http://blog.media-freaks.com Animation Blog on the Latest News in Animation Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:11:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Top-Voted "Casket," "House Rules," "Snack Attack Samurai" and "Underdog" Contending for Top-Three Sweep in USA TODAY Ad Meter In Order to Take Home Big Bucks Doritos tortilla chips – the bold, intense snack brand within PepsiCo's Frito-Lay division – put four of its talented fans in the limelight tonight when it ... http://blog.media-freaks.com/consumercreated-doritos-ads-crash-super-bowl-face-pros-attempt-win-5-million-prize/ Digital-Tutors, a leader in solution-based training for media and entertainment software, today continues to add to their award-winning online learning library with three highly-requested titles that aid in the creation of movies, video games and 3D animation design including 'Modeling for Product Visualization in Cinema 4D,' 'Introduction to 3D in ... http://blog.media-freaks.com/digitaltutors-launches-latest-training-cinema-4d-nuke-softimage/ Star Trek(TM) Online, Ghostbusters(R): The Video Game, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena and More Available Now - Stardock announced today that Atari, Inc., one of the world's most recognized videogame publishers, has added several PC games to Stardock's digital distribution platform, Impulse. In addition to the critically acclaimed ... http://blog.media-freaks.com/atari-adds-titles-stardocks-impulse-platform/ Special Recording From Legendary Band to Be Available Immediately For Purchase and Download to Rock Band Following The Super Bowl MTV Games and Harmonix, the world's leading developer of music-based video games and a part of Viacom's MTV Networks ( VIA, VIA.B), today announced that a special recording of the performance ... http://blog.media-freaks.com/super-bowl-smashup-explodes-rock-band-music-video-game/ Legacy Recordings Introduces Timeless Jazz & Pop Music to 21st-Century Gaming Fans With the Release of BioShock 2 BioShock 2 is the eagerly awaited sequel to BioShock, an enormously popular video game franchise that has won more than 50 Game of the Year Awards and shipped over three million units worldwide. As ... http://blog.media-freaks.com/5138/ Best known for dazzling 3D animation work on blockbuster films, New Deal Studios has officially launched its full-service commercial division. First up is a director's cut of a Halo 3 spot quickly followed by two cutting edge commercials for Subway starring Michael Phelps that premiered during the NFL Playoffs. Shannon Gans, ... http://blog.media-freaks.com/deal-studios-launches-commercial-division-subway-halo-3-spots/ And now a warning from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment: on February 2, 2010, this land officially becomes ZOMBIELAND as the number one grossing 3d animation zombie movie in history takes over the nation on Blu-ray, DVD and PSP. Woody Harrelson (2012, Natural Born Killers), Jesse Eisenberg (Adventureland, The Village), Emma ... http://blog.media-freaks.com/zombieland-bluray-dvd-planet-hulk-bluray-dvd/ IMAX Corporation and Twentieth Century Fox today announced that James Cameron's 3D animation wonder Avatar, which has received Golden Globe(R) awards for Best Picture and Best Director, has passed the $150 million mark at IMAX(R) theatres worldwide during the weekend from Friday, January 29, 2010 through Sunday, January 31, 2010. ... http://blog.media-freaks.com/james-camerons-avatar-passes-150-million-milestone-imax-theatres/ As the New Orleans Saints make their Super Bowl debut, so does Electronic Arts. On Super Bowl Sunday, two days before the video game hits store shelves, EA will introduce football fans to Dante’s Inferno, a third-person action-adventure videogame, with the company’s first-ever Super Bowl commercial. The hellish 30-second spot ... http://blog.media-freaks.com/ea-readies-super-bowl-commercial-play-dantes-inferno/ Exhibit powered by new energy-efficient IBM Smarter Data Center IBM ( IBM) today unveiled a new experiential exhibit at INNOVENTIONS at Epcot® at the animation mogul Walt Disney World® Resort, which invites guests to discover the possibilities of building a smarter planet. The exhibit is powered by a new Smarter ... http://blog.media-freaks.com/ibm-works-walt-disney-imagineering-create-smarter-planet-exhibit/ Meet Kenny Twist and the DNA girl. They are the stars of a new