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With power packed 35 session line up, CGOverdrive 10' this year was a complete knowledge intensive and expertise sharing affair. The students, CG artists and enthusiasts who attended the event, got the opportunity to get insights on various technical and artistic aspects of CG production and filmmaking from domain experts who had travelled from all over the world. With a turnout of 400+ from Singapore, Malaysia, Phillipines etc.....
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Boasting computing prowess of some 120 high performance servers, coupled with the latest IBM rendering software and an animation cloud with high throughput broadband connections, the Rendering Farm is acclaimed to be the most advanced in the country, and the first public animation cloud centre in ASEAN.

The MAC3 Rendering Farm is part of the MSC Malaysia Animation and Creative Content Centre or MAC3, a strategic division established by MDeC with......

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NTU School of Arts, Design and Media recently presented the 'ADM Show 2010' screening 20 short films of their graduate students. Spanning six diverse majors, the ADM Show 2010 showcased graduating students' final year projects encompassing Digital Animation, Digital Filmmaking, Interactive Media, Photography & Digital Imaging, Product Design and Visual Communication

Over 300 attendees including students, parents, faculty members and some of the top notch companies in Singaporel.....

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SIGGRAPH recently announced the Computer Animation Festival's Best in Show, Jury Award, and Best Student Project recipients for SIGGRAPH 2010 to be held in Los Angeles this July. Nominees were chosen from 750 submissions from around the world. In this interview, Isaac Kerlow, Director of SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival gives Animation Xpress Asia Pacific a sneak peek into the winners and the highlights of Computer Animation Festival 10'. ....
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KUALA LUMPUR : The Association of Post Production and Animation Companies Malaysia (POSTAM) is all set to conduct 3D Stereoscopic seminar in Kuala Lumpur on 8th July 2010 at the MATRADE Exhibition & Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur.

Craig Tanner, Avatar Stereoscopic 3D and Visual Effects Specialist and Gina Light Tanner, Stereoscopic 3D Filmmaker will be conducting the one day event. Craig and Gina are responsible for the stunning Stereoscopic.....

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KidsCo has signed a deal with Indonesian direct broadcast satellite pay television platform, AORA, in Indonesia. KidsCo's programming will be available from 1st August 2010 and will provide engaging and educational content as part of AORA's pay-TV service.

KidsCo will air shows including 'The Wiggles', 'Nalong Fly to the Sky', 'Inspector Gadget', 'Babar', 'Franklin and Spheres', as well as original content such as Boo & Me, Boo's Sanctuary and Jass Time!.....

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Leading visual effects software developer, The Foundry announced that Global Visual Entertainment Services group, Prime Focus, has purchased a site license of Nuke to revamp their in-house pipeline. Since its modest beginnings in a Mumbai garage in 1997, Prime Focus has grown into the world's leading Visual Entertainment Services group, employing over 1,200 staff across three continents and five timezones.....
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IMAX Corporation and SM Prime Holdings, the largest mall operator and exhibitor in the Philippines, have announced an agreement to install five digital IMAX projection systems at SM shopping malls in the cities of Las Piñas City, Fort Bonifacio, Davao City, Angeles City and Manila. The deal follows the market-leading success of SM's two existing IMAX(R) theatres in Manila and Quezon, with the operator's first IMAX location in Manila ranking as the highest grossing screen in the country since it opened.


Under the terms of the parties' agreement, three of the IMAX theatre systems are expected to be.......

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The Foundry, a leading developer of visual effects software has announced that Double Negative and Framestore have made a significant investment in it's newest product - MARI.

 

MARI is a brand new creative 3D texture painting product originally developed at Weta Digital to handle the exceedingly detailed look development and texture work demanded by Avatar, MARI copes easily with an obsessive level of detail - literally tens of thousands of textures - quickly and elegantly......

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HP and Cartoon Network have once again joined forces to unleash the inner animator in kids across Asia Pacific with an all-new Toon Creator Awards for 2010 (www.ToonCreatorAwards.com).

 

Back by popular demand, this year's Toon Creator Awards will kick off on July 1, and invite kids aged 6-14 from Australia, India, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines and Pakistan to showcase their creativity through cutting-edge technology .....

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Framestore and Nokia have launched a competition inviting amateur animators and VFX enthusiasts to contribute ideas for an exciting new special effect for their new project, FX Studio. FX Studio is a mobile and web-based application that allows people everywhere to add a range of Hollywood-quality special effects to their home movies. Using 3D marker technology and external rendering processes, the application is poised to deliver startling results.
FX Studio will feature a number of effects from a range of film genres. Entrants to the competition have been asked to submit an idea for the final Sci-Fi special effect,......
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