[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fmBrRcFSwM[/youtube] The Travels of Wiglington and Wenks Virtual World is an exciting new online virtual world for kids aged 7 to 14 due to launch in the Christmas of 2009. Adapted from a popular children story book series, The Travels of Wiglington and Wenks contains loads of fun and exciting games and adventures that promote the spirit of [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 30, 2009
We know the heavy players in the realm of commercial and free virtual worlds. There is the immovable giant that is Second Life. There is the popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft. Even the free virtual world for kids that is Poptropica has entered the top 300 sites. So if you [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 17, 2009
There are people gifted with excessive amounts of riches that they can afford to go and visit all the exciting destinations in the world. A few select people have jobs which allow them to live in airports figuratively because they have to go on various locations for business purposes. But well not everyone has that [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 17, 2009
On average, a new technology would have to take about ten years or so before it becomes integrated into everyday life. We’ve seen this with mobile phones and the World Wide Web. With the emergence of commercial and free virtual worlds, technology is once again expanding in its reach with a host of features to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 17, 2009
PLAZA SESAMO’s beloved new friend Abby Cadabby is spreading her fairy wings and flying over to 3, 2, 1 VAMOS!, an original half-hour preschool cartoon animation program premiering on June 22 on Discovery Kids Latin America. 321 VAMOS will feature segments from beloved children’s shows PLAY WITH ME SESAME and GLOBAL GROVER and introduce children [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Officially kicking the summer television season into high gear, Cartoon Network’s newest cartoon animation series TOTAL DRAMA ACTION premiered Thursday night (June 11, 9 p.m.) as the most-watched program of the day on all television-broadcast and cable-among kids 6-11, kids 9-14 and boys 2-11, 6-11 and 9-14, according to preliminary data from Nielsen Media Research. The [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Nickelodeon’s hit cartoon animation series, THE PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR (Sunday, June 14, 10 a.m. ET/PT) averaged 3.7 million total viewers (P2+) and ranked as the week’s top kids’ show with P2+ on all of basic cable with the repeat performance of “The Hidden/Kingdom Come”. The Penguins Saturday morning play (”Little Zoo Coupe/All Choked Up”, June [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 17, 2009
In March of 2008, the Foreign Ministry of Japan appointed a certain cartoon character Doraemon into an anime ambassador. While it can be argued what exactly an anime ambassador does, it is a great honor for a cartoon character – and only those with such high status in the popular culture of a country (in [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Commercial and free online virtual worlds are gaining more ground and acceptance in everyday life. This is why academicians and business experts are seeing more potential in them not only as a medium for entertainment but for training as well. There are exciting features offered by the platform of virtual worlds which are innovative and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 16, 2009
FOX has set the fall premiere date for its new cartoon animation series The Cleveland Show on September 27 Sunday at 8:30-9PM ET/PT. This will be coupled by the return of The Simpsons (8-8:30 PM) as well as American Dad (9:30-10PM) in order to complete the Animation Domination time table of Fox. The Cleveland Show is [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Coraline, the stop motion clay animation feature film adaptation of a Neil Gaiman novel and the clay cartoon animation full-length movie Mary and Max were the winners of the Best Feature Award during the conclusion of the Annecy Animation Festival. French co-production BRENDAN AND THE SECRET OF KELLS came away with the audience prize. Here are [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 16, 2009
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will expand its three-month celebration of anime with a screening of the 2002 Oscar-winning cartoon animation feature “Spirited Away” on Friday, July 17, at 7:30 p.m., and “A Tribute to Animation Master Hayao Miyazaki” on Tuesday, July 28, at 7:30 p.m. Both events will take place at [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 16, 2009
It is only a few days before the release of the upcoming sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and the theaters are now being filled with trailers trying to hype us with a lot of computer-generated imagery from the best 3D animation studios of Hollywood. With director Michael Bay in the helm and a bigger [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 16, 2009
The technology has been around for very long but it was until the arrival of Twitter that the entire phenomenon of social networking really boomed. Because of the extensive reach of Twitter as a social networking phenomenon, it was able to cultivate an online community akin to the networks of commercial and free online virtual [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 16, 2009
If the life-size likeness of a Gundam being finished in Japan is not enough testimony to how the concept of giant robots with massive firepower and fluid mobility has been scintillating the imagination of people for many years, then I don’t know what will. At one point in time, a person closely exposed to the [...]
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