A sneak peak into CGTExpo ’10
Indian animation, visual effects and gaming convention festival and convention, CGTEXPO 2010 was as grand an affair just like the previous editions. Held at the Nehru Science Centre in Mumbai, the event had a grand run with organiser R.K. Chand and team roping in international studios like LucasFilms Singapore to share their success formulae!
Seema Gopalakrishnan, who has worked on the legendary television series Star Wars: Clone Wars represented LucasFilms.
“The biggest challenge in Star Wars: Clone Wars was maintaining the numerous characters in the huge sets that took part in the battles. Another part besides the characters are as you’ve seen are a lot of ships these ships have a lot of detail and a lot of mechanisms. There are a lot of battles where characters are cut with the light-sabers the slice tool plug-in is super smart, wherein animators can choose how to cut a character mesh in half,� shared Seema.
Visual effects work the magic for Bollywood
You might not have really noticed them, but the visual effects in a film, could make or break box-office fortunes. Take Drona for example, or Love Story 2050 which were rejected by the audience despite a lot of jazzy visual effects. While the same effects helped in making hit films like My Name Is Khan a visual spectacle.
Visual effects is not just about adding color to particular shots or enabling high on the adrenaline action sequences. At the recently held convention CGTExpo 2010, Vishal from TATA ELXSI VCL, explained the market, “We’ve got a division that deals with live action and feature film work, and we have a small division that deals with animated movies. We did an animated movie called Roadside Romeo that released in 2008 which was well received by a lot of people but was not a big commercial success.�
“On the visual effects side we do vfx for films the last big budgeted film that we did was a movie called Prince released by TIPS, it was good fun to work on and very visual effects intensive, in all the shots that we’ve done, most of it was shot in South Africa. In all there were about 1500 vfx shots that were delivered in just three months.�
The studio is working on an animation film, Arjun, which is scheduled to release this September.
In-house R&D for VFX Studios
CGTExpo 2010 had a lot for the Indian Film post-production professional. Jigesh Gajjar, of MPC London, the post production studio that has worked on Prince of Persia and The Clash of the Titans. Currently the studio is working on the third installation of Narnia
He said that the main disadvantage of doing R&D in-house are that the producers are not happy if in a deadline of six months you go for four months of R&D. The two main areas are R&D for effects and better visual quality and the pipeline asset management that’s really the key for the larger projects.
MPC developed, various in-house tools for films like Troy, The Kingdom of Heaven, Poseidon, 10,000 BC and Narnia: Prince Caspian. Beside, in the cult movie, Watchmen all the explosions, were done using a proprietary system, Papi, short for physics based EPI simulation.
Jigesh said, “The commercial department relies on the film department to run all R&D and we pass the information on any of the shows that we’ve worked on for free. People focus on using the developed tools whilst developing it further, to avoid unnecessary expenditure in research.�
The story behind 3D
When we sit on the plush comfortable sofas, dark glasses and all, ready to see the latest 3D film at a screen near us, we do not think about all that goes into making the visual spectacle possible. Be it Monsters Vs Aliens, Avatar or Shrek 4, or the soon expected Jism 2, all these films are made three dimensional by a set of erudite technicians working day and night on the latest technologies in film production.
Los Angeles based Eliza Pelham Randall’s career spans across seventeen years working in visual effects both in production as well as post. Based in Los Angeles she has worked with renowned VFX studios such as The Mill, R!OT, Frantic films and now Prime Focus. Currently she resides in Mumbai on her second Indian assignment supervising stereoscopic 3D conversion for Prime Focus. She spoke at the recently held CGTExpo 2010 in Mumbai.
“Taking films in 2D and converting it 3D is exciting. Prime Focus has a huge organization across many continents and that’s how with our sheer force we managed to push The Clash of the Titans in eight weeks, and in the process we learned a lot,� she said.
James Cameron’s Avatar had the luxury of time at their hands, this entitled them to plan it out thoroughly as compared to the different path that we had. The majority of the work that Prime Focus is engaged in does not grant this kind of luxury of time.
Cal State Fullerton Basketball
Cal State Fullerton Basketball, Senior Gerard Anderson scored 13 points and point guard Jacques Streeter had 8 points, 6 assists and 5 steals Monday night to lead Cal State Fullerton to a 69-58 victory exhibition basketball at Cal State Los Angeles.
Chris Sector CSULA led all scorers with 18 points and Dwayne Jones added 12.
CSULA Fullerton rebounds by a 50-34 margin, but otherwise the statistics were very equal. Jer’Vaughn Johnson led the Titans with nine.
The Titans used a 15.2 to close the first half for a 35-29 advantage at halftime. The Golden Eagles opened the second quarter with an 6-0 run to forge a tie at 35-35. However, Fullerton, scored the next five points and gradually pulled away to lead by up to 19 points at 68-49 with 3:43 to play.
“All the difference in the game was our offensive rebounding,” said head coach Bob Burton CSF. “Obviously, we have a tremendous amount of work to do.
“I am very disappointed with the way we played defense and offense. We did not play defense the way we think we can play and were not aggressive enough on offense.
