Nov
03
''It's Not Unusual'' – Tom Jones
Posted in: Animation
British singer Tom Jones performs “It’s Not Unusual” on Australian television. So-so sound quality.
Nov
03
''Long Tall Sally'' – Tom Jones
Posted in: Animation
Tom Jones performs “Long Tall Sally” on Australian television. The audience gets excited. So-so sound quality.
Nov
03
''Thunderball'' – Tom Jones
Posted in: Animation
British singer Tom Jones performs “Thunderball” on an Australian television show. So-so sound quality.
Nov
03
Players are forever searching for new tricks to beat the casino at their own game. Unfortunately the house always wins in the long run. But one can improve one’s chances at winning. We have cobbled together eight 3D online slots tips that will give you the edge next time you play.
1. Grab the no deposit bonus and free spins
Many online casinos dole out no deposit and free spins bonuses to new players like candy on a Halloween night to play popular 3D online slots like Gonzo’s Quest or the latest releases such as Microgaming’s Jurassic Park. The no deposit bonus is normally $15 to $25 and 25 free spins are usually up for grabs.
The nice thing about them is that they’re on the house! Before you can claim your $25 free chip or free spins bonus you must provide the bonus code. Keep in mind that if you claimed the no deposit bonus (NDB), it normally comes with a max win cap of $100 and you must make a small deposit before you can claim your wins. The same rule applies to the free spins bonus.
2. Play your favourite slots at online casinos with low bonus wagering
Choosing a bonus is all about the fine print. USA, UK, Australian and European-friendly online casinos offer their players bonuses that come in all shapes and sizes. Some deposit bonuses double or even triple your bankroll. What better way to play a game with a few strings attached. Before you accept a bonus, pay close attention to its bonus terms.
If the play-through attached to it is less than 40xb (bonus) to play the best 3D online slots in the business, you’ve scored yourself a good deal. Also check if the bonus has a no maximum cash out rule. The last thing you want is to be saddled up with a bonus that has a cap of $200 and you’ve just won $1,000 with it ($800 will be forfeited). If you don’t understand how the WR (wagering requirement) is calculated, here’s a simple explanation:
If the bonus of 100 per cent up to $100 has a play-through of 30x attached to it and you deposited $50, your deposit will be matched with $50 (100 per cent match bonus)- play with $100. Per the WR, a cash out will be allowed once you’ve staked 30x $50 = $1,500 in bets.
PlayOjO Casino licensed by the British Gambling Commission gives new players up to 50 free spins on their first deposit. If you’ve signed up at the casino you can use your 50 free spins on a cracking 3D NetEnt slots: Jungle Jim Eldorado. The game is fitted out with a free spins feature that awards up to 20 free spins along with 15x multipliers, sublime visuals and has a RTP (average return to player percentage) of 96 per cent plus.
3. 3D online slots must have high RTPs
Not only must you pick a bonus with amicable bonus terms but also play a game that is relatively loose too. The 3D online slots you’re about to play must have an RTP of 96 per cent and above, in-play bonus modes that include free spins features, substituting/sticky/expanding wilds, multiplier wins and pick me features.
To get an idea about the game’s payouts at different coin levels, play it in the free mode. Never play more than two slot machines simultaneously because it will deplete your bankroll fast and your concentration will not be as sharp as opposed to only playing one game at a time.
4. Pick the best online casinos
If you visit Casinowhizz.com, the site is teamed up with the best online casinos. To some it is a moot point but not really. Curacao, UK, Gibraltar, Isle of Man and Malta are a few fully regulated online casinos in first-class jurisdictions. They must contain robust game libraries by multiple vendors, their bonus terms must be in line with that of the industry standard, have responsible gambling tools and they must reward their regular depositors with comps and rebate on their losses.
5. The best 3D animated online slots
It will be a daunting task to list every single slots with high resolution graphics. However a few 3D online slot providers with loyal users are Net Entertainment, Microgaming and Betsoft.
