ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA — Rising Sun Pictures (RSP) will continue to provide education and training to students to gain the necessary experience and skill set to fulfil VFX jobs in South Australia and around the globe. RSP Education partners with University of South Australia to expand successful programs to meet the growing global demand for world-class VFX graduates. The highly-regarded courses aid aspiring artists to make the leap from the classroom to the production floor. In … [Read more...] about Rising Sun Pictures Expands Education Program in South Australia
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Grant Sputore makes film debut with sci-fi thriller Mother
Australia - Screen Australia, South Australian Film Corporation and Screenwest have announced production investment funding for Mother, a thought-provoking sci-fi thriller that brings a dark and electrifying edge to this unique mother-daughter story. Based on an original concept by West Australian director Grant Sputore and writer Michael Lloyd Green, the script was one of the most sought after on the 2016 Black List. Sputore is an award-winning commercial director who was selected by the … [Read more...] about Grant Sputore makes film debut with sci-fi thriller Mother
Rising Sun nominated for VES Award
Adelaide, South Australia— Rising Sun Pictures has been nominated for Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Feature in the Visual Effects Society’s 15th Annual VES Awards. The nomination comes for the studio’s work on the Quicksilver Extraction sequence from the 20th Century Fox film X-Men: Apocalypse. Nominees include Alana Newell and Compositors Jess Burnheim, Andy Peel and Matthew Shaw. In the Extraction sequence, Quicksilver (Evan Peters) uses his hyper-speed ability to … [Read more...] about Rising Sun nominated for VES Award
Game Of Thrones VFX by Rising Sun
Adelaide, Australia— For the finale of season six of HBO’s hit Game Of Thrones¸ Rising Sun Pictures faced a challenge of replicating the sprawling city of King’s Landing and its central shrine, the Great Sept of Baelor, and then burn them to the ground in a magical, green-hued inferno. New to the Game of Thrones production team, RSP created visual effects for several episodes of the show’s recently-concluded season. Most of the work centered on King’s Landing and the Sept as artists produced … [Read more...] about Game Of Thrones VFX by Rising Sun
“ANZAC Girls”: Rising Sun Pictures Goes to War
Adelaide, South Australia — ANZAC Girls, a 6-part mini-series produced by Screentime, a Banijay Group company, for ABC-TV, was a rare television project for Adelaide visual effects studio Rising Sun Pictures (RSP), better known for its work on Hollywood blockbusters such as X-Men: Days of Future Past, Gravity, and The Great Gatsby. The first episode premiered on Australian TV on Sunday, 10 August with exceptional ratings around Australia and much critical acclaim. Based on Peter … [Read more...] about “ANZAC Girls”: Rising Sun Pictures Goes to War
