An audiovisual essay by A. Martin & C. Álvarez López (vimeo.com/regularlovers) on Chantal Akerman’s TOMORROW WE MOVE. For accompanying text, visit the Notebook (https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/video-essay-almost-singing-almost-dancing-chantal-akerman-s-tomorrow-we-move). For Study Purposes Only.
Lee Sanders lip-syncs her cover of “Message to Michael” in this clip from Australian TV series “Bandstand”. Yes, this show had a lot of covers…..
1966 footage of Helen Reddy at the airport to leave for the United States.
Another variant on the 1966 closing logo for Australia’s National Television Network (now known as the Nine Network). There were only four networks in Australia at the time. I admit these logos I’ve uploaded are all very similar to each other….
Leading mobile gaming industry conference, Pocket Gamer Connects, returns to San Francisco in 2018 – bigger and better than ever. More than 1,000 delegates will gather at the Bespoke venue for the two days of May 14-15 to hear from 100 of the world’s leading authorities from the mobile gaming industry. Filling 10 wall-to-wall conference tracks across both days, they will share their expert insight on everything from monetisation to the latest development trends.
The readers of AnimationXpress can use the code XPRESS, and avail 20 per cent discount on the tickets!
Always Innovating
New conference tracks for 2018 are expected to keep the audience at the cutting edge of the industry, including influencer marketing and blockchain gaming, as well as company culture. Of course, the seminar schedule still includes classic topics such as market overviews, industry trends, and case studies. Check the website at http://www.pgconnects.com/sanfrancisco for the latest speaker announcements.
They’ve also added an all-new dedicated workshop space to help you acquire or develop industry related skills that will help grow your career or business.
Networking For All
As ever, the conference schedule will be packed with the trademark short, sharp seminars. With no time to waffle, the speakers will get straight down to business – which is what you’ll be able to do too, networking with more than 1,000 industry professionals.
The event is called Connects because that’s what it help you do; connect with the whole mobile gaming industry, from students and indie studios to the media, international investors and publishers. Unlike other event organisers, it offers Pitch & Match meeting scheduler free to all delegates, so you can find that perfect contact and arrange to meet them in person.
No other event puts you in touch with the entire mobile gaming industry like Pocket Gamer Connects.
Pairing Developers With Publishers And Investors
The event’s SpeedMatch sessions pair developers in rapid succession with a series of publishers and investors in a series of speed-dating style meetings. These short, sharp encounters enable first contact for you to follow up with a longer meeting if you find a potential partner. It’s a shop window for devs to display their wares and a pipeline of prospects for anyone looking to sign up-and-coming talent.
Meet The Media
The team welcomes regional and international specialist media to the events so that your work reaches the widest audience possible. With its own publishing powerhouse behind the event, you are guaranteed that the industry journalists will be onsite for demos, interviews and other ways to raise awareness of your brand or project to the online community outside the walls of the event.
If you’re looking for feedback on a project, stop by the Journalist Bar for a free consultation from professional games journalists.
All About The Indies
Indie devs are the lifeblood of the mobile games industry and Pocket Gamer Connects champions their work to their international audience. Their hugely popular Big Indie Pitches will be back in force with indie devs competing to impress a panel of expert judges. The winners walk away with armfuls of prizes and online marketing worth thousands of dollars.
The showfloor has a dedicated Indie Showcase area for known names and newcomers alike to display their talent to an industry audience. This is a vibrant and varied expo area for publishers looking to sign promising titles.
Established International Audience
More than 13,000 industry professionals have attended the Connects international conference series since 2014. Since then, the roadshow has landed in the UK, North America, Canada, Finland, and India with a genuinely international client base; on average, delegates from more than 40 countries attend each event.
In 2016, the event became the biggest dedicated mobile games industry conference series in Europe and have stayed on top ever since. Every event has been bigger and better than the last – and San Francisco continues to grow year-on-year.
Not only have their previous delegates voted Connects the ‘best value conference’, but 97 per cent would recommend it to a colleague and 96 per cent tell us they’ll come back for more.
Previous speakers and delegates from all the key industry players include Supercell, King, TenCent, Telltale, Apple, Rovio, Disney, Wargaming, Kabam, NTT Docomo, Ubisoft, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Gameloft, Sega, Capcom, Unity, Twitter, Twitch and many, many, many more.
Party Hearty
And if that all sounds a bit serious, day one closes with the always entertaining powerpoint karaoke that is PechaKucha, before moving on to its infamous Global Connects party. That’s where the networking goes on into the night and you might just make lifelong friends, fortunes and memories…
Venue
Bespoke
Westfield San Francisco Centre, Level 4
845 Market Street
San Francisco
United States of America.
The post Pocket Gamer Connects returns to San Francisco appeared first on AnimationXpress.
Sony Animation’s upcoming movie, Wish Dragon gets Jackie Chan and Constance Wu as the lead voice cast.