Games that come highly recommended by Casinowhizz.com are Fire & Steel (Betsoft), Guns N’ Roses (NetEnt) and Planet of the Apes (Microgaming). These games can be played on PC desktops or mobile phones for free, have different coin denominations, electrifying visual animations and contain a slew of bonus features. They’re not near as volatile as progressive jackpot slots, they pay out often and above all, they’re highly entertaining!
6. Important 3D slot tricks
If you play a highly volatile progressive jackpot slots like Microgaming’s Mega Moolah, there is a misconception that you must bet the maximum stake per spin all the time to cash in on the top jackpot. This couldn’t be further from the truth. As a matter of fact a player won Mega Moolah’s mobile casino jackpot of €8 million on a stake of 6.25 euro per spin.
Whether you’re betting the minimum or maximum bet on a 3D online slots, your winning chances remains the same. However, play with all paylines activated. If the game contains 30 paylines, don’t play with 15 lines. Reason being you want to get the most out the game. If a new slots release comes with a bonus, accept the bonus but make sure that the terms are not out to exploit you.
Play medium to high variance 3D slots like Gonzo’s Quest if you’re out to win money, it takes a few money spins to trigger the game’s free spins feature but well worth it. Players out to have fun with limited bankrolls must play low variance slots. They pay on every third to fifth spin but wins are small.
7. Consult the paytable
This is important. You can glean a lot of information about a 3D online slots by consulting its Paytable (Help Screen). It tells you which symbols pay the top cash prizes, how its bonus modes (free spins) can be initiated (triggered), its coin bet options (minimum bet and maximum bet per spin) and if the slots contains a Gamble Game or not.
To get an idea how the slots pays at different coin levels and how many money spins it takes to trigger its free spins feature, play it in the Free Mode first. Also, write down the payouts at different bet levels and how many spins it took you to activate the free spins at different bets per spin.
8. Check your Inbox for the casino’s promotions
The best way to stretch your hard-earned cash is to keep an eye out for the casino’s newsletter to your Inbox. The newsletter updates you about forthcoming 3D slots tournaments where free spins, no deposit bonuses, the cash prizes that can be won, reload bonuses offered on the newest game releases and the rewards that can be gained by playing them.
The aforementioned 3D online slot tips take the randomness out of the random. Hopefully they will improve your odds of winning and allow you to have more fun.
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Nov
03
The story behind Graphixstory winning OnBrand Award for visually-rich animation video ‘Mogum’s Dayout’
Posted in: AnimationRecently, Indian studio Graphixstory won the OnBrand Video Awards’17 under the popularity category for its motion design project Mogum’s Dayout. The Video Awards held in Amsterdam give companies around the world an opportunity to demonstrate their creative storytelling talents, as the organisers believe that video is one of the strongest ways to showcase a brand at its essence and help people understand the real story behind your company.
Mogum’s Dayout is a promotional brand film for an app-based omni-transport logistics service called TYGR. Dipanjan Purkayastha from Savetur Digital approached Kolkata-based Graphixstory to create a catchy explainer video featuring all the services of TYGR.
The Graphixstory team first researched on the target audience, current brand position, geographical presence et cetera with TYGR providing them a brand guideline. It was established from the very beginning that it would be a storytelling video.
“People like to remember stories, not facts. We all love to hear stories and share them willingly with friends and relatives if they touch our heart,” says Graphixstory founder and CEO Surajit Majhi, who has put together the project with team member Avishek Saha.
Graphixstory CEO Surajit Majhi
When it came to the theme, the team decided to go with something unorthodox and unusual. Hence they fixed upon a jungle theme as it would also allow them to incorporate interesting elements of nature, a wide range of colour palette and sound.
The story of Mogum’s Dayout revolves around a jungle lad Mogum who cuts through the challenges in his day using the TYGR app. After two weeks of illustrating the entire story, the team moved on to work on 2D animation using motion graphics technique.
“The restless and diverse motion of the nature is the reason this video is admired by the mass,” shares Majhi. “We used some quirky and playful motions as well as some shape layer animation to add charm to the video. Like when Miana (Mogum’s girlfriend in the video) is cutting the cake, you can clearly see a little shape layer based motion graphics animation.”
