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Miyazaki Embaressed by Japan’s Prime Minister

Thursday, November 20, 2008

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 [...]

Intel and Dell Launch Mass Animation on Facebook

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

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Intel and Dell Launch Mass Animation on Facebook

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 [...]

MyToons Launches Digital Portfolio System

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

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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 [...]

Pepakura Squidoo Lens

Sunday, November 16, 2008

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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 [...]

Cartoon Characters a Cheaper Alternative to Celebrities

Thursday, November 13, 2008

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Cartoon Characters a Cheaper Alternative to Celebrities

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 [...]

Squidoo Lens on Producing a Cartoon Series

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

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Squidoo Lens on Producing a Cartoon Series

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 [...]

Pepakura

Saturday, November 8, 2008

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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 [...]

Glowing Review of Pixar’s Up

Friday, October 31, 2008

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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 [...]

Virtual Realities in Mobile Phones

Sunday, October 19, 2008

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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 [...]

85 Years of Disney!

Friday, October 17, 2008

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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.

Pixar ‘Up’

Friday, October 17, 2008

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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 [...]

Bollywood Gets Animated

Monday, October 13, 2008

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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 [...]

Talented Animation Student Wins Best Animation Award

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

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Talented Animation Student Wins Best Animation Award

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.

Animation Showcase Website

Sunday, September 28, 2008

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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 [...]

Cool Animation of a Light-Painted Piano Player

Friday, September 26, 2008

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Cool Animation of a Light-Painted Piano Player

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 [...]