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Life in the digital age

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Why filmmakers may return to old-school special effects

Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) allows moviemakers unlimited freedom. But is it turning audiences off? And are special effects more special when they’re real?

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Digital Domain's New CEO on Exporting Hollywood VFX to China (Exclusive)

New CEO Daniel Seah said he will lobby California lawmakers to create film incentives so that visual-effects work can stay in Los Angeles

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Nasa tests 3D-printed engine part

From fiction to reality, 3D printers used not only in making props in films but repairing real space ships.

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John Textor and what really happened inside Digital Domain Media Group?

An In depth look at the Digital Domain Media Group collapse as fxguide speaks to its former CEO John Textor and pieces together the lessons to be learnt.

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Steven Spielberg's Nightmare Scenario For Hollywood Is Already Coming True

Paramount is selling $50 tickets to see advance screenings of "World War Z."

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Steven Spielberg Predicts 'Implosion' of Film Industry

Steven Spielberg on Wednesday predicted an "implosion" in the film industry is inevitable, whereby a half dozen or so $250 million movies flop at the box office and alter the industry forever. What comes next -- or even before then -- will be price variances at movie theaters, where "you're gonna have to pay $25 for the next Iron Man, you're probably only going to have to pay $7 to see Lincoln." He also said that Lincoln came "this close" to being an HBO movie instead of a theatrical release.

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VFX in Los Angeles – 100 hour weeks & homeless

A true story about a young man starting a career in visual effects in Los Angeles.

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Hollywood Loses Blockbusters as ‘Iron Man’ Finds Subsidy

– Hollywood is struggling to hang on to its blockbuster movies as states such as North Carolina and countries like Canada offer subsidies for producers to shoot films far from the traditional studios of Los Angeles.

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After having worked on everything from low budget monster films to Hollywood blockbusters, 'Star Trek 2' Director J.J. Abrams has some interesting thoughts on movie budgets.

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Amanda Palmer: The art of asking | Video on TED.com

Don't make people pay for music, says Amanda Palmer: Let them. In a passionate talk that begins in her days as a street performer (drop a dollar in the hat for the Eight-Foot Bride!), she examines the new relationship between artist and fan.

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The State of the VFX Industry and where do we go from here

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I need a smaller Wacom so I can fit my grading balls between my keyboard.

rory hinds - 15th May 2013

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In Which I Try and Fix the Entire Film Industry

Most every country in the world taxes the value of goods coming into their country from overseas, ...

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Digital Domain Files For Bankruptcy Protection But With Sales Agreement

Private investment firm Searchlight Capital Partners has agreed to pay $15M for Digital Domain Productions -- the key operation at Digital Domain Media Gro

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Fujifilm to cease production of cinema film as digital continues to take over movie industry

Fujifilm has decided that the time has come for it to move on from film for motion pictures after 78 years. Starting in March of 2013, the last Japanese producer of negatives (for shooting) and...