New Line, a subsidiary of AT&T/Warnermedia, will produce a live-action/animated hybrid film around the iconic Japanese character Hello Kitty, owned by Sanrio. This film marks another entry into the hybrid film model we’ve been seeing more of, with recent films like Detective Pikachu, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Tom and Jerry. The as-yet-untitled Hello Kitty film[…..] […]
Disney has always had a song in its heart, but the Mouse House finds the rhythm in its feet with a new short film: Us Again, which marks Walt Disney Animation’s first theatrical short in five years, plays on the same bill as Raya and the Last Dragon and is guaranteed to be one of[…..] […]
The third SpongeBob movie, Sponge on the Run, has a lot of the not-so-secret ingredients that made the original television show so popular. But over twenty years removed from the launch of the franchise, this outing shows signs of growing laziness, rehashing of ideas, and corporate influence. The idea of SpongeBob’s pet snail Gary disappearing[…..] […]
Intel announced today that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) High Performance Computing (HPC) Competency status. This designation recognizes that Intel has demonstrated deep experience helping customers optimize their HPC workloads for performance and efficiency using AWS’s elastic and scalable cloud infrastructure. “HPC has been key to solving the most complex problems in every[…..] […]
Paramount Plus replaced CBS All Access last Thursday, relaunching with a new name and a wider catalog. Paramount Plus is the subscription streaming-video service replacing CBS All Access. It costs $10 a month ad-free or $6 a month with advertising, launching Thursday morning in the US, Canada and 18 Latin American countries. Paramount Plus features[…..] […]
Cristiano Amon, incoming CEO of chipmaker Qualcomm, warns in an interview with CNET that the shortage may not end until late 2021. The biggest news in the automotive industry right now isn’t new electric vehicles or Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s latest comments. It’s a major semiconductor shortage that’s hurting automakers across the globe. Because Ford,[…..] […]
Exlevel has released GrowFX 2.0, the latest version of the respected parametric tree and plant modelling plugin for 3DS Max. Version 2 has been in beta for a while as it was a major rewrite of the plugin with a complete overhaul of its UI to a new, much more modern node-based editor. Version 1’s[…..] […]
ViacomCBS Consumer Products (VCP) has appointed Jennifer Pang to lead its business in Greater China. Pang will be based in Hong Kong, reporting to Mark Kingston, Senior Vice President, International Licensing, VCP. Claire O’Connor, Vice President, Consumer Products & Retail Marketing, Asia Pacific, will exit the business. As Vice President and Head of Licensing, Greater[…..] […]
For DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls World Tour, the Walt Dohrn-directed follow-up to 2016’s Trolls, the filmmaking team embraced the challenge of creating not one but six colorful and completely original Trolls landscapes. They aspired to expand the world of the original film, especially in the lyrical and sonic landscape, so they created an entire map of[…..] […]
Photo of Erik Brunvand by Dina Douglass © 2019 ACM SIGGRAPH CHICAGO—ACM SIGGRAPH has selected Erik Brunvand, of the University of Utah, as chair of its 50th annual SIGGRAPH conference. Brunvand is a professor in the University of Utah’s School of Computing, where he has been on faculty since 1990. Brunvand first attended the[…..] […]
