Honolulu, HI -- June 22, 2009 -- PipelineFX, makers of Qube! software, the leading render farm management software for film and post production, broadcast graphics, game development, and digital media education around the world, today announced that Pratt Institute's Department of Digital Arts has adopted Qube! to manage their render pipeline.
Oscar winner Charles Gibson (BABE, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST) is set to make his directorial debut with family comedy THE GOBLIN, per VARIETY.
Wind Dancer Film head Matt Williams will produce with production head Judd Payne and Matt Berenson. David McFadzean and Dete Meserve of Wind Dancer will exec produce.
Gibson worked as a second unit director on the PIRATES franchise and TERMINATOR SALVATION in addition to working with the visual effects.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Advanced Potion-Making Experience on YouTubeDeadline: June 24, 2009
The "Advanced Potion-Making Experience" is an interactive video submission contest launched in support of the July 15 opening of HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE.
LOS ANGELES, Square Enix, Inc., the publisher of Square Enix(R) interactive entertainment products in North America, announced that it has strengthened its executive team with the addition of Ami Blaire as vice president of marketing.
DreamWorks Animation is moving forward with an untitled ghost movie that will compete with two others for a fourth quarter 2012 release, per THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.
Referred to internally as BOO U., the feature has Jon Vitti (THE SIMPSONS MOVIE) on board to write the screenplay and will be about a ghost who is bad at his job and has to return to school.
IGOR director Tony Leondis will direct. Gil Netter and Courtney Pledger will exec produce.
MTV is bringing unfiltered comedy with a twist all summer long as the network premieres a new daily lineup combining three unique genres like they've never been done before. The weekday comedy block kicked off this pas Monday, inviting fans to sit back, relax and be entertained by some pretty hilarious, balls out comedy. The new block includes the animated strip, DJ & THE FRO, a funny look at questionable couplings in IS SHE REALLY GOING OUT WITH HIM? and not really a game show game show with SILENT LIBRARY.
Families throughout the U.S. will have a special opportunity to check out the upcoming CGI-animated family comedy, ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS, at sneak previews held on Father's Day, Sunday, June 21, in 330 theatres across the country, exclusively in 3-D.
NEW YORK (June 15 2009): Nice Shoes' new Creative Director Aron Baxter has come full circle. The London-born Baxter joined Nice Shoes as a senior VFX artist in January 2003 then moved over to Guava, the company's sister VFX Company. Now, with the merger of Nice Shoes and Guava, he has returned to the parent company to assume the new role of Creative Director.
Additionally, Jack Fahey has been appointed Head of Sales for the Nice Shoes family of companies which includes Nice Shoes, Nice Spots and Freestyle Collective.
Oklahoma City, OK - June 19, 2009 - Since its conception in 2001, Digital-Tutors has received accolades for teaching award-winning video-based training and achieved industry recognition through the creation of hundreds of educational titles for emerging digital artists in the film, game, and television industries and with 'Introduction to Maya 2009,' Digital-Tutors continues to exceed expectations.
(New York) June 18, 2009 -- Emmy-award nominated title designer and visual effects artist J. John Corbett will join Brainstorm Digital's New York studio July 6th where he will continue his innovative and industry-leading work in title design, graphic design and visual effects.
LOS ANGELES, June 18 -- A marching band, famous movie "characters," and a champagne christening welcomed the re-opening of the famous Courthouse Square film location to Universal Studios Hollywood's Studio Tour trams, which are now newly equipped as "mobile movie theaters" with hi-def video monitors, all-new video content and state-of-the art audio systems.
19 June 2009, London -- HIT Entertainment, one of the world's leading independent children's entertainment producers and rights owners has licensed the iconic preschool property Bob the Builder to Mastertronic to create the first Nintendo Wii Bob the Builder game. BOB THE BUILDER: FESTIVAL OF FUN targets young Bob fans and is designed to encourage interactive play between parent and child. Launched earlier this month, BOB THE BUILDER: FESTIVAL OF FUN on Wii is now selling out across retailers in the UK.
Monster Distributes has just completed a package deal for 4 HD series with M-Net South Africa, including:
Animated series LIFEBOAT LUKE, 52 x 5 minutes, a search and rescue adventure series for kids 4-7 from Irish-based LTL Productions.
BEN & IZZY, 13 x half hour, a state-of-the-art CGI animation series (for ages 6-11) that follows the adventures of two kids: one from Jordan and one from the United States, and their genie friend, voiced by Lucy Liu, produced by Middle-Eastern based Rubicon.
LOS ANGELES, June 19 -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures has confirmed Mike Mitchell (upcoming SHREK FOREVER AFTER) will direct the live-action adventure-fantasy ONCE UPON A TIME.
ONCE UPON A TIME Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty married their handsome Princes -- the Charming brothers and planned to live happily ever after. But when the Charming brothers go missing, the sister-in-laws must set out to save their husbands and the fairy tale kingdom.
The Brief:Smoke & Mirrors New York (SMNY) teamed with Carmichael Lynch Minneapolis this past winter to launch a beautifully quirky spot for the Denver Museum of Nature & Science that showcases the New York studio's ability to complete a project from production through post.
Animated Dreams Call for Entries 2009Tallinn, EstoniaNovember 18-22, 2009Deadline: August 15, 2009
The 11th edition of Animation Film Festival ANIMATED DREAMS will take place from 18th to 22th November 2009 in Tallinn, Estonia.
Beware, your dreams have been animated!
How to submit a film:
The website poff.ee/anima displays the regulations, the short film entry form. For any kind of information please write to anima@poff.ee.
Christopher Nolan's INCEPTION has started filming in Tokyo, according to COMINGSOON.net.
The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Marion Cotillard, Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy and Michael Caine and is set to open July 16, 2010.
The film is a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind.
