Archive of the Animation Category

Company Designs Main Title Sequence For New Walt Disney Pictures Feature

HOLLYWOOD, CA ­ A lush, illustrated pastiche of well-known fairytale imagery drives the main title sequence for Walt Disney Picture’s highly-anticipated new film Enchanted, created by yU+co, the three-time Emmy nominated creative design studio founded by Creative Director Garson Yu. Kicking of the holiday movie season, Enchanted opens in theatres on November 21. more

Division is renamed Deluxe Vancouver Ltd.

Vancouver, BC – January 9, 2008 – Deluxe Vancouver Ltd., a division of Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc. (“Deluxe�) announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Rainmaker Income Fund’s (TSX: RNK.un) post production and visual effects business in Vancouver and its visual effects operation in London. The acquisition does not include its animation business in Vancouver. more

Mammoth HD
Mammoth HD Opens dedicated Motion Gallery and adds 15 new Royalty-Free Collections to the General Library.

Mammoth HD expands the MHD footage/video library with a dedicated Motion/3D Gallery and Library. Featuring the works of Collider, Inc. and PostPhase. New additions this month include the Digital Garden Loop series by Collider, Inc. more

Boris FX Releases Boris Title Toolkit for Adobe After Effects CS3
Marlborough MA – January 8, 2008, 2007 - Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, today made available Boris Title Toolkit 1.1. Boris Title Toolkit is a high-quality, titling plug-in for Adobe’s After Effects application. The new Boris point release enables Adobe After Effects (Adobe CS 3) artists to use the Boris Title Toolkit plug-in with new operating systems from Apple (Leopard) and Microsoft (Windows Vista). The update is offered as a free electronic download for existing Boris Title Toolkit 1.0 customers (www.borisfx.com). more

HOLLYWOOD and NEW YORK — Bicoastal creative production company Stardust Studios recently produced a dynamic :15 video installation piece for a Zune account creative team from newly established shop, T.A.G., San Francisco, which included group creative directors Scott Duchon and Geoff Edwards, art director Rey Andrade, copywriter Joe Rose, director of broadcast production Jan O’Malley and agency producer Lee Anne Weldon. The finished piece entitled “Zune Tron” ran on the famous 20-foot LED “GeoffreyTron” video billboard located above Toys”R”Us in New York City’s Times Square throughout the recent holiday season, and Stardust’s artwork created for the project has also been used in the agency’s campaign print and online banner ads. more

Ever want to make an animated movie? Cascade ACM SIGGRAPH, Oregon and Southwest Washington’s local SIGGRAPH chapter, today announced in partnership with Frederator Studios “Drinking and Drawing,� scheduled to take place Wednesday, Jan. 23 at 8 p.m. at Someday Lounge located at 125 NW 5 Avenue in downtown Portland, Ore.

This event brings together a multitude of Portland’s creative minds and cartoon enthusiasts for a night of collective animation that culminates in an animated movie. Participants will be broken up into teams as the first set of six animators race to create eight frames in ten minutes, leaving their last frame on their light box. Starting with the previous artist’s last frame, the next set of people will produce another eight frames, and so on. Each animator will only see the frames he or she is currently drawing. At the end of the evening, six different collaborative films will be projected on the big screen for everyone to enjoy. more

mocha Tackles Complex Roto and Tracking Jobs for Janimation Artists in Fraction of the Time; Accelerated VFX Workflow Transforms Tedium into Profit

GUILDFORD, UK (January 8, 2008) When the VFX artists of Janimation, Inc. (www.janimation.com) were approached by a client to complete a highly complex television commercial spot, with “Pleasantville-esque� color and visual effects requirements, they turned to their internal IT manager for some suggestions. A recently launched rotoscoping and planar tracking tool from Imagineer Systems (www.imagineersystems.com) called mocha was at the top of the list. more

NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA), the world leader in visual computing technologies, once again takes the lead in improving productivity for computer-aided design (CAD) and digital content creators with the announcement of the NVIDIA Quadro® FX 3700, a high-end graphics board capable of delivering a performance increase of up to 2X as compared to the previous generation of product. more

SEATTLE—It’s not unusual for directors, editors and others artists involved in the production of television commercials to create spec work to show off their talent, but it’s rare for such projects to actually appear on the air. An exception to that rule is a new US Airways spot that was created as a spec project by Seattle design and editorial studio World Famous. more

Leading visual effects software developer The Foundry has kicked-off 2008 with the release of its Furnace 4 plug-ins for eyeon Software’s Fusion. The toolset is brand new to Fusion artists, giving them access to a host of advanced image processing tools designed to enhance workflow and boost productivity in digital visual effects post production.

Thousands of leading digital artists worldwide already take advantage of Furnace to ease the routine processes involved with the creation of digital visual effects. With The Foundry’s Furnace 4 for Fusion now shipping, Fusion artists will, for the first time, be able to gain access to a broad range of The Foundry’s sophisticated motion estimation technology. more