The Federal Government's impending media reforms have come under fresh scrutiny from the post-production sector, which is calling for a reassessment of the proposed changes to the Post, Digital and Visual Effects (PDV) Offset.
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Australia might just be in for an Academy Award win come Monday, with 'Love and Monsters' tipped as a dark horse in this year's race for the Visual Effects Oscar.
Adelaide's Rising Sun Pictures has been acquired by the LA-headquartered FuseFX, in a deal that is argued to "position the business for global strategic growth".
A group of animation and visual effects trainees have been given the opportunity to fast-track their careers in the industry after being selected for the Screen NSW Animation and VFX Trainee Placement Pilot Program.
Matt Everitt, Genevieve Camilleri, Matt Sloan, and Brian Cox have earned a nod for their work on 'Love and Monsters', while the UK-based Andrew Jackson is nominated as part of the VFX team on 'Tenet'.
"The ripple effect of more people coming over here to shoot will be that companies like us and maybe some of the smaller VFX houses will be able to produce more work."
When Tim Crosbie first signed on as VFX supervisor for Guan Hu's Chinese war epic 'The Eight Hundred', he had little inkling the project would end up consuming the next two and a half years of his life.
Following the South Australian Film Corporation’s lead, Screen Queensland has introduced a 10 per cent uncapped post, digital and visual effects (PDV) rebate.