As the US largest owner of stations in mid-size markets, Gray Television Group dominates broadcasting across Middle America. With 36 diverse affiliates spread throughout college towns and state capitols, Gray VP of Technology Jim Ocon recognised his company's crucial need to establish a common cost-effective, automated workflow across all its stations.
RGH Entertainment (a division of Rubicon Group Holding) has earned the top prize in the TV Episode category at the Los Angeles Animation Festival (LAFF) for A Very Pink Christmas, a half-hour Christmas special starring Pink Panther, which aired on ABC Family in December 2011.
A group of graduates from Cape Town-based The Animation School are gaining local and international acclaim for their 2011 final year project, Wing It.
Chyron and German software developer Ventuz Technology AG have entered into a strategic technology partnership.
Orad, a leader in broadcast graphic solutions, has announced the release of the latest version of the Maestro enterprise graphics solution. Maestro addresses all of broadcasters graphics needs for real time, pre- and post-production environments.
Masters & Savant Worldwide recently purchased Autodesk Smoke, a complete finishing system for visual media, aimed at television and film production.
Arad Productions and 41 Entertainment LLC (41e) have granted the US television rights to Disney XD for the brand new animated action comedy series tentatively entitled PAC-MAN - The Adventure Begins (26 x 22) in time for a fall 2013 airing.
Some 2,300 participants are expected at the 2012 edition of the International Animation Film Market (Mifa), which over the past 25 years has established itself as the leading event on the industry calendar.
Animation SA held its first ever Student Awards event on 4 February at The Bioscope Independent Cinema in Johannesburg.The schools that entered the competition were: Wits, Boston Media House, The Open Window, The Animation School, NEMISA, University of Johannesburg, Learn 3D and Touch Vision Training.
Any South African techno-heads visiting BE 2012 in London in mid February can drop in on the Orad stand to see the the newest broadcast graphic and video server technology.
Finnish broadcaster MTV3 has become fully interactive with the Orad Interact solution, which lets television presenters control and direct content on their touch screens, video walls and other input devices, enabling them to better engage their viewers with media-rich visuals.
Animation South Africa is holding its first ever Student Competition to take place on Saturday, 4 February at The Bioscope Independent cinema in Johannesburg.
French-based 3D computer graphics company The Bakery has confirmed that visual effects powerhouse Tippett Studio has chosen Bakery Relight software for its visual effects (VFX) group production pipeline.
At the crossroads of the International Animation Film Festival and its Market, the Mifa, in Annecy, France, the Creative Focus is a platform devoted to new talents in animation.
Vizrt Ltd., a leading provider of content production tools for the digital media industry, has signed a deal worth US$ 520,000 for the implementation of broadcast graphics solutions at a Korean TV channel.
wTVision has provided graphics services in Egypt for the first time. The TV channel Capital Broadcast Center (CBC) presented a special elections programme with graphics developed by the software-house for the first round of the general elections.
While standard definition (SD) images could always be produced at a quick rate, more realistic and complicated high definition (HD) images need a much faster processing time and increased computer power.
SportStats CG software from wTVision was used for 10 different sports at the GCC Games which took place in Bahrain between 11 and 22 October.
According to Greg Meek from animation and design production company Flic, they are currently working on an ad for Ogilvy and its client, Castle.
Coca-Cola is a dream brand to work on so getting a brief through Draftfcb to produce and direct not one but two Coke commercials was really exciting, according to Craig Wessels of Wicked Pixels.
