Frameboxx Animations which has recently tied up with the Indian Institute of Financial Management, has announced that private equity firm India Alternatives Investment Advisors Private Limited will be investing Rs 28 crore in the combined entity.The investment follows the creation of a platform by way of a merger between Frameboxx Animations, an animation training firm, and the Indian Institute of ...

Founded in October 2005, Hyderabad based VFX studio Pixelloid, recently completed 5 years in the visual effects industry. To mark the occasion, celebrations were held at at Leonia Resorts, Shameerpet. Over the past 5 years Pixelloid has worked on over 50 projects including features, commercials, architectural visualizations & some of the outsourced Hollywood features. They have also got State Government ...

Imagineer Systems today announced it has partnered with VFX industry veteran and Telly Award winning master trainer, Steve Wright, to develop a series of in-depth, workflow themed tutorials designed to provide customers with a comprehensive understanding of the techniques to master planar tracking and rotoscoping with mocha.The first tutorial in the series is available today online at http://www.imagineersystems.com/products/mocha/steve_wright_01_planar_tracking.mov and focuses ...

Akaash Dewan & Florianne Rousse Marquet has brought the laurels to Pune and India by winning the worlds most coveted award for designers- I.D.E.A. (International Design Excellence Award). The students of 3rd year product design course at DSK Supinfocom International School of Design won a Gold & a Bronze award respectively in a highly grueling competition held at USA. The ...

NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs), including the companys new Quadro professional graphics solutions based on the Fermi architecture, are certified by Adobe for Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, version 5.0.2 software, unleashing the real-time video editing and effects processing capabilities of Adobes leading non linear editor.The new NVIDIA Quadro 5000 and Quadro 4000 GPUs enable faster computational performance across a broad ...

BY SOUMYADIP CHAKRABORTYCOMPOSITING SUPERVISOR, EYEQUBESoumyadip Chakraborty, Compositing Supervisor at EyeQube studios has worked movies like Drona starring Abhishek Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra (Hindi Movie) for which he was an associate Compositing Supervisor and Aladin ( Hindi Movie ) for which he was an associate 2D Supervisor. Besides he has also worked on movies like No smoking, Sunday and U, me ...

Frameboxx animation and visual effects has associated itself again with Digicon6 as core organizers. The 12th Digicon6 Awards which is an annual international digital content competition organized by Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS), Japan provides an opportunity to have the Digital Content made in each Asian country to be exhibited not only in their country but across all other countries in ...

Filmfare is hosting a short film contest for all the aspiring filmmakers. The entries can be sent to filmfareweb@gmail.com or can the cds can be posted to Editor, Filmfare, World Wide Media, 5th Floor, Times of India Bldg, DN road CST, Mumbai -01.The top three entries will be featured on the Filmfare website (www.filmfare.com) and the top shortfilm will be ...

Filaments Visual Effects, Patna based studio has successfully delivered Visual Effects for Hollywood movie Pirhana (3D) which was released on 20th August 2010 in Los Angeles, USA. Filaments delivered over 1100 shots of Stereoscopic 3D work on this project. Visual Effects Supervisor, Amit Dhawal lead the team of over 60 artists to finish the project within 3 months.Rotoscoping, Paint and ...

The 3rd ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 will be held on 15-18 December 2010 in Seoul, Korea. The event will have courses providing invaluable learning opportunities in three formats: tutorials, half-day courses, and full-day courses. Attendees will learn principles and techniques from leading international experts, who present instructional sessions ...

Autodesk has announced AutoCAD for Mac software. This version of AutoCAD, one of the most widely used software for professional design and engineering, runs natively on Mac OS X and will increase choice of hardware for millions of users around the world. Autodesk also announced the AutoCAD WS mobile application, a new app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch that ...

By Joe Stam, Sr. Applications Engineer, NVIDIAProfessional video editing demands enormous computational power, especially when you have HD video firmly established as the de facto standard and the increasing popularity of 4K and other higher-resolution formats. Simply manipulating high resolution footage is a laborious task, even with the most powerful workstations; editors apply changes and then wait patiently for renders ...

