Anime

Adobe Offers Creative Suite 3 Cross Platform

Adobe Systems Inc. announced Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium software, a complete integrated post-production solution. Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium offers unprecedented levels of integration across major new releases of its video, audio and web software, including Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional, Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Adobe Encore CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Flash CS3 Professional and Adobe Soundbooth CS3.

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Animation Headline News

New Animation World Mag Acrobat Edition Now on Virtual Shelves!

It's time to download your copy of the latest Acrobat edition of ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE while it's still available for free. This edition covers pitching and development. Tom Sito highlights a bit of the history of pitching in addition to some classic pitching disasters from Walt's days to today. Joe Strike chats with a few top execs to collect the stories of their "worst pitch ever." Janet Hetherington investigates the stories behind several successful pitches, including an animated owl, an obsessed scout, a mad scientist and some talented talking dogs.

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Motion Headline News

Art Institute of California - SF Starts VFX & Motion Graphics Degree

The Art Institute of California - San Francisco start offering a bachelor's degree in Visual Effects & Motion Graphics, in summer 2007.

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Awards Headline News

Create Awards Opens for Submissions

2007 Create AwardsWorld Wide WebJuly 6, 2007Deadline: July 6, 2007

The 2007 Create Awards - one of the top creative competitions for professionals and students in advertising, film and video, motion graphics, graphic communication, photography, printing, interactive media, and copywriting - announces its official call for entries.

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Awards Headline News

LOBO Scoops ILDA Awards Again

The annual conference of the International Laser Display Association, the umbrella organization of all laser professionals worldwide, was held in China near Hong Kong recently.

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Speed Headline News

Speed Racer Gets the Green Flag for May 9, 2008

SPEED RACER, the live-action feature from the Wachowski brothers, now opens May 9, 2008, two weeks earlier than previously slated, thus avoiding a Memorial weekend showdown with INDIANA JONES 4 from George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. In addition to opening wide domestically, the actioner from Warner Bros. Pictures will be released day-and-date in a majority of the international markets.

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Headline News

wondertouch Offers Three New Motion Graphics-Themed Libraries

wondertouch has released three new libraries in its Professional Emitters (Pro Emitters) product line for particleIllusion 3.0 software. Each library contains 30 emitters that are thematically geared to providing sophisticated, ready-to-use, motion graphics style particle-based effects.

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Headline News

Popular Anime a Slam Dunk as Live-Action Feature

Hong Kong's Emperor Motion Picture and Japan's Kadokawa Herald Pictures have teamed to adapt the popular SLAM DUNK manga into a live-action feature, VARIETY reports.

Kevin Chu Yin Ping (EXPECT A MIRACLE) will direct the pic, which starts shooting next week in Shanghai and Taiwan. It's scheduled for a winter 2008 release.

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Animation Headline News

Platform Extends Deadline

Platform International Animation Festival has extended its film entry deadline to March 15, 2007. The event debuts June 25-30, 2007, in Portland, Oregon.

The no entry fee competition with cash prizes is open to films under 40 minutes (no minimum running time). Directors in competition will be provided with accommodation, meal allowances and festival passes. Award categories cover commercial and independent work, student animation and films for new platforms, including cell phones and the Internet, plus installations for indoor and outdoor spaces.

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Visual Headline News

The Syndicate Returns For More ESPN 2007 NASCAR Season Branding

Creative design and digital production studio The Syndicate extended its creative partnership with ESPN with the design and production of a branded on-air broadcast package for the 2007 season of NASCAR, the cable network's newest sports franchise. The Syndicate was awarded the project following the success of its first collaboration with ESPN on one of the biggest sports branding packages in television history, the dramatic effects-intensive Monday Night Football show open and graphics package.

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Brazil Headline News

SplutterFish Announces Brazil r/s V2 Pre-Release

SplutterFish, maker of the award-winning Brazil Rendering System for 3ds Max, announced the immediate pre-release availability of Brazil r/s V2, the highly anticipated successor to their high-end 3D rendering package. This pre-release version is feature-complete, production tested and late-stage beta.

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Series Headline News

Wind & Fire Adult Toon to Debut on HelloWorld

Silver*Ware Prods. Inc. is brining its first animated series WIND & FIRE to HelloWorld.com this spring. The 3D CG series has an anime influence.

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Design Headline News

Roger Produces Show Package for Nick’s Me TV

Roger, a broadcast, advertising and design studio founded by creative directors Vasil Hnatiuk, Terence Lee and Mark Yamamoto, delivered the graphics package for Nickelodeons new ME TV programming block.

In addition, Roger is the recent recipient of the Newcomer of the Year Award presented at INSPIRE 07.

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Headline News

Japanese Pinup Girl To Make Singing Debut As Singer In Anime

Pinup girl Azusa Yamamoto will make her singing debut performing the theme song of the popular Japanese television animation program, URUSEI YATSURA, reports MAINICHI-MSN. The title of the song is "Lum's Love Song," and the CD will go on sale on March 7, 2007, in Japan.

Created by cartoonist Rumiko Takahashi, URUSEI YATSURA is a science fiction comedy that features high school student Ataru and a beautiful girl who comes from space, Lum.

