Nipuna Services, Satyam's BPO subsidiary, has inked a $25 million animation deal with 4K Animation, a U.K.-based animation and visual effects house, reports INDIA TIMES.
The 18- month contract is for 52 episodes for the third season of MARVI HAMMER PRESENTS NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WORLD and MARVI HAMMER feature, combining live-action and animation. For the feature, Nipuna will produce animated backgrounds, a furry CG creature and 2D-animated characters.
iHollywood Forum is hosting IPTV World Fall. Attendees will lean how to develop, distribute, sell or market products, services or applications for the IP television industry. Topics include:
* How broadcast networks, telecom providers, carriers, Hollywood content owners, cable operators, broadband service providers, software developers, and hardware manufacturers are delivering IPTV and broadband services to the home.* The global opportunities and obstacles in delivery of these new services from the perspectives of business, technology and content owners.
Mobile Entertainment Summit allows attendees to hear experts and gain valuable knowledge about how mobile content, media, services and applications have surpassed analyst expectations for North America, Europe and Asia. Guests will learn how to generate revenue from music, search engines, games, messaging, multimedia, TV, video, imaging, sports, streaming, marketing, licensing, advertising, dating services and digital rights management.
AT&T Inc. struck a distribution agreement to deliver MTVN and BET linear, high-definition, on-demand and digital music programming as part of the AT&T U-verse TV channel lineup. Financial and other terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Informa Telecoms & Media is hosting the Mobile Content Off-Deck conference. The networking event and exhibition will bring together key industry players within the industry to debate the hottest issues in off-deck services.
Running along with NAB 2006, iHollywood Forum is hosting IPTV Forum. Attendees will lean how to develop, distribute, sell or market products, services or applications for the IP television industry. Topics include:
* How broadcast networks, telecom providers, carriers, Hollywood content owners, cable operators, broadband service providers, software developers, and hardware manufacturers are delivering IPTV and broadband services to the home.
RCN Corp., a leading provider of triple play cable, high-speed Internet and phone services, announced that Boomerang, the 24-hour classic animation network from Turner Broadcasting, will now be featured in its New York City (RCN Channel 186) and Philadelphia (RCN Channel 147) new digital lineups. These additional launches complete RCN's roll out of the network in all of RCN's markets.
Boomerang offers classic cartoons like THE JETSONS, JABBERJAW, SNAGGLEPUSS, TOM & JERRY, THE SMURFS and more than 4,000 episodic half-hours of classic cartoons, primarily by Hanna-Barbera.
Nelvana has inked a video-on-demand agreement with British Telecommunications Inc. (BT) in the U.K. Coming on the heels of recent North American partnerships with Comcast and Rogers (along with preschool broadcaster Treehouse), this deal widens the scope of Nelvana's on-demand initiatives to include Europe.
MAGGIE AND THE FEROCIOUS BEAST, LITTLE BEAR, BABAR, MAX & RUBY and THE FAIRLY ODDPARENTS are among the initial family entertainment programs Nelvana will make available to BT's next-generation TV offering, slated to launch by late summer/fall 2006.
Look Effects, the Hollywood-based visual effects company whose credits include THE LIFE AQUATIC, THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, INTO THE BLUE, MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE and CSI: NY, is expanding and relocating to state-of-the-art facilities inside Hollywoods historic El Capitan Theatre: 6834 Hollywood Blvd., Suite 300 Hollywood, California, 90028.
Responding to increased demands for its services and the continuing growth of the broadcast and advertising industries in the southeast, R!OT Atlanta has completed a major expansion and reconstruction effort. The work has resulted in a complete makeover of the facility, providing clients and staff with an enhanced creative working environment.
Alias introduced Creative Bridge, a services program designed to assist senior business managers and marketing professionals effectively exploit design and engineering data in their efforts to develop branded materials that are visually engaging, product correct, and can be created in significantly less time on increasingly tighter budgets.
Mainframe Ent. Inc. has launched a full service Creative Services division that will specialize in all areas of graphic design, motion graphics, titling, opening sequences and branding. The first project of the newly-expanded division will be an alliance with McLean Mashingaidze-Greaves to design the new website for the popular TV Series PINK PLANET, which airs on CityTV, Vancouver. Pinkplanet.tv will feature e-commerce, video blogs and wi-fi based social networking. In addition, the division is working with IDT Ent.
