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Payang Walk Art Fest

DIGI WWWOW Awards 2013

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Happy New Year 2013

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40,000 thousand readers & viewer

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Major LightWave Upgrade Announced at SIGGRAPH

The LightWave 3D Group announced today LightWave 11.5, the most-recent version of its Emmy-winning 3D modeling, animation and rendering software.A complete 3D pipeline, LightWave 11.5 adds features to streamline productivity, including a new Genoma character animation and rigging system for Modeler, predator and prey flocking, Instancing, soft-body Bullet Dynamics, interchange support for Adobe After Effects and Pixologic’s GoZ Fiber Mesh, major workflow enhancements and more.“LightWave 11.5 elevates artistic freedom with innovative new features and workflow enhancements that are designed to streamline productivity,” said Rob Powers, president, LightWave 3D Group. “From fast interactive stereoscopic rendering in the VPR to physically accurate hard-body and soft-body Bullet Dynamics, LightWave 11.5 continues to reinforce its leadership position as an end-to-end pipeline.”LightWave 11.5’s new features and enhancements include:

• Genoma: A new modular instant-rigging system that can be used to quickly rig a simple biped or quadruped for animation in Modeler without the need for specialized rigging tools. It offers modular rig presets that consist of skeletal parts such as spines, wings, arms, legs, hands and feet. Complete rigs for biped and quadrupeds can easily be customized using Genoma.
• Modeling Tools: New functionality and architectural advancements in Modeler allow for faster interactivity, performance, and tool development. LightWave 11.5 introduces many new tools like UV Unwrap, Edit Edges, Place Mesh, Slice, Thicken and Heat Shrink that emphasize the system’s power and lay the groundwork for future third-party modeling tool development.
• Soft-Body Bullet Dynamics: Bullet now includes soft-body dynamics for effects such as cloth, rubber, jelly or other deforming properties. Bullet meshes are also now reactive to bone deformations and wind forces can also be added for rippling effects.
• Flocking: A specialized particle system that allows items to move in very organic ways, Flocking offers new prey and predator behaviors that allow flocks to chase other flocks or have flocking agents seek out and chase the closest prey. Neutral flocks do not chase or chase but still affect other agents for collision avoidance. Other new features include Plane, Pursuit and Arrive directors and the addition of node controls.
• Interchange Tools: A new GoAE button allows you to select elements in a scene and see them in Adobe After Effects—including animation, lights and camera setting. Changes can be made using Camera Tracker in After Effects before returning to Lightwave. GoZ technology for Pixologic’s ZBrush allows you to send models to and from LightWave with automatic node flows for textures and normal maps. ZBrush styling tools can also be imported to LightWave and attached to objects.
• Instancing: Now includes Per-Object control of scale, stretch, offset, rotate and nodal controls, along with new Copy and Paste functions and Path Mode optimizations for greater flexibility and workflow.
• ViewPort Preview Renderer: VPR transforms how artists work in LightWave with fast interactive onscreen rendering. LightWave 11.5 now supports depth-of-field and motion blur effects and stereoscopic rendering in VPR.
• Pricing and Availability: Purchase or upgrade to LightWave 11 for $1,495 and automatically receive LightWave 11.5 at no extra cost when publicly available. Upgrade pricing from earlier versions of LightWave is $695. LightWave 11.5 is expected to ship Q4 2012 at a suggested retail price of $1,495. Educational pricing is also available. Visit www.lightwave3d.com to purchase or locate an authorized LightWave reseller.

Veteran Animator Jim Hiltz Dies at 85

The Animation Guild Blog reports that veteran animator, director and teacher Jim Hiltz has passed away at the age of 85. Best known for directing Jay Ward’s Rocky and His Friends, The Bullwinkle Show, Super Chicken and George of the Jungle TV series and the 1980 Oscar-nominated short History of the World in Three Minutes Flat, Hiltz had a long career working at production studios such at TerryToons, FilmFair, Bill Melendez Studios and Michael Mills Studios.

He directed the 1965 TV series The Beatles and worked as an animator on the 1968 feature Yellow Submarine. His animation credits also include the TV movies The Raccoons on Ice (1981), The Racoons and the Lost Star (1983) The Care Bears in the Land Without Feelings (1983) and The Care Bears Battle the Freeze Machine (1984), and the series The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin (1987), The Raccoons (1985-1987), The Smoggies  (1989) and The Little Flying Bears (1990). During the 1990s, he worked on The Legend of White Fang, Spirou, David Copperfield, The Busy World of Richard Scarry and The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures.

