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Lantz Foundation Supports LMU Animation Lab
Thanks to a $540,000 grant from the Walter Lantz Foundation, Loyola Marymount University’s School of Film and Television will be able to outfit its new Animation Lab with state-of-the-art digital equipment and technology—giving students access to the same kind of hardware, software and equipment that Hollywood professionals use. The grant [...]
Magic Dumpling’s Geiger Named China 3D Consultant
Kevin Geiger, president and CEO of Magic Dumpling Entertainment, has accepted as position as a resident foreign consultant to the China 3D Film & Television Association, an organization commissioned with setting standards for stereoscopic production and exhibition by China’s State Administration of Radio, Film & Television (SARFT). “I am honored [...]
‘Numtums’ Count Down to CBeebies Premiere
A cuddly new educational children’s series is set to launch on the U.K.’s CBeebies channel this month. Starting Monday February 27 Numtums will broadcast twice a day, at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. as part of the channel’s Love to Learn block. The show is animated by London studio Beakus [...]
Laika Studio Opts for Shotgun Software
Portland, Oregon-based animation house Laika has purchased a site license of Shotgun software to manage production and enhance collaboration for stop-motion and vfx work throughout the studio. Laika has implemented the flexible, web-based solution as a central platform for modernizing production management of the data-heavy stop-motion process on its upcoming 3D [...]
Image Metrics Unveils Live Driver
3D facial animation tech developer Image Metrics announced the release of its Live Driver Software Development (SDK) today. Live Driver is described as a new real-time facial animation technology that adds the capability for 3D characters to mirror a user’s expressions and emotions in real-time, via a standard webcam. Live [...]
Wizart Releases ‘Snow Queen’ Movie Trailer
Moscow- and Voronezh-based CG animation studio Wizart has released a trailer for its upcoming 3-D feature The Snow Queen. Based on the famous Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, the movie is written and directed by Maxim Sveshnikov and Vlad Barbe and co-produced by Inlay Film. The story centers on a [...]
New Daffy Short to Debut with ‘Journey 2′
The new Looney Tunes 3-D toon Daffy’s Rhapsody will premiere before screenings of Warner Bros.’ Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. Directed by Matthew O’Callaghan (Coyote Falls, I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat, Curious George), the new short will debut in theaters on Feb. 10 and will be presented in [...]
ZagToon Launches 3D Film Division
Paris-based French animation production company Univergroup is launching a film division, Zagtoon Pictures, and is partnering with leading Korean studio SamG, reports Variety. Headed by Jeremy Zag, Zagtoon Pictures will focus on producing high-profile stereo 3D animated features, budgeted above €20 million ($26.4 million), and will hire European and Anglo-American [...]
‘Underworld,’ ‘Red Tails’ and ‘FMA’ Take on ‘Beauty’
A pair of visual-effects-heavy battle movies from completely different ends of the spectrum take on Mark Wahlberg’s Contraband and the 3D release of Beauty and the Beast at the box office this weekend. Sony’s Underworld: Awakening, the fourth film in the vampires vs. werewolves series, has the week’s biggest opening. [...]
3D Society Gives Scorsese Lloyd Award for ‘Hugo’
The success of the 3D movie Hugo has earned filmmaker Martin Scorsese the 2012 Harold Lloyd Award from the International 3D Society in Hollywood. Scorsese will receive the Society’s highest filmmaker award at a black-tie ceremony Feb. 1 at the Beverly Hills Hotel. “Marty Scorsese has embodied Harold Lloyd’s vision [...]
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Boinx Unveils New Features of...
German software producer Boinx has unveiled some special upgrades the 3.1...
