The work we did for Moon Knight was complex, the deadline was short, the quality control was high and it was a challenge - but one we were ready to take on.

CRATER GOES TO MARVEL 

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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the last two years, creative industries have had their unique boom, which caused the current blossom of job positions in the field of digital art. One of these is Digital Compositing.&nbsp;
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With the current pandemic came the presumption that the development of film and TV content would slow down. Yet the opposite became the reality. The industry of visual effects and post-production got a major expansion, followed by a deficiency in the job market on a global scale.&nbsp;
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Due to a number of new and upcoming projects,<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Crater Studio<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is currently searching for future crew members. The first step towards this is training a certain number of new artists for a compositing role, which is why we received the honor of presenting a <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crater scholarship for the <a style="text-decoration-line: none;" href="https://school.craterstudio.com/en/digital-compositing-en/"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Digital Compositing course at Crater Training Center</a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Important note: The scholarship applies only to Serbia residents with lectures and the internship program held in Belgrade.
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The chance to acquire digital compositing skills for film and video from experts at Crater will get up to 10 applicants. Everyone with tendencies towards fine arts, photography, film, filmmaking and video editing, and would like to try their hand at post-production, is invited to apply.&nbsp;
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Digital Compositing: Application requirements
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<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" aria-level="1">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All interested can apply for a scholarship, no matter their previous work experience and education.
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Being familiar with Adobe Photoshop is a must.&nbsp;
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When applying, it is necessary to send a portfolio with representative digital artworks. Portfolios with analog works that candidates consider relevant to present their artistic and technical skills will also be accepted.
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<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" aria-level="1">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An internship at the studio is mandatory. The internship will be led by Crater Studio supervisors, and the project in question will be non-commercial. Best candidates will get a job opportunity at Crater.
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<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" aria-level="1">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Candidates need to reside in Belgrade. Digital Compositing course will be held at the Crater Training Center classroom (Knićaninova 3, Donji Dorćol, Beograd), with the internship program being held at the same location. A probable job position also involves working from the studio. The position is not remote.
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The submission deadline for the scholarship is<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> May 8<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">th<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 2022.
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyone interested in applying for a scholarship, please send your CV and portfolio <a style="text-decoration-line: none;" href="mailto:bojana.simic@craterstudio.com"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bojana.simic@craterstudio.com&nbsp;</a>OR apply via this <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QRQh5E9Y1pdbMSJmkMgRr1iPokQZ-AjGCCrKpmiHMzs/edit">form</a> in Serbian.
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<a style="text-decoration-line: none;" href="https://school.craterstudio.com/digital-compositing-stipendija-crater-studio/"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Click here </a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to read the requirements in Serbian.
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After the initial selection, all candidates will&nbsp; learn about the outcome via email. Candidates who enter the preliminary round will be called in for an interview. If the candidate didn&rsquo;t meet the designated requirements for the scholarship, and if there is a vacant position, the candidate can enroll in the course at its own cost. All students will have an equal chance at getting the job after completing an internship at the Crater Studio.
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Digital Compositing course at Crater Training Center will take place from 2<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">nd<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> June until 4<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">th<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> August 2022 and encompasses 116 school hours. Class is scheduled for Tuesday, Thursday, and every other working Saturday, during five school hours.
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Train for the most sought after job position in the film industry - free at Crater Training Center

