DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c21dc6/world_animation_so) has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "World Animation Software Markets" to their offering. Frost & Sullivan defines the animation software market as software tools that provide users the ability to create computer generated output including simple and complex...
THAT SOUND YOU HEAR COMING FROM THE PERIPHERY OF DESIGN? IT'S THE SOUND OF AN IMPENDING REVOLUTION-A PRIMAL SCREAM. AAAAIIIIYEEEE! GET READY. If you asked Atlanta's marketing leaders to name the metro area's mostadmired creative services company, answers would vary. Some might suggest Lorenc+Yoo Design, Wages Design, Grant...
CHICAGO -- Technical content presented at SIGGRAPH 2008 will feature the techniques behind the animation development in Spore, the latest interactive video game due to launch worldwide in September 2008. Spore, produced by the makers of the popular Sims games, is an internet-based game that allows users to create a...
CANNES, France AFP — Israel's Ari Folman, in Cannes to premiere his fiercely anti-war animation "Waltz With Bashir," says his country is awash with ex-soldiers like himself who have repressed horrific memories of their time in the Israeli army. "A world expert on post-trauma I interviewed in the film...
Byline: Barry Gibson HAVING worked the weekend I had Monday off, which gave me the chance to enjoy daytime television. I took the opportunity to sample BBC2's lunchtime offering The Daily Politics, recently voted the second-worst daytime TV show ever, losing out only to the charming Jeremy Kyle....
TOKYO AFP — Two of Japan's oldest animation films, a folk tale and a comedy about a samurai warrior, have been recovered more than 90 years after they premiered, a museum said Thursday. The two-minute silent films were forerunners of Japan's "anime" industry, which has developed into one of...
TOKYO AFP — Taking karaoke to a new level, a machine soon to be out in Japan will let people impersonate animation characters, turning them into superheroes -- or mischievous smart alecs -- for the night. Namco Bandai Games Inc. unveiled the prototype machine as the Tokyo International Anime...
TELEVISION ANIMATION Magnus Fiennes used his experience in the music industry and his children as sounding boards to come up with a cartoon that has Scooby Doo on the run. Sophie Morris meets him It is hard to imagine Bafta and Tony award-winning actor Ralph...
CHICAGO -- ACM SIGGRAPH officially announced the opening of submissions for FJORG! - the International Animation Contest taking place at the upcoming SIGGRAPH conference, 11 through 15 August 2008 in Los Angeles, California, USA. FJORG! is an "iron animator" event in which competing teams from around the world have...
TOKYO AFP — US entertainment giant Walt Disney said Thursday it would produce cartoons in Japan in tie-ups with the country's famed animation industry in a rare bid to adapt to regional tastes. The company that turned Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck into global icons has traditionally distributed the...
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Animation Collective, the leading independent creator of children's entertainment in the U.S., today announced it has signed London-based Bulldog Licensing to represent its highly successful "Thumb Wrestling Federation: TWF" property in the United Kingdom. The live-action, short-format comedy series about a fictional sports league is among the most watched...
LONDON AFP — The Oscar-winning film company that created Wallace and Gromit on Monday unveiled a new set of characters for a disability awareness campaign which highlights the day-to-day problems of handicapped people. Aardman Animations has teamed up with a charity, Leonard Cheshire Disability, to launch Creature Discomforts --...
Byline: EMMA HALL ehall@adage.com Talk about British understatement. Aardman Animations holds meetings in parking-lot trailers while wailing seagulls circle overhead. A picture in its boardroom proudly commemorates a visit from the queen, as if that quaint ceremony were the...
SAN DIEGO -- SIGGRAPH 2007 officials, along with DreamWorks Animation, HP, and AMD, just announced the winners of the world's first international FJORG! Competition - an "iron animator" event in which 16 competing teams from around the world had 32 hours to create the most impressive character-driven animation of at...
SAN DIEGO -- SIGGRAPH 2007 announced today the inclusion of an exclusive preview of "Beowulf", groundbreaking director Robert Zemeckis' unique vision of the "Beowulf" saga, in this year's Computer Animation Festival's Electronic Theater taking place at the 34th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 5-9 August...
COMIC-CON -- New York-based Animation Collective and Canadian-based Fatkat Studios, today announced a co-venture for the new, 26 half-hour episode action-comedy, animated series, "Three Delivery." The announcement was made at COMIC-CON International, a comic book and entertainment industry trade show in San Diego. "Three Delivery" was created by Larry...
SAN DIEGO -- SIGGRAPH officials, along with AMD, DreamWorks Animation, and HP, today announced details for the world's first international FJORG! competition - an "iron animator" event in which 15 competing teams from around the world will have 32 hours to create the world's best character-driven animation in front of...
CHICAGO -- Bringing 30-foot-tall robots to life in this summer's blockbuster film "Transformers" incorporated some of the most complex modeling and animation ever attempted at Industrial Light & Magic ILM. The experts behind the film will discuss their challenges and successes during a special session at SIGGRAPH 2007, the 34th...
LOS ANGELES -- Japan's revolutionary concept 'sports anime' has become a household favorite for both kids and adults alike. Sports anime allows viewers to get inside the heads of the players while they're playing, something impossible to do with real time sports. This new phenomenon originated in Japan, and with...
