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Taking Games Seriously at GDC
The 2009 Game Developers Conference started Monday with a focus on specialty videogames, such as mobile games, casual games and serious games (games used primarily for non-entertainment uses). Several things emerged quickly: a) all three of these categories are growing; b) the market is shifting, with new types of consumer [...]
Grant Munro Honored with Retrospectives, New DVD
This evening at 6:00 p.m. the Museum of Modern Art will present a retrospective of the works of National Film Board of Canada animation pioneer Grant Munro, in honor of his eightieth birthday. And next month, on Jan. 29 at 6:30 p.m., the Cinémathèque Québécoise will also pay tribute to [...]
Anime Network Expands With RCN VOD
The Anime Network, the first all-anime programmer in North America, has extended its agreement with RCN Corp. and will be available to subscribers of RCN’s Impulse on DemandSM VOD beginning Dec. 1 in Manhattan, Boston, Washington D.C., Maryland and Virginia, as well as to Pennsylvania markets outside of the original [...]
CaféFX Masters and Commands Realism
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World brought a number of challenges to director Peter Weir, who collaborated with CaféFX to reinvent locations. Based on Patrick O’Brian’s Napoleonic-era novel, the film follows the crew of the H.M.S. Surprise around the globe, and is the first feature to shoot [...]
Simon Philips Is New Managing Director of 4Kids Int’l
Simon Philips succeeds retiring Clive Hill as managing director of 4Kids Ent. Int’l Ltd. In 2003 Philips was appointed to the LIMA board of directors as the international representative, and he was formerly CEO of Licensing Dynamics Int’l (LDI), a consumer-products and media agency covering the Middle East and Mediterranean [...]
Star Wars: Clone Wars Debuts Tonight
Star Wars fans will be watching Cartoon Network closely tonight as Genndy Tartakovsky’s (Samurai Jack, Dexter’s Laboratory) long-awaited Clone Wars “microseries” of 20 three-minute interstitial shorts premieres on the cabler. Self-described Star Wars fanatic Genndy Tartakovsky has created a "micro-series" of 20 three-minute shorts, serializing the story that takes place [...]
S4C Commissions Two Shorts from Blunt
Welsh-language broadcaster S4C has commissioned two short films from stop-motion studio Blunt Pictures. In preparation is the soup comedy Canned Heat and a Gulf War goof titled The Thwee Lancers. Canned Heat refers to a bigoted can of tomato soup which rails against any soup can that isn’t exactly like [...]
NVIDIA’s QUADRO FX 3000
The latest addition to the NVIDIA Quadro graphics-card family is the new QUADRO FX 3000 for high-end digital animation and professional video solutions. With relatively good graphic cards now costing under $500, should you pay almost $2300 for the new FX 3000? The answer depends upon the power you need’and [...]
PorchLight Licenses Jay Jay to Briarpatch
Under a new licensing agreement, Briarpatch is developing a series of bookshelf, card and travel games based on the award-winning 3D series Jay the Jet Plane, co-produced by PorchLight Ent. and Modern Cartoons in association with Knightscove Ent. Already introduced at the Fall Mass Market Toy Expo, the new product [...]
Classic Media’s Big Idea Buy Goes Through
Classic Media LLC’s purchase of Big Idea Prods. was confirmed by the Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois. While Classic had already put up more than $7 million dollars to acquire the company, Big Idea was put on the auction block on Oct. 28 to satisfy a bankruptcy [...]
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