When they uploaded this video project with all the details and images on the creative portfolio network Behance, positive comments started pouring in. “The comments clearly indicated that the project has served as a creative inspiration to many,” smiles Majhi.
One comment from Romania’s Has Andrada read: “Wow! This project is quite amazing – fun, dynamic, colourful and elegant, all at the same time! Hats off. This exact style and aesthetic is a goal to me. Bravo!”
Within a few days, Behance featured Mogum’s Dayout as One of The Best Motion Graphics Project in their curated motion gallery. “In the mid of this August, we received a message from OnBrand Magazine on Behance and they wanted us to participate in Onbrand Video Awards’17. We were quite excited. So we confirmed our participation by uploading this video in their participation form,” he reveals.
Top 10 finalists were declared first (included Mogum’s Dayout) after which the videos were published for voting. Mogum’s Dayout received maximum votes, going on to achieve OnBrand Popularity Award.
We too love stories, and the story of Graphixstory being one of them!
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Nov
03
Golden opportunity for pitching original animation, gaming IPs to international broadcasters and investors at Bengaluru B2B AVGC summit 2017
Posted in: AnimationInternational broadcasters,investors, production studios like Disney, Turner, Jetpack, CBBC, Netflix, Amazon to judge the animation and gaming pitch at Bengaluru B2B AVGC summit 2017
The world will come down to Bengaluru to make the dreams of producing original animated and gaming IPs come true. Yes you heard it right!
Bring out all those crazy creative ideas which have been waiting to get produced since long. Its time to dust off the shelf and pitch your IP to international broadcasters, investors and production studios.
Bengaluru B2B summit 2017 is all set to host India’s largest animation pitch for original IPs. This global event is indeed a great boost for the Indian animation industry. For the first time ever, it is an opportunity to have a 1:1 meeting with leaders from Turner, Disney, Jetpack, BBC and many international and national channels, producers and distributors right here in India. The whole of the world will be descending to ITC Windsor Manor hotel, Bengaluru on 16 and 17 November for the summit.
To register for the animation pitch or for any queries regarding the rules and regulations one has to log on to http://abaib2bsummit.com. The last date for submission of pitches is 6 November, 2017. Also interested participants can write in to abai.b2b@gmail.com for any queries or call 08025721959. Few days are left for registration, so one needs to hurry up and register fast!
ABAI president Biren Ghose whose ABAI team is organising the event in collaboration with the Government of Karnataka (KBITS) spoke to Animation Xpress. He gave us an in-depth idea about the B2B summit for the AVGC industry.
ABAI president Biren Ghose
As a pioneering B2B event in kids content space, what are you trying to achieve?
Biren: Broadcasters have a specific editorial strategy that guides what they buy and co-produce. Creators on the other hand often develop themes which do not fit into the broadcasters or buyers’ current objectives. Such B2B events help to reconcile the expectations of the buyers with the offerings of the creators through feedback, discussions and negotiation.
Can you tell us the kind of people who will be able to assess the quality of the pitches from the buyers end?
Biren: We have world leaders like BBC, Turner, Disney, Jetpack and many other stalwarts from both the international and domestic markets. Broadcasters all over the world will be attending the event. Some of the names are BBC, Technicolor, Jetpack Distribution, A Stark Production, Turner (EMEA), Mighty Serious,League of Geeks, Demente Creative Studio, Just B, Netflix, Amazon.
What are the kind of pitches that you expect will be made at the local market?
Biren: This is really a pioneering event as some of the pitchers would have been developing content for a while, while many others will be in relatively ‘early stage’ in understanding the process. I expect that the pitchers will make efforts to listen to what the broadcasters are looking for and to be creative and yet authentic in presenting their concepts, characters, formats and story ideas.
What are the minimum pitching materials that a person should bring with him/her to the event?
Biren: ABAI has not attempted to create any filters nor has it attempted to impose too much regimen on the manner in which the creatives will be presented. The buyer is essentially looking to be convinced that the project is fresh, carries the conviction and passion of the creator and is presented in a clear, concise and easy manner to follow the pitch. Given that the time slot available is 15 minutes, good pitchers might be able to go even beyond a single pitch and lay out two or three concepts in broad strokes. My personal belief is that a simple one sheet is necessary and a pitch bible (however short) is an essential. Showing clips is great provided that the pitcher knows that he/she is on target.There is a list of jury members who will be overseeing the animation pitch which will be out soon. These are some of the names which has been announced.
