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Digital
Media FX News Archives
Monday
- August 6, 2001
- Universal Begins Work on
New Animated Film
- Release Charts:
Animated, Anime, and FX DVDs
- Toon Boom Announces Electric
Rain Support
- News Link of the Day
- Batman Vengeance Shapes Up
Universal
Begins Work on New Animated Film
(by digitalmediafx.com) Universal Studios has started
pre-production work on a new animated movie based on the book
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. The book delves into
a boys imagination as he creates his own jungle world that he
rules over monsters.
Recent departures
from Disney are playing major roles in the movie, including Eric
Goldberg and David Reynolds. Goldberg will direct the feature
and Reynolds will write it. Disney is finding that drastically
overhauling its animated division is now resulting in top talented
animators working on new competing pictures that will continue
to eat away at Disney's former image as the king of animation.
The movie
is being produced as a CGI film for release in November 2004.
In addition, Tom Hanks is seriously considering a role as a voice
in the movie. The movie is being produced by Hanks' Playtone Productions.
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Release
Charts: Animated, Anime, and FX DVDs
(by digitalmediafx.com) Here is a list of new animated, anime,
and FX DVDs being released tomorrow. As you can see there is a
nice variety (particularly when compared to last week):
Angel
Links - Broken Angel - Volume 3 (anime)
Behind
the Planet of the Apes (1998 - FX)
Dragon
Ball Z - Lord Slug - Feature (Uncut - anime)
Felix
The Cat - Collector's Edition (1958 - anime)
Mobile
Suit Gundam - The Battle Begins (Vol. 1 - anime)
Mobile
Suit Gundam - The Battle Begins (Vol. 1, Uncut - anime)
Disney's
Recess - School's Out (2001 - animated)
Robotech
- The Macross Saga - Legacy Collection 2 (animated)
Robotech
- Homecoming - Vol. 3. (1985 - animated)
Robotech
- Battlefront - Vol. 4. (1985 - animated)
The
Underdog Chronicles (1964 - animated)
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Toon Boom
Announces Electric Rain Support
(edited press release) Toon Boom Technologies announced its
partnership with Electric Rain to extend its support for 3D animation,
resulting in toonshader solutions for all of the major 3D software.
Electric Rain is the industry leading developer and supplier of
3D to vector solutions with Swift 3D MAX, Swift 3D LW and Swift
3D XSI. These new plug-ins will feature a special edition that
outputs in the USAnimation format, allowing USAnimation users
to import 3D animation created with 3D Studio MAX, LightWave or
XSI into the 2D world.
"Toon
Boom is pleased to offer its customers the option to integrate
3D animation created with the leading 3D animation software. Since
Electric Rain's expertise is based on vector technology, this
partnership made both our respective products a natural fit for
integration ", commented Ms. Joan Vogelesang, Chief Operating
Officer at Toon Boom Technologies.
Toon Boom
has also developed in-house ToonShader, a plug-in to import 3D
animation created with Maya, making all options available for
its customers to integrate 2D and 3D animation seamlessly.
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News Link
of the Day - Batman Vengeance Shapes Up
According
to Yahoo News:
"At its
ongoing gamers week event, Ubi Soft unveiled the latest build
of its upcoming PlayStation 2 game, Batman: Vengeance. The version
shown has improved significantly since last we saw it, particularly
in its visuals. The character models are now beautifully animated
as even the most insignificant enemy thug now sports a variety
of moves. Rather than using motion capture, Ubi Soft hand-animated
all of the characters in the game--Batman has over 500 animations..."
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