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Animal Logic has created a stylized world for Australian band Telemetry Orchestras latest music video, UNDER THE CHERRY TREE. The video clip is a four-minute allegory that explores the obstacles of love. Two characters travel on two different trains in parallel worlds; the boy from a dirty city, and the girl from a beautiful cherry tree orchard. They end up crossing into each others worlds and desperately try to stop their trains so they can be together, but end where the other began.

Zoic Studios announced the addition of Barbara Genicoff, as visual effects producer for commercials. The company, known for its outstanding visual effects in advertising, TV and feature film, has experienced significant growth in all areas and approached Genicoff as a complement to the burgeoning commercial team.

THE TICK, featuring the big blue, somewhat confused animated superhero and his accountant sidekick, based on Ben Edlunds comic, debuted on DVD in late August in THE TICK VS. SEASON ONE collection (Buena Vista Home Ent., $34.99). However, the two-disc set contains only 12 out of 13 episodes from 94. According to the studio, Due to creative considerations episode 11 ("The Tick vs. The Mole Men") is not included. However, we hope to include it in future Tick releases."

The voice cast has been set for THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX, the 3D- animated feature from Universal Pictures, directed by stop-motion vet Mike Johnson (the Oscar-nominated CORPSE BRIDE), which marks the first production made by London-based Framestore Feature Animation, the new division of the Framestore CFC vfx studio.

Adapted from Kate DiCamillos award-winning childrens bestseller about one small mouses quest to change a kingdom, DESPEREAUX will offer the voice talents of:

In the latest excerpt from THE MAGIC OF HOUDINI, Will Cunningham delves into a number of contexts, including SOPs, DOPs, POPs and OBJs. As Cunningham explains, these contexts have different capabilities and you move back and forth between them to achieve different objectives. Meanwhile, later in the week, Fred Galpern provides a sneak peek of the upcoming ADAPT 2006 Conference in Montreal (Sept. 23-24 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel), offering advanced digital art production techniques.

Bill DesowitzEditor