Karen Fowler joins 9 Story Media Group
9 Story Media Group has named Emmy Award-winning producer Karen Fowler as Vice President, Development (Animation and Live Action), heading up the 9 Story Development team in Toronto. Reporting to Chief Creative Officer Angela Santomero, Fowler will be working closely with Jennie Stacey (VP Development), Sarah Wallendjack...
New Tools and Features released by Adobe
Monday at the Adobe MAX event, Adobe announced the latest release for Creative Cloud, empowering video professionals to work smarter, deliver faster, and do more creatively. Highlights across these tools include the highly anticipated Auto Reframe feature in Premiere Pro, which uses Adobe Sensei to intelligently optimize...
Hungama TV’s ‘Tyohaar ka Uphaar’
Hungama TV is all set to take fun, laughter and mischief up a notch this festive season, with the ‘Tyohaar ka Upahaar’ offer at only one rupee per month. The channel has launched an interesting campaign which highlights the significant role that animated characters play in the...
IGDC 2019 in Hyderabad this November
The 11th edition of The India Game Developers Conference (IGDC), India’s premier game developers’ conference formerly known as the Nasscom Game Developers Conference, will begin on November 22 in Hyderabad’s Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC). Touted as the biggest and most significant developer conference in India and...
HBO Max orders Four One-Hour specials
HBO Max is continuing its push into animation. The forthcoming streamer has ordered four one-hour “Adventure Time” specials from Cartoon Network Studios, the first two of which will debut exclusively on HBO Max in 2020. Collectively titled “Adventure Time: Distant Lands,” the specials will once again tell...
Unity Technologies join hands with BYJU’S
Unity Technologies, creator of real-time 3D development platform, announced their first gaming hackathon in India in partnership with BYJU’S, the world’s most valuable EdTech company. The event, which started on 16 October 2019, is two weeks challenge will bring together over 1300 budding and professional game developers, artists...
SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep learning method that changes shapes to be presented
Turning a chair into a table, or vice versa, might sound like somewhat of a magic trick. In this case, zero magic is involved, just plenty of complex geometry and machine learning. Called LOGAN, the deep neural network, i.e., a machine of sorts, can learn to transform...
Abhishek Dutta becomes new Network Head of CN and Pogo
Abhishek Dutta has been named senior director and network head -kids, overseeing Cartoon Network and POGO in South Asia. Based in Mumbai, his responsibilities include programming, channel operations, acquisitions and promotions, as well as the content direction for the two brands. WarnerMedia Entertainment Networks in South Asia...
‘Lamput’ nominated for International Kids Emmy Award
Cartoon Network’s Lamput, a critically acclaimed local Indian homegrown animation, was nominated for an International Kids Emmy and scooped an additional two Asian Academy Creative Awards last week. It is the first time an original project from Cartoon Network APAC to get nominated for the prestigious Emmy award...
A new method to turn 3D models into cubic style
One of the fast-growing areas in virtual reality/augmented reality is 3-D shape stylization, giving users the ability to automatically replicate detailed 3-D shapes in the digital world. Replicating cube-style shapes, for one, is a challenge due to its abstract properties, but developing such a framework that captures...