Hasta La Motion!

As internet users increasingly demand high-quality content at lightning-fast speeds, Verizon Digital Media Services is responding by adding direct local connectivity from its network to many of the world’s largest broadband providers.

The expansion streamlines delivery and distribution to ensure high-quality user experiences and seamlessly handle traffic spikes as connected devices, user bases and file sizes continue to grow.

Since its acquisition of EdgeCast Networks, a content delivery network, Verizon Digital Media Services has rapidly expanded the capacity of the Verizon EdgeCast CDN, adding more than 20 new points of presence, or POPs, in major cities around the world since January.

These cities include Warsaw, Stockholm, Milan, Vienna, Melbourne, Helsinki, Kaohsiung, Batam, Jakarta and Sao Paulo. The company also expanded its presence with additional POPs in many cities already served, including London, Madrid, Paris and Amsterdam.

These additions offer customers even greater connectivity and performance within these markets.

“The majority of our customers offer their services to a global audience. Our continued worldwide expansion means content is as close as possible to the end-user’s digital doorstep,” Verizon Digital Media Services chief marketing officer James Segil said.

He added, “Continuing to add points of presence to our network helps our customers deliver even their largest files quickly and efficiently no matter whether the viewer is watching video, shopping, gaming or sharing content.”

Each new POP is built securely on Verizon Digital Media Services’ latest generation of delivery servers, with pre-built dedicated space for rapid expansion. The POPs have multiple diverse connections into last-mile networks and are provisioned to support the full suite of Verizon EdgeCast services.

Located in one of the world’s busiest business gateways, Verizon Digital Media Services is now a part of a massive and diverse carrier-neutral Brazil, colocation site in Sao Paulo. Serving as one of the most important internet exchanges in the region, this Verizon-owned data center is in Sao Paulo’s high-tech corridor and has redundancy links across both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

“Brazil is one of the biggest markets in the world and our customers have let us know how important that market is to them,” said Segil. “This new, full-scale POP in Sao Paulo is already outperforming the demand for lightning-fast response times.”

As demand grows from content providers and online consumers, Verizon Digital Media Services plans to add additional global POPs to meet that need, while the company continues to deliver Internet global traffic at top quality and at high speeds.

Verizon Digital Media Services provides blazing-fast and secure websites, the highest-quality video, and massive scale for exceptional multi-screen experiences — all while reducing costs. The end-to-end platform removes the complexities of connecting an increasingly mobile world and enabling businesses to securely leverage the cloud.

bestwebdesignagencies.com, has honoured Studio Rendering with the best 3D illustration and Animation Company’s title for the month of June 2014.

The company was chosen based on its effective performance in an in-depth analysis of the solutions it offers. The recognition comes based on a thorough evaluation of its solutions.

While there are thousands of agencies offering a variety of solutions, the recommendations consist of the best showcased based on the results of the in-depth evaluation process.

The independent research team at bestwebdesignagencies.com performs a meticulous examination of the competing companies in order to remain updated of the latest accomplishments within the industry. Competing companies are researched through the use of five areas of evaluation in areas including creative collaboration, animation quality, technical support, project analysis, and design quality. The ratings consist of the best 3D illustration and animation companies each month with the ratings being updated due to the latest information obtained from the examination.

The ratings are revised each month based on the assumption that the web design and development industry changes over time. Firms are evaluated based on the most recent trends and developments most important to buyers. Often times the research team at bestwebdesignagencies.com spends time communicating with clients of competing firms for a more thorough look.

The Guardians of the Galaxy franchise is back from obscurity and comic fanatics would be really pleased to hear that Marvel has finally given the series the much needed attention it requires post the sequels for three of its most eminent properties Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

But, apart from the movie, The Guardians of the Galaxy originally introduced in 1969 bears virtually no relation to the outlaws to be seen in James Gunn’s film. Now, Marvel is going to take a chance on the original Guardians of the Galaxy one more time, this time with Dan Abnett as the scribe and art by Gerardo Sandoval.

Here’s what Marvel has to say about the new series, Guardians 3000:

Vance Astro, Yondu, Starhawk, Martinex and Charlie-27 are back and better than ever. Follow this cast of bombastic freedom fighters as they battle to gain control of the galaxy back from the hostile alien armies of the Badoon! But the Brotherhood of the Badoon are just the tip of the iceberg. The Marvel Universe of the 31^st Century is a hostile and unforgiving place – with both new & classic foes from throughout Marvel history. A new threat has emerged disrupting the timestream in the past and the present, and it’s up to the original Guardians of the Galaxy to prevent the collapse of all reality! But to save the future, one must look to the past – and the discovery of a mysterious young girl named Geena Drake could hold the key to saving all reality…or destroying it!

“Guardians 3000 is truly a case of you asked for it, we delivered!,” says Marvel Executive Editor Mike Marts. “Readers have been begging for the return of the original Guardians team for a long time…and we’re happy to debut this series right in the midst of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy movie excitement!”

With Guardians 3000 set to arrive in October, it’s certainly going to leverage from the movie releasing early August worldwide.

Warsaw artist and designer Pawel Nolbert has released “Atypical Typography”, a series of posters exploring form and rhythm of letters or pseudo-letters presented as half-realistic, half-illustrative figurative sculptures. The artworks were built from elaborate artistic painterly gestures into expressive arrangements, extending the aesthetic characteristic of typography.

With sound design as sparse as the visuals are dense, this ident for Quest is just one of 16 created by Analog Studio for agency HarrimanSteel. Audio by David Kamp.

From HarrimanSteel:

Most TV channels have their logo omnipresent, whereas our tact was to hide ours and encourage the viewer to go on a Quest to find it. Working with 3D wizards Analog we payed homage to the bustling, intricate scenes of ‘Where’s Wally’ and ‘Sgt. Peppers’ album cover, creating an expansive 3D world compiled of programme related objects and content.

Challenging the viewer to find the brand logo in this emporium of over 150 objects and curiosities. A task not made any easier by the distractions of animated objects and SFX leading the eye around the scene. For sound design we teamed up with super talented New Yorker David Kamp to create playful object sounds and sound bed.

Other idents in the series

Credits

Creative Agency : HarrimanSteel
Agency Creative Director : Julian Harriman-Dickinson
Agency Senior Creative : Tom Austin
Agency Design Team: Doug Stewart, Thomas Humeau & Charlie Patterson
Agency Producer : Sam Goldthorpe

CGI @ Production : Analog
Music & SFX : David Kamp