animation film, "Cell Side Story," developed by students at Atkins Academic and Technology High School in cooperation with Wake Forest University and other community partners. "Cell Side Story" is a love story featuring male and female animated ... http://blog.media-freaks.com/musical-cell-side-story-puts-science-stage/ Beloved Bugs Bunny on Broadway Concert Series Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary with Global Premiere of New Sequel Warner Bros. Consumer Products announced today that Bugs Bunny on Broadway, the record-setting orchestra-and-film concert that reinvented a new genre of symphony orchestra concert when it debuted in 1990, will celebrate its 20th anniversary ... http://blog.media-freaks.com/warner-bros-consumer-products-strikes-chord-worldwide-bugs-bunny-symphony/ Technology from World's Leading 3D Entertainment Brand Promises Plug-and-Play 3D animation Console Gaming Experience RealD, the world's leading 3D technology provider for cinema and professional applications, announced today that Ubisoft, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising (Fox Licensing), has licensed and integrated the company's proprietary stereoscopic RealD Format ... http://blog.media-freaks.com/ubisoft-20th-century-fox-licensing-merchandising-integrate-stereoscopic-reald-format-james-camerons-avatar-game/ Playful Pups, Bunny Cheerleaders and Hamsters Flying a Blimp For the sixth consecutive year, Animal Planet's "Puppy Bowl" television animation program — started in 2005 as an alternative to the Super Bowl — has earned the American Humane Association's "No Animals Were Harmed"® end-credit disclaimer. This year's "players" include 43 puppies and ... http://blog.media-freaks.com/no-animals-harmed-puppy-bowl-vi/ Heavy Metal Powerhouse Black Sabbath Debuts Master Tracks as Compatible Guitar Hero(R) 5 and Band Hero Downloadable Songs Guitar Hero Music Library Further Expands with Hit Songs and New Music from 30 Seconds To Mars, Breaking Benjamin and Third Eye Blind Guitar Hero® cranks up the heat in February with a strong ... http://blog.media-freaks.com/guitar-heros-february-downloadable-content-lineup-packs-powerful-punch-fresh-music-top-bands-2/ Worldwide Video Premiere of 'Shoot To Thrill' Today, January 26, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. EST AC/DC's Music to be featured in 'IRON MAN 2'; Band to Release AC/DC: Iron Man 2 Album on Monday April 19, 2010 Through a unique collaboration between Marvel Studios and Columbia Records, AC/DC's music will be featured ... http://blog.media-freaks.com/marvel-studios-columbia-records-power-acdc-music-promotion-iron-man-2-motion-picture-soundtrack-2/ Worldwide Video Premiere of 'Shoot To Thrill' Today, January 26, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. EST AC/DC's Music to be featured in 'IRON MAN 2'; Band to Release AC/DC: Iron Man 2 Album on Monday April 19, 2010 Through a unique collaboration between Marvel Studios and Columbia Records, AC/DC's music will be featured ... http://blog.media-freaks.com/marvel-studios-columbia-records-power-acdc-music-promotion-iron-man-2-motion-picture-soundtrack/ 12,000-PIECE COLLECTION FILLS COLLECTOR'S FAMILY'S ENTIRE HOUSE! Twenty one year-old Lisa Courtney from Hertfordshire, England is celebrating this week after being officially recognised as the individual with the largest Pokemon animation memorabilia collection in the world, having accumulated 12,113 different items over 13 years. Her incredible record-breaking collection, which is ... http://blog.media-freaks.com/recordbreaking-collection-pokemon-memorabilia-appears-guinness-world-records-2010-gamers-edition/ "Vfx were really in a supporting role on this and we focused a lot on Bruce Willis' surrogate character and finding his look and making him consistent through the movie, which took a long time," concedes Mark Stetson, vfx animation supervisor. "They assigned the work to Synthespian Studios, Jeff Kleiser's company, ... http://blog.media-freaks.com/surrogates-bluray-dvd-atonement-bluray/ PlayStation players to publish their greatest achievements to YouTube Square Enix London Studios, a part of Square Enix Europe, today announced that the video game Just Cause® 2 for the PlayStation® 3 will ship with a built-in video capture feature, allowing players to record clips of their greatest in-game exploits and ... http://blog.media-freaks.com/builtin-video-capture-ship-2/