5 January 2007
Volume - 2
Issue - 26
Q&A with Manoj Mishra, Head of WIPRO Gaming & Animation Practice
"Wipro's Gaming and Animation Practice focuses on outsourced services in the areas of entertainment games, serious games and serious animation."Read
 
Industry Anticipations high from NASSCOM Summit
The stage is set, the countdown has begun for The NASSCOM Animation & Gaming India 2007 summit which kicks off, Wednesday 10 Jan in Hyderabad. Here's what most of the industry leaders have to say about the event as well as their outlook for 2007… Read
 
Interview with Speedy creator
Tim Moster
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"The benefit of having such a large readership of the Speedy comic strip was that when I pitched the series to the broadcaster, I came with a built-in audience of two and a half million people"Read
 
Interview with Mike Yuen,
Sr. Director, BREW Gaming Group, QUALCOMM

"With nearly one Billion mobile devices purchased (globally) every year, wireless gaming has incredible potential ahead of it and may very well exceed the console/PC market someday"Read
 
Interview with Eidos Product Acquisition Director (UK) Ian Livingstone
"In ten years time you would probably be seeing yourself online on the game instead of the characters."Read
 
 

 
Prime Focus Goregaon studio to be led by Amit Gupta
While there are many factors that lead to growth, a company's body language and pace is a reflection of the mindset of its top leadership. And given the aggression and ambition of Managing Director and Founder Namit Malhotra, there is no surprise that growth is something that's constant at Prime Focus.Read

 
 
MEL's animation spreads fragrance of Rajnigandha's music video 'Kevdo'
MEL has recently used its animation prowess to bring to life the music video of 'Kevdo - Fragrance of the Sands' from debutante artist Rajnigandha Shekhawat's album 'Soul of the Desert' which released recently on Times Music.Read
 
Aditi Chitre’s animated film highlights Mumbai fisher folk plight
Aditi Chitre, artist, painter and film maker recently screened her 2D animated short film, The Mall on Top of my House.Read
 
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FiddleFork Online to launch new cartoon series
Having partnered with Canadian cartoon artist Bob Jadis, FiddleFork Online has developed a cartoon series directed towards fiddle players and violinists.Read
 
Pogo celebrates 3rd B-day with special shows
Pogo is celebrating its third birthday on 1 January with a month-long line up of special programming The channel will offer new episodes of its original production, M.A.D. (Music, Art and Dance) and all new episodes.Read
 
Britannia Tiger Hungamathon 2006-2007 kicks off on 7 January
Britannia Tiger Hungamathon 2006-2007a mini marathon for kids by Hungama TV will kick off on 7 January at Bandra Reclamation at 8 am.Read
 
Toon Disney is FTA in Chennai, Trai clarifies
Toon Disney in English and in Tamil are distributed as free-to-air (FTA) channels in the areas covered by conditional access system (Cas) in Chennai.Read
 
New Kids entertainment act strikes chord with adults
The trend of many children's music performers is to offer radio-quality rock and pop. However, Little Nashville offers a twist by performing today's 'hot country' for children while stressing important family values in an entertaining way.Read
 
Disney to amend voting bylaws for election of directors
US media conglomerate Disney has agreed that it will amend its bylaws to provide for a majority vote standard for the election of directors in uncontested elections.Read
 
ImaginAsian TV launches Anime block
Asian American television network ImaginAsian TV (iaTV) in the US will launch a new two-hour primetime anime block Anime EnerG.Read
ANIMATIONXPRESS.COM CASE STUDY :'DON'
Click here to access a sumptous AnimationXpress.com VFX Show Case & study on rechillies.VFX work on DON
 
 
And the Oscar for Best VFX of 2006 goes to…
Plenty evenings left for the big night but the excitement's already on with the announcement of the "long list" of nominees for the Oscar for best VFX and the India angle to it is that Rhythm & Hues, which has a strong facility in India, has been nominated for two features Read
 

 
Adlabs Animation ropes in Sandeep Gangatkar

Gangatkar joins the company with seven years of experience in developing original animation projects and shall be involved in development as well as the production of Superstar and Gini & Jony as well as....Read

 
Graphiti creates new animated logo for CFSI
Leading animation studio, Mumbai based Graphiti Multimedia has created a new Animated logo for The CFSI. The logo was inaugurated by Sonia Gandhi at a Grand Function at the Siri Fort in Delhi which was attended by more than 1600 kids.Read
 
Digital, Interactive: Pixion applies CG/ Gaming fundas for Maruti Estilo test drive
The fundamentals and elements of CG and Gaming when applied for creating interactive marketing solutions can work wonders! Read
 
Reliance , Jump Games launch mobile gaming contest - 'Don Kaun'
Reliance Communications along with leading Indian Game Developer and Publisher Jump Games has announced the launch of mobile gaming contest 'Don Kaun' on the Reliance Mobile World platform.Read
 
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Recruitment Classifieds
RedChillies.VFX Mumbai is hiring 3D Artists, Compositors, Matte Artists, Programmers, etc. To know more details about the openings click here. Please mail your resumes at vfx@redchillies.com
 
Visual Computing Labs is recruiting talented digital artists for various Animation and Visual effects projects. Layout Artists; Storyboard Artists; Color Panelists; 2D Animators; Character /Sets /Prop Modelers; Riggers; 3D Animators; Programmers with Maya API experience; 3D and Vfx Compositors - To build your career with us, please apply to vclcareers@tataelxsi.co.in
 
Toonz Webel Academy is looking for experienced 3D Faculty, preferably with industry background interested to share his/her expertise in Photoshop, Max, Maya and Combustion to the enthusiastic students within its present curriculum. Please apply to webel@vsnl.com
 
NVIDIA is hiring! Application Engineer - Digital Film, India. To be based in Mumbai.
Production Designer to be based in Pune.
To know details about the openings click here.
To know more about NVIDIA India click here.
 
Animation Xpress.com is looking for Web Designers, Journalists and Marketing Professionals. To know more click here
 
ANIRIGHTS INFOMEDIA PVT. LTD. An award winning animated content creation Company is seeking various 2D + 3D talents for IMMEDIATE onsite projects with skills in Layout Art, Storyboard Art, 2D Flash Animation, BG + Matte Painting, 3D Modeling, Rigging, Animation, Texturing, SFX, Cloth + Hair Simulation and Compositing. We offer a great deal of creative opportunity for those wanting to be part of an original content creation team. Send your resume today - hr@anirights.com. come join our winning team.
 
Elecom toon , animation divison of elecom software pvt. Ltd. ( a part of usd 72 million elecom group ) requires for its international classical animation series, animation feature film and flash animation series -

1. 2d manual animator: 2 years experince in cell animation as an manual animator

2. Ib/cu artist: 1 year experince in classical animation project as a ib/cu artist

3. Flash animator: having experience of 1 year as a character animator and having good expertise in flash and photoshop.

The candidates for the above categories having worked for international projects would be first preferred and may send the updated cv to jobs@elecomsoftware.com or contact mr. Abhijit chakraborty at 033 2492 1095 / 7772.

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