Crater Studio Scholarship for 10 Future Compositing Artists 

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Covid-19 pandemic has turned the world upside down in recent months as we&rsquo;ve all been aware of. It&rsquo;s been a rollercoaster ride for which flexibility turned out to be indispensable. Petar Jovovich, VFX supervisor and Crater studio&rsquo;s founder, and Milovan Mladenovic, executive producer and partner, talked about how the work at Crater studio changed and adapted to the emergency state in Serbia and around the globe. Having in mind that most of the clients Crater studio works with currently come from China, India and USA, Petar and Milovan got an overview of the effects pandemic has had in different parts of the world so far. Currently, Crater studio operates both from home and from their office in Belgrade, abiding by the protection protocole and safety measures.
<img src="https://app.craterstudio.com/storage/posts/May2020/news-cov-4.jpg" alt="Milovan-Petar-Crater" width="100%" height="100%" />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How did the state of Covid-19 emergency affect Crater studio and your team?
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Milovan: <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We had to organize very quickly and efficiently this switch in work - from office to our homes. The fact that we had a project going on was particularly challenging. In the first month we didn&rsquo;t have any new projects on the horizon because I think that everyone needed some time to adjust and figure out what&rsquo;s going on, and what to do. Later on we started getting some new inquiries and we even took on new projects. However, communication with current clients was a bit slow during the first few weeks so the deadlines were also extended.
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Petar: <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We were very quick to shift to working from home, since most of our organization in our studio is already online and we also have some colleagues working remotely for quite some time now. Remote programmes did cause certain issues but nothing that slowed us down. Working from home has been accepted fairly well, some of our team members even work better from home. It was really important that we set a working system and information flow so that we keep the team in the loop all the time.
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<img src="https://app.craterstudio.com/storage/posts/May2020/news-cov-1.jpg" alt="" width="100%" height="100%" />&nbsp;
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What are your predictions for the VFX and post-production industry in the coming months? Is there anything you think will significantly change due to pandemic?
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Petar:<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I believe that the content will have to adjust to the situation - this is where virtual production comes in handy. Traditional shooting and set time is not really necessary in order to create new content. But the pause in production will have its consequences. Some of the international post-production companies are already experiencing the vacuum caused by lock-downs. Those that can will either shift to full CG content or wait for next projects, which inevitably leads to the fact that teams will get smaller or bigger depending on the workload. In simple words, it&rsquo;s really necessary to be flexible right now or at least first in line to get the next project.
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Milovan: <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Production will be more focused on full CG content. Some of the biggest studios has already started doing this - they are pulling out animation projects they had laying around. On the other hand, everything that&rsquo;s been put on hold will resume as soon as the conditions allow and the pandemic dials down. We&rsquo;re keeping in touch with our clients we would&rsquo;ve already been working with if it hadn&rsquo;t been for Covid-19 and the good news is that they already are planning to restart projects that were put on hold due the pandemic.
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<img src="https://app.craterstudio.com/storage/posts/May2020/news-cov-2.jpg" alt="" width="100%" height="100%" />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How much will safety protocols and protection measurements affect the team and work with clients? In what way?
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Milovan: <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It really turned out that remote work has been very successful for us. We managed to supervise everyone&rsquo;s work and individual efficiency due to the fact that this whole situation was new to everyone and also we didn&rsquo;t know what to expect. In a way, I think that this imposed work from home has brought a better organization and efficiency of the team.
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Petar: <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The only question is how the clients and studios would adapt long-term when it comes to the protection of material that is worked on from home and not from the office. There&rsquo;s also been a lot of talk about Cloud and that really has been a solution for some time now, for certain parts of the process such as rendering. When it comes to VFX, I think that Cloud is still far fetched due to extensive information flow and file size.
<img src="https://app.craterstudio.com/storage/posts/May2020/news-cov-3.jpg" alt="" width="100%" height="100%" />&nbsp;
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is it possible to plan anything right now?
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Petar: <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are certain things that we can&rsquo;t influence and this is where we have to adapt. Good thing is that dates are set for getting back to film sets. We&rsquo;ll just have to keep an eye on how things will go on from that point.
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Milovan: <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All our plans and goals have been maybe a bit postponed but they&rsquo;re still on.
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VFX industry and Covid-19: when flexibility comes in handy