Two weeks after becoming the highest-grossing animated film of all time, Disney Pixars Toy Story 3 will cross the 1 billion mark at the global box office on Aug. 27, 2010, joining Alice in Wonderland as the second 1 billion film this year from The Walt Disney Studios the first studio in history to accomplish this feat. Disney first crossed ...

BY RAOUL LOBOGobsmack, a content company based out of Bangalore handled the production for the latest Kit Kat chocolate commercial featuring realistic dancing CG squirrels, from concept to completion and brought to life the creative spot of JWT Delhi. Gobsmack collaborated with LA based Radium and its parent company Reel FX for the post production of the commercial. As a ...

Chaos Group announced the release of V-Ray RT for Autodesk Maya Beta Program, one of the few new products planned to be introduced to the market in 2010.V-Ray RT for Autodesk Maya is a powerful and flexible software solution that allows immediate communication between the user and the virtual environment. It applies the changes on the scene automatically and progressively, ...

Mumbai based Meteor Institute of Digital Design Studies (MIDDS) has tied up with Atharva Institute of Information Technology, Malad (West), Mumbai to offer Diploma & Certification courses in Design & Animation on the Atharva campus.Atharva Institute of Information Technology already has a design department with their state of the art infrastructure catering to Animation and Design industry. In association with ...

Rakesh Khanna in 2007 co-founded Blaft, a small publishing house which has brought out translations of Indian pulp fiction, folktales, experimental fiction, graphic novels, and art books. He is the editor of The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction Vol. I and II, and co-translator (with Pritham K. Chakravarthy) of Zero Degree by Charu Nivedita. He was born in Berkeley, ...

BY RAOUL LOBOFuel Fx, at Famous Studios, headed by Creative Director Sabu Jose, has just completed a TVC, for Panasonic Viera. The film is about the intensity of a crucial tournament moment that creates a throbbing mass mania across the country. The challenge was to feed the mania and dramatize the intensity. For this ad, the creative agency was IBD, ...

Film maker Wilson Louis has directed 'Mallika' a horror film by PPC Horrotainment in association with Glorious Entertainment and is also donned the role of its VFX Director. He has been in the VFX space for the last 15 years working with studios like CMM Studios, MEL, Futureworks amongst others and he currently has his hands full with movies. AnimationXpress.com ...

Hungama TV is to telecast Shinchan's second movie - 'Shinchan in Action Kamen vs. Higure Rakshas' on Sunday, August 29, 2010 at 10:00am only on Hungama TV.Higure Rakshas, an evil creature from another planet steals the Action stone from Action Kamen. The stone has incredible powers that will help Action Kamen save the planet. With time running out of their ...

BY ROHIT SHIRKEStudents from AIGA have taken game development to a new level. As a team of 8 students currently in the 3rd semester, they have created a game level from scratch using the Unreal Development Kit (UDK). The team of students took about 5 weeks to complete the level.This Game level was developed as a part of the students ...

BY RICHA PINTOPixion studios continues its streak and beam with pride as they are technically associated with another film and this one goes by the name of 'Peepli Live'. The much talked about movie is a clever comical satire on the issue of farmer's suicides and subsequent media and political response to it. Produced under the banner of Aamir Khan ...

Tata DOCOMO's CREATE platform is back again with its CREATE CELEBRATIONS Platform. While there are 8 cheerful festivals to celebrate between now and the New Year, currently Tata DOCOMO's CREATE CELEBRATIONS platform is encouraging people to create entries expressing their celebrations around Ganesh Chaturthi. The last date of submission for entries celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi is September 11, 2010.To participate the ...

Delhi & Hyderabad based animation and VFX academy CGMantra Media, has announced that it shall provide scholarships from 3 lakhs to 8 lakhs per student for studies in India and abroad. Fresh students and students of any animation program are eligible to apply for the scholarship.About 60 students would be benefited by the scholarship provided which is split into two ...

BY ANIMATIONXPRESS.COMOn this Dusshera in October 2010, acclaimed filmmaker Ketan Mehta unleashes mythic storytelling and the expressive depth of 3D computer animation in the form of Maya Movies Pvt Ltd's 'Ramayana - The Epic' a timeless tale of love and valor, virtue and honour. The film will be released on a grand scale across India with versions in Tamil, Telugu, ...