Halifax, Small Yet Growing, Is A Hidden Gem Of The Canadian Animation Industry Halifax is a bit of a hidden gem in the Canadian animation industry — like Ottawa, but on a somewhat smaller scale. And like the capital, Halifax has had its peaks and troughs over the years. A few months back, Ottawa’s Jam[…..] […]
Following a Hong Kong awards ceremony on Monday, the winners of the Licensing International Asian Awards 2019 have been revealed. Chinese animation leader Fantawild secured the Entertainment Property of the Year – Animated honors for its franchise feature film Boonie Bears: Blast into the Past. The company was also nominated in three other categories: Asian[…..] […]
The nominees for the 2020 British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs), the U.K.’s equivalent of the Oscars, are out. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts made the announcement this morning. A few takeaways: The animated feature category has thrown up no real surprises. Walt Disney Animation Studios’s Frozen 2 and Disney-Pixar’s Toy Story 4[…..] […]
Poly Design has released PolySlicer, a new scripted tool for 3DS Max that creates evenly spaced cross-sections. The developer describes its main purpose as being to quickly produce parametric furniture. Features include: PolySlicer is a 3dsMax plugin for creating parametric furnitures in a few seconds. PolySlicer provides all the workflow from creating slices to unwrapping[…..] […]
Spline Dynamics has released Overnight Batch Render a new tool for 3DS Max that promises the user a simplified way to render files sequentially on a single PC. Features include: Render multiple scene files sequentially on a single computer. Render multiple cameras per scene, taking settings from 3dsMax built-in Batch Render tool. Render different states[…..] […]
Marvel Television is mostly dead—shuttered and absorbed into the larger Marvel Studios operation run by Kevin Feige as one day all of our souls will be—but the idea of Marvel TV still, apparently, lingers on. Speaking today at the Television Critics Association press tour, ABC Entertainment president Karey Burke noted that the network is having[…..] […]
Rockstar’s 2019 hit Red Dead Redemption 2 is defined by its attention to detail, down to the unique pace at which protagonist Arthur Morgan moseys, and at the Game Developers Conference you’ll get a rare behind-the-scenes look at how Rockstar designed and integrated such a seemingly simple system. In a special Visual Arts track talk[…..] […]
The Independent Games Festival, which honors the most influential, innovative and acclaimed projects in independent game development, has revealed the finalists for the 22nd annual awards ceremony. The IGF Awards will take place March 18, 2020 during the Game Developers Conference. The event will be hosted by League of Geeks (Armello) director Trent Kusters, who[…..] […]
ohn Riccitiello, the CEO of Unity, put forward the concept of “China Unity” to the majority of Chinese developers last year, representing Unity ’s confidence and expectations in the Chinese market, expressing Unity ’s aspirations to deeply cultivate the Chinese market and do well in localization services. The annual Unite conference is the carnival[…..] […]
Like an adorable hedgehog cursed with an unquenchable need for speed, the saga of the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie is both tragic and hilarious. The first trailer for the film based on the iconic video game character—voiced here by Ben Schwartz—debuted a new design for Sonic that closely resembled something that crawled out of[…..] […]