<div class="embedded-container" style="text-align: center;"><iframe title="Happy Holidays!" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/I2deR0emfuw?wmode=opaque&amp;theme=dark" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>
<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dear friends,
<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For the last decade or so, Christmas time has, for the Crater team, been like the dark before the dawn&hellip; the final stretch when the pressure is boiling, strength is giving out and you&rsquo;re almost ready to send it all to hell - but you somehow end up pushing through and making it to the other side.
<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As 2019 is winding down, the atmosphere at the studio is strangely still for this time of year.
<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The slower days give me an opportunity for some quiet reflection. As I roam around the rooms, I absorb every tiny detail. I find myself smiling, the reality of an entire lifetime within these walls hitting me in the head.
<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A name that began as a philosophical joke during Serbia&rsquo;s grayest times. A crew of VFX&zwnj; junkies with a mutual affection for spending a Friday night slinging beers and making some screen magic.
<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And since then?
<h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.44; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: -12pt 0pt 4pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 22.5pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We&rsquo;ve shaken hands with masters we thought we&rsquo;d never even see in person. Landed moonshots we thought we&rsquo;d never even try. Pulled off some pretty improbable feats and signed our names under quite a few impressive projects. We&rsquo;ve left footprints in all corners of the globe and built a network spanning most of it.</h3>
<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If walls and keyboards could talk!&nbsp;
<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I think of our first studio - the apartment we rented in Belgrade where we ate, slept and worked around the clock. I can see it all. Roars of laughter, all-nighters, junk food and being high on the fact you get to do something you love. Ridiculous deadlines and laughable budgets. Our starry eyes and the unmistakable sweet taste of making the impossible possible.
<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The images keep coming: united through the good and the bad, the thick and the thin, inside the studio and out in the real world. Led by a simple maxim, <span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to always give our best<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Weddings, funerals, birthdays and anniversaries mark the timeline like signs on a hiking trail as the memories unravel.
<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I&rsquo;m guessing having enough time to think about something like this means you&rsquo;ve made it to some kind of top.
<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Back in reality, I am surrounded by a snake of workstations lining the walls. I beam with pride. Each a tiny universe and mirror of its owner, these desks are nodes in a creative web capable of going unspeakable lengths and achieving incredible results. It&rsquo;s intoxicating.
<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It&rsquo;s also funny, because we didn&rsquo;t really have an idea where we&rsquo;re going to end up when we started this journey. Sure, we knew we were in for a wild ride &ndash; long one even &ndash; but the exact destination was pretty foggy to us.
<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We didn&rsquo;t talk, plan or envision much; we were hungry and reaching for the stars. The only way to see what was in front was to go forward, so we did.
<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For almost fifteen years.
<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, with 2020 around the corner, I think it&rsquo;s safe to say it is time for some 20-20 clarity. And for the first time in a long time, instead of racing to the finish line, I have some time to breathe before bracing for the next summit.
<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wow, is all I can say.
<h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.44; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: -12pt 0pt 4pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 22.5pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was a breathtakingly exciting, delightfully challenging and unbelievably lucky privilege to be witness to the birth and early life of Crater Studio.</h3>
<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am thankful to whatever force, supernatural or not, made this possible.&nbsp;
<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most of all, I am thankful to those whose hard work it was built on and the ones keeping it growing still.&nbsp;
<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That is why, this Christmas Eve, I am celebrating the incredible potential of what can be achieved when people join forces and push each other.
<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And come January&hellip; I&rsquo;ll be back in the trenches, looking for even better ways to harness that fire.
<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dream big and work hard in 2020,
<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I promise it will all be worth it.
<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Petar Jovovich<span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #3c3c3c; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CEO &amp; Co-Founder

New Year, New Chapter: An Open Letter from the Founder

At the Gold Coast International Film Festival, funny and cute friendship of a pig and a duck won the Audience Award for Best Family Short. We look forward to the success of "The Pig on the Hill", a joint project of Crater Studios and Lightstream Animation Studios, and we hope for new successes.
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<a href="https://goldcoastarts.org/gciff-2019-winners/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Find out more...</a>
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‚‚The Pig on the Hill‚‚ captivates audiences at festivals!

