Hasta La Motion!

Walt Disney Animation Studios debuts its new VR short Myth: A Frozen Tale at the recent world premiere of Frozen II at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

Directed by Jeff Gipson, Myth explores the movie’s world in an immersive way using the latest advances in VR technology, an original music score and stylized art direction to deliver a unique virtual and visceral experience.

Myth: A Frozen Tale is the first Disney animation VR short inspired by one of its feature films. Gipson had previously helmed Disney’s first-ever VR short, Cycles, which debuted at SIGGRAPH in 2018, won The Advanced Imaging Society’s 2019 Lumiere Award for best animated VR experience, and received 2 VES nominations.

Nicholas Russell, helped oversee Disney Animation’s Short Circuit experimental film program. Jose Luis Gomez Diaz served as VR technology supervisor on Myth: A Frozen Tale. Both worked on the award-winning Cycles with Gipson. Frozen and Frozen II visual development artist Brittney Lee is the production designer.

Premiere guests will be able to view Myth: A Frozen Tale on the latest generation of the positron voyager chair, which provides a cinematic VR experience showcasing positron’s unique motion and multi-sensory capabilities which brings the audience into a deeper level of immersion and emotional connection to the story. Users sit comfortably in a VR motion chair while rotating 360 degrees horizontally, as well as 35-degrees backwards and forwards. The chairs are being provided under a special arrangement with positron.

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Two films, 2D animation, and two vastly different yet mesmerizing worlds created.

Two Indian teams Entity Gaming and SouL qualified for the finals at the end of PUBG Mobile Club Open Fall Split 2019,  South Asian regional finals on Sunday. The top two teams will be heading to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for the finals which are scheduled from 29 November to 1 December.

16 finalists battled PMCO Fall Split South Asia Regional finals with matches spread across three days. Entity Gaming earned 220 points with three chicken dinners on day three with crowd favourites SouL claimed the second spot with 210 points. The results from day three of the PMCO Fall Split South Asia Regional finals 201 are here under:

On the first day itself, Entity Gaming had taken a lead, while SouL was ranked ninth with 47 points just below Team Fnatic. However, the Day two matches for SouL took a new turn in the tournament as SouL took a huge leap and secured the second spot, followed by Team Synerge and Team INS. Day three was all about maintaining the spots, and that’s exactly what did.

Earlier this year, the spring leg of the PMCO included SouL as the only Indian team qualified for the finals. While the team didn’t do well, Naman Mathur aka Soul Mortal had received the Website Fan Favorite Player award “It feels great! I was not aware of vote stuff, but later on, the Tencent guys came to me and handed over the goodies saying that you have won the fan-favourite award on the website,” said Mortal in an interview.

While the top two teams Entity Gaming and SouL get a direct entry in the finals, the Team Synerge, Team INS and Team IND will get a chance to play the prelims. In addition to that after popstar, Henry Lau’s confirmed presence at the PMCO Fall Split 2019 finals, now, Indian rapper Badshah is also confirmed to grace the PMCO Fall Split 2019 Global Finals.

Recently, before the tournament PUBG Mobile India revealed the name of PMCO 2019 SA Playins and Finals Hindi casters on its Twitter page:

Presenting the Hindi team of storytellers to take you through the PMCO Fall Split South Asia Playins and Finals sponsored by VIVO. pic.twitter.com/ANUHH0rjSS

— PUBG MOBILE INDIA (@PUBGMOBILE_IN) November 4, 2019

 List of Hindi casters in PMCO 2019 South Asia region
Mannu Krat Karki, who did perfect and excellent casting in the previous season of PMCO, will again cast the PMCO 2019 Fall Split with his enjoyable commentary.

Ketan Petal, popularly known as K18 Gaming, is a popular YouTuber with over 2 Lakh+ Subscribers. Ketan has also managed the previous Regional Finals of PMCO, and during the Berlin Tour, he was also the manager of Team Soul.

Animesh Aggarwal, aKa 8Bit Thug, who is also a leading player of the eight-bit team, is also going to cast PMCO 2019 Fall Split. Earlier, he also did casting in PUBG Mobile India Tour 2019.

Varun Super Johnny John

And apparently during the Hindi live stream of the PMCO2019 South Asia Qualifier Finals has over 113K concurrent viewers. Stay tuned for more updates on PMCO2019.

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Netflix India has unveiled a record growth of 700 per cent for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2018-2019, owing to the increase in local content and marketing. (As per The Economic Times report) 

There are 39 players in the Indian OTT space since 2012 when there were only nine. Despite being the biggest global video streaming platform, it wasn’t that popular in India when it arrived in India in January 2016, until few original content started grabbing eyeballs. Now, with the recent report, Netflix has surpassed almost all its contemporary streaming players including Amazon Prime Video and Hotstar.

