One Take Media launches new OTT app Playflix

One Take Media is all set to step into the OTT space with its new app Playflix. Playflix is a content-streaming OTT app with a subscription model and is one of the first apps of India to offer international drama content in 11 Indian regional languages. Playflix boasts of more than 2000+ Premium Korean shows episodes as well as Turkish, Spanish, Russian, Bulgarian and Chinese Drama shows – these are available with English subtitles and in Hindi language, Tamil, Telugu … Read More

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Online skill gaming company Head Digital Works launches its CSR wing ‘Head Foundation’

Head Digital Works has announced the launch of its CSR wing ‘Head Foundation’. The company has been driving its efforts towards empowering and uplifting underprivileged groups in society for over four years now. Establishing Head Foundation will further expand Head Digital Work’s long-term vision and dedication to support causes including skill development of specially-abled children, primary school sanitation, education for girls, healthcare for children, aiding the physically challenged and more. In 2022, Head Digital Works collaborated with Hrudaya Foundation to … Read More

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India thrashes Pakistan and Bangladesh to qualify for 14th World Esports Championships in ‘CS:GO’

India’s CS:GO team produced vigorous performances in the South Asian Regional Qualifiers of the 14th World Esports Championships after hammering Pakistan and Bangladesh in the South Asian regional qualifiers. The team, comprising of skipper Ritesh Sarda (Defaulter), Shuvajyoti Chakraborty (Mcg1LLzZz), Anshul Adardkar (KiiLSwitCh), Hrishikesh Shenoy (Crazy_Gamer) and Harsh Jain (lynX), recorded identical 2-0 victories over Pakistan and Bangladesh in the semi-finals and final respectively. Besides CS:GO team, prominent Tekken 7 athlete Hitesh Khorwal (rcool) and well renowned eFootball professional Hemanth … Read More

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Sky Kids unveils spooky animated specials fit for halloween

Sky Kids is preparing for the halloween season by unveiling spooky new animated and live-action content fit. “We know kids love Halloween, so this year we’re excited to launch new BOO-tiful specials starring some of their favorite characters and bring even more spooky fun to Sky Kids with Gary, the adorable Ghastly Ghoul,” said Sky kids director of kids content Lucy Murphy. Aimed at ages five-seven, the CG-animated original The Ghastly Ghoul is set to premiere on 7 October. Starring … Read More

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Chaos launches new V-Ray 6 for Cinema 4D to enhance detailed visuals with artistic finesse

Chaos launched V-Ray 6 for Cinema 4D, expanding artistic control on everything from particles to the sky. C4D users can now access production-ready features like V-Ray Enmesh, the new procedural clouds system and V-Ray Decal. V-Ray Decal can project anything, from 3D stickers and labels to weathering elements like cracks, stains and scratches, onto any surface, all in a few clicks. Decals can be applied at angle, without extra UVW work or disturbing the underlying materials, giving artists more creative … Read More

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Netflix drops trailer for 2D animated feature ‘My Father’s Dragon’

Netflix has shared a trailer and key art for its highly anticipated upcoming 2D animated feature, My Father’s Dragon, inspired by Ruth Stiles Gannett’s Newbery-honored children’s book of the same name, and directed by Academy Award-nominated director Nora Twomey (The Breadwinner). The film hits the streamer on 11 November. In the film, a young boy, Elmer, struggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother, runs away in search of Wild Island and a young dragon who … Read More

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Milk VFX moves into new office in London’s Clerkenwell

Milk VFX recently moved into new premises in London’s Clerkenwell. The new studio will act as the hub for Milk’s hybrid working set up with a capacity of 200 artist seats with creative teams coming together at least two days a week in person, and some members of the team remaining fully remote. Milk’s move to a new home comes as the studio continues to boost its creative and production teams to work across an exciting range of episodic and … Read More

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Clip Studio Paint launches direct upload feature for webcomics with Webtoon Canvas

With ever-growing demand for support from online content creators, Celsys and Webtoon have partnered on a new feature that allows artists to post their webcomics directly from the English version of the Clip Studio Paint drawing app to the Webtoon Canvas self-publishing platform. The new feature debuts today in the fall update to Clip Studio Paint (Version 1.12.7). With the new update to Clip Studio Paint, users can select their project in the Clip Studio launcher app and publish directly … Read More

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Marvel celebrates one of the greatest superhero friendships in ‘Avengers Two: Wonder Man and Beast’

In 2000, one of the best buddy pairings in comics—Wonder Man and the bouncing Beast reunited for the adventure of a lifetime in Avengers Two: Wonder Man And Beast, a three-issue limited series from the wondrous creative pairing of Roger Stern and Mark Bagley! The readers will get a new chance to experience this wondrous saga when it’s reprinted for the first time since its original publication in a special Marvel Tales edition! Showcasing the epic bromance, Hank McCoy and … Read More

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Disney’s Epcot mascot Figment is getting its own feature film

Disney’s most beloved theme park character is getting its own movie. The studio is developing a film featuring Figment, the purple dragon mascot of Epcot’s Imagination Pavilion, at Walt Disney World in Orlando. Deadline reports that producer Seth Rogen and Detective Pikachu writers, Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit, are developing the film at Disney-based on the attraction. Hernandez and Samit helped to bring Pokémon Detective Pikachu to life back in 2019, so they have well-tested experience in taking a beloved character and … Read More

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