Six animated versions of the cartoon have already been produced for movie theaters.

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Motion Headline News

Digital Musings From the Editor:

We finish the month at VFXWORLD with a look at music videos and sports motion graphics. Steven J. Gottlieb provides a first look at Motion Theorys vfx work on Modest Mouses brand-new music video, DASHBOARD. And J. Paul Peszko looks at four powerhouses in the field of sports motion graphics: VizRT, The Troika Design Group, Imaginary Forces and Reality Check Studios.

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Anime Headline News

Adult Swim Gets Blood +

The new anime series BLOOD +, based on the anime feature BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE, is set to premiere on Saturday, March 10, at 12:30 am (ET, PT) on Adult Swim. BLOOD + is from exec producers Hideo Katsumata and Mitsuhisa Ishikawa and features music from Academy Award-winning composer, Hans Zimmer. BLOOD + is a half-hour anime series and is produced by Aniplex, Inc., in association with Sony Pictures Television.

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Animation Headline News

Submissions for SIGGRAPH 2007 Computer Animation Festival Due March 14

The SIGGRAPH 2007 Computer Animation Festival (CAF), chaired by acclaimed computer graphics researcher, Paul Debevec, is now open for submissions. Animations chosen for the festival will be shown at the prestigious Electronic Theater at the San Diego Civic Theater or in the Animation Theater screening rooms at the San Diego Convention Center Aug 5-9. The submission deadline is March 14, 2007. Electronic submission deadline: 5:00 pm PT. This year's categories include:

* Animated Short (story- or character-based, any medium)* Art (abstract and experimental)

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Stardust Headline News

Stardust Studios Promotes Two in Production

Stardust Studios has brought onboard Corey Cirillo as exec producer, and promoted senior producer Amy Kaufman Levy to the newly created position of head of production. Both execs will be based in the company's Santa Monica, California, studio.

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Media Headline News

VIZ Media Takes Bigger Shot at New York Con

VIZ Media announced a bevy of activities, events and new anime and manga offerings at the 2007 New York Comic-Con show, including an expansive booth filled with a photo sticker booth that will allow visitors to pose with their favorite anime and manga characters from popular series like BLEACH, NARUTO, ABSOLUTE BOYFRIEND, INUYASHA and with the SHOJO BEAT mascot Moko. A series of interactive videogames and activities including Mattels Ninja Academy Game, based on NARUTO, and TOMYs NARUTO: NINJA COUNCIL 3 for the Nintendo DS, will also be available for fans to play.

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Headline News

Atari Unveils New York Comic Con 2007 LineUp

Atari Inc. is participating in the second annual New York Comic Con 2007, Feb. 23-25. The hotly anticipated GODZILLA: UNLEASHED for Wii and Nintendo DS system, BULLET WITCH for the Xbox 360 videogame and entertainment system from Microsoft, as well as DRAGON BALL Z SHIN BUDOKAI: ANOTHER ROAD FOR the PSP system will be available on kiosks throughout on the show floor at this year's event, at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City.

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Digital Headline News

Digital Dimension Weighs In On Norbit

Digital Dimension completed 162 shots as the lead visual effects provider for the DreamWorks comedy NORBIT, magically transforming Eddie Murphys slender frame into the 400-pound female lead, Rasputia (also played by Murphy). A large portion of Digital Dimensions shots involved head replacements where Murphys face, made up to look like Rasputia, was composited onto the performance of a body double.

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Directors Headline News

Five Guest Casting Directors Teach Pro Animation Class

Five Guest Casting Directors Teach Pro Animation ClassPro/Adv Animation VO ClassBurbank, California, USAFeb. 22 -- March 29, 2007

M.J. Lallo is holding a five-week pro animation workshop for VO artists who have had previous classes in VO and feel ready to work out with professional directors and agents. The class is a good opportunity to work with guest directors and make contacts. All guest directors will accept your demos at the class that night.

Guest directors include:* Ilko Drozdoski-TGDM VO Agency (formerly Tisherman)

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Media Headline News

VIZ Media Secures Download Agreement for Death Note Anime Series

VIZ Media, Llc. has licensed from Nippon Television Network Corp. (NTV) the Download to Own (DTO) and Download to Rent (DTR) rights for the U.S. for DEATH NOTE anime series, a big hit currently airing in Japan.

This marks the first time a well known Japanese anime property will be made legally available to domestic audiences for download to own while the title still airs on Japanese television. VIZ Media will seek to make the series available to consumers through a number of online providers in order to reach the widest audience possible.

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Speed Headline News

Wachowski's Speed Racer Set to Start in May for 2008 Memorial Weekend

Larry and Andy Wachowski start production in May 2007 on their live-action SPEED RACER, based on the famous Japanese anime series from 1960, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. The Warner Bros. Pictures release will be helmed in Germany's Studio Babelsberg, where their V FOR VENDETTA was shot.

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College Headline News

My Date From Hell Wins Animex Awards

The winners and runners up in this year's Animex Awards were announced at Cineworld Multiplex in Middlesbrough by Shelley Page, European representative for feature animation DreamWorks.