Business platform "Our Network" recently visited our studio. As part of the Good Business Practices section, they posted on their website a video entitled "Everyone Talking About: Crater Studio".
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Everyone Talking About: Crater Studio

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<h2>&ldquo;The Pig on the Hill&rdquo;</h2>
Produced by Lightstream Animation Studios
Co-Produced by Crater Studio
Jamy Wheless, director/executive producer
John Helms, director/executive producer
Pierce Brosnan, narrator
Petar Jovovic, vfx supervisor
Milovan Mladenovic, vfx executive producer
John Kelly, story
Matthew Wilder, music
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<h2>Synopsis</h2>
When Pig&rsquo;s free-spirited, rambunctious new neighbor, Duck, plunges himself into Pig&rsquo;s quiet, orderly life, Pig learns that having friends is what he has been missing all along.
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<h2>About The Film</h2>
Based on London author John Kelly&rsquo;s beloved children&rsquo;s book, &ldquo;The Pig on the Hill&rdquo; is heart-warming story about next door neighbors who are worlds apart. Living in the whimsical mountaintop community of Topton, Pig very much enjoys his solitude and silence. In every direction, an expansive, gorgeous view of the surrounding mountains and waterways, with no neighbors as far as the eye can see. One day, however, Duck shows up and zealous about the amazing location, he decides to build a home right next door, causing an awful ruckus as he installs a water slide, swimming pool, palm trees, and outdoor sound system. Pig tries to ignore the disruption to his sanctuary, wearing noise-canceling headphones and busying himself with his daily routine. But Duck&rsquo;s ebullient presence has forever upset the rhythms of Pig&rsquo;s organized life.
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Crater Studio and Lightstream Animation Studios (LSA) have been partners and collaborators on many VFX, film and animation projects since 2010. It was a great honor to have Mr. Pierce Brosnan as the narrator and a promoter and supporter of the whole project.
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We spent almost three years in the making of this little gem. We were coming back to it every time we were free from the ongoing commercial projects. That had its own benefits, as we had some extra time to rethink some of the details. In general pipeline worked well. John and Jamy from LSA were taking care of animation scenes and were fantastic visual consultants. All look development, lighting, compositing and some animation took place in Crater Studio with all creative freedom given. We used Maya &ndash; Houdini &ndash; Nuke pipeline. Textures were produced in Mudbox. We rendered all shots in Arnold, and composited in Nuke. The aim was to have the best possible beauty renders, so the minimal touches are done in compositing. In order to achieve that artists in Crater Studio spent a considerable amount of time in light &amp; ldev stages of the process. Compositing served to unveil Crater Studio&rsquo;s artists&rsquo; hard work in full color &amp; glory.
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<h3>Awards as of November 2019</h3>
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<h2>Credits</h2>
Produced by Lightstream Animation Studios
Co-Produced by Crater Studio
Jamy Wheless, director/executive producer
John Helms, director/executive producer
Pierce Brosnan, narrator
John Kelly, story
Matthew Wilder, music
Milovan Mladenovic, vfx executive producer
Petar Jovovic, vfx supervisor
Douglas Kay, executive producer
Rohin Malhotra, managing director
Michael Carney, executive producer
Mitch Yellen, executive producer
Brendan Gottlieb, animator
Dragana Mandic, animator
Elissa Peterson, animator
Dennis Lai, animator
Jun Park, animator
Hans Tsai, animator
Ricardo Lua, animator
Mario Orlando, animator
Bryant Wu, animator
John Kelly, art director
Zoran Cvetkovic, art director
Matt Gaser, art director
Nikola Ilic, vfx artist
Maksim Ljubenkovic, vfx artist
Miroslav Uzunovic, vfx artist
Jin Bae, modeller
Vaughn Smith, modeller
Lenora Acidera, modeller
Ivan Aleksic, lighting/texturing artist
Goran Lakic, lighting/texturing artist
Milena Radovic, lighting/texturing artist
Aleksandar Babic, lighting/texturing artist
Vladimir Jankovic, lighting/texturing artist
Dejan Vladisavljevic, lighting/texturing artist
Vladimir Corluka, lighting/texturing artist
Katarina Radic, lighting/texturing artist
Jovana Vulevic, lighting/texturing artist
Cassandra Bakic, production manager
Amy Palladino, production manager
Milena Niciforovic, production coordinator
Ivana Mitrovic, production coordinator
Sergey Berengard, rigging artist
Diego Garnica, rigging artist
Dave Sidley, rigging artist
Bogdan Amidzic, compositor
Matija Koraksic, compositor
Zivan Petricevic, compositor
Vladan Djiri Vasiljevic, compositor
Tamara Dinic, compositor
Zoran Mitrovic, compositor
Luka Plecas, compositor
Vladimir Jankovic, compositor
Nikola Novakovic, compositor
Milos Randjelovic, compositor
Nikola Vucenovic, compositor
Brandon Douglas, vfx editor
Eli Yellen, vfx editor
Srdjan Latinovic, vfx editor
Suzie Katayama, music conductor
Tereza Stanislav, concert master violinist
Sara Andon, musicians
Donald Foster, musicians
Erika Duke-Kikpatrick, musicians
Michael Lang, musicians
Songa Lee, musicians
Neil Samples, musicians
Zachary Dellinger, musicians
Steve Genewick, musicians
Victor Lawrence, musicians
Joel Pargman, musicians
David Stone, musicians
Joel Derouin, musicians
Gerardo Hilera, musicians
Jennifer Takamatsu, musicians
Tom Lea, musicians
Caryn Rasmussen, musicians
Armen Ksajikian, musicians
Edie Boddicker, vocalist
David Loucks, vocalist
Baraka May Williams, vocalist
Luke Edgemon, vocalist
Antoinette Scruggs, vocalist
Nathan Nance, sound design
Skywalker Sound

