New investors will enable world-class digital visual effects house to expand its footprint in the media and entertainment industry.

Cinesite, one of the world’s leading film visual effects houses, has completed over 800 visual effects shots and converted over 87 minutes into 3D for Disney’s John Carter, which is released in cinemas today. Cinesite created the majority of the film’s environments, including the opposing cities of Zodanga and Helium, and the Thern Sanctuary, as well as a big air battle and full-screen CG digi-doubles of John Carter and Princess Dejah. The environments were populated with CG crowds and hundreds of CG props.

Cinesite, one of the world’s leading film visual effects houses, today announced that it’s now accepting applications for its highly successful annual internship programme, Inspire. Now in its third year, a new technical effects strand has been added to Inspire, which specifically targets graduates with an interest in computer programming or technical effects. Antony Hunt, managing director, added the new placement to encourage a new-generation of skilled programmers to consider the VFX industry as a viable option for their skills, and to help budding effects artists demonstrate their technical ability.

Cinesite, one of the world’s leading film visual effects houses, today opened the pre-registration for its highly successful annual internship programme, Inspire. New to this year’s initiative is a separate technical effects strand, which specifically targets graduates with a computer programming and TD background – in a direct response to what Cinesite sees as a distinct lack of skilled programmers coming into the VFX industry.

We’ve recently been awarded a significant amount of shots on the upcoming Paramount Pictures' World War Z and are on the look-out for new talent to join our expanding creative team.

Cinesite, one of the world’s leading film visual effects houses, has contributed complex visual effects for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. Cinesite have worked on every Potter film in the series bringing their total shot count to nearly 2000 during the course of this epic eight-part franchise.

Cinesite, one of the world’s leading film visual effects houses, has completed more than 115 visual effects shots for Twentieth Century Fox’s X-Men: First Class, which hits cinemas last week. Among the effects Cinesite created were a retro version of the Cerebro Room, Azazel’s fight sequences, a military parade in Red Square and Washington, DC devastated by nuclear war.

Cinesite, one of the world’s leading film visual effects houses, today announced that it’s awarded places on its 2011 Inspire internship programme to four exceptional candidates – Luke Armstrong, Ruairi Twohig, Eleanor Bond and Tom Flavelle. The winners were chosen from more than 200 applicants for their exceptional compositing, modelling and texturing skills. The placements will commence in June and run for six weeks.

Cinesite, one of the world’s leading film visual effects houses, has completed more than 300 stereoscopic visual effects shots for Pirates of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides which is released in theatres today. For their first full stereo 3D project, Cinesite were tasked with creating large-scale photorealistic 3D environments for a dramatic carriage chase through London.

Cinesite, one of the world’s leading film visual effects houses, has completed a series of stunning and technically challenging visual effects for the new epic disaster movie by Sony/Columbia, Battle: Los Angeles, which opens in cinemas today. Cinesite were responsible for many of the film’s standout battle sequences, including shots of smouldering downtown Los Angeles, the invasion of Santa Monica beach and an explosive battle against aliens.

Cinesite, one of the world’s leading film visual effects houses, has announced that Quentin Miles, animation director, has been nominated for an Annie Award for his work on the Warner Bros film Clash of the Titans, in the Character Animation in a Live-Action Production category. The category is one of two new categories at this year’s awards created to recognise excellence in live-action productions.

Cinesite, one of the world’s leading film visual effects houses, is now receiving applications for its 2011 internship programme, “Inspire”, which helps develop young visual effects talent. Following the success of the 2010 programme, which has seen both of last year’s winners Chris Mulcaster and Alex Betancourt go on to work on the upcoming blockbusters Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and John Carter of Mars at the company, Cinesite has brought the internship programme back for another year.