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Riding the popularity of the box office's favorite giant robots in TRANSFORMERS, 20th Century Fox-based New Regency is in final talks with the Mark Gordon Co. to bring VOLTRON: DEFENDER OF THE UNIVERSE to the big screen as a live-action film, VARIETY reports. Gordon has been developing the project and previously hired Justin Marks (HE-MAN) to pen the script.

Team MoCap from Bowling Green State University (Tomas Jech, W. Jacob Gardner and Jim Levasseur) took first place in the 32-hour FJORG! ''Viking Animator'' Competition for their animation SWITCH at SIGGRAPH 2007 in San Diego. Sixteen teams of three people each competed to create the most impressive character-driven animation of at least 15 seconds in length adhering to a strict set of rules and using only the resources provided at the conference.

The Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy (FIEA), a graduate videogame development program, is debuting its latest student game, MASTER PLAN, at SIGGRAPH 2007 in booth #243 in San Diego.

MASTER PLAN is a 3D action game where players construct their own doomsday machine to ravage a city. MASTER PLAN was developed by 34 students and has features never seen before in a student-produced game. Students developed all the tools and pipelines from scratch, including a world editor, vehicle editor with tutorial and fully destructible city environment.

It's SIGGRAPH week and VFXWORLD editor Bill Desowitz is in San Diego soaking in all the CG excitement he can. Back on the home front, we have a few SIGGRAPH themed articles this week. Hot off the big announcement at SIGGRAPH of Massive 3.0, Massive Software's Diane Holland writes this month's "Digital Eye" column to give us some insider insight into the new things in store for the company and the software. J. Paul Peszko has coverage of the cutting-edge technologies coming out of SIGGRAPH's Emerging Technologies display.