All about The Pig on the Hill

"<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9307284/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Pig on the Hill</a>" won award for the best short film at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.animago.com/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Animago award and conference</a>&nbsp;in Munich, Germany
During the conference, our VFX Executive Producer Milovan Mladenovic talked about this project for Digital Production magazine. Read more about it&nbsp;<a href="https://app.craterstudio.com/storage/gallery-items/November2019/KsWNETgnoHwhWD8ru859.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.
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Digital Production magazine interview!

Crater Studio has just returned from Munich after attending&nbsp;<a href="https://www.animago.com/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Animago award and conference</a>&nbsp;2019, where the short animated film &ldquo;<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9307284/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Pig on the Hill</a>&rdquo; won the first prize in the short film category. Crater Studio co-produced this film with&nbsp;<a href="http://lightstreamanimation.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lightstream Animation Studios.</a>
Find out more about this project <a href="https://craterstudio.com/news?category=crater-news&amp;post=all-about-the-pig-on-the-hill">here</a>.
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Animago award for best short film goes to The Pig on the Hill

"Our passion is developing photo realistic characters for feature films, ranging from sharks, monsters, bears to digital humans."
This is a brief description of the topic that Bogdan Amidzic and Petar Jovovic will talk about on November 1st from 8.15pm on CGA Belgrade 2019.
Crater Studio supervisors will tell you more about the characters that Crater Studio worked on and the whole process behind it.
<a href="https://cgabelgrade.com">Register for event!</a>

Creatures from Crater at @CGA Belgrade!

Crater Studio has reunited with other VFX forces in Serbia to create an opener for CGA Belgrade 2019.
It is a pleasure to work on projects like this that bring us closer. And it was also interesting to play with chairs, in terms of textures, animation, fx, Idev and compositing.
Save November 1st and 2nd to your calendars and register for the free entrance <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cga-belgrade-2019-computer-graphics-arts-conference-tickets-74269101883" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.
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Enjoy!
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New CGA Belgrade opener is here!

Crater Studio is one of 14 studios that joined forces last year to create the Opener for the <a href="https://cgabelgrade.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CGA Conference</a>, with Miljana holding all the threads in her hands as an executive producer.
It was a great pleasure for us to participate in this project, and see how it looked behind the scenes ...
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Making of last year's Opener for CGA Belgrade is here!

