Netflix has announced that it will be unveiling its first fully owned post-production facility in Mumbai in 2022. It‘s said the live-action and full-service facility will be operational by June next year. It will have 40 offline editing rooms designed as a flexible, collaborative and inspiring environment for showrunners, directors, editors and sound designers to[…..] […]
AMD has announced that FidelityFX Super Resolution (often abbreviated to FSR) will be available on 22 June 2021. FSR is an open-source technology that can render high-resolution frames from lower resolution inputs. According to AMD “it uses a collection of cutting-edge algorithms with a particular emphasis on creating high-quality edges, giving large performance improvements compared[…..] […]
The PC GPU market shipments increased by 35% year-to-year and decreased slightly by -.3% from last quarter According to a new research report from the analyst firm Jon Peddie Research, the growth of the PC-based Graphics Processor Units (GPU) market reached 119 million units in Q1’21 and 38.74% year-over-year. Overall, the installed base of GPUs[…..] […]
Illumination, the animation powerhouse behind global hit film franchises Despicable Me and The Secret Life of Pets, is bringing back the classic cartoon tradition with Saturday Morning Minions — brand-new animated shorts starring the little yellow troublemakers. Fans can join Illumination on Facebook and Instagram every Saturday for the next 40 weeks (that’s through to[…..] […]
Highlighting deep support from a flourishing roster of GeForce partners, NVIDIA’s Jeff Fisher delivered a virtual keynote at COMPUTEX 2021 in Taipei last Tuesday. Fisher, senior vice president of NVIDIA’s GeForce business, announced a pair of powerful new gaming GPUs — the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti — and detailed the[…..] […]
Coinciding with the release of Disney+’s new Loki series, the God of Mischief is taking over as the Lucky Charms mascot for a limited time. Coinciding with the release of Loki, the title character is taking over as mascot for Lucky Charms cereal. Loki is an upcoming Disney+ series that sees Tom Hiddleston reprise his[…..] […]
Tencent unveiled the mission, vision, and strategy for its newly established Online Video Business Unit (OVB) at the Tencent Video, Television and Film Annual Conference today. The event marks the 10th anniversary of Tencent Video, Tencent’s flagship online entertainment platform. Tencent has recently restructured several of its entertainment properties by moving Tencent Video, Weishi, YingYongBao,[…..] […]
Amazon Kids+ and Moonbug Entertainment are kicking off a new content partnership with their first joint project, an original production of Arpo Robot Babysitter, based on the YouTube show Arpo, and a new Arpo mobile game. Arpo is an animated show based on slapstick humor for children 3-7 years old with a non-dialogue format that[…..] […]
Bristol-based British animation powerhouse Aardman has announced it has greenlit a brand-new pre-school series The Very Small Creatures. Aardman has announced it has greenlit a brand-new series for 1- to 3-year-olds, The Very Small Creatures. Sky Kids has commissioned 20 x 3-minute episodes of the stop-motion and clay model animation, created with the occasional graphic[…..] […]
Mindfulness and meditation company Headspace has created a podcast with Sesame Workshop — the nonprofit behind Sesame Street — launching this month to teach little ones techniques for relaxing during their bedtime routines. Titled Goodnight, World!, the first episode releases June 13, with 11 more to follow, dropping every Sunday through August 29. The “sleepcast”[…..] […]
