Hoyts Mainstream
Idents & Stings Broadcast Hoyts Mainstream Studio Pancho pancho.com.au We had the pleasure of working alongside the team atHoyts Australia, producing a new set of new idents for HOYTS cinemas in 2025.The brief…
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HOYTS XTS
Titles and Openers TV Hoyts XTS Studio Pancho pancho.com.au The brief was to focus on the enormity of the screen and the immersive nature of XTS through emphasising the size and vastness through dynamic, sweeping visuals to show its grandeur.These will run…
200% Wolf
Feature Film Animation 200% Wolf Flying Bark Productions flyingbark.com.au Freddy Lupin thinks he has everything it takes to lead his werewolf pack, but earning the respect of his packmates proves to be a challenge. If only he were more… wolfish. Crew FX crew…
AEAF Awards 2025 Open for Entries
AEAF Awards 2025 is now open for entries. You and your team have had a busy year building and destroying worlds, designing looks, telling new stories and bringing characters to life. Now is the time to enter your projects. AEAF Awards feature 20 categories…
VIEW NOW AEAF Awards Winners 2024 Online Screening
AEAF Awards by Category The winning projects and finalists are listed below and can be viewed in the reels for each category. We hope you will enjoy this show of the best in Animation and VFX from around the world. We’ve received lots of breakdown and…
AEAF Awards 2024 Finalists
The Gold, Silver and Bronze winners in each category will be announced at the AEAF Awards Online Screening on 11 October The Gold, Silver and Bronze winners in each category will be announced at the AEAF Awards Online Screening 11 October from 7pm in Sydney,…
AEAF Awards Attracts Brilliant New Projects – Enter Now
AEAF Awards are in full swing – projects are coming in from around the world in all categories.
AEAF Awards 2024 Open for Entries
FuseFX - The Mysterious Benedict Society AEAF Awards 2024 is now open for entries. You and your team have had a busy year building and destroying worlds, designing looks, telling new stories and bringing characters to life. Now is the time to enter your…
AEAF Awards 2023 Finalists
The winners in each category Gold - Silver - Bronze - will be announced at the AEAF Awards Online Screening on 28 September The winners in each category, Gold - Silver - Bronze, will be announced at the AEAF Awards Online Screening 28 September from : 7pm…
AEAF Welcomes Beautiful New Entries to the 2023 Awards – Deadline Soon
Check out the recent entries to the AEAF Awards - online now. The work is fantastic and more is arriving. Get inspired to enter your team’s work ahead of the deadline EXTENDED TO 15 JUNE
AEAF Awards 2023 – Call for Entries
AEAF Awards 2023 are now open for entries. Start 2023 by entering your team’s best work from the past year. AEAF Awards are given in 20 categories.
AEAF Awards 2022 Winners Full List - Watch AEAF Awards Reel
The winners in each category Gold - Silver - Bronze have been announced at the AEAF Awards Screening on 28 September The AEAF Awards Finalists and Winners have been announced in all categories. The work is beautiful. Please see the full listing below, and go…
AEAF Awards Entries Flowing in – Movies, TV Series, Spots and More
Entries for AEAF Awards have just about closed, an exciting moment every year as we look over all the terrific work that has been entered. Thanks very much to every team participating.
Final Closing Date for Awards is Approaching Fast, See Latest Entries
The final closing date for AEAF Awards entries is coming up fast on 30 June. Enter your work now – don’t miss out. Be sure to check out the latest beautiful entries.
Creatures and Environments from Our World and Beyond Enter AEAF 2022
Take a look at some of the newest projects submitted to AEAF. The Entry Deadline is now extended until 30 June – but don’t wait, get your projects organised and enter now.
AEAF Awards Entries Stream in as Entry Deadline Approaches
AEAF Awards are now well underway with great entries so far in several categories. More submissions are rolling in – don’t hesitate. The time to enter your team’s work is NOW.
AEAF Awards 2021 Winners
2021 has been a wonderful AEAF! Congratulations to everyone that has participated. We hope you enjoyed watching the Awards Showreel with us. See the list of winners and awards
MPC’s VFX Team Gets First In, Best Dressed for Disney’s Cruella
Production VFX Supervisor Max Wood talks about bringing Cruella’s early life to the screen, with 2D and 3D environments, complex set extensions, FX and seven animated photoreal dogs.
Animation from Around the World Takes Centre Stage in AEAF Awards
New projects are arriving at AEAF Awards from around the world featuring all kinds of beautiful animation. AEAF includes 14 categories - enter your team’s work before end of June.
FuseFX, DNEG, MADO XR Bring Beautiful New Effects to AEAF Awards
FuseFX has entered exciting television projects into AEAF Awards, DNEG entered work created for ‘Tenet’ and several TV series and MADO XR entered a film from their virtual production facility Studio-xR.
MPC Film Enters GODZILLA VS. KONG into AEAF Awards
MPC Film has entered three major feature films into AEAF Awards – ‘Godzilla Vs. Kong’, ‘The One and Only Ivan’ and ‘Cruella’.
Framestore to Speak at AEAF 2021 on Jingle Jangle’s Storybook Sequences
Framestore created fascinating animated sequences for Netflix’s Jingle Jangle, populated with ‘hand-made’ 3D props, characters and sets. The team’s Supervisors will speak at AEAF 2021.
Meet the Expert VFX and Animation Storytellers at AEAF
AEAF’s virtual event is just a month away with speakers presenting on topics from VFX and animation in TV series and movies, to wrapping your pipeline around USD on a budget.
