'The Umbrella Academy' visual effects supervisor Everett Burrell on pulling off 'our biggest season to date.' He says, '[The budget] ballooned pretty high to really accommodate the creative needs of ...

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LOS ANGELES—The Visual Effects Society (VES) has named Emmy Award-winning actor-producer Hiroyuki Sanada as the recipient of the VES Award for Creative Excellence and Academy Award-winning director ...

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The team behind Avatar: The Way of Water‘s long-expected Oscar win for Visual Effects learned first-hand how committed Academy officials and show producers are to keeping things moving. Richard ...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 15 films have been selected as semifinalists for Achievement in Visual Effects for the 82nd Academy Awards. Expected frontrunners ...

New Zealand-based creatives have secured multiple Oscar nominations for the 2026 Academy Awards. Wētā FX, represented by five ...

His other credits included 'Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation,' 'Dunkirk,' 'Ant-Man and the Wasp,' 'Men in Black: International' and 'Jungle Cruise,' and he received the VES Founders Award last year.

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"It was our biggest season to date in terms of VFX for sure, both in shot count and our budget," says "The Umbrella Academy" visual effects supervisor Everett Burrell about the third season of the ...