CBBC productions head – animation Tim Searle
CBBC productions animation head Tim Searle
Tim is head of animation at CBBC Productions and executive Producer of ‘Danger Mouse’. He has worked in the animation industry for over 25 years. He has set up ‘Triffic Films’ and quickly started producing animation and graphics for a wide range of comedy shows including: ‘Absolutely’, ‘Two Fat Ladies’ (C4) ‘Have I Got News For You’ (BBC) and many others. In 2001, Tim helped create ‘2DTV’, directing 5 series of the successful topical sketch series for ITV. In 2013, Tim moved to Tiger Aspect, as series director of ‘Mr Bean’ (52 x 11’s) for ITV and the world. He then joined Tiger Aspect as the creative Director for kids and animation in 2015. Tim joined CBBC in 2016.
Zia Bales from Turner
Turner broadcasting senior acquisitions manager EMEA Zia Bales
Senior acquisitions manager EMEA Zia Bales who works for kids’ channels at Turner Broadcasting will be attending the event.In this role, Zia oversees and negotiates shared acquisitions for Turner Broadcasting’s EMEA kids business, working closely with the local heads of programming and acquisitions of each of the channels and the content heads within EMEA.Zia has been at Turner since 2013. Prior to this she handled an acquisitions role at Disney. Zia has a background in television production having held various positions in Production Management. Zia is quite hopeful of finding good talent at India and looking forward to some really awesome pitches.
Avrill Stark from A Stark Production
A Stark Production (ASP) CEO/executive producer Avrill Stark
CEO executive producer and creative leader of A Stark Production Avrill Stark will be attending Bengaluru B2B AVGC summit. Some of her credits include the wonderful pre-school series Zigby the comedy animated series, Zeke’s Pad; the epic adventure series, Enyo; the hilarious Erky Perky (season 1 and 2). Currently the company is into live action as well.Her first animated feature film, Santa’s Apprentice was awarded the prestigious UNICEF Award at the Annecy International animation festival. A Stark Production is committed to encouraging and nurturing talent and it is in search of talented Indian studios as well freelancers who will be pitching for their IPs.
Miriam Lopez, 2D producer Demente Estudio
Demente Estudio 2D producer Miriam Lopez
Miriam Lopez is 2D producer of Demente Estudio and she will be overseeing the animation pitch . Lopez is a development and production executive and creator in animation storytelling. She is a co-founder of recognised companies as Monster View and Jellyfish and has won several awards for animation including Ideatoon 2015, GIFF, Quorum and A! Diseño. Currently she is working in Demente Estudio as a producer.She is looking for concepts and also bringing some ready concepts for co-production and partner search. Lopez is quite excited to meet talented pitchers from India and get to know about their innovative ideas.
CBBC programme executive Aubrey Clarke
CBBC programme executive Aubrey Clarke
Aubrey has been a programme executive for the children’s animation and acquisitions team within the BBC for 5 years and is editorially across co-productions, pre-buys and ‘Off the Shelf’ acquisitions for CBBC and CBeebies. He is the channel executive on shows such as ‘Scream Street’, ‘The Zoo’, ‘The Deep’ and ‘Tee & Mo’ plus is brand manager of ‘The Next Step’.
B2B AVGC Summit 2017 : Event Itinerary
The Bengaluru B2B AVGC summit will also have panel discussions and other informative and educative sessions for the AVGC industry. The itinerary is as below:
Day one that is 16 November has an opening panel discussion from 9:30 am to 10:00 am with an introduction. It will be followed by one-on-one sessions from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm. The second half will have an enlightening panel discussion on co-production from 4:30pm to 5:15 pm. Day two that is 17 November will have a panel discussion from 9:30 am to 10:15 am about “The Tips and tricks to Pitching”. This will be indeed very useful for pitchers and those who are planning to do so in future.From 2:00 pm to 2:30 pm there will be a case study about developing,marketing and IP. From 4:30 pm to 5:45 pm there will be a master panel discussion with feedbacks and suggestions from international visitors.
