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Birth of Special Effects: computers first deployed to degrade images
New Yorker
Monday 20 May, 2013 (Australia)

How Michael Crichton and Westworld started a technical revolution that linked Pacific Rim and the droogy effects to cover lips and faces on news broadcasts.

Brief: Kodak moves to preserve role of film internationally..
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Screen Hub
Friday 17 May, 2013 (U.S.A.)

In Rochester, Kodak has appointed Christian Richter to the new role of film lab and studio relationship manager. The big black K is not giving up on sprocket holes. Can justice be done in the dusty streets of the new frontier?

Anime: the past is the future, the future is the past of tomorrow`s yesterday
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Crunchyroll
Friday 17 May, 2013 (Japan)

Confused? In 1986, twenty-one key Japanese anime figures were asked to discuss the issues affecting the future. This translation is a hall of mirrors, which reflects a world before computers, basic questions about outsourcing and globalisation which we face today, and capturing a missing teen audience. Even then, the headliner was Miyazaki who had just started Studio Ghibli to make his first feature.

Weta: brings a slice of Middle-earth to China
Wednesday 15 May, 2013 (New Zealand)

New Zealand Post and Weta Workshop have teamed up to bring a slice of Middle-earth to the Chinese market

Neville Page: killer frogs, the ultimate fang, and the joys of designing creatures for Avatar
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Screen Hub
Tuesday 14 May, 2013 (Australia)

The imaginations of people like creature designer Neville Page are crucial to the golden age of tentpole movies, dominating world cinema like an extraterrestrial squid wrestling a battered space freighter as it drifts into a sun. He talks about the compulsions and possibilities of his craft, and how its very limitations define its mad art.

Animal Logic: rendering in the cloud
The Age
Friday 10 May, 2013 (Australia)

Animal Logic is looking to cloud computing to enhance its in-house ability to render animation.

RIP: Ray Harryhausen
Screen Hub
Wednesday 8 May, 2013 (New Zealand)

VFX and animation legend Ray Harryhausen died 7 May in London, aged 92. Born in 1920 in the US, Harryhausen was intrigued by stop-frame animation from an early age after seeing the 1933 King Kong, and went on to create some of the most memorable screen sequences using the technique.

Digital Exhibition: a salutary moment of hindsight on the trail of the digital juggernaut
The Economist
Monday 29 April, 2013 (Australia)

A decade ago, Spielberg conceded that digital projectors might sit alongside celluloid in cinemas. This article from December 2002, is like a piece of ancient history. It was triggered partly by this report from Booz Allen Hamilton.

Film Processing: saved in the UK, just
Screen Daily
Wednesday 24 April, 2013 (Australia)

Deluxe subcontracted to Technicolor which has closed too.... but a consortium has responded to a concerted campaign by UK activists to provide a significant facility.

Death of Film: A century of post goes down the drain
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Screen Hub
Friday 19 April, 2013 (Australia)

Besides the raw realities of cinematography, the loss of film processsing signals the end of a wonderful industrial infrastructure. Processing and film post-production has clicked through the sprocket holes from the dawn of cinema, for more than a century of extraordinary precision. To Dominic Case, this is the lost land of his professional youth.

Computational Cinematography: measuring every photon
Broadcast Engineering
Wednesday 17 April, 2013 (U.S.A.)

"An analogy of QIS versus a CMOS sensor is to think of counting individual raindrops rather than saying 3mm of rain fell in an hour."

The End of Film: much, much more than the pretty pictures
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Screen Hub
Saturday 13 April, 2013 (Australia)

Erika Addis, who teaches cinematography at AFTRS and is wonderfully thoughtful on the medium, uses her experience of education to meditate on the impact of film on the production process, and creativity itself.

Student comedy puts the fun back into funerals
Wednesday 10 April, 2013 (New Zealand)

At just over one minute in duration, they don’t come much smaller than animated short Funeral Home Pinatas which has attracted the attention of film festival curators around the world.

Hong Kong DELF 2013: Wellington gets on board
Screen Hub
Wednesday 10 April, 2013 (New Zealand)

Two major Wellington-based producers head to Hong Kong next week to present at this year`s Digital Entertainment Leadership Forum (DELF), Pushing the Limits.

Sony Boosts XDCAM Range
Monday 8 April, 2013 (New Zealand)

Sony today announced its new PMW-400 shoulder-mount camcorder at the NAB Show 2013 in Las Vegas.

Sony Goes Beyond Definition at NAB 2013
Monday 8 April, 2013 (New Zealand)

At NAB 2013, Sony is exhibiting an array of innovative technologies, from its full line of HD technologies to new solutions for HD and 4K, and professional production at all levels.

Stop Press: Australian films in Annecy
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Screen Hub
Friday 5 April, 2013 (Australia)

No graduating films or simple shorts, sadly, but Australia does have three productions on screen in the official selection.

UK: brings in 25% animation tax credit
Kidscreen
Friday 5 April, 2013 (U.K.)

The British tax credit for animation commenced on April 1, providing 25% on core production expenditure in the UK.

LucasArts: Disney gives it goofy boot up the bum
Game Informer
Friday 5 April, 2013 (Australia)

After buying both LucasFilm and LucasArts, Disney heaves its games developing section into the cold. Any further work on games franchises off Star Wars and Indiana Jones will be outsourced. The comments on this link are particularly instructive. Remember when the large game industry made more money than film?

Disney: Empire strikes down new baby
Screen Hub
Friday 5 April, 2013 (New Zealand)

Walt Disney has announced the closure of game studio LucasArts, acquired as part of the purchase of George Lucas` entertainment assets last year.

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