“We expect more of our counter-attack and how to run the offense. But we did rebound and we can do that.”
Cal State LA shot 35 percent from the floor, including 6 of 18 from 3-point line. Fullerton also shot 35 percent but made only 3 of 17 Treysas. But the Titans took 20 offensive rebounds to only 7 CSULA.
Cal State Fullerton Basketball was first posted on November 17, 2009 at 4:10 pm.
Nokia Mobile Price List Update
November 17, 2009 by Trend PK
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Asian Development Bank To Fund Projects In India
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Full Story And Original Content.TrendPK.com Asian Development Bank To Fund Projects In India:Manila: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Tuesday that it would loan USD 700 million to India for infrastructure projects to be developed by public-private partnerships. The loan would be released in three tranches over five years to state-owned India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd,
Full Story And Original Content.TrendPK.com Asian Development Bank To Fund Projects In India:Manila: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Tuesday that it would loan USD 700 million to India for infrastructure projects to be developed by public-private partnerships.
The loan would be released in three tranches over five years to state-owned India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd, [...]
Ucla Basketball Schedule, Cal State Fullerton Basketball
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Full Story And Original Content.TrendPK.com Ucla Basketball Schedule, Cal State Fullerton Basketball:Aaron Thompson scored a career-high 22 points and Cal State Fullerton upset UCLA 68-65 in double overtime Monday night, snapping a nine-game losing streak against the Bruins. Gerard Anderson added 14 points and Jacques Streeter 11 for the Titans (1-1), who blew a 10-point lead
Full Story And Original Content.TrendPK.com Ucla Basketball Schedule, Cal State Fullerton Basketball:Aaron Thompson scored a career-high 22 points and Cal State Fullerton upset UCLA 68-65 in double overtime Monday night, snapping a nine-game losing streak against the Bruins.
Gerard Anderson added 14 points and Jacques Streeter 11 for the Titans (1-1), who blew a 10-point lead [...]
Sahel kazemi, Steve Mcnair Photo
Sahel kazemi, Steve Mcnair Photo, LaTreal Steve McNair (February 14to, 1973-julio 4, 2009), nicknamed Air McNair, was a quarterback in football, who spent most of his NFL career with the Titans Tennessee.
McNair played college football at Alcorn State in Lorman, Mississippi, where he won the Walter Payton Award 1994 as the best player in NCAA Division I-AA. He was selected by the third overall in the NFL Houston Oilers in 1995, becoming the starting quarterback regular Oilers in 1997, his first season in Tennessee (although he started six games in the previous two seasons in Houston), and remains the starting quarterback for the Titans until 2005. After the 2005 season, McNair was traded to the Baltimore Ravens, for whom he played for two seasons before retiring after thirteen seasons in the NFL .
McNair led the Titans to the playoffs four times, and once the Ravens, and played in Super Bowl XXXIV with the Titans. He is the Titans’ all-time leading passer. McNair was elected to the Pro Bowl three times, was All-Pro and Co-MVP in 2003, primarily as a Titan.
McNair was killed on 4 July 2009, by gunshot wounds caused by Sahel Kazemi, her lover, who turned the gun on herself.
Sahel kazemi, Steve Mcnair Photo was first posted on October 20, 2009 at 8:33 pm.
Penthouse Pet of the year 2008
Penthouse Pet of the year 2008, Win a date with 2008 Penthouse Pet of the Year Erica Ellyson. – Erica Ellyson is going to have dinner with the winner of the auction for the charity called Rock Against Diabetes. They’ll eat dinner at Hawaiian Tropic Zone in Las Vegas, in addition, limo service and VIP service at the new Penthouse Club. Erica Ellyson was chosen 2008 Penthouse Pet of the Year by the readers of the magazine.
Penthouse Pet of the year 2008 was first posted on September 20, 2009 at 10:44 pm.
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Bad News Bears
Bad News Bears, If week 1 NFL betting was any indication, the Pittsburgh Steelers have become a passing team and they’ll be looking to take advantage of any weaknesses in the Chicago Bears defense. The Steeler’s CB Ike Taylor will be going head-to-head against Chicago WR Devin Hester on Sunday at 4:15pm EST on CBS. For the sports betting public looking at NFL week 2 lines, it’s shaping up to be a battle between two teams that are already favored to win their divisions. While Pitt is coming off a big win in week 1 against the Titans 13-10, Chicago is coming off a tough Sunday night loss to the Packers 21-15 as 3.5-point underdogs at online sportsbooks. Bet on the Bears +3 for NFL week 2!
Bad News Bears The Bears will be happy to be home and this is one of the most interesting games for NFL week 2 odds for the sportsbooks. Pittsburgh is 1-11 in their last 12 trips to the windy city. The Steelers haven’t visited Soldier Field since a 37-34 overtime victory in 1995. Pittsburgh and Chicago last met in week 14 of the 2005 season, in a match that ended with a 21-9 Steelers home victory. That was the first of eight straight wins they racked up on their way to winning Super Bowl 40. Bet on the Steelers -3 in NFL week 2 lines!
Bad News Bears was first posted on September 20, 2009 at 11:30 pm.
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