Weta Digital - VFX Supervisor Matt Aitkin - Avengers: Infinity War
Weta Digital's VFX Supervisor Matt Aitken presents his insights into the new techniques his team used in 'Avengers: Infinity War', including animation for Thanos and bespoke FX for Titan's environment. AEAF Speaker Program Network, Learn and Share at AEAF…
RSP - VFX Supervisor Tom Wood - 'Thor: Ragnarok'
Tom Wood from Rising Sun Pictures in Adelaide will speak at AEAF about his most recent work leading the team in creature, environment and FX work for 'Thor: Ragnarok'. AEAF Speaker Program Network, Learn and Share at AEAF 2018. AEAF is a celebration of VFX…
Animal Logic - Animation Supervisor Simon Pickard - Peter Rabbit
Simon will talk at AEAF about Animal Logic's most recent project, the hybrid/animation feature film 'Peter Rabbit'. Apart from nailing the animation and character FX of a cast of CG bunnies and creatures, one of the key aspects of this production was working…
Cutting Edge - VFX Supervisor Simon Maddison - The Electric Lens Company - Founder Matthew Hermans
Simon Maddison and Matthew Hermans will talk a about developing and creating the submarine 360° environment for Q-Ride Experience, a VR experience with action and detail to watch in all directions. Cutting Edge delivered a virtual reality theme park ride late…
Simon Pickard from Animal Logic Makes Moves for 'Peter Rabbit' at AEAF
Animation supervisor Simon Pickard talks about working with the Animal Logic team on 'Peter Rabbit', intimately understanding each character's motion while keeping to a tight schedule.
Cutting Edge's Simon Maddison Plunges into the VR Ocean at AEAF
Simon Maddison from Cutting Edge will give a talk at AEAF in August about developing and creating the submarine 360° environment for the VR experience Q-Ride, with action and detail to watch in all directions.
Weta Digital's Matt Aitken Battles for Planet Titan at AEAF
Weta Digital's VFX Supervisor Matt Aitken presents his insights into the new techniques his team used in 'Avengers: Infinity War', including animation for Thanos and bespoke FX for Titan.
Ample Projects' Nicholas Tory and Lucy Keeler Illuminate AEAF Program
Artists Nicholas Tory and Lucy Keeler at Ample Projects will talk about creating and directing their brilliant environmental artworks, animations and installations that bring locations to life.
'Game of Thrones' Series 7 Comes to AEAF Awards in Sydney
'Game of Thrones' Series 7 Comes to AEAF Awards in Sydney Keep your eyes on the TV Series category at AEAF. The well-known series 'Game of Thrones' has consistently called for top notch visual effects during its seven seasons. This year, AEAF has received…
Anders Langlands from Weta Digital Set to Speak at AEAF
Anders Langlands is VFX Sequence Supervisor at Weta Digital. He will be speaking at AEAF on 16 August about his work on ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’.
NEW AEAF SPEAKER Gareth O’Brien from Buck Brings a Designer’s Eye to AEAF
Creative Director Gareth O’Brien, at Buck for over 10 years, is devoted to design and animation working in styles from stop motion, 3D and cell animation to live action and motion graphics.
Animal Logic’s Rob Coleman Awakens the Inner Animator
Rob Coleman, Head of Animation at Animal Logic, will discuss ‘The LEGO Batman Movie’ at AEAF in August. Here he talks about what attracts him to animation, as a career and personal passion.
Building Large-Scale Storyworlds at AEAF
Susan Danta from AFTRS Sydney will talk at AEAF about course content and opportunities for animators and filmmakers in the school’s Master of Arts for Screen: Animation.
AEAF Awards Feature Film Entries Break Records
By official close of entries, AEAF Awards has received an unprecedented number of entries in the Feature Film VFX category from some of the world’s top visual effects and animation teams.
Axis and Jumbla Drive Motion Design for Forza Motorsport
Axis and Jumbla Drive Motion Design for Forza Motorsport Axis Animation in Scotland, known for their striking and original work for video games, feature films, television and theme parks, has partnered with design and film production company Jumbla in…
VISUAL EFFECTS STARS HEAD TO SYDNEY
AEAF takes place on 16 August, in Paddington Sydney. Following a packed day of talks from the leading lights of the industry, the AEAF Awards Night is a celebration of the best work by artists from around the world.
Aardman Nathan Love Create a SuperHero for Kool Keith and MF Doom
Aardman Nathan Love entered their video for Kool Keith and MF Doom’s song ‘SuperHero’ into AEAF Awards. Designer/director Kris Merc talks about creating its extreme, exciting look.
Jeff Capogreco Talks about Creatures, Lights and ILM
VFX Supervisor Jeff Capogreco from ILM Singapore, a speaker at AEAF in August, talks about his career in VFX - from problem-solving and communications to rendering and sequencing.
Rotor Studios Zoom into AEAF’s Speaker Line-up
Rotor Studios Zoom into AEAF’s Speaker Line-up Two speakers from Rotor Studios in Sydney are joining the line-up at AEAF, Director and Managing Partner Scott Bradley and Head of Design Glenn Stewart. Rotor specialises in all aspects of computer generated…
MPC’s Sheldon Stopsack to Talk at AEAF on ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’
VFX Supervisor Sheldon Stopstack from MPC is set to speak at AEAF 2017 in August on his recent work leading MPC’s team on ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales’.
The Sequence Group Set to Speak at AEAF
Founder and creative director Ian Kirby and partner and creative director Luke Bicevskis are coming to speak at AEAF in August from award-winning creative studio The Sequence Group, based in Vancouver & Melboune.
Weta Digital Joins AEAF Speaker Program
Weta Digital will give behind the scenes accounts of their latest major projects at AEAF.