Emmy-winning director Eddy Houchins who worked with Hiltz in the beginning of his career recalls, “As a young ani­ma­tor, I got my first ‘real’ job at Michael Mills’ place in 1980 and imme­di­ately met Jim who took me and all the other young ani­ma­tors under his wing. In those days, we had not just respect, but down­right AWE for the older guys who had ‘been there.’ We hung on his every word and stud­ied his pen­cil tests frame by frame, soak­ing up his draw­ing skills and tim­ing finesse. At night, after he’d go home, we’d slip into his office and sit and flip his draw­ings on a light table just to study ‘the real thing.’ I learned more about ani­ma­tion from my three years work­ing under Jim as my direc­tor than I ever learned in school or on any other job.

After his stint at Mills, he free­lanced and taught at Con­cor­dia Uni­ver­sity for awhile, and, I sup­pose, even­tu­ally retired.” Houch­ins adds. “I remem­ber I was at the Ottawa [Inter­na­tional Ani­ma­tion] Fes­ti­val with him in 1983, and June Foray and Bill Scott were there and per­formed a Rocky and Bull­win­kle script live to our delight. After­wards, I was stand­ing with Jim in the lobby and when June walked out, he said to me, ‘Hang on, I have to say hello to an old friend.’ He walked up to June, said, ‘Remem­ber me?’ and she screamed, ‘JIM!!!’ and prac­ti­cally jumped into his arms. Maybe you guys can break the news to her. I sure can’t

Adobe Announces $1M Scholarship Fund

The Adobe Foundation is donating one million dollars to establish the Adobe Foundation Creativity Scholarships, a new global initiative intended to unlock the creative potential of students. Offered to high-school seniors who participate in the Adobe Youth Voices program, the scholarship will help them continue their education, pursue creative careers and find innovative ways to improve their communities.Students from the Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) network, which includes more than 800 sites in 52 countries, will be eligible to apply for the scholarships. AYV is Adobe’s signature global philanthropy initiative focused on teaching youth from underserved communities the power of creative self-expression and global citizenship. The first scholarship application cycle is expected to begin in spring 2013, with awards distributed for the start of the academic year beginning in fall 2013.

“The urge to create has never been stronger, and the ability to create is unprecedented, yet a new global study shows that most people feel they are not living up to their own creative potential,” says Shantanu Narayen, president and chief executive officer, Adobe. “We challenge the notion that creativity is reserved for an elite few, and believe that no matter what you do, everyone has the potential to be creative.”

The Adobe Foundation Creativity Scholarships will be focused on youth who plan to pursue an academic program or career in a creative field at an accredited college, university or certification program. Scholarships will be based on financial need, academic performance and potential. Individual scholarship amounts and lengths will vary based on country, curriculum and other factors.

Additional details about the application process will be announced later this year.
For more information visit  www.youthvoices.adobe.com

Kreative Asia 2012

                            

The eagerly anticipated creative industry summit Kreative.Asia, organised by Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) in collaboration with official partners XMediaLab (XML), is now under way at the Hilton Kuala Lumpur until tomorrow.Held for the third time since it was first introduced in 2009, Kreative.Asia 2012 is an initiative from MDeC’s Kre8tif! platform that brings together the world’s top creative minds to share their experience, insights and knowledge in the field of creative multimedia and animation.MDeC CEO Datuk Badlisham Ghazali said “Malaysia has come a long way in developing its creative industry over the past decade. In the past few years we have seen the successful introduction of the country’s very own animation movies and series to the international arena. We are pleased to be a part of this development, since introducing this programme in 2009 we have seen many new local talents emerge and grow.“Given the wonderful support that this programme has garnered in previous years, we hope to continue organising it in the future and hopefully, we will be able to feature Malaysian creative multimedia industry icons in the future.”Founder and director of XMediaLab Brendan Harkin said, “We are delighted to partner with MDeC once again to bring Kreative.Asia to Malaysia.“The speakers and presenters showcased in this programme are renowned and successful personalities in their respective fields. We are very excited to welcome them to Kreative.Asia, they will be providing a lot of positive input for the development of the Malaysian talents and industry players,” he said.The three-day programme will enable participants to engage in a series of forums, discussions and “masterclasses” focusing on various aspects of the creative and animation industry such as creative leadership, interactive storytelling, gamification, branded entertainment, digital marketing, concept art & visual design, transmedia, social-location-mobile (SO-LO-MO), producing and pitching and animation and visual effects.The programme will feature industry leaders and pioneers from various art, entertainment and design industries.

