Balaji
Telefilms mulls Animation foray
It's made its name in the TV soap business emerging
as amongst the most successful TV producers
in India. Now Balaji Telefilms is hoping to
replicate that success in animation. In its
latest annual report, the company has announced
its intent to expand into animation.Read
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VCL
creates CG stadium, crowds for KANK
Leading
Indian animation and VFX major Visual Computing
Labs (VCL), a division of Tata Elxsi, has showcased
its mastery over VFX with its work in the Karan
Johar directed multistarrer Kabhi Alvida Na
Kehna (KANK).Read
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Indian
writer wins Columbine Award for screenplay
Delhi
based screen-play writer Deepak Arora recently won
the Columbine Award at the Moondance International
Film Festival for his work on the animated feature
'Queen of the Jungle' in the category of Best Feature
Screenplay for Kids.Read
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Virtual
Soft Technologies' hands full with projects
Chandigarh
based animation studio, Virtual Soft Technologies
one of the first in the city to have started animation
is currently working on a number of multimedia projects.Read |
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Simpsons,
Mickey face a ban in China
Foreign
cartoons will no more be a source of entertainment
for Chinese kids. From 1 September, cartoon series
produced outside of China will be banned from local
broadcast between 5 pm and 8 pm.Read |
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And
now, play KANK on your handsets
After
setting the box office afire, Karan Johar's latest
multi-starrer 'Kabhi Alvida Na Kahana' can now be
consumed on your mobile phone, albeit as a game.Read |
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AOL
buys video game site GameDaily
AOL
has acquired GameDaily, one of the Internet’s
leading independent video game publications, from
Gigex, Inc, but did not disclose the financial terms.Read |
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Sesame
Workshop promotes Schneiderman to manager of international
TV distribution
Sesame
Workshop has promoted Celia Schneiderman to manager
international television distribution. Responsible
for program sales in Asia, Latin America, Canada,
the Caribbean, and in-flight, Schneiderman will
report to Sesame Workshop.Read
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Microsoft
invites the world to create its own Xbox 360 console
games
In
the 30 years of video game development, the art
of making console games has been reserved for those
with big projects, big budgets and the backing of
big game labels.Read
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Disney
reorganises global home entertainment division Buena
Vista Home Entertainment
Less
than a month after laying off 650 employees US media
conglomerate Disney has announced a major restructuring
of its home entertainment division.Read
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WPP
invests in online game publisher WildTangent for
in-game advertising
WPP
has announced a new strategic investment in online
game publisher WildTangent by recognising the development
of online video games as an important communications
platform for marketers and the role that in-and-around
video game WildTangent plays in this emerging medium.Read |
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 Gamelot
gets the mobile game rights for ‘Lost’,
‘Desperate Housewives’
Gameloft,
a developer and publisher of games for mobile phones,
has signed an exclusive multi-year agreement with
Touchstone Television to develop, publish and distribute
mobile games based on US broadcaster ABCs series
Lost and Desperate Housewives.Read |
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Animax
to air animation movie block 'Ani-Flix' on Saturdays
Get
addicted and be different! Animax is rolling out
Ani-Flix, a new animation movie block on Saturday
nights, which will air blockbuster animation films.Read |
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Animax
goes all English from 15 August
Animax,
the international animation channel, adopts a complete
English language feed as a continuation of the Animax
Refresh to meet the requirements of an ever growing
and discerning Indian viewership starting this month.Read |
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Gaming
Update!
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Lakshya
delivers art for top US
TV series' game
New
Delhi based game art development
studio Lakshya Digital has
recently delivered game
art for a high-end PC /
Console game being created
around one of the top rated
US TV series Read |
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| Int.
with Indiagames Samir Bangara
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"What
sets us apart is
the depth of the
entire team"
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Comics
& Illustration!
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Virgin
launches comic range in
India
Last
month Virgin Comics (VC)
achieved great success for
their Devi series
in the Big Apple, they had
to go through two reprints
of the July debut edition.
Devi was one of the
four launched there - the
others being Sadhu, Snake
Woman and Ramayana 3392AD.Read |
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Book
Matrix sets high score with
Illustrations galore
For
all those who follow Indian
Animation outsourcing religiously,
here's an interesting story
on a related topic, Illustration
services.Read
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Bhaskar
Group launches Yo magazine
for children in Chandigarh
The
Bhaskar Group has launched
Yo, a bilingual magazine
for children for the Chandigarh
market targeting readers
of the 9-14 age bracket.
Yo is a bi-monthly tabloid,
which will be distributed
on alternate Fridays with
the Dainik Bhaskar.Read |
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A
fun school to be in...
There's something special about this
place... for sure!
Education
for kids in India just got a fresh "fun
face of learning" as Cartoon Network
launched Galli Galli Sim Sim -- the
Indian version of Sesame Street -- on
15 August. With a catchy foot-tapping
title track, this one is a sure shot
winner from the house of Turner Broadcasting
Network India and Miditech.Read |
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| Technology
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QUALCOMM
to acquire Qualphone Inc.
QUALCOMM
Incorporated, a leading developer
and innovator of Code Division Multiple
Access (CDMA) and other advanced
wireless technologies, today announced
that it will acquire San Diego-based
Qualphone Inc.Read
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REALVIZ
Stitcher Unlimited showcases ImmerVision's
PURE Player
REALVIZ, a leading developer of image
processing software, announced the
availability of ImmerVision's IVP
standard file format within REALVIZ'
Stitcher Unlimited 5.5 for professional
panorama creators.Read
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