Posts in the "Animation" Category

• Make it

  Animation
  

  On Friday we launched a new range of courses at AFTRS to be run in 2009. More information can be found here. Among the new courses are Graduate Diplomas in Game Design, Animation Directing and Virtual Worlds. The unique approach of these courses is to share core coursework in Directing Concepts and Skills, Emerging Media [...]

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• Changes in the Australian digital film landscape

  Animation
  

  A new partnership has just been announced which will shape the future of Australia’s digital film industry in the coming years. Australia’s leading production company – Kennedy Miller Mitchell – has announced it will partner with the Omnilab group to advance the future of digital cinema creation in Australia. George Miller made the following statement [...]

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• More cross media animation

  Animation
  Next New Media is a start up who are launching niche video services on the web with a business model built around advertising. Some big names from the early days of MTV, Nickelodeon and Time Warner are on board as are some of the investment companies which backed the original foray of MTV onto cable. [...]

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• Happy Feet

  Animation
  Seems like the whole Australian animation and film industries breathed a huge sigh of relief when Happy Feet opened in the US taking $40 million US in its opening weekend. And there was follow on box office success during Thankgiving meaning the film was on par with what Madagascar achieved this time last year (a [...]

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• Is cross media the future of independent animation?

  Animation
  

  While we’re on animation, an article in Animation World Magazine (AWN) offers some interesting perspectives on where animation execs see the future of the business. Needless to say, it’s distribution via portable media, vodcasts and broadband portals that are providing new opportunities for small independents to break into the market. This is a quote from [...]

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• Is 3D animation the future of cinema?

  Animation
  Kids just love watching animation, in fact they can’t get enough of the quality stuff. And ‘kids’ are getting older – I remember going to the video shop one night and my 5 year old and 9 year old were swapping Spongebob jokes with the teenagers behind the counter. Seems to be the mark of [...]

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