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Festivals & Events

The New World of Animation: Different Realities

Dr. Chris Harz - April 3, 2015

The 2015 Wearables TechCon in Santa Clara featured much more than just well known fitness sensors. It also had headsets, tracking sensors and artificial...

Animated Wearables

Dr. Chris Harz - March 26, 2015

The 2015 Wearables TechCon in Santa Clara was proof positive of how large—and how rapidly changing—this technology is. Wearables are devices other than smartphones...

Festivals & Events

GDC: Making Money from Free Games, Part 2

Dr. Chris Harz - March 22, 2015

This is a continuation of a previous article on one of the hottest topics at GDC 2015: How to earn money from free-to-play games,...

Festivals & Events

Virtual Reality Enters a New Era

Dr. Chris Harz - March 11, 2015

One of the major new trends at the recent Game Developers Conference was the introduction of headsets that enable gamers to enter high-resolution three-dimensional...

Making Money from Free Games, Part 1

Dr. Chris Harz - March 10, 2015

One of the hottest topics at this year's Game Developers Conference was how to earn money from free-to-play games, an increasingly important genre for...

Festivals & Events

At the Game Developers Conference 2015

Dr. Chris Harz - March 8, 2015

The Game Developers Conference this year proved to be bigger and badder than ever. What started as an intimate gathering of U.S. game developers...

Video Games

Taking Games Seriously at GDC

Dr. Chris Harz - March 26, 2009

The 2009 Game Developers Conference started Monday with a focus on specialty videogames, such as mobile games, casual games and serious games (games used...

Festivals & Events

Grant Munro Honored with Retrospectives, New DVD

Dr. Chris Harz - December 4, 2003

This evening at 6:00 p.m. the Museum of Modern Art will present a retrospective of the works of National Film Board of Canada animation...

Television

Anime Network Expands With RCN VOD

Dr. Chris Harz - November 20, 2003

The Anime Network, the first all-anime programmer in North America, has extended its agreement with RCN Corp. and will be available to subscribers of...

VFX

CaféFX Masters and Commands Realism

Dr. Chris Harz - November 14, 2003

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World brought a number of challenges to director Peter Weir, who collaborated with CaféFX to reinvent...

People

Simon Philips Is New Managing Director of 4Kids Int’l

Dr. Chris Harz - November 11, 2003

Simon Philips succeeds retiring Clive Hill as managing director of 4Kids Ent. Int’l Ltd. In 2003 Philips was appointed to the LIMA board of...

Television

Star Wars: Clone Wars Debuts Tonight

Dr. Chris Harz - November 7, 2003

Star Wars fans will be watching Cartoon Network closely tonight as Genndy Tartakovsky's (Samurai Jack, Dexter's Laboratory) long-awaited Clone Wars "microseries" of 20...

Television

S4C Commissions Two Shorts from Blunt

Dr. Chris Harz - November 6, 2003

Welsh-language broadcaster S4C has commissioned two short films from stop-motion studio Blunt Pictures. In preparation is the soup comedy Canned Heat and a Gulf...

Technology

NVIDIA’s QUADRO FX 3000

Dr. Chris Harz - November 5, 2003

The latest addition to the NVIDIA Quadro graphics-card family is the new QUADRO FX 3000 for high-end digital animation and professional video solutions. ...

Licensing

PorchLight Licenses Jay Jay to Briarpatch

Dr. Chris Harz - November 4, 2003

Under a new licensing agreement, Briarpatch is developing a series of bookshelf, card and travel games based on the award-winning 3D series Jay the...

Home Entertainment

Classic Media’s Big Idea Buy Goes Through

Dr. Chris Harz - November 3, 2003

Classic Media LLC’s purchase of Big Idea Prods. was confirmed by the Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois. While Classic had already...

Home Entertainment

Looney Tunes Golden on DVD

Dr. Chris Harz - October 28, 2003

At wong wast! Warner Bros. has just released The Looney Tunes Golden Collection, a four-disc set of 56 uncut cartoons. Disc 1 is all...

Home Entertainment

WWE Smackdown! Brings the Pain on PS 2

Dr. Chris Harz - October 27, 2003

The new installment in one of the most successful video game franchises is now available. Created exclusively for PlayStation 2 by Yuke’s of Japan,...

Licensing

Taz’s Armpit Music Promotes New Movie

Dr. Chris Harz - October 27, 2003

Mattel’s new line of Looney Tunes toys, inspired by the upcoming Warner Bros. Looney Tunes: Back in Action, includes a Tazmanian Devil toy that...

Schools

Oregon3D Hits Road, Web with 3ds max 6 Training

Dr. Chris Harz - October 23, 2003

Industry-acclaimed Discreet-certified instructor Gary M. Davis will teach "The New Features of 3ds max 6," the first road show and set of online classes...

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