Chan’s career has been spawning with hit franchises including Rush Hour and Police Story. He managed quite well in creating a realm in the animation arena, co-starring in the Kung Fu Panda franchise, The LEGO Ninjago Movie and The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature. Wu is in the spotlight with her hit ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat.
The rest of the star cast of the movie includes, Natasha Liu Bordizzo (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny), Jimmy Wong (John Dies at the End), Bobby Lee (Splitting Up Together), John Cho (The Exorcist) and Jimmy Yang (Silicon Valley).
The film will be a recitation of the genie-in-the-bottle tale from the Middle Eastern collection of tales, One Thousand and One Nights, but in a contemporary setting. It is a co-production between Chan’s Sparkle Roll Media Corporation, Base Animation and Sony Animation.
Wish Dragon, the writing and directorial debut of Chris Appelhans is aiming to release in 2019.
With Sony Animation’s three films which are set to release this year, Hotel Transylvania 3, a sequel to the hit adaptation of Goosebump novels is the most awaited.
The post Sony Animation’s ‘Wish Dragon’ to have Jackie Chan and Constance Wu as the lead voice cast appeared first on AnimationXpress.
Steven Spielberg makes his way to the world of DC with the adaptation of Blackhawk which he will produce and possibly direct, making it his first feature based on characters from the comic book franchise.
Steven Spielberg
This news was announced by Warner Bros. (with whom Spielberg and his Amblin Entertainment are reteaming) a day after Spielberg became the first director to cross the $10-billion threshold in global box office for Ready Player One (which features cameo appearances by Batman, Harley Quinn, Batgirl and more).
“We are so proud to be the studio behind Steven Spielberg’s latest hit and are thrilled to be working with him again on this new action adventure. We can’t wait to see what new ground he will break in introducing Blackhawk to movie audiences worldwide,” said Warner Bros. pictures group chairman Toby Emmerich.
First published by Quarterly Comics in 1941, Blackhawk is a wartime adventure series focusing on an elite team of World War II-era pilots led by a mysterious man called Blackhawk. The team also known as ‘the Blackhawks’ or ‘the Blackhawk Squadron’ fought Nazis, the Axis powers, as well as super-villains and war machines (such as the memorable shark planes which could operate in water as well as in the air).
Created by Will Eisner along with Chuck Cuidera and Bob Powell, the series has also been adapted in the modern era as a part of The New 52 and have introduced a well-known DC heroine, Lady Blackhawk who joined the series in the late 1950s. The title was acquired by DC Comics in 1957.
“It was wonderful working with the team at Warner Bros. to bring Ready Player One to the screen. They bring a blend of passion and professionalism to everything they do and have a tremendous history in this genre. I am excited to reunite with them on Blackhawk,” Spielberg added.
The screenplay of the film will be written by frequent Spielberg collaborator, David Koepp (screenwriter for Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds, Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull). Spielberg will co-produce the film with Kristie Macosko Krieger under the Amblin Entertainment banner, while Sue Kroll will be the executive producer under her Kroll Entertainment.
The timing for the production of Blackhawk is unknown as Spielberg has two projects in his kitty that includes the fifth Indiana Jones movie and West Side Story.
The post Spielberg to bring DC’s ‘Blackhawk’ on screen appeared first on AnimationXpress.
When India’s youngest supercop hits the screen with his valour and glory saying, “Police ki wardi, sher ka dam, naam hai mera Little Singham,” kids will have another superhero to add to their list!
Reliance Animation, Discovery Kids and Rohit Shetty Picturez came together to create something solid, something to connect with the kids, and Little Singham was born. With the rise in Indian IPs, it is a challenge for the partners involved in the creation of Little Singham, to keep at par or rather get a notch higher.
“The partnership has worked really well. Both our teams have worked hand in hand and have developed a bond where we understand each other’s requirements and work closely for delivering the best of the content,” shared Reliance Animation COO Tejonidhi Bhandare.
With the guidance from Rohit Shetty, the character was designed keeping in mind the target audience and the inspiration derived its name. With time to time mentoring from Shetty, the character has turned out quite riveting.
Reliance Animation had earlier worked on the animated versions of mythological characters and superheroes for the kids’ content sector. A few of their popular works include Krishna aur Kans, Shaktimaan, Little Krishna and Big Bees Jr., a package of nursery rhymes. What made difference in the creation of Little Singham was the style quotient and the contemporary character appeal supported by the established brand name. With Singham already in fame, the younger version of the same would grab eyeballs and be a hit definitely.
With around eight to 10 people working on Little Singham at the development stage, the number has rose to a grand total of more than 250 talented artists. “The new artists were intimidated as they thought they would be working to create the animated version of original Singham, but the tension ceased when Little Singham’s idea was showcased,” Bhandare added.
With around 52 to 57 episodes created so far and with 156 episodes to be made for now along with five tele features, the budget is in millions. The franchise will likely create huge fan base with the plans of merchandising it in pipeline.
The success of the IP is something all the partners are looking forward to. The IP is owned by Reliance Animation and Rohit Shetty Picturez, whereas the first 156 episodes and features for SAARC region are being co-produced by Reliance Animation with Discovery Kids.