In a precursor to a vigorous new expansion effort, Ascent Media Creative Services Group has promoted Barbara Marshall to managing director of its Encore Hollywood post-production facility.
Bakers Man, an industry leader in Internet based technology, marketing communications and digital information management for the entertainment industry, has formed a new production company, TrueLight Entertainment, to provide a wide range of animation production, innovative marketing and e-learning services based on proprietary processes and tools. Industry veteran Kevin ODonnell is president of new media company.
Autodesk Inc. has extended Autodesk Consulting services to the media and entertainment industry by creating a dedicated practice to help media and entertainment clients realize their ideas. Media and entertainment is the fourth market practice for Autodesk Consulting, joining manufacturing, building and infrastructure.
Marketing consultant Jan Nagel, has been tapped by Steven Ching, ceo of AGOGO Corp. Hong Kong, to represent AGOGO and its Animation Services Hong Kong in the U.S.
Eyetronics, an international provider of high resolution scanning services and animation-ready 3D models, is coming off its most successful year yet and looks to 2005 with a prestigious slate of projects, including RACING STRIPES, ELEKTRA, the much anticipated CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, BATMAN BEGINS, THE BROTHERS GRIMM, LEGEND OF ZORRO, THE ICE PRINCESS and TRANSPORTER II. Among the recent feature films employing Eyetronics scanning services are ALEXANDER, BLADE: TRINITY, MASTER AND COMMANDER, KING ARTHUR, THE LAST SAMURAI and XXX.
Thomson has acquired The Moving Picture Co. (MPC) from British broadcaster, ITV, for £52.7 million (76 million). MPC, which is located in the Soho district of London and employs around 400 people, is an industry-leading provider of vfx and post-production services to both the feature film and commercial advertising industries.
Colleen Gallion has joined FilmCore Distribution and Vault Services, a leading provider of distribution and media management services for broadcast advertising, as manager of sales and marketing. She will focus on enhancing services to existing clients and developing new markets. She will also take a lead role in promoting FilmCores digital distribution and web-based asset management services.
Website Renderosity has launched its new Animation Outlet, a new area where animators can post their work. In support of this new area, Renderosity has designed three new hosting packages and a larger File Locker designed to fit animators bandwidth needs. The new services can be found on the Member's Options drop down menu by clicking on "My Services." Members may host their own animations, or have Renderosity do it for you.
Alias has announced it is involved in exclusive discussions with a leading private equity investment firm for the acquisition of Alias from SGI. The company reassures customers that no changes to the management team, organization, services, support or product availability will occur as a result of the negotiations or the sale of the business.
Ascent Media Creative Services Group, a technical and creative services provider for the entertainment industry, has promoted Robert T. Wenrich to the position of cfo. In his new role, Wenrich will handle the strategic and financial management of the company's the entertainment television, commercial television and creative sound services operations. He originally joined the firm in 2002 as cfo for the Creative Sound Services unit.
Creative solutions company mOcean is expanding its business outreach to the worldwide marketplace by naming Javier Prelooker director of new business development, international markets. Prelooker will focus on bringing the Venice, California-based studio's entertainment marketing services across all media to the Ibero-American marketplace. Kevin Aratari, managing director of mOcean, said, "The international Hispanic market has grown and matured enormously in recent years.
R!OT and Liberty Livewire LLC's Interactive Services Group, both units of Liberty Media Group, have launched a joint venture aimed at developing interactive television applications. Under the plan, R!OT will link its broadcast post-production services with the Interactive Services Group's Web authoring, data management and e-commerce services. As part of the new venture, Liberty Livewire's Interactive Services Group has relocated its creative staff to the R!OT campus in Santa Monica.
eLance Inc., a professional services marketplace, has announced a new Website for Macromedia Flash development and usability services. Powered by eLance, the companys platform for Web-based outsourcing, the site, named the eLance Rich-Media Market (featuring Macromedia Flash services), lets visitors quickly purchase Flash related services for a fixed-price. The new service will allow Web designers and other Internet content creators the ability to get quick, affordable access to high quality Flash development professionals.