Earth Hour

Earth Hour 2012 will take place on March 31, 2012 from 8:30pm to 9:30pm.

In February, Earth Hour launched its 2012 campaign, “I Will If You Will”, with the intention of engaging its growing global community to go beyond the hour and coordinate their efforts publicly through Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and email. Using a dedicated YouTube platform, IWIYW asks Earth Hour's digital community to inspire people from all corners of the globe to take sustainability actions, and to share their commitment to the environment with their own social media networks.

Executive Director and Co-Founder Andy Ridley said, "Earth Hour’s challenge is no longer to connect people; the challenge is to offer a reason to connect. Any movement of change begins with symbolism - it’s a needed step to prove enough people care about an issue. Earth Hour is past the beginning now, and lots of people are switching their lights off every year in March. We’re now at the stage of taking it beyond the hour."

Youtube, following the previous year's example, changed its logo and added a switch on/off feature near the title of each video, so that users can change the background color from white to black.

Further proof of Earth Hour's change in direction came when it was announced its global headquarters was moving from Sydney to Singapore. A launch event took place at ION Orchard on February 20, where it was announced that the move was supported by Singapore's Economic Development Board (EDB).

DiGi WWWOW 2012 Internet For All Awards

I have entered into a DiGi Internet WWWOW 2012 for All Award, so guys please vote for my blog to win in this event to my personal achievement. it is not just only that, guys can also find the latest info in the art, especially animation, film, comics, graphics, etc.

Chiee:Pengembaraan Si Genius & Taman Laut musim ke-2

Syukur Alhamdulilah... kerana kami pihak produksi RDSB telah berjaya menyiapkan 2 TV Siri Animasi 3D Tahun lepas. Kedua-dua siri TV ini akan disiarkan bermula esok Jumaat 9 Mac 2012 jam 9.00 pagi (Chiee) dan 10.00 pagi(Taman Laut) hanya di saluran TV2 .

NewTek VP Rob Power Menyumbang Untuk Pemenang Golden Globe

AUSTIN, TEXAS, USA - VP NewTek / ketua pembangunan perisian 3D, Rob Power, berkhidmat sebagai penyelia Jabatan Seni Maya (VAD) untuk Steven Spielberg dan Peter Jackson The Adventures of Tintin sebelum menyertai syarikat animasi perisian. Tintin www.us.movie.tintin.com baru-baru ini telah diiktiraf sebagai "Best Feature Filem animasi" pada 69 Anugerah Golden Globe.

VAD adalah lebih daripada previs. Ia melibatkan berinteraksi dengan filem keseluruhan, mewujudkan persekitaran maya - lengkap dengan lampu, Penteksturan dan atmospherics - bahawa pengarah itu boleh digunakan untuk meneroka bagaimana pelakon hidup berinteraksi dalam scene 3D. Kuasa-kuasa memahami kuasa VAD itu, yang mula diperkenalkan konsep Avatar James Cameron.

Untuk kerja-kerja pada Tintin, Kuasa-kuasa mengumpulkan satu pasukan artis untuk bekerja di Los Spielberg berasaskan unit VAD Angeles, dengan menggunakan 3D NewTek LightWave sebagai alat utama bagi mewujudkan aset dan baking tekstur. Aset digital telah dihantar ke Weta Digital sebagai FBX fail yang telah diimport ke dalam pipeline Autodesk studio Maya berasaskan dan yang dikongsi bersama Studios Giant bagi integrasi menangkap gerakan dengan Motion Builder.

Wikipedia

Bermula pada jam 1PM 18 Januari 2012, wikipedia telah telah menutup perkhidmatan gedung maklumat kerana memprotes pembentangan dua akta yang menyekat kebebasan perkongsian maklumat secara percuma iaitu Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) dan Protect IP Act (PIPA). Laman maklumat ini akan menutup perkhidmatan selama 24 jam sebagai tanda protes kepada dua akta tersebut.

LightWave 3D Eleven