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Editorial Employees at Nickelodeon Animation Studio Unionize
https://www.awn.com/news/editorial-employees-nickelodeon-animation-studio-unionize
The editorial employees of Nickelodeon Animation Studio have overwhelmingly elected to unionize with the Motion Picture Editors Guild, Local 700 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. Nickelodeon has agreed to recognize the editors’ union after an arbitrator verified that a majority of employees had signed union authorization cards.
Nickelodeon Animation Studios produces animated episodic programming such as SpongeBob SquarePants, The Loud House, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Shimmer and Shine.
The newly unionized positions encompass a range of pre-production and post-production roles. Recording engineers and dialogue editors record and arrange voice actors’ dialogue prior to animation. Animatic editors work in pre-production to assemble storyboards and soundtracks in a pre-visualization of the finished show. Picture editors cut the completed color animation. And machine room employees manage the elements and equipment used in the creation of shows.
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Kevin Geiger on Chinese animation growth
https://www.awn.com/blog/chinas-changing-game
China is a work in progress. China is changing, and Chinese capability and pride are rising. And with that rise, China’s cultural, media/tech, and sociopolitical landscapes are rapidly morphing. It’s incumbent upon anyone in China – native or foreign – to roll with those changes.
To wit on the media front, China announced that its State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film & Television (the unfortunate acronym “SAPPRFT” for short), will be abolished in favor of even tighter control under a new body at the cabinet level.
To interact successfully and satisfyingly here, you have to gain some real local perspective and develop an alternate set of instincts that are relevant for this reality as it is, not what you imagine it to be.
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Disney, Fox and Paramount could lose the rights to their CGI characters
http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/a841451/disney-cgi-characters-court-case-mova/
Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm owners Disney – as well as 20th Century Fox and Paramount – are caught up in a lawsuit over MOVA, software that captures actors’ facial expression to create realistic CGI models.
Rearden LLC, which claims to own the rights to MOVA, has been suing a Chinese company for stealing the technology, which was then used by the studios in their films, says The Hollywood Reporter. The plaintiff is now suing for the rights to characters created with the tech.
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(2017) Digital Domain Holdings Reports $64 Million in Losses
http://variety.com/2017/biz/asia/losses-at-digital-domain-holdings-double-1202020056/
Digital Domain Holdings, the Hong Kong-based visual effects and virtual reality group, saw losses in 2016 more than double to $64.3 million.
The core Digital Domain 3.0 business provided VFX for films including “Beauty and the Beast,” “Deadpool” and “X-Men: Apocalypse” during the year.
Revenues across the group increased 45% from $68 million (HK$527 million) in 2015 to $98.5 million (HK$763 million) last year. Net losses, which totaled $23.1 million (HK$179 million) in 2015, reached $64.3 million (HK$498 million) in 2016.
The company pointed to content development and research and development costs for virtual reality content and games, 360° and virtual humans, and a more than fourfold increase in amortization of intangible assets, as causes of the financial pain.
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3D TV is officially dead
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/3d-tv-is-dead-2017-1?r=US&IR=T
1- Not enough content. DirecTV and ESPN stopped broadcasting their 3D channels in 2012 and 2013.
2- The glasses needed for 3D were clunky and annoying, and they made people feel self-conscious while wearing them.
3- 3D TVs were and are perfectly good 2D TVs, so 3D features weren’t often used.
4- 3D movies were closely associated with Blu-ray Discs as movie streaming started to gain traction.
5- 3D TVs need careful calibration and can cause eye strain.
6- Maybe it was always a gimmick. Ask yourself: Have 3D effects ever really impressed you or affected your viewing experience?
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Chaos Group V-Ray Wins Academy Award
http://www.awn.com/news/chaos-group-s-v-ray-wins-academy-award
Photorealistic production renderer used on more than 150 feature films since 2002, including recent hits like ‘Doctor Strange,’ ‘Deadpool,’ and ‘Captain America: Civil War,’ to be honored for advancing the use of fully ray-traced rendering in motion pictures.
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