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Motion Theory - AudiMotion Theory director Mathew Cullen teams with Venables Bell & Partners to create a heart-pounding pursuit across time for Audi that proves progress is more than a philosophy – it’s a force of nature. The :60 cinema version of "Footsteps" started airing Dec. 9th, while a :30 cut-down broke on television Dec. 3rd.

VenSat Tech Services, Pvt. Ltd. , a Global Media and Entertainment Services Company that offers a broad spectrum of services in animation, visual effects, motion comics and 2D/3D conversion to the international marketplace, today announced the appointment of GV Babu as Vice President - India Studio Operations.

GV BabuWith over two decades of experience in the media & entertainment industry, GV brings rich global operations and leadership experience within leading integrated organizations, large delivery teams and focusing on cross-cultural operations, technology. With a firm intent to strengthen the 'Customer and Quality-focused' delivery environment at VenSat, GV will spearhead various path-breaking initiatives to establish one of the most robust and nimble-footed production environments which would offer a complete suite of animation services, seamlessly.

The Framestore team breathed new life into Kreacher and Dobby - both funny and moving, joyful and sad. They created some truly memorable moments in The Deathly Hallows Part 1. I am thoroughly thrilled with their work." - Tim Burke, VFX Supervisor Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Framestore - Harry potterWith the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, one of the most ambitious film cycles in cinema’s history starts to draw to a close. Nine years after the appearance of the first Harry Potter film, J.K. Rowling’s saga is concluded with the final book of the septet forming two feature films, the second to be released on 15th July 2011. Both films are directed by David Yates and produced by David Heyman, David Barron and J.K. Rowling. As before, the films star Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, supported by a veritable Who’s Who of British acting talent.

Tippett StudioTippett Studio, located in Berkeley, Calif. recently upgraded over 200 of their artist workstations to NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics solutions, enabling them to work up to five times faster. With the upgrade to Quadro, Tippett’s artists are better equipped to work with sophisticated creative tools from companies such as Pixologic and The Foundry, and overcome the bottlenecks posed by high-geometry models.

Tippett Studio, founded in 1984 by Academy Award-winner and recipient of the Visual Effects Society Pioneering award, Phil Tippett, is one of the oldest and most well-respected effects facilities in the world. In their work on “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,” the studio was tasked with building a particularly challenging sequence that involved a fight in the snow between a computer generated (CG) wolf and a live action human.

Lucas logoEarlier this year, I wrote about the poor working conditions for the animation and visual effects artists who have helped create some of most incredible (and profitable) films and TV shows of all time in an open letter to director James Cameron. In that piece, I discussed the open secret of the only major production craft that is still largely non-unionized and the subsequent dearth of benefits, security and even proper credits when the end titles roll.