The animation and children’s TV sector is to benefit from a 39% tax credit. The UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced the increase in his annual Budget to Parliament, praising the sector as a major contributor to growth in the UK. Our film and TV industry has become Europe’s largest with our creative industries growing at[…..] […]
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NYC MAYOR’S OFFICE OF MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT LAUNCHES FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND MARKETING CREDIT PROGRAM FOR DIGITAL GAMES MADE IN NYC
Signature Component of Mayor Adams’ Plan to Make NYC Global Digital Gaming Hub; Applications Accepted Now at nyc.gov/digitalgames Announcement Made During Annual Game Developers Conference, where City of NY is a First-Time Exhibitor NEW YORK, March 23, 2023 – The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) is proud to launch the ‘Made in NY’[…..] […]
CONSULTATION, BUDGET AND VISION: TAX INCENTIVES FOR VFX AND ANIMATION?
Neil Hatton, CEO of UK Screen Alliance, highlights the Audio Visual Tax Reliefs consultation and delves into our recent proposal response on behalf of the industry. Neil Hatton, CEO of UK Screen Alliance Leaping to my feet from the audience, to announce, “Breaking news from Westminster!”, in the middle of the “State of the Nation”[…..] […]
Sega increasing average monthly salary of workers by 30 percent
The Japanese publisher believes the move will help create a more comfortable working environment. Sega is increasing the average monthly salary of existing employees by roughly 30 percent to stabilize income and create a more comfortable working environment. The Japanese publisher said the wage bump will “further strengthen its global competitiveness” and is evidence of[…..] […]
the biggest cash rebate in Brazil
SÃO PAULO CASH REBATE 20-30% Proposal: work to be developed in the territory of Sao Paulo Feature Films: Fiction XR Animation Series Fictions SR Reality Shows Documentaries Animation MOdul 1–Cash Rebate 20%~30% International production (coproduction or production service) 80% spoken in a non-Portuguese language (exception: productions from Portuguese-speaking African countries) Minimum eligible expenditure ~USD 2Mi*[…..] […]
The current situation of China’s digital twin cities
Over the past 20 years, the development of urban informatization in China has gone through three stages: from digital city, smart city to new smart city; urban informatization has also developed from digitization to network-based and intelligentization. The concept of digital twinning originates from NASA, is widely used in the industry, and is rapidly becoming[…..] […]
A Finnish mobile game company has decided to offer a 6-hour working day with almost full pay
A Finnish mobile game company Fingersoft has decided to offer a 6-hour working day with almost full pay – ”A better alternative than a 4-day workweek” Finnish mobile game studio Fingersoft announces that its employees can now work a six-hour day with a 90 percent of full salary. The company experimented with a six-hour workday[…..] […]
Aadman maker warns UK animators may have to move abroad
The head of Aardman, the Oscar-winning British studio behind Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep, Sean Clarke, Aardman Animation managing director addressed several major issues facing the U.K. animation sector, warning that the country is falling behind other key animation territories. He warned that the nation’s animation productions for children’s television will have to be made overseas[…..] […]
Metaverse helps China’s agricultural industry
As a carrier of the integration of the virtual world and the real world, the metaverse contains great opportunities for the revolutionary transformation of social networking, content, games, office and other scenes. Metaverse technology is a comprehensive technology, which must be integrated with the Internet of Things, biotechnology, information technology, artificial intelligence, big data, robotics, virtual reality[…..] […]
2022 Royalty Trends Report
2022 Royalty Trends Report: Royalty Rates, Sales & Market Trends Licnesing letter published The TLL 2022 Royalty Trends Report, which combines data from a number of sources, including our Licensing Sales Survey and the more recent Licensing Royalty Trends Survey, to produce a complete review of how the pandemic era affected the licensing industry. This[…..] […]