May 18

Little Big Awesome – Official Trailer | Prime Video Kids

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Little Big Awesome follows Gluko and Lennon, the two best friends ever of all time in the history of everything. While having weird and wonderful adventures around Townopolis, these besties help the citizens live their best lives, even if helping sometimes causes more problems than it solves.

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About Little Big Awesome:
Two inseparable buddies, Gluko and Lennon, are in for a wonderfully strange adventure! Not only must they get a lost little bubble back home to Bubble Land, they need to make it back in time to stop a group of adorable yet naughty kittens from messing up Grandma’s house.

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May 18

Retro vfx: Godzilla is 20!

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Patrick Tatopoulos 6th scale Godzilla upper torso. Destruction of miniature jetty with Godzilla head. Photo by Isabella Vosmikova, © 1998 Tristar Pictures.

In vfxblog’s ‘Man-in-suit, miniatures, mechanics and modern CG: looking back at 20 years since Godzilla’, we chat to visual effects supervisor Volker Engel about this massive 1998 release and its use of practical, miniature, animatronics, puppet and CGI effects – all at once. The Q&A has some fun new facts about the teaser trailer for the film, and about how a whole bunch of shots were done, including one of my favourites, the fisherman running along that pier. You can check it all out at this dedicated link:

http://www.vfxblog.com/godzilla

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May 18

Taiwan Excellence’s first India edition, Taiwan Expo 2018 is all about tech extravaganza

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Taiwan Expo 2018, that has been declared open by Taiwan Excellence at the Taiwan Excellence pavilion, treated the visitors with a spectrum of hi-tech gadgets. Coming to India for the first time, Taiwan Expo 2018 attracted a large number of visitors on its opening day. The three day event will serve as an important platform to bring together Taiwanese and Indian businesses to explore growth opportunities together.

The Taiwan Excellence pavilion showcased a range of products such as IoT solutions, healthcare equipments, lifestyle enhancement appliances, ICT and office equipment, and entertainment products. The pavilion became the centre of attraction of the expo after the opening ceremony. Visitors got a glimpse of various Taiwanese brands that displayed cutting edge, award-winning products using state-of-the-art technology.

Some innovative products were unveiled for the first time, underscoring the commitment made by Taiwan Excellence to align with India’s digital mission. The featured brands included MSI, one of the dominant names of the gaming industry; ASUS, a household name in India with its high-quality laptops and smartphones; Gigabyte, that holds a global market for motherboards, graphic cards and computer notebooks; and Thermaltake with its TteSports and LUXA2 lines of merchandise. Other brands included D-Link, Edimax, Acer, Adata, Tokuyo, Aver and Advantech. Among the new brands were Walrus Pumps, QNAP, Moxa, XTGL and Apex.

Addressing media persons on the inaugural ceremony, TAITRA executive director Raymond Chen commented, “This is the first time that Taiwan Expo is being held in India. We at Taiwan Excellence have always put our best foot forward to support the Government of India in various path-breaking initiatives like Make in India, Digital India and Skill India. By participating in the India edition of Taiwan Expo, we are trying to bring about a synergy between Taiwanese and Indian companies. We will network with other stakeholders and explore ways of collaborating with them through the expo.”

Considered to be a major facilitator in developing Taiwan’s bilateral trade relations with its neighboring countries, Taiwan Expo was conceived as a result of the implementation of Taiwan’s new Southbound Policy to create mutually beneficial partnerships with its southern neighbors. Besides showcasing Taiwanese products and services, the expo serves as a platform for Taiwanese and Indian companies to further their cooperation. The pavilion has been popular with the visitors as it seeks the country’s culture of technological innovation and cutting edge design. It also provides an appropriate platform to strengthen bilateral trade and economic relations. This year, its pivotal role in enhancing Taiwan’s business relations with its neighbours will also be experienced in India.

Taiwan Expo is being held from 17 to 19 May at Pragati Maidan Hall.