Also on 18 November, there will be a special session for animation, visual effects, comics and gaming named as “AVGC session” at Bangalore Palace from 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm at the “Bengaluru Tech Summit”.
So, get ready for the greatest pitching platform connecting India to the world. More news coming up about Bengaluru B2B AVGC summit 2017. Stay updated with us for more news and start registering for the pitch!
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Nov
02
Today is a GREAT day to get X-Particles
Posted in: AnimationIf you have had X-Particles on your “Someday Maybe List”, you may want to grab it today.
Why?
Well, if you buy a new license of X-Particles 3.5 today, you will get a free upgrade to X-Particles 4.0 when it comes out on December 5th.
This means you can start using X-Particles 3.5 in your Cinema 4D Projects now and then get the highly anticipated 4.0 update and all of the new features to use as soon as it’s Insydium makes it available to the public in December.
If you have been thinking about getting X-Particles for an upcoming project, be sure to check out this incredible deal that is going on over at the store.
Visit our X-Particles page to learn more about what’s new in XP4 and get your license today.
Who Is This Offer Good For?
This offer is only available for New X-Particles Licenses and not upgrades.
Current X-Particles owners can upgrade their license to X-Particles 4.0 starting December 4th. Stay tuned for more details!
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Get our best selling X-Particles training and get up to speed with XP 3.5 and 4.0 when it comes out later this year.
It’s the best way to dig in DEEP with X-Particles and learn what this robust plugin can do for your next client.
Nov
02
Watch and learn more advanced techniques of X-Particles with Mario Tran Phuc from Insydium.
Learn about Object Omission, Data Mapping, and many more advanced X-Particles techniques in this presentation recorded at IBC2017.
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Nov
02
Early Look at X-Particles 4.0
Posted in: AnimationGet a early look at the exciting new features of X-Particles 4.0 with Mario Tran Phuc from Insydium.
Learn about Circle Packer, Spline Flow, Explosia FX, and much more in this presentation recorded at IBC2017.
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Nov
02
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In this episode, we answer a bunch of questions including what are some of our favorite things we’ve learned in Mograph. We touch on just about everything on this one, including 3D tools, production strategies, and inspirational posters.
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Show Notes
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Greyscalegorilla Live
How to get Random Movement With Mograph And Cloners
After Effects Basic Comping for 3D
Intro To Arnold With Chad Ashley
Questions:
√ Lukasz Pason :Do you guys record your audio separately and then sync it after the fact?
√ Michael Szalapski : Question: What is your favorite feature of the upcoming XP4?
√ Dave Glanz : so what’s up with x particles?
√ raidZer0 Q: What are you working on?
√ Billy Chitkin Q: What has been the favorite mograph-related thing you’ve learned? whether on a production job or in the process of developing a new GSG product, etc
√ Amador Valenzuela Q: For Chris, what is Blizzcon and why is that worth your time?
√ Neo3D Q: Will there be a more pro course available to join…. to get more into some workflows
NC17z When can we expect the release of the GSG Grunge Maps that I’ve heard Chad mention from time to time?
√ Tokyomegaplex any chance any of yall would be willing to give any details on starting to learn houdini? not sure how far any of you have gotten but v curious. i saw chad posting videos in the slack.
√ trevor kerr ACTUAL Q: Is C4D your native application, if not – what do you find its greatest strength/weakness compared against the competing DCC’s you’re familiar with?
√ //raidZer0 Q: is that twitch hoodie now fused to Chad’s body from usage?
√ NC17z Q: Do you have any additional plans to release Model Kits such as The Happy Tool Box?
√ Dave Glanz Q: Hardware Q: has anyone here set up a an external GPU case that holds more than one GPU?
√ Zacheray Long Question: Is Redshift more viable for photorealism than Octane
√ Jake Melara Q: How do you scope a 3D animation project?
√ Lukasz Pason Q: How did you overcome a time when you felt like you were downward spiraling in a project really felt like you weren’t doing your best?
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