Darwin Dimensions, creator of Evolver, the world’s first web based tool for building custom 3D animation character models, and Avatara, a 3D avatar generator designed specifically for social media enthusiasts, has upgraded its content library to include pro soccer apparel and realistic soccer animations for 3D characters created on the site. Timed with the World Cup, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 14, 2010
Freeplay socialamedia game and experience based on M. Night Shyamalan’s July 2, 2010 release The Last Airbender allows fans to play as any one of the Four Nations Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies and Crunchyroll, Inc., announced today the release of ‘Become the Avatar,’ a freeplay interactive social media game and experience based on M. Night Shyamalan’s [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 22, 2010
Take a magical, mystical, action-packed journey with Avatar: The Last Airbender, the animated series that quickly became a phenomenon, creating a huge fan base that spans the globe. Watch the luminous visuals and the incredible storyline that inspired this summer’s live-action movie The Last Airbender, directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Avatar: The Last Airbender [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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. During its seventh weekend, the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 29, 2010
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 into James Cameron’s Avatar™: The [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 30, 2009
For AVATAR, PLF (Pixel Liberation Front) was charged with the designing and animation of the monitors and HUDs for the fleet of military aircraft, a handful of shots in the shack set and some set-extension composites. In all, they delivered more than 220 shots. “For the military aircraft, Jim [Cameron] wanted an authentic approach to the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 25, 2009
James Cameron generally gets the bang for his bucks, even though the bucks are mind-boggling. This fascinating sci-fi adventure took four years to produce. There is very little wasted on speeches about people contemplating their navels. Cameron’s films are action films and they proceed apace. There are really two stories when you go to see Avatar. [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Ford Motor Company is the only automaker to use the same type of motion-capture software in its virtual engineering labs as Hollywood employs to create such motion pictures as “Avatar,” “Lord of the Rings,” “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” and “Polar Express” Ford uses motion-capture software for a variety of automotive applications including the study [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 16, 2009
IMAX Corporation and Twentieth Century Fox today announced that James Cameron’s Avatar will open in 178 IMAX(R) theatres domestically on December 18, 2009, simultaneously with the motion picture’s premiere in conventional theatres. The IMAX(R) 3D release will also open in 83 IMAX theatres internationally starting on December 16th, for a total of 261 theatres, making [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 15, 2009
On December 18th, Twentieth Century Fox will release Academy Award®-winner James Cameron’s epic adventure – Avatar. To support the film, Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising (Fox Licensing) will launch one of its most innovative merchandising campaigns to date introducing more than 125 products across four key categories: video games, toys, apparel and [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 31, 2009
In a landscape of sequels and remakes, one of the most expensive films in history, AVATAR, is being compared to a low-budget, independent, 3D animation feature, DELGO. The much anticipated AVATAR trailer was released online last week and viewer traffic overwhelmed Apple.com’s trailer site. Almost immediately, reactions were posted on the internet with comments like “AVATAR [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 26, 2009
How can a short teaser trailer receive 4 million streams in its first day online? The secret formula seems to rest on a very accomplished director/writer who is the man behind Titanic and the Terminator franchise: James Cameron. Cameron’s latest opus, Avatar, broke Apple.com records for the release of its original trailer. The original number was [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 20, 2009
Even if acclaimed director James Cameron has been saying that he’ll be open in discussing the making of his latest science fiction 3D animation-powered opus Avatar, there is still not much to chew on while we wait for the movie to air at the end of the year this December. Now, a fully processed image [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 25, 2009
James Cameron’s Avatar is still a mystery to many people. Apart from a plot summary, backing from the 3D animation studio Weta Digital and some movie posters, there is not much there to see for moviegoers about the hyped 3D animation science fiction film. But early signs from people who have been provided an early [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 20, 2009
James Cameron will let us in on the production processes behind the creation of the much-anticipated 3D-powered film, Avatar. With its artistic blend of live action 3D, computer-generated 3D animation and photo-real visual effects, Avatar is on the watch list of many film buffs and enthusiasts for its theatrical release this December 2009. Noted for his [...]
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