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May 18

Scholastic Entertainment returns to TV with ‘Clifford The Big Red Dog’

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Scholastic Entertainment will be back on TV with a reboot of Clifford The Big Red Dog. Based on the best-selling Scholastic book by Norman Bridwell, the re-imagined animated series will feature the larger-than-life dog and his best friend Emily Elizabeth. The huge canine character will return on Amazon Prime Video and PBS Kids in 2019.

Still set in Birdwell Island, Clifford The Big Red Dog will offer fresh and colourful new locations. The show will also have a strong emphasis on social-emotional skills such as empathy, along with a solid curriculum designed to boost early literacy and encourage imaginative play.

The classic Clifford The Big Red Dog series has aired in 110 countries around the globe, and also inspired a spin-off, the Emmy-winning Clifford’s Puppy Days. Scholastic published the first Clifford title in 1963, and till date there have been  more than 133 million Clifford books in print in 16 different languages. A vintage hardcover edition of the original Clifford storybook was reissued in fall 2016 and it also has its very own classroom magazine, distributed by Scholastic in the U.S.

In a statement, the show’s executive producer Iole Lucchese said: “There is something enduring in Clifford’s gentle, loyal spirit that touches fans even after they become adults.We see it in tributes on social media and in fan art, and of course, in every parent who grew up with Clifford and now share their love of him with their pre-schoolers.”

Produced by Scholastic Entertainment, the first Clifford The Big Red Dog series premiered on PBS KIDS in 2000. The show garnered numerous industry excellence awards, including nine Daytime Emmy nominations, two CINE Golden Eagle Awards and a New York Film Festival Award. For the new series 100 Chickens,9 Story and Brown Bag Films are brought on board to bring the animated show to life.

Currently scheduled to go on for 39 episodes, the new show will also feature original songs, new and old characters. Sadly, one person who will be unable to return to the show is John Ritter, the original voice of Clifford who passed away in 2003. He was posthumously nominated for an Emmy in 2004 for his performance.

To accompany the launch of the new show, Scholastic Entertainment is also developing a global publishing, broadcast, merchandise and licensing program to help further extend the positive messages of the brand to children and families around the globe.

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May 18

Yash Raj Films (YRF) signs two-film distribution deal with Green Gold Animation

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Indian production and distribution company, Yash Raj Films (YRF) has inked a distribution deal for Indian animation films Hanuman vs Mahiravana and Chhota Bheem: Kung Fu Dhamaka, across India. Produced by animation content company Green Gold Animation, these films will be released in Hindi and Tamil languages across India in stereoscopic 3D and normal 2D versions.

Yash Raj distribution VP Rohan Malhotra mentioned , “Chhota Bheem and Hanuman are iconic animation characters among Indian kids today. Green Gold Animation has been able to build these inherently Indian animation heroes, Hanuman from mythology and Chhota Bheem as a fictional character and their films deserve a strong release. Hanuman vs Mahiravana will release across India on 22 June and Chhota Bheem: Kung Fu Dhamaka will release later this year.”

Beside its home productions, YRF has successfully distributed films of other renowned film-makers across India through its strong and vast distribution network. In the past, it also had a successful distribution collaboration with Green Gold, with their film Chhota Bheem And the Throne of Bali across India in May 2013.

Elaborating on their distribution deal with YRF, Green Gold Animation CEO Rajiv Chilaka aaded, “YRF is a big and strong partner for us and we have worked together in the past and we are happy that this partnership will bring two amazing stereoscopic 3D animated movies for Indian audiences. Hanuman vs Mahiravana is an untold story from the Ramayana and is an action-packed family movie and we are targeting teenage and older audiences with this movie.”

This collaboration with Indian animation for YRF will amplify the reach of these films to their widest possible audience, ensuring Indian audiences get the best of homegrown entertainment. Hanuman vs Mahiravana and Chhota Bheem: Kung Fu Dhamaka across India for Green Gold Animation.

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May 18

Image Comics title ‘Cowboy Ninja Viking’ finally get writers for its movie

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In October 2009, Image Comics debuted its action-comedy title Cowboy Ninja Vikings, an intriguing tale of several multiple-personality disorder patients summoned by a psychotherapist to form a counter-intelligence unit. The series published 10 issues stretched for over a year and garnered wide-spread acclaim.