Our Art Director, Zoran Cvetkovic, participated in the "Crossover in animation: from industry drill to auteurism and back" panel. Visitors had the opportunity to watch the premiere screening of an animated movie, "Pig on the Hill," eligible for the Oscar, the result of Crater's co-production with the American studio Lightstream Animation. More news about the conference is coming soon.
We have recently posted an interview with Zoran at CGA Belgrade, have a look...
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CGA 2018 interview with Zoran Cvetkovic!

Collecting references is certainly an important part of our job and it can be very interesting, at least it was to our internship team. 
In order to make more realistic 3D models of airplanes that they are making during the internship, our mentors took them to a trip to the Museum of Aeronautics in Belgrade, so they could collect necessary material. It was very practical, educational and fun for all!
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Collecting references is certainly an important part of our job and it can be very interesting, at least it was to our internship team.

Crater intership team at the Museum of Aeronautics!

Like previous years, one more time we are organizing an internship for our best students in Crater Studio, to help them master skills and gain experience in a real production environment.
Several foreign students from <a href="https://www.pearsoncollegelondon.ac.uk/escape-studios.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Escape Studios</a>, London UK, have joined this year's internship as well. They will work together on project ''Drava'' mentored by Crater's artists. We wish them all a lot of success!

Internship 2019!

We enjoy creating the VFX magic, but we are especially happy when the audience likes the effects we created, which happened in one of the most popular and the most expensive Bollywood films to date. People rushed to the theaters to watch Robot 2.0, the project Crater did compositing and morphing simulations for.
<a href="https://craterstudio.com/film" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Watch a trailer in our galery.</a>

Crater @ Robot 2.0

Ten students have won REEL REVIEW &amp; FEEDBACK SESSION in various VFX studios as part of <a href="https://cgabelgrade.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CGA Belgrade</a> conference on November 28th.
Elena Madelaine Mathias and Aleksandar Paskas came to Crater Studio.
They found out about the necessary qualifications for internship at Crater and how to improve their work, as a first step to a successful career from Crater's lead artists, Bogdan and Maksim.

The winners of the CGA contest in Crater Studio!

Interesting coincidence - two projects that we have been working on the visual effects are in the program of Sundance festival 2019.
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The horror movie "Sweetheart" that will be premiered at the festival will compete within the Midnight category. Sweetheart is the story about Jenn, who found herself on a desert island and the cruel nature is not her only enemy, but also evil, dark forces that operate during the night.
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"The Witch hunters" movie, which delighted the audience in Serbia, will be presented in the category - Children's film. The main characters, Jovan and Milica, will lead you to the incredible world of imagination and superheros, in this inspiring debut of Ra&scaron;ko Miljković.
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Interesting coincidence - two projects that we have been working on the visual effects are in the program of Sundance festival 2019.

Crater projects Zlogonje and Sweetheart at Sundance!

The CG scene in Serbia is becoming more noticable and thanks to the CGA Belgrade Conference, we can share the skills and achievements of the entire industry to the people in Serbia, as well as to present Serbia at the international level as a location for creative industries.
An excellent feature on this topic is shown in the Al Jazeera Business show: The Balkan Digital Revolution, covering Crater Studio among others.
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Crater Studio - CG scene in Serbia

The premiere of the Chinese humorous/adventurous fantasy is going to be in December 2018. Crater Studio made sure that the visual effects in 67 shots are hi-end. In addition to the compositing, our artists have created digital effects, smoke/fume, sparks, water, lightning, blast effects and mandalas.

First major Chinese project form Crater, film Airpocalypse!

Find out how does Crater Studio work on American blockbusters and Bollywood hits from Tanjug's story, published by Radio-televizija Vojvodine.
<a href="http://www.rtv.rs/sr_lat/zivot/kultura/crater-studio-radi-americke-bolkbastere-i-bolivudske-hitove_966376.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Read more...</a>

Crater Studio work on American blockbusters and Bollywood hits!

