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Sony Online Entertainment Joins Forces with Mass Animation

Artists Invited to Collaborate In Animating Heroes and Villains for the DC Universe Online Game and Trailer LOS ANGELES, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ — Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) and Mass Animation today announced the DC Universe(TM) Online (DCUO) Animation Contest. The DCUO … Continue reading

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Dante’s Inferno Animated Feature

Neoseeker reports that EA and Visceral Games have announced a Dante’s Inferno animated feature, that will be out in February of 2010. It is to be a “complicated work”  from six international directors and will be done in the Anime … Continue reading

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And the Oscar goes to?

While Pixar’s “UP” has tremendous buzz around it this year, maybe even more than “WALL-E” last year, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has upped the best picture category to 10 nominations from 5 in previous years. The … Continue reading

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Canada Leads Worldwide Animation Market?

According to a report from Screen Digest, Canada is the worlds largest producer of animation for television, creating 382 hours in 2008 worth $265M dollars. Where as the US output was fewer than 330 hours but was worth $376M dollars. … Continue reading

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Autodesk to show Stereoscopic Workflow!

Well it’s finally here, the long awaited stereoscopic pipeline from Autodesk. While others have been rolling out stereo tools here and there Autodesk has been mum. The only thing anyone from the company would say about the subject is that … Continue reading

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Is Final Cut Server Production Ready? Yes!

Ani-Jobs’ tech insider has just posted our first product review! In the review, he praises Apple’s release of Final Cut Server 1.1. He writes, “I can setup an automated workflow which will recompress my media, burn timecode, automatically post to … Continue reading

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cineSync Pro released today

DMN Newswire–2008-5-26–ADELAIDE, Australia, 26th May 2008:  RSR, the company behind the world leading post production workflow tools cineSync and cineSpace, today announce the full release of cineSync Pro – the ultimate  synchronised review and approval solution. Expanding on the hugely successful and … Continue reading

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“Indy” Poised for second biggest Memorial Day.

“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” is poised to become the 2nd largest opening for a Memorial Day weekend, with an estimated four-day gross of $126 million from 4,260 screens acording to Variety. Including Thursday’s haul, “Crystal … Continue reading

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EA acquires Hands-On Mobile Korea

Variety reports that games giant Electronic Arts has purchased the Korean subsidiary or San Fransisco based Hands on Mobile. Best known for its mobile role-playing game, Heroes Lore. the former Hands-On Mobile Korea team will become EA Mobile Korea and … Continue reading

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‘Jones’ out of the gate with a strong start.

“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” showed a a domestic gross of nearly $25 million dollars from 4,260 theaters on Thursday, according to Variety. Looking to take advantage of the long Memorial Day holiday, Paramount decided to … Continue reading

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