The Cuppa Coffee broadcast design team continues to enjoy a booming summer season, having recently completed four animated spots to help Ontario Place celebrate their 40th anniversary by promoting the 2011 season!

The deep roster of talent represented by Blind is about to get even better with the signing of Three Legged Legs and CD Matthew Encina, both protégés of Blind founder/ECD Chris Do.

VICON House of Moves (HOM), a leading motion capture and animation service company, was recently contracted by EA to create identity elements and promotional content for the launch of EA's new entertainment platform and online store, Origin.

Troika Design Group, a strategic branding and design agency, has teamed up with Discovery Channel to refresh the network’s brand communication and identity.

IBC is the premier annual event for professionals engaged in the creation, management and delivery of entertainment and news content worldwide. Attracting 48,000+ attendees from more than 140 countries, IBC combines a highly respected and peer-reviewed conference with an exhibition that exhibits more than 1,300 leading suppliers of state of the art electronic media technology and provides unrivalled networking opportunities.

Visitors can expect to learn about the developments which are shaping the industry, interact with the latest technology, experience world first demonstrations and do business in a professional and supportive environment. IBC is the event not to be missed for everyone involved in the world of content creation, management and delivery.

Conference 8 – 13 September 2011

Exhibition 9 – 13 September 2011

RAI Amsterdam

Here's a short previs round up of tools and technologies found at NAB 2011. Take a look around the show floor and see if any of these toys strikes your fancy.

F5, the biennial creativity conference presented by Motionographer, which will be held at NYC’s Roseland Ballroom April 15-16, 2011, announces another round of speaker additions to its program.

Entries are now being invited for AEAF Awards 2011. The AEAF Awards is an international competition and screening, now in its 15th year, and attracts entries from around the world.

 

 

The Awards recognize and reward excellence and creativity in 11 categories of competition. The AEAF Awards Entry Form

Commercials Animation - Commercials VFX - Feature Films Animation - Feature Films VFX - Titles, Idents & Stings - Short Film - Music Video - TV Series - Web Animation - Student

The AEAF Awards finalists and winners will be screened on 2 August 2011. 
A panel of judges will select the top ten entries in each category for screening, and the top scoring entry from each will be named category winner and receive the award.

Entrants to the AEAF Awards have the opportunity to show their projects in the  AEAF Online Festival. 

The AEAF Awards are open to all digital content creators and motion graphics, digital video, animation and effects professionals and students.

Previous winners of the AEAF Awards are among the world's premier post-production companies, effects houses and film studios. Past winners include: 

Passion Pictures - Weta Digital - Animal Logic - Industrial Light & Magic - Pixar Animation Studios - Complete Post - Digital Pictures - Fuel - Iloura - Fin Design & Effects - Sony Pictures Imageworks - The Mill - Framestore – MPC -  and many others. 

Please take time to fill in the Entry Form and send it to us with your entry. You are most welcome to enter any projects that were completed no later than 30 June 2011.

All finalists’ entries will be screened at the AEAF Awards night on 2  August 2011. Winning entries receive the specially commissioned Award and, most important, exposure through the screening of the entries, press coverage including the Showcase issue of Digital Media World Magazine and the recognition of the digital content creation, animation and VFX communities.

We look forward to receiving your entry.

The AEAF Awards Entry Form

Speaker Enquiries 

Sponsor Enquiries

F5, the biennial creativity festival presented by Motionographer.com, returns to the historic Roseland Ballroom in New York City April 15-16, 2011.

I tried, I really did. I watched every single commercial on this year’s Super Bowl telecast. Unfortunately, I’m terribly spoiled by my DVR. I think I’d give up Diet Coke before I’d give up my DVR. Consequently, my tolerance of the sorry state of commercials is quite low. So my assessment of this year’s crop of spots is not particularly kind. Nor coherent. Nor relevant. I was not impressed. There were, however, a few bright spots.