Soon, it was announced that it would turn into a feature film starring Chris Pratt. But the project never really materialised as it failed to get on board a director and more importantly, script writers to pen a story. Now almost 7 years later, the production can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

The film has two new writers, Dan Mazeau (Wrath of the Titans) and Ryan Engle (Rampage), who’ll be joining the production later this summer and take a crack at producing a script for Universal.

It is, however, yet to rope in a director as of now. In the past, the likes of David Leitch, Chad Stahelski, and Marc Foster have all been attached to the title, but none confirming. However, Pratt has stayed on all the while and would bring greater stardom to the franchise, following his success with Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World movies.

Cowboy Ninja Vikings is slated to release on 28 June 2019.

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May 18

GAFX 2018 raises its curtains

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The most awaited event for the AVGC industry commenced today with a huge response from students, professionals and industry’s big names. GAFX 2018 saw a traditional beginning with lightning of the lamp by the ABAI management team.

With sessions and workshops around the entire campus of The Lalit Ashok, Bengaluru, the enthusiasts managed to grasp as much knowledge as possible. Nickelodeon VP of CG productions, Dean Hoff kicked off the conference with interesting insights about the animation sector. Mentioning the hard work and long time taken behind the creation of animated films, he said, “Animation is a long process because we select only one or two great contents from the 20 pilots we have received. It takes 55 weeks to create an hour long animated film and hence a season of around 26 episodes take about 18 months.”

Feeling proud about the Indian animation industry he mentioned, “India has been the country where Nickelodeon has done production constantly for 12 years,” and motivated the students present at the do by asking all to accept the coming change as with it comes new opportunities.

Biren Ghose had a question answer session with Hoff wherein the audience got to know all they wanted to quench their curiosity.

With applauds, the crowd welcomed the second speaker for the day, VES annual award winner Rashabh Bhutani. He showcased few advertisements showing the detailed VFX work done for creating a single advertisement.

The audience were all ears but it was noon already and the hall got vacant but, only for lunch.

There was more in store after lunch with Netflix and DreamWorks’ international animation talent consultant, Shelly Page showcasing animated shorts that made the audience completely awestruck and conducted her Eye Candy Show.

A plethora of short films which amazed the crowd included Petite Faim, Burn Out, Swim, Lifting Mr. Burden, Parfum Fraise, Shark in the park, Archivist, Mechanique among others.

The next in the queue of amazing session was The Mill’s creative director Adam Grint. His session saw jaw dropping VFX work in advertisements of Nike. “I am blown away by the talent here,” Grint said complementing the Indian talent. He explained the process of VFX, talking about the initial concept, abstract crowd design and final rendering. Grint further added, “Only the storytellers that work arm in arm with the technologists make the good work.”

The sessions for the day concluded with Vaibhav Studio founder Vaibhav Kumaresh sharing the exclusive showreel of his 100-minute long animated film, Return of the Jungle’s first part, The Blue Jackal.

The B2B session was quite inspiring and interactive with sellers and buyers bonding over their discussions.

With more great sessions yet to be seen for tomorrow, day one saw a remarkable content display as well. Stay tuned for the upcoming sessions this weekend. We will keep you updated!

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May 17

Cineversity Tutorial: Using Cinema 4D to Create Broadcast TV Promos

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Cineversity Tutorial: Using Cinema 4D to Create Broadcast TV Promos - Examples

Learn techniques and tricks used to create broadcast promo videos for action, comedy, thriller, and sci-fi shows in Cinema 4D.

As the Motion Graphics Design Director for Fox Broadcasting, Dan Pierse creates promos and non-traditional marketing assets in Cinema 4D. In his two presentations, he will demonstrate several techniques he uses while creating different types of promos. Dan first shows you how to create action and comedy promos, and then in part two he will cover sci-fi and thrillers.

To showcase these techniques, he’ll be promoting a fictional channel called Flux. He even went as far as making a creative brief.