Netflix

The streaming powerhouse has reported revenues of Rs. 466.7 crore for FY19 with a net profit of Rs. 5.1 crore, according to its filing with the registrar of companies sourced from Veratech Intelligence. In FY18, Netflix India had a turnover of Rs. 58 crore with Rs. 20 lakh net profit, which reflected financials for seven months starting September last year after the actual transfer to local distribution entity from Singapore.

Veratech founder Mohit Yadav commented, “A combination of factors including original content for India, partnership with Airtel for better access to market and fixing payment issues helped Netflix. All this combined with new low cost-based variants for a price-sensitive Indian market is the reason behind Netflix’s phenomenal growth.”

In the past two years, Netflix has doubled on offering local content, low-cost mobile plans and partnerships with telecom operators that adds into its 700 per cent growth in the country. Though the streaming giant doesn’t share subscriber numbers of individual markets, estimates are that its Indian subscriber base is between 1-1.2 million as of March 2019. The number has increased post July this year when the company launched a mobile only plan at Rs. 199 per month.

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IndiaJoy 2019 is set to host the country’s largest VFX event at HICC in the city of Hyderabad.  The two-day event specially curated and designed to help the VFX aspirants to learn from the best and also to create a platform for B2B and B2C connect.

In a bid to promote the arts and science of the visual effects industry, the VFX summit is set to highlight the latest projects, technological nuances, and processes that went into creating some of the best imagery created on the silver screen across the world.

Amongst many delegates and speakers, some of the names include Creative Director Visual Effects Supervisor DNEG Tim Mcgovern, FireFly Studios Co-Founder VFX Supervisor P.C Sanath, Indian visual effects designer Srinivas Mohan, Technicolor Country Head in India Biren Ghose, philm CGI VFX supervisor Arpan Gaglani, Legend VFX  vfx supervisor Mangesh Palkrit  BOT VFX creative head, Zameer Hussain, Redefine India Creative Director Viral Thakkar, Mill Film Head of Creative Operations Payal Dani, Riot games Senior VFX artist Jason Kersor

Amid panel discussions, VFX showreels, breakdowns, and illuminating discussions, the event is poised to bring under one marquee, top industry veterans, artists and VFX technicians of the most notable VFX projects including techie-talks from Unity, Auto Desk and so on.

Sanath PC

“Attend IndiaJoy 2019 to understand what is happening in the industry it will help you learn more about where the industry is and also about where the industry is heading. Especially the VFX summit would be a good place to meet and interact with people who are working behind the scenes. This will help you to connect with people and get inspired by them,” noted FireFly Studio co-founder Sanath PC.
“IndiaJoy has become a benchmark event to look forward

Madhav (Mike) Reddy

to every year for professionals & students alike & this year, we are putting in all efforts to make it bigger & better than ever before. We are pleased with the tremendous response from the global fraternity expressing their interest to be a part of this event,” said  executive committee member Madhav Reddy Yatham (Mike) secretary of Telangana VFX, Animation and Gaming Association and founder of Rotomaker VFX

Being pegged as the celebration of the Indian VFX industry and its global achievements,
VFX Summit is a non-profit event and is partially funded by the Telangana Government as part of the Indiajoy Festival.

Biren Ghose

“The VFXSummit2019 in Hyderabad is a congregation of the international and local industry that sees India as a key player in the global production ecosystem. I am delighted to be invited to the executive committee to help my Hyderabad studio head colleagues from the industry make this memorable and valuable!,” said Technicolor India country head and executive committee member VFX Summit Hyderabad 2019 Biren Ghosh.

“The VFX Summit brings for the first time a hub of collective visual effects artists and studios to

Pete Draper

Hyderabad is one place to explore and discuss the industry and its merits to the national and international stages. Attendees will be able to hear from renowned local studios such as Firefly and Red Chillies to international studios such as MPC and Technicolor, VFX supervisors such as Srinivas Mohan (RRR, 2.0, Baahubali – The Beginning) and technology spearheads such as Centroid (motion capture), sharing their insights, makings and future developments within the industry and will also give the opportunity to personally approach and discuss the same. It’s a must-attend for those in the industry and for those wishing to break into it,” shared executive committee member division head and Makuta VFX co-founder and chief technical director Pete Draper.

Major events include IGDC (India Game Developer Conference), ESL eSports events, InfluencerCon, Desitoonz, OTT Pulse and VFXSummit.

If you fancy yourself as a technology aficionado and cinema enthusiast, this event is specially curated for you! You can register on  www.indiajoy.in/

Some Key Facts about
VFX summit:-

20+ Speaker Sessions
1000+ attendees
National and International Media
B2B and B2C Expo Stalls
Presence of Top Production houses and Technological companies.

The two-day VFX summit is scheduled to take place from 20 – 21 November 2019

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