One of the best things about BAFTA is its focus on regular lectures and seminars on filmmaking.  A recent event at the Picture house ...

Matt Johnson (left) in Los Angeles on Beverly Hills Chihuahua What does a Visual Effects Supervisor actually do – and how do you...

Pat Joseph, co-founder and chief creative officer of The Mill , certainly thinks so. In this post at the Televisual blog ,  Joseph argue...

In this excellent 30 minute documentary, the film-makers explore the sad end of Rythm and Hues, one of the world's finest visual eff...

Carolyn: "Here's a pic of me and BG painter, Cathy Patrick , 1973. on Emergency+4 .   Don Jurwich had taped a xerox of 'The ...

The growing and rather depressing trend for jobs to leave London's Soho and head for Canada seems to be picking up pace. Framestore, ...

Matchmove: it's all about cameras, baby Matchmove is one of the more technical and less well known departments in the 3D visual effe...

Mention the film Jason and the Argonauts , and people think of  Ray Harryhausen .  He didn't write it, he didn't direct it, he didn...

Cinesite Europe, my former London employer and (until recently) one of the big hitters in visual effects in Soho, have just made some mas...

Richard Griffiths as Uncle Vernon. Copyright Warner Bros Richard Griffiths, famous to my generation as the queeny upper-class Uncle Mo...

Mill TV is no more Another blow to VFX animation in London - Mill TV, which did award-winning work on Doctor Who and Merlin is to clos...

The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark Marc Stevenson is an animator with a huge wealth of experience in the visual effects industry...

Wallace and Gromit would be proud. Copyright Aardman Animation Chancellor George Osbourne's budget speech yesterday may not have ins...

VFX Solidarity International, whose remit is to "Unite VFX Professionals and the Digital Artist community worldwide for sound intern...

Martin Gabriel is a visual effects producer with a long list of successful feature films on his resume, including Harry Potter and the Go...

Ang Lee - ungrateful? VFX Solidarity International 's campaign for recognition for VFX artists is gaining momentum, finding its way ...

We're going green in support of VFX Solidarity international , expressing our support for all the vfx artists and animators who helpe...

It seems that Rhythm and Hues is going under. The pioneering VFX studio, responsible for some of the most ground-breaking visual effect...

I have to share my favorite Christmas video, created by friend of FLIP Shannon Shea .  I have known Shannon since our days at CalArts thirty...

One of the problems that the Visual Effects business in London has had for many years is how to find suitably trained animators - photo real...