- USC Adds Beeble AI Production Tools to Filmmaking Courses
The ETC think tank inside the School of Cinematic Arts has folded the AI toolmaker's relighting, compositing, and scene-reconstruction tech into courses and research for hands-on work in VFX, virtual production and visual storytelling.
- 5 days ago28 Aug 26, 7:01pm -
- Peter Cullen, Who Voiced Optimus Prime for 4 Decades, Dies at 85
The Canadian actor carried the Autobot leader from the 1984 syndicated series through 2023's 'Rise of the Beasts,' building the performance on his Marine brother's advice to be strong enough to be gentle; also voiced Eeyore, Monterey Jack, Ironhide a…
- 6 days ago28 Aug 26, 3:05pm -
- Adobe Unveils New Photoshop AI Tools
Tech giant's flagship image editor gains a non-destructive Light Adjustment Layer, Firefly Image 5-powered Instruct Edit with Masks, visual Markup prompting, and a beta AI Assisted Editor in latest update.
- 7 days ago27 Aug 26, 2:44pm -
- How 'Spider-Noir' Shot 1933 New York Twice
Production designer Warren Alan Young built a three-and-a-half-story Rockefeller Center under construction, a gilded-cage apartment striped like prison bars and a bar rigged to break on contact - every set tested to read both in black-and-white and c…
- 7 days ago26 Aug 26, 6:49pm -
- VES Announces New Categories, Key Dates for 25th Annual VES Awards
Photoreal and animated shorts, music videos, and social content up to 45 minutes get their own prize as the society updates its rules ahead of the February 17, 2027 ceremony; entries run September 15-October 31.
- 7 days ago26 Aug 26, 4:37pm -
- WeFX Shares 'From' Season 4 VFX Breakdown Reel
The Toronto studio's 81 artists spent eight months on nearly 150 shots for the sci-fi horror series, matching eight-foot practical dolls digitally, giving them broken-button fangs, and building digital doubles for evisceration and creature transforma…
- 8 days ago26 Aug 26, 12:49am -
- VIEW Conference 2026 Adds Brad Bird Talk on 'Ray Gunn,' 'Disclosure Day' VFX
2-time Oscar winner will present his Netflix sci-fi noir that streams December 18, while overall VFX supervisor Matthew Butler and Joel Behrens and Liz Bernard of Digital Domain break down 400-plus shots from Steven Spielberg's UFO thriller; conferen…
- 8 days ago25 Aug 26, 11:32pm -
- Joseph Bell Releases 2026 'Visual Effects & Animation World Atlas'
The VFX veteran's third annual free report finds net industry growth of 2.7% over 12 months, a 1.5% contraction in LA against a 11.3% rebound in Vancouver, and no evidence in the data that AI has cut jobs; charts more than 140,000 VFX and animation p…
- 8 days ago25 Aug 26, 6:55pm -
- LTX Releases Open-Weights World Model LTX-2.5
The LLM handles ACES high dynamic range end to end, renders multishot sequences as a single output and runs on a studio's own hardware; available now on Hugging Face, the LTX API and ComfyUI.
- 12 days ago21 Aug 26, 7:37pm -