Academy Award-winning animation filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki said Thursday that he is merely embarrassed by Japan’s comic-loving prime minister. But he was far more upbeat about investing in the nation’s children. Miyazaki’s latest film “Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea,” now playing in Japan, is a story of a goldfish who forms a friendship with a little [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Animation is getting democratized. After years of watching consumer-generated shorts sprout up on Google’s YouTube, NewsCorp.’s MySpace, and elsewhere, a Hollywood veteran wants to tap these amateur animators for help on projects that could hit the big time. With funding from Intel and Dell, former Sony Pictures digital chief Yair Landau is launching Mass [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 19, 2008
MyToons.com, the world’s first and only online animation community to offer HD animation, today announced the launch of its ground-breaking Digital Portfolio System. Using the Digital Portfolio System, artists and [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 16, 2008
Pepakura is really taking the 3D community by storm. There are just so many magnificent paper craft using Pepakura that I had to do a lens on it! I’ve included some interesting videos and more pictures of Pepakura paper craft there. Please visit it at http://www.squidoo.com/pepakura. For the uninformed, Pepakura Designer is a really amazing software [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 13, 2008
Mobile handset maker Nokia India Pvt. Ltd has hired a nerd to endorse its E-series office handsets, online. He may not score in the dating department, but Dilbert—the main character from the eponymous comic strip syndicated to hundreds of newspapers around the world—can tell you a thing or two about the workspace. The use of comic-strip characters [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 11, 2008
I have previously written an article called “8 Steps to Producing a Cartoon Series” which later sparked off a lot of questions. Most of my answers were made as comments and is becoming a tad untidy. To keep things coherent and easy to read, I’ve consolidated all the articles and Q&A on the topic of [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 8, 2008
I’ve written a post on this amazing software called Pepakura before. Basically it’s a software that allows you to print out blueprints from 3D source files. Using these blueprints you would be able to create paper models. A gentleman called Mark Stewart would like to share this video that shows what some people have been doing [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 31, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIJmegq4IyU Pixar’s ‘UP’ seems to be receiving pretty rave reviews. Even prior to its official release, people who were lucky enough to watch its preview have glowing praises for the show. Here’s what one of them had to say of the animated movie. “Last night my wife and I had the wonderful opportunity to watch an early screening [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 19, 2008
It is normally texting, talking, e-mailing and clicking pictures that are associated with cell phones, but now, you can access or even display 3D virtual reality simulations or animations on them. Researchers have created a new approach based on outsourcing all the heavy number crunching required by CG and virtual reality simulations to servers, by merging [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 17, 2008
85 years ago in 1923 on this very day, the Walt Disney Studios was founded by brothers Walk and Roy Disney! While we reminisce on the magic Disney brought us all these years, here’s also a clip showing what Disney has in store for 2009.
Continue reading...Friday, October 17, 2008
You can almost hear them shouting out, “Look, we can even animate a really old man and you’ll still love it.” Well, with Pixar, you can believe it. It’s just some balloons carrying a house, but since it’s Pixar, we know each of those balloons is full of a child’s dream/soul, and are therefore better than standard [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 13, 2008
Budgets on Bollywood animation have just gone up. While Hollywood giant Disney has entered the fray, local big daddies like Yash Chopra and Percept Picture Company have also joined the animation bandwagon. It is estimated that Bollywood studios are setting aside sum to the tune of Rs 20 crore per animation film. This Diwali, Disney and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Vincent Chai wins Best Animation Award at Festival Filem Malaysia (21st Malaysian Film Festival) for his short film World War. World War was created by talented animator Vincent Chai for his final degree project whilst studying 3D Animation at the University Of Hertfordshire.
Continue reading...Sunday, September 28, 2008
We have given the Mediafreaks Animation Showcase website a grand overhaul! Instead of carrying just animation produced by Mediafreaks, we are collecting and showcasing all kinds of animations available around the world on the internet into this website. From animation movie trailers to game trailers to animated tv commercials to medical animations to show reels, from [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 26, 2008
An artist called Ryan Chapman created this pretty cool and unique stop motion animation using a series of still photographs and the light of a LED keychain. Below is his description of what he did. “Animated light paintings of a little piano player performing. Filmed at night with the lovely I-5 and San Diego skyline in [...]
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