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Stylized Brand Campaign Directed by Jake Banks for adidas Basketball Features NBA Stars Dwight Howard, Derrick Rose and Retro Urban Hand-drawn Illustrations
Production company Stardust Los Angeles was tapped by 180 LA to give its latest brand campaign for adidas Basketball a retro urban, illustrative twist. Directed by Stardust's Jake Banks, the two spots star Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose and Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard and take a stylized approach that highlights their unique personalities while touting the players' sneaks -- the adiZero Rose and The Beast. Stardust handled all animation, including traditional cel animation overlaid on top of live-action footage, and edited and finished the campaign, which broke January and February in China, France and Spain.
DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. announced that Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed is bringing Flawed Dogs, his previously published picture book and novel, to the big screen for a feature film adaption at the studio. Breathed is best known for creating Bloom County, a 1980s cartoon-comic strip featuring Opus the Penguin. He will serve as executive producer on the project, which DreamWorks Animation's head of development Alex Schwartz and development executive Damon Ross are overseeing.
Animated Views is giving away a home video package featuring the best animated features of 2010 along with classics from Studio Ghibli - a bundle worth $200! All you have to do is predict who is going to win at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards (to be held on Sunday, February 27 on ABC). The person with the most correct picks will win!
Two-time Academy Award®-winning actor Tom Hanks will present at the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, telecast producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer announced today.
EON Reality's, the world's leading interactive 3D software provider, today announced the release of the new EON Human with vertex skinning and skeletal animation support. A key component of playful learning aspects is the creation of high-quality interactive expressions and body movements in EON within virtual learning, simulation-based learning and edutainment.
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