Animation Covers 2D/3D graphics used in film/TVC/ broadcast design (i.e. TV trailers/ promos etc) and visual graphics used in 'live' broadcast environment.
Ireland: Havok, provider of interactive software and services to the games and movie industries has launched Havok 5 to offer new features on its modular suite of run-time technology and artists tools for development of cross platform electronic games and special effects for film.
Havok [...]
Canada: Matrox Video Products Group has released Matrox X.mio2 development units, a new hardware component of the Matrox DSX family of HD and SD video and audio products.
X.mio2 is suitable for video servers, NLEs and CGs as it supports 4 HD-SDI inputs and outputs, 16 channels [...]
Kuala Lumpur: MSC Malaysia's Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) has stepped up efforts to promote Malaysia-produced content to the international market with its Buyer Fly-In Program (BFP), a three-day networking event which commenced on August 22 as 20 potential content buyers [...]
Singapore: The Singapore Film Society (SFS) and the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) has launched an Animated Short Film Initiative (ASFI) to encourage local production of animated short films.
The initiative is targeted to help Singaporean animators make short films [...]
Four years in the making, Disney's live-action and animation mix movie, The Magic Gourd finally premiered on 300 screens across China on June 29 to herald the start of school holidays in the country.
Made primarily for audiences in China with Asian and international markets [...]
Q: What do you make of the Apollo Awards? Is it another drop in the ocean of award shows or does it actually hold any significant value?
Linda Locke (LL): The Apollo Awards has a significant role to play in encouraging and creating recognition for the craft behind the film, production [...]
Q1. What are some of the key initiatives that you have introduced as CEO of MDA?
As part of continual efforts to grow Singapore's media industry and support the nation's transformation into a global media city, we have introduced several key initiatives namely:
1. Nationwide [...]
India/USA: Mumbai and Los Angeles-based animation and VFX studio Rhythm & Hues will set up its third production facility in HiTec City in Madhapur, Hyderabad, India, to be operational in November 2007.
The 25,000 sq. ft. facility will be located in 'The V' IT park run by Ascendas [...]
Industry wags joke that innovations in this industry have to go through two distinct phases of development before achieving reality - first the careful honing of buzz phrases, followed by the perfection of systems to deliver it.
Whether they have to or not remains a moot point, [...]
'... ...Mummy I want those toooooo. Peter in my class has a pair and I neeeeed them ... ...'
That is kid whining power at its best and is exactly what the De Pasquale and Cutting Edge VFX teams set out to encourage in their latest Lynx Shoes campaign. After a successful First [...]