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01 February '07 - Allan McKay returns from hosting a masterclass on digital pyrotechnics and fluids, aimed at senior industry members in Tokyo & Osaka. Both classes were a ranging success entirely filling rooms with all industry attendees.

Next up Allan will be speaking in Indonesia at CG Overdrive in June, followed by SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles.

21 December '07 - Latest cover of Popular Mechanics featuring artwork designed by Catastrophic. Click here to find out more.

14 December '07 - Catastrophic finishes work on Daybreakers. Keep an eye out for its release in 2008

01 September ’07 – Catastrophic starts work on Upcoming movie DayBreakers. Click here to find our more.

25th August ’07 – Contuining support for the Australian film industry, Allan McKay will be speaking at Digital Media Festival in Sydney in November on various film case studies and digital pyrotechnics. Click here to find our more.

06th August ’07 – Director of Catastrophic, Allan McKay - will be attending SIGGRAPH 2007 in San Diego to receive the Autodesk Masters award for recognition of his previous work in the Film VFX industry. Click here to find out more. Allan will also hold two separate masterclasses during the conference on fluid simulations and pipeline development within the VFX Film industry.

20th July ’07 – Catastrophic completes work on new Beijing Olympics commercial for McDonalds, initially supervising the shoot and then completing an incredibly tight post production turnaround - involving heavy amounts of character animation and fluid simulation vfx to simulate photo realistic athletic performances of individual ingredients of McDonalds new burger as they individually leap, dive, pole vault and splash into frame. -- more to come.

20th April ’07 – Catastrophic’s on location in NYC leading up the visual effects for Bioshock 60 sec TV Commercial to complement Bioshock's upcoming launch.

10th April ’07 – Catastrophic completes work on Bioshock cinematics.

10th March ’07 – Allan McKay returns from Montreal after holding an on site Visual Effects Workshop at Ubisofts head office for all of senior staff from France and Montreal Offices.

27th January ’07 - Superman Returns nominated for an Academy Award for ‘Best Visual Effects’.

21st November ’06 - Catastrophics Allan McKay returns from Los Angeles after helping Blur Studio with their visual effects work on Halo Wars and Bioshock new game cinematic Trailer.

15th June ’06 - Allan McKay returns from Los Angeles, after wrapping on Warner Bros’ Superman Returns. Originally commencing January ’05 working on and in Pre Production, Allan latter contributed to the Research and Development of the film and then in Post Production for some of the major visual effects sequences.