2011-11-16 10:26:42 // Idealog
The global gaming industry shows no signs of slowing down and Kiwi developers are getting their share of the pie – the local game development industry grew by a whopping 46 percent this year.
2011-11-09 13:29:54 // Esther Goh
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Translating Hergè's iconic panels onto the big screen was most definitely not a task for the faint of heart. And if you're curious to find out just what went into it, AnimFX will be presenting the ‘making-of’ ahead of the New Zealand release of The Adventures of Tintin in December.
2011-10-17 09:42:01 // Idealog
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Pixar. Weta Digital. Microsoft Studios. OpenFeint. Robot Entertainment. Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center. What else could it be but AnimfxNZ 11?
2011-03-14 14:15:26 // Design Daily Team
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Kiwi illustrator and animator Kieran Rynhart has beaten out 6,000 submissions to be selected as one of Luerzerʼs Archive Best 200 Illustrators Worldwide for 2010/2011. His submission, titled ʻSt. Brendanʼ, was picked by a panel of the worlds industry-leading art directors, creative directors and illustrators.
2011-01-21 06:00:00 // Design Daily Team
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We absolutely love this animated map of Auckland’s public transport network. It’s the clever creation of Chris McDowall, who describes it as “...the map I used to daydream about”. As a child sitting on the bus, McDowall says he’d wonder “...what the transportation network would look like if we could see the movements of the individual vehicles from the air”. After Auckland Transport published its Google Transit Feed data on the MAXX website last year, McDowall created a software that brought the animated map to life, showing the increasing movements of public transport vehicles over the day, starting from 3am on a Monday morning. Check it out here.
2010-11-24 10:16:41
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Design enthusiasts will be muscling it out and testing their skills against each other next month as part of the Panorama 2010 Asia-Pacific Design Challenge at Kuala Lumpur. The event brings designers, architects, engineers and digital artists together, who will compete under a “change the world" theme. And thrown in the mix of competitors is a Kiwi team from Massey University’s Institute of Communication Design.
2010-11-15 13:17:05 // Design Daily Team
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Ever wanted to know how to light up your clothing? Make an inflatable dress? Transform card into an interactive creature? Develop a game or commercial application? Shoot, publish and stream videos using your smart phone? Or learn about Motion Capture or Virtual Reality and what you can do with it?
2010-08-21 13:59:19 // Design Daily Team
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Pixar animator Andrew Gordon had every member of the audience transfixed under his animation spell and en route to our interview, politely posed for photo's and signed autographs from awe-struck fans. Not that he's letting any of it get to his head. He tells us "once you feel like you've arrived, then you've got a problem". He also lets us in on his love for Weta Digital and Weta Workshop
2010-08-05 10:29:18 // Design Daily Team
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Buck works with a broad range of clients in the advertising, broadcasting, retail, film and entertainment industries. Comprised of illustrators, animators, filmmakers, artists and designers, Buck direct and produce live-action, stop-motion, 3D character animation, and traditional cell animation as well as design and animate motion graphics. Buck are visual storytellers and conceptual thinkers approaching what they do with a designer’s eye, and a creative process based on the building up of ideas, encouraging maximum input, collaboration and experimentation.
2010-07-15 12:32:23 // Design Daily Team
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Andrew Gordon has been animating characters professionally for over 15 years. He joined PIXAR ANIMATION STUDIOS in 1997 where he has been an Animator on A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles and Ratatouille.
2010-06-22 21:14:21 // Sam Eichblatt
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Pixar senior animator Andrew Gordon is making his way down under for SP10 in August. We caught him in June to ask about the future of Andy, Buzz and Mr Incredible.
2010-03-02 11:11:11 // Matt Cooney
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If Quentin Tarantino had spent 20 years trapped in branding hell, his first film might have looked something like Logorama. The full version is a 16 minutes long, complete with car chases, a hostage crisis and an apocalyptic Los Angeles—check it out at the official website.
2009-12-16 10:22:00 // Mitchell Hall
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“I just don’t know how we did it” says Andrew Hunt, proud parent of a son and an award-winning short film.
2009-11-24 09:24:50 // Su Yin Khoo
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What would Earth look like if it had a ring system like Saturn? Pretty spiffy, that's what.
2009-08-17 08:55:56 // Deirdre Robert
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Philip Hunt, aka ‘Studio AKA’, chats to us about bringing children’s books to life and the stiff competition he faces from his own daughter.
