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True grit"True Grit", from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions marks the fourth collaboration between Luma Pictures and Academy Award®-winning directors Joel and Ethan Coen.

The Los Angeles visual effects house produced some 360 VFX shots for the new film, the highest shot count on a Coen Brothers’ film to date. Still, if all those CG elements attract little special notice from audiences, the Luma team will be pleased. It will be a sign that they have done their job.

CafefxCalifornia based VFX studio Asylum had closed just a month before and now another Visual Effects House from California have announced officially their decision to shut down.

CafeFX/ComputerCafe's official closing announcement stated at their website:

Crash+SuesHoliday goers may be familiar with the colors of Christmas: red, gold and green. However, CRASH+SUES, the creative post and VFX company, and its award-winning colorist, SUE, stretched that spectrum of color with their new Digital Vision Nucoda Film Master color correction system for a holiday campaign for Best Buy.

The spots, “Sprint” and “Verizon,” feature the national retail chain’s employees touting the features of the latest smartphones, Sprint’s HTC DVO 4G and Verizon’s Samsung Fascinate.

 

Gnomon WorkshopThe Gnomon Workshop is proud to announce the release of the latest title focusing on FX Workflow and integration. In Production FX Workflows- Dragon Age: Origins, instructor Brandon Young breaks down and reconstructs an actual production shot from Blur Studio's Dragon Age: Origins cinematic. This is an extremely rare glimpse into how a real production FX shot is constructed.

PHYXwareThe image processing power and visual effects creation capabilities of PHYX Stylist elevate the results of any video project.

Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the post-production and broadcast markets, announced that development partner PHYX Inc. has released PHYX Stylist for the FxFactory® platform. PHYX Stylist is a brand new collection of generators and filters designed to work inside Adobe® After Effects®, Apple® Final Cut Pro®, Apple Motion®, and Apple Final Cut® Express applications.