Women have long been in the spotlight at DreamWorks Animation, well known for promoting female talent within their ranks to leadership roles. Here, six female directors share their memories of working at the studio during its first quarter century: Lorna Cook, Vicky Jenson, Elaine Bogan, Jennifer Yuh Nelson, Brenda Chapman, and Jill Culton.
Animation Magazine has rounded up 10 of the hottest VFX supervisors whose work over the past 12 months has dazzled and delighted audiences, with effects ranging from photorealistic animals serving as lead characters to immersive digital environments and larger-than-life creature animation.
Futuristic sci-fi worlds, environmental disasters, competing teams of super heroes, and a new Stars Wars movie all march into theaters this fall.
With voting for the 89th Academy Awards closing on Tuesday, take a final look at AWN’s coverage of the contenders for Feature Animation, Short Animation and Visual Effects.
Contenders in the animated feature, animated short and visual effects categories share their initial reactions to their nominations for Oscar gold.
Sneak preview presentation at Disney’s El Capitan Theater with director Jon Favreau and visual effects supervisor Rob Legato unveils stunning live-action/CG hybrid environments and characters.
Annual voting event showcases visual effects for the Academy’s shortlisted films: ‘Ant-Man,’ ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron,’ ‘Ex Machina,’ ‘Jurassic World,’ ‘Mad Max: Fury Road,’ ‘The Martian,’ ‘The Revenant,’ ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens,’ ‘Tomorrowland’ and ‘The Walk.’
Shot entirely with the Apple iPhone 5S, Sean Baker’s micro-budget feature ‘Tangerine’ is a Christmas Eve odyssey through various Los Angeles subcultures.
The Academy’s annual voting event showcases the year’s top visual effects-driven films.
‘Big Hero 6’ Producer Roy Conli discusses story, production challenges and the boy and his robot at the heart of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ latest feature.
Co-directors of Disney’s most technologically advanced film to date discuss production challenges, creating a robot that learns, and Hyperion, the studio’s new global-illumination rendering system.
Award-winning cinematographer Thierry Arbogast selects the Sony CineAlta F65 digital camera to capture Super 35 widescreen footage for sci-fi feature “Lucy.”
Lifetime feature Anna Nicole, which aired on the cable channel toward the end of June, attracted as much attention for its director – Canada’s Mary Harron – as it did for its lurid portrayal of the model/tabloid star and her prodigious assets.
Filmed on location off the rugged and desolate coast of Maine, “Black Rock” was conceived and directed by “mumblecore” director Katie Aselton. Shot by cinematographer Hillary Spera, the film interplays beautiful imagery with a host of horrors as the three women become the targets of a hunt and are forced into a deadly fight for survival.
In a deconstruction of Kubrick’s still-controversial Stephen King adaptation, director Rodney Ascher’s conspiracy documentary “Room 237” evokes the Kuleshov Effect, exploring five of the most widely-addressed theories via interviews with cultists and scholars alike juxtaposed with footage from “The Shining” and other Kubrick classics, along with maps, diagrams and floorplans.
Shot over the past decade by director and cinematographer Ben Shapiro, “Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters” is a methodically rendered portrait of the acclaimed photographer’s work and process.
Picking up the story where “Dogtown” left off, Filmmaker and legendary skateboarder Stacy Peralta chronicles the personal histories of the Z-Boys and the origins of the Bones Brigade.
With a large chorus of punk rock’s leading men-turned-fathers, “The Other F Word” follows Jim Lindberg, a 20-year veteran of the skate punk band Pennywise, on his hysterical and moving journey from belting out his band’s anthem, “Fuck Authority,” to embracing his mid-life role as a father.
Filmmaker Michael Kuehnert’s award-winning feature “Save the Farm” documents the eleventh-hour struggle to save the country’s largest urban farm — the 14-acre Los Angeles South Central Farm — from destruction.
Narrated by James Franco, and distributed by First Run Features, the documentary feature is the first film to have been made about Charles and Ray Eames since their deaths, and includes interviews with family members and design historians in an intimate tour of the Eames Era.