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18
August 2005
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Volume
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Issue
-59
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| Introducing...
Gaming Gyaan |
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*Starting
this week, every issue of Animation 'xpress
shall include Gaming Gyaan, a section dedicated
to Indian gaming.
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| News
& Features |
Animation
set to woo Indian mainstream

26 August will see the much awaited theatrical
release of ZEE Telefilms' Bhaggmati - The
Queen of Fortunes.A couple of months later
Sahara Percept's Hanuman is set to
storm Indian cinescreens. Within a span of
2 months, Indian audiences will have not one
but two animated features to watch. Read
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Sahara's
chance to push animation with Hanuman
Be
it his super powers, or the religious angle,
be it the Indian culture and values or the
character's antics as a child, Hanuman
is a very appealing subject and connects to
the Indian audience on many levels. The 2D
feature can serve as an excellent vehicle
for exposing the Indian masses to the multi
artistic medium of animation. Read
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| Briefly |
Autodesk
Game Industry Icons 7 city tour comes
to Mumbai on 22
The
Mumbai leg is scheduled for 22 August
at Grand Sangam Ballroom, Hotel JW Marriot
between 2-5 pm.
The
line up includes
Dr. Michael Capps, President of Epic
Games will be on hand to present the
pipeline benefits of Unreal® Engine
3. Also Diarmid Clarke, Senior External
Producer at BioWare will provide an
inside look at the making of mega-hit
Jade Empire.
Michel Kripalani, Games Industry Manager
from Autodesk will provide an overview
of the use of 3ds Max in game studios
worldwide. |
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Simi's
In the Air selected for Leipzig
Ashu
& Dhruv's music video "In
the Air" the animation direction
for which was done by Simi Nallaseth
has been selected for the International
Panorama of the 48th International Leipzig
Festival for Documentary and Animated
Film to be held from the 3rd to 9th
October 2005 in Germany.
The video features a susbtantial amount
of post animation
Click
here to download a clip from the
video. |
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Toon
Boom Wins a Primetime Emmy® Engineering
Award
Toon
Boom Animation recently announced that the
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
has granted a 2005 Primetime Emmy® Engineering
Award to USAnimation Opus.
"We are extremely proud to receive this
award and are grateful to the Academy for
recognizing the great contribution USAnimation
Opus has made to the animation industry targeted
for television. Since our vector technology
extensively developed in Opus has been deployed
to our entire family of products, this Emmy
award applies to all of them", shared
Joan Vogelesang, President and Chief Executive
Officer at Toon Boom. |
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HP
Technology Brings Animal Magic to Madagascar
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pic
courtesy yahoo movies
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HP
xw8000 Workstations provided Madagascar's
digital artists with state-of-the-art dual
processors and the fastest available memory.
This allowed animators to see more visual
detail interactively on their desktops, and
enabled DreamWorks to scale the complexity
of crowd scenes, from the humans in the zoo
to the furry lemurs in the jungle.
HP
technology also helped animators meet the
daunting challenge of creating dense jungle
scenes. In one computational complex scene,
there were more than 900 furry, dancing
lemurs.
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Apple
Introduces Mighty Mouse
Mighty
Mouse offers power users up to four independently
programmable buttons, without compromising
simplicity for users who prefer just a single-button
mouse. Mighty Mouse also introduces an ingenious
Scroll Ball that lets users scroll in any
direction-vertically, horizontally and even
diagonally. With the Scroll Ball, users can
scroll with natural, fluid movements, making
Mighty Mouse perfect for applications from
viewing web pages and photographs, to video
editing and music creation. Mighty Mouse is
priced at a suggested retail price of just
Rs.2,700. |
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FICCI
VEC launch 29 Aug with seminar in Chennai
FICCI
VEC formally launches on 29 Aug and to set the ball
rolling, the society has organised a half day seminar
at the Le Meriden;Chennai. Read
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N
Madhusudhanan to recieve award in LA
VFX
producer N Madhusudhan is to recieve the Dr Zakir
Hussain award for outstanding contribution to arts
at the 58th Independence Day & Awards function
organised by Friends of Indo - American community
(FOIAC). ...Read
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Animation
shorts invited for IDPA Awards
The
Indian Documentary Producers Association, currently
in its 49th year of operations is inviting animated
shorts for the IDPA Awards which are scheduled to
be held on 22 October 2005 in Mumbai. Last date
for entries is...Read
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from Indiantelevision.com |
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Zee
to release 'Bhaggmati' on 26 August
Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL) will
release India's first live animation feature film
Bhaggmati - The queen of fortunes on 26 August.Read
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CN
to air Barbie movies on Raksha Bandhan...
Raksha
Bandhan is round the corner and its that time of
the year when girls receive gifts and goodies! To
add to the excitement, Mattel Toys have lined up
a special treat on Cartoon Network.Read
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Nick
US to boost online with NickMail Maker
In
a bid to boost its online presence, kids brand Nickelodeon
in the US will later this week debut NickMail Maker
on its site Nick.com.Read
Report |
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Cartoon
Net, Funskool ink deal for 'Beyblade'
Cartoon
Network Enterprises, the consumer products division
of Cartoon Network has inked a licensing deal with
Funskool India for Beyblade toys.Read
Report |
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| Links
to other important reports on the web |
| Comic-Con
International 2005 Report - Awn |
Vinod
bags international animation film award
- Newindpresss |
| Pixar
Animation's Joe Ranft, 45 - The
Hollywood Reporter |
Bangkok
- Chiang Mai to showcase animation
- Bangkok Post |
| North
Korea: an outpost of animation? - Reuters |
| NZ
Adult Animation Scores Australian Slot - Worldscreen |
| Iger
moves quickly as Eisner smoothes transition at Disney
- IHT |
| Pact
forms kids/animation policy group - C21 Media |
| Nintendo
Spins the Revolution - gamespyCUBE |
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