Cineversity Tutorial: Using Cinema 4D to Create Broadcast TV Promos - 4 Types

Image via Dan Pierse / Cineversity.

Creative Brief:

  • Make tune-in messaging clear
  • Highlight 4 different genres for movie nights
    • Action: Meteor Apocalypse
    • Comedy: Millie Monka and the Donut Factory
    • Sci-Fi: Space Hangar 2
    • Thriller: Moon Lake
  • Build procedurally when you can, there will be changes.

Special thanks to Cineversity for recording the presentation, and to Maxon for hosting these great speakers.

Part One: Action and Comedy Promos in Cinema 4D

First, in the action promo, Dan shows you how he uses Cinema 4D’s Voronoi Fracture to procedurally break apart buildings and roadways. He’ll showcase several techniques for creating fractures and controlling their dynamic animation.

In his comedy promo piece, Dan creates a scene controlled entirely via Cinema 4D’s dynamics. Watch him design a working conveyor belt using Motor and Hinge objects and the MoGraph Cloner. Then he’ll use the sculpting toolset to quickly add icing to donuts, and finally apply soft-body dynamics to the donuts with the help of the Mesh Deformer.

Let’s jump into part one.

Here’s a timestamped breakdown of the presentation courtesy of Cineversity.

03:24 – Technical Brief: Fox Presents
07:15 – Action Sequence
09:20 – Quickly Model a Building
13:05 – Voronoi Fracture Trigger on Collision / Meteor Attack
19:54 – Voronoi Fracture Trigger via Effector
26:18 – Comedy Scene
30:14 – Dynamic Conveyor Belt / Motors and Cloners
38:34 – Sculpting Donut Icing
42:40 – Soft Body Dynamic Donuts / Mesh Deformer

Part Two: Sci-Fi and Thriller Promos in Cinema 4D

In Dan’s second presentation, he’ll move onto a sci-fi promo, where he models interesting wall and floor designs with C4D’s Knife tools. He then models an articulated arm and shows you how to animate it with Inverse Kinematics (IK). He also creates hanging wires using Spline Dynamics.

For the thriller promo, Dan will create a procedural landscape by layering noises and gradients within a Displace Deformer. He’ll populate the landscape with trees using the MoGraph’s Cloner object. Then he’ll apply MoGraph Selections and the Hide Selected command to art-direct the location of the trees. He also uses the Spline Defomer to add a roadway, and animates a car along the road via the Align to Spline tag.

Dan concludes his presentation by talking about C4D’s Take System and After Effects integration, which are invaluable when creating multiple versions of similar promos.

Here’s a timestamped breakdown of the presentation courtesy of Cineversity.

07:05 – Sci-Fi Scene
08:19 – Wall Detailing
12:22 – Floor
16:08 – Articulated Arm – IK Rig
22:09 – Hanging Wires / Hoses (Spline Dynamics)
30:35 – Thriller Scene
31:18 – Procedural Landscape (Displace Deformer / MoGraph Selections)
36:13 – Roadway (Spline Deformer)
41:25 – Versioning (Take System and AE Integration)

More from Dan Pierse:

“Ever since I was a little kid, I remember getting excited about seeing the production logos at the beginning of movies or seeing the Stephen J. Cannell production card at the end of my favorite tv shows. I sometimes loved title sequences more often than the actual shows themselves. I never really knew why I loved them, but funny how life works out as now I’m lucky enough to work on them. I’ve been creating motion graphics for film and broadcast since the late 90s, dipping in and out of freelance and staff, holding every position from Runner to Creative Director. I try to be inspired by as many things as possible, the beautiful, the mundane and the ridiculous and, hopefully let that all come out in my work. Sometimes a job just pays the bills but I like to think I’m one of the lucky ones who truly loves what they do.”

Website – theautomator.tv

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May 17

Nike – White Hot

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May 17

ART SCHOOL—GEOFF MCFETRIDGE

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In the first episode of Art School—a series devoted to exploring the process and background of artists from all fields—graphic designer Geoff McFetridge shares his space and vision.

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