Thursday, April 28, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
animago AWARD
Inspiration, Motivation, Celebration
The international contest around 3D, visual effects & interactive!
The animago AWARD honours the best productions in the field of Digital Content Creation (DCC) for the 15th time. The contest has received over 14.000 entries and people from more than 80 countries have registered to submit their works. Mesure yourself with the best again this year and send in your entry till 30th of June via the website www.animago.com
animago CATEGORIES:
Save the date: animago AWARD & CONFERENCE 27th and 28th of October 2011
Event location: mediasite Potsdam-Babelsberg near Berlin,
the famous film production place of Germany
The international contest around 3D, visual effects & interactive!
The animago AWARD honours the best productions in the field of Digital Content Creation (DCC) for the 15th time. The contest has received over 14.000 entries and people from more than 80 countries have registered to submit their works. Mesure yourself with the best again this year and send in your entry till 30th of June via the website www.animago.com
animago CATEGORIES:
| Best Still Best Character Design Best Postproduction Best Digital Animated Short Best Advertising Production Best Interactive Production | Best Game Design Best Stereo-3D-Production Best Visualisation Best Young Production Jury‘s Prize |
Save the date: animago AWARD & CONFERENCE 27th and 28th of October 2011
Event location: mediasite Potsdam-Babelsberg near Berlin,
the famous film production place of Germany
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
"Indian Animation industry is struggling to survive" - N. R. Panicker
By Money Sharma, March 23, 2011 - 18:52 IST
The cat is out of the bag. The Indian Animation industry isn't exactly in the pink of health. Even industry veterans are accepting it now, on record.
"If you produce an animated series with a given amount, generally you recover only a part of your investment through the sale of broadcasting rights. We need to find more ways of getting revenues, as the Indian Animation Industry is struggling to survive," said N. R. Panicker, Chairman of Accel Animation Studios, speaking at a panel discussion on the inaugural day of India's biggest media and entertainment convention, FICCI Frames 2011.
Discussing the state of Indian animation along with Panicker, were Big Animation CEO Ashish Kulkarni (moderator) Turner's Mark Eyers, Maya Digital Studios' Frank Foster, Golden Bridge Animation Studios' Agnes Li and Graphiti Multimedia's Munjal Shroff. The topic under discussion: 'Challenges of Creating Animated Content from Asia Pacific for Global Distribution'.
Citing the example of his own studio, Panicker further emphasized on how he has been working with a European investor. "We need to look more on co-production treaties, which will help us in getting the content picked up for the universal market," he added. This statement is relevant in the light of the fact that indigenous animation content broadcasting never really took off in the Indian context. Animation films have also failed to earn decent revenues at the box-office.
Munjal Shroff outlined the problems, "We came from an advertising background producing a lot of short form content. With due course of time, when we started working on long form content, we learnt that timely delivery is the key. If we miss the deadlines by a few days, we miss our slots on the TV."
In reply to a question and highlighting the key factor one should consider before green lighting a project, Agnes said, "We would firstly look at the story and then the characters because it is the characters that help you a lot when it comes to revenue generation, especially in the form of licensing and merchandising revenues."
The panel discussed the co-production challenges that Indian animation studios faced while dealing with their counterparts in Asia-Pacific and other countries, and also what it took to create universal content for the global audience. It also enlisted the ways to get into co-production and discussed new character brands and story flavors that the Asia Pacific region could contribute to the global content library.
"If you produce an animated series with a given amount, generally you recover only a part of your investment through the sale of broadcasting rights. We need to find more ways of getting revenues, as the Indian Animation Industry is struggling to survive," said N. R. Panicker, Chairman of Accel Animation Studios, speaking at a panel discussion on the inaugural day of India's biggest media and entertainment convention, FICCI Frames 2011.
Discussing the state of Indian animation along with Panicker, were Big Animation CEO Ashish Kulkarni (moderator) Turner's Mark Eyers, Maya Digital Studios' Frank Foster, Golden Bridge Animation Studios' Agnes Li and Graphiti Multimedia's Munjal Shroff. The topic under discussion: 'Challenges of Creating Animated Content from Asia Pacific for Global Distribution'.
Citing the example of his own studio, Panicker further emphasized on how he has been working with a European investor. "We need to look more on co-production treaties, which will help us in getting the content picked up for the universal market," he added. This statement is relevant in the light of the fact that indigenous animation content broadcasting never really took off in the Indian context. Animation films have also failed to earn decent revenues at the box-office.
Munjal Shroff outlined the problems, "We came from an advertising background producing a lot of short form content. With due course of time, when we started working on long form content, we learnt that timely delivery is the key. If we miss the deadlines by a few days, we miss our slots on the TV."
In reply to a question and highlighting the key factor one should consider before green lighting a project, Agnes said, "We would firstly look at the story and then the characters because it is the characters that help you a lot when it comes to revenue generation, especially in the form of licensing and merchandising revenues."
The panel discussed the co-production challenges that Indian animation studios faced while dealing with their counterparts in Asia-Pacific and other countries, and also what it took to create universal content for the global audience. It also enlisted the ways to get into co-production and discussed new character brands and story flavors that the Asia Pacific region could contribute to the global content library.
Friday, April 1, 2011
Animation Challenge
Registration is available now for our second annual Animation contest. Account activation will begin April 1st. The contest will kick into full swing with the release of audio files on April 7th. Beginning with the Audio file release you will have one month to animate your mouses off. We are mixing things up a bit with a little "Dialog Roulette". Contestants may choose from a few audio files with which they animate. In fact, you may enter once for each of the dialog tracks (pending outcome of dialog vote). Prizes will be awarded to the best animation based on judges and member choice voting. Animation quality is the number one factor for voting so it's best to do one shot very well as opposed to a bunch of mediocre shots.
As with our last contest, free membership for the duration of the contest will be provided. Current members will receive credit for the time and we will put any recurring memberships on pause during the contest.
Did we mention PRIZES? Check out the prize section to see the latest prize information.
Once again we are doing this to help encourage feedback. members have been incredible in pushing the rigs to the next level and we'd like to push even harder. With the help of Animators of all levels world wide we can accelerate the process of improving rigging and animator interaction. You'll be able to use your entries for demo reels and self promotional purposes in accordance with the official rules (read them).
Entries will be judged by a jury of professionals and animationRigs.com registered users.
So, friends keep Animating.........
Rio - Official Trailer [HD]
Release Date: 8 April 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh9jZo5UIEA&feature=related
WOWwww...Great Animation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh9jZo5UIEA&feature=related
WOWwww...Great Animation.
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