<a href="https://www.animationmagazine.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Animation Magazine</a> published the list of short animation films, including The Pig on the Hill, co-production of partner studios - <a href="http://lightstreamanimation.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lightstream Animation Studios </a>(USA) and Crater Studio (SER), qualified for the nomination for the 91st The <a href="https://oscar.go.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Academy Award</a> 2019.
The film had its premiere in June 2018 at the renowned <a href="https://www.annecy.org/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Annecy International Animated Film Festiva</a>l as part of the official selection. Based on the London author John Kelly&rsquo;s beloved children&rsquo;s book, the film is heart-warming story about next door neighbours who are worlds apart.
Don&rsquo;t miss the Pig on the Hill Serbian premiere at <a href="https://cgabelgrade.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CGA Belgrade</a>, on Friday, November 16th and reserve the spot to find out more about the film from Zoran Cvetkovic, Art Director at Crater Studio.

The Pig on the Hill is in the race for the Oscar

"Experts for visual effects are in high demand" is the title of the national tv reportage, which was recorded last week at Crater Studio.
In addition to the subject of creating visual effects for foreign film production, the report speaks about possibilities of training young people for professions in the field of visual effects in Serbia.
<a href="http://www.rts.rs/page/stories/ci/story/5/ekonomija/3303892/strucnjaci-za-vizuelne-efekte-sve-trazeniji.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Read more...</a>

RTS about Crater Studio...

"Thugs Of Hindostan" is a Bollywood blockbuster, produced by YRF - Yash Raj Films, which premiere is announced for the end of the year. Crater Studio's VFX artists work on the segments of this movie: CG sea rocks, water simulations and destruction of ships in the ambush scene.
Watch the trailer...
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Trailer for a HIndu movie project we worked on is being released!

Crater Studio and Crater VFX Training Center hosted a panel How To Break Into Film Scoring Industry Internationally organize by Multikultivator. The topics were business and strategies to succeed in the music, movie and TV industry and how to break through internationally. Petar Jovovic, VFX Supervisor at Crater Studio, were one of the panelist.
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Panel How To Break Into Film Scoring Industry Internationally at Crater!

It started 11 years ago...
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Happy birthday Crater!

<a href="http://designed.rs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Designed.rs</a> web portal has created a blog where we present our current projects.
We have began with the American black comedy "<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4834206/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">A Series of Unfortunate Events</a>", produced by <a href="https://www.netflix.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Netflix</a>, which second season was recently shown.
<a href="http://designed.rs/blog/crater_studio/vizuelni_efekti_crater_studija_na_netflixu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Read more...</a>

Crater Studio`s blog at Designed.rs!

As part of third episode of TV Show Sajber, broadcast on Edu TV - Educational Television, a feature had been released in which we explain in short how to make an animated character in a vfx post-production studio for a TV commercial.
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CRATER GOES TO MARVEL

Crater Studio Scholarship for 10 Future Compositing Artists

VFX industry and Covid-19: when flexibility comes in handy

New Year, New Chapter: An Open Letter from the Founder

‚‚The Pig on the Hill‚‚ captivates audiences at festivals!

Everyone Talking About: Crater Studio

All about The Pig on the Hill

Digital Production magazine interview!

Animago award for best short film goes to The Pig on the Hill

Creatures from Crater at @CGA Belgrade!

New CGA Belgrade opener is here!

Making of last year's Opener for CGA Belgrade is here!

CGA 2018 interview with Zoran Cvetkovic!

Crater intership team at the Museum of Aeronautics!

Internship 2019!

Crater @ Robot 2.0

The winners of the CGA contest in Crater Studio!

Crater projects Zlogonje and Sweetheart at Sundance!

Crater Studio - CG scene in Serbia

First major Chinese project form Crater, film Airpocalypse!

Crater Studio work on American blockbusters and Bollywood hits!

The Pig on the Hill is in the race for the Oscar

RTS about Crater Studio...

Trailer for a HIndu movie project we worked on is being released!

Panel How To Break Into Film Scoring Industry Internationally at Crater!

Happy birthday Crater!

Crater Studio`s blog at Designed.rs!

Crater Studio reveals the process of making a TV commercial with an animated character!

New CGA Belgrade opener is here!