“The shayari inserted in the series is going to be one amongst the hit moments,” exclaimed Bhandare. Little Singham will emphatically stand out from other superheroes in the arena of kids’ content with its strong style and balanced placement of the character as India’s youngest supercop, at least that’s the word around.
“We want each kid to understand that he or she is unique and should unleash their inherent strengths. They should be brave, focused and confident like Little Singham,” Bhandare asserts.
With tremendous hype generated around the character and the series even before the launch, it is sure going to be a delight to watch the lion-hearted Little Singham playing his bravery skills when the series hit the screen.
The post “Little Singham to be a hit with the shayari in it”: Reliance Animation COO Tejonidhi Bhandare appeared first on AnimationXpress.
Nazara Technologies and Royal Challengers Bangalore have come together to launch their second mobile cricket game RCB Epic Cricket.
RCB Epic Cricket is a 3D realistic and stimulative game for cricket fans. The game is currently designed to be played in three modes – multiplayer mode, live events and career mode. The unique part about its multiplayer system is that it enables the player to create their own RCB dream team and play against an opposing team in a turn based multiplayer match along with elements of strategy. The player can compete on daily, weekly and monthly leader boards to win plenty of original RCB merchandise.
Royal Challengers Bangalore chairman Amrit Thomas said “Over years, RCB has become more a lifestyle brand than just a cricket team. The fans connect with the team across multiple touch points on digital platforms. We strive to give them a seamless and more personalised experience for the love and support they have shown for the team.”
HP (Hewlett-Packard), one of the key sponsors for RCB for the 11th edition of T20 season, has come on board as the title sponsor for the official game. It has been integrated in the game in form of jersey branding, billboards, real estate branding, user interface branding and much more.
Last year, the RCB Star Cricket game rose through the charts and reached the number one spot among the top free games on Google Play within few days of its launch. While the peak engagement was during T20, more than 54 per cent of the engagement happened post T20 season and continued for the rest of the year.
“We are thrilled to announce the launch of our new multi-player game RCB Epic Cricket with RCB. The fans are in for a treat this year with exciting merchandise to be won within the multiplayer launched in the game. We have also printed a QR code on all the tickets sold at the RCB stadium for them to have an interactive experience while watching the game,” noted Nazara Games CEO Manish Agarwal.
Over the last three financial years, Nazara has invested in mobile gaming companies within the sports genre such as Mastermind Sports, Moonglabs Technologies and HalaPlay Technologies which develop popular games. Its offerings in mobile gaming for cricket have also been augmented through acquisition of Next Wave Multimedia, which has developed mobile cricket games such as World Cricket Championship 1, World Cricket Championship 2, Beach Cricket and Bat Attack Cricket.
The live events enables the player to play real time matches of RCB. The Career mode, on the other hand allows the player to play as their favourite RCB stars such as Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Yuzvendra Singh Chahal and Safaraz Khan and rule the pitch.
Nazara also have an exclusive mobile gaming rights for a multiyear partnership with RCB to license their intellectual property for curation of free-mium games.
Nazara recently acquired Next Wave Multimedia Private Limited and Nodwin Gaming which has further augmented its cricket mobile game offerings. Adding e-sports to its network of games has obtained them a non-assignable, non-transferable license for a term of five years from ESL to use their system, community and management platform for setting up and operating the ESL tournament in India.
The game is available for download on Google Play Store for android devices and is expected to be available for iOS by mid-April 2018.
The post Nazara Games and Royal Challengers Bangalore collaborate for ‘RCB Epic Cricket’ appeared first on AnimationXpress.
Are you on the hunt for a specific 3D model for a certain project? Find what you are looking for with these fantastic models from our friends at The Happy Toolbox.
We are thrilled to see that the incredibly fun 3D models from The Happy Toolbox have made their way onto Adobe Stock for creatives to use these models in their Adobe Dimension CC projects.
There are over 150 OBJ files, meaning you can use these models in Adobe Dimension CC, Cinema 4D, Maya, 3ds Max, Blender, and more!
The team over at Happy Toolbox also put together a quick Adobe Dimension CC tutorial, showing you how easy it is to render these models with material textures and custom backgrounds.
Head on over to Adobe’s Create blog to see the tutorial by Happy Toolbox.
These models are also compatible with Cinema 4D, which we originally used to put together this Happy Toolbox pack promo.
If you want to see how we used The Happy Toolbox models in Cinema 4D, check out this breakdown.
You can license over 150 Happy Toolbox models individually on the Adobe Stock site, or you can bundle up and get the 180 model pack here on Greyscalegorilla.
I also had the opportunity to chat with Adobe about how much I love using these models from The Happy Toolbox. You can read that interview on the Adobe blog.
The post The Happy Toolbox: 3D Models Now Available on Adobe Stock appeared first on Greyscalegorilla.
This is site is run by Sascha Endlicher, M.A. during ungodly late night hours. Wanna know more about him? Connect via Social Media by jumping to about.me/sascha.endlicher.
