Hayao Miyazaki Ends Retirement to Direct Feature Animation

What was thought to be his swan song, 2013’s The Wind Rises, was the perfect send-off for director Hayao Miyazaki a stunningly detailed, bold, haunting, and personal animation that we named one of the best of the century thus far. In the years since, Studio Ghibli’s output has slowed down, with the company most recently co-producing the forthcoming The Red Turtle while Miyazaki himself has been enjoying “retirement” working on a short film. The future of animation is now a whole lot brighter as the director has announced he’s stepping back into the world of features.

On the Japanese channel NHK this weekend, they aired a special titled Owaranai Hito Miyazaki Hayao (translated to The Man Who Is Not Done: Hayao Miyazaki) and, if you couldn’t guess from the title, the animator has grand ambitions ahead. According to Anime News Network, in the special, it was revealed that this aforementioned short he’s making for the Ghibli Museum hasn’t “satisfied” him enough and this past August he presented a proposal for a new feature-length film. Presumably the proposal was to Ghibli, but they have yet to officially green-light (although, it may be the easiest one ever once they decide to).

Although no plot details have been revealed yet, Miyazaki foresees it taking up to five years to finish the film, with his biggest dreams being that it’s finished earlier than that 2021 date — specifically in 2019, before Tokyo hosts the Olympics in 2020. As he awaits a greenlight from Studio Ghibli, Miyazaki already plans to create storyboards for around 100 shots for the feature film.

Before the 75-year-old animator completes this new feature, his 12-minute short, Kemushi no Boro (aka Boro the Caterpillar) will be finished around this time next year, and it’ll only be available to see at the Ghibli Museum for the time being. Hopefully Ghibli soon gives the go-ahead on Miyazaki’s feature-length project and we’ll get more details on his plans. Despite this not being the first time he’s come out of retirement, for now, it’s nice to know the world’s greatest living animator isn’t ready to hang up his hat quite yet.

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Cartoon Movie 2017 Moves to Bordeaux

Manjit Jhita describe how during March 8-10, 2017, Bordeaux will host Cartoon Movie, the international European co-production forum devoted to animated feature films and digital imaging. Seven hundred and fifty participants from 40 countries will be in Bordeaux to get a preview of all the new European feature-length animation film projects.

Cartoon Movie brings together producers, directors, authors, distributors, sales agents, broadcasters working towards new animation projects, which will be presented in the form of a pitch, and has already enabled 259 European animation films to be funded and distributed worldwide.

Thanks to Cartoon Movie, European production of animation films has quintupled in just 15 years. This double-digit growth has been mirrored in audience figures, where the number of cinema-goers for animation films in Europe rose from 20 to 220 million in the same period of time.

Animation is also the audiovisual genre which is most widely exported worldwide. Twenty-five percent of animation films have been distributed in over 20 countries. French animation films generated almost 85 million cinema admissions worldwide, 50 percent of them abroad.

The most popular films to have been initiated at Cartoon Movie include The Triplets of Belleville,Minuscule, Shaun the Sheep, Asterix and the Vikings, Sammy’s Adventures, Pirates!, Niko & the Way to the Stars, Maya the Bee, Zarafa, Song of the Sea, and many more.

Famous fiction directors have also presented animation projects at Cartoon Movie, like Luc Besson with Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart, Patrice Leconte with The Suicide Shop and Zabou Breitman with The Swallows of Kabul.

The city of Bordeaux was chosen for the vitality of its digital economy which is expanding fast, for the quality of its Bordeaux Congress Centre, and for the dynamism of a metropolis combining history, modernity and a verdant city on a human scale. With information and communication technologies sectors, digital sectors, centers of excellence connected with digital imaging activities, Bordeaux Metropole is very active in the sector of digital imaging intended for entertainment. Bordeaux Metropole which stimulates and supports this digital economy is fully involved in this international event and, as a prelude to Cartoon Movie on 8 March, it will hold a new edition of La Grande Jonction, which aims to bring all the traditional industries of the digital economy closer together. During the afternoon, another event will take place in order to establish a new synergy between the European animation film sector and that of video games and transmedia: “Cartoon Games & Apps.” The objective is to encourage players in these two sectors to move closer together to come up with a project that takes the form both of a feature-length film and a video game and to expand the commercial opportunities.

Another factor that influenced the choice of Bordeaux is its proximity to Angoulême where the Pôle Image Magelis clusters thirty animation studios, which is simply unique in Europe and worldwide. Let us remember on this point that, among a large number of productions made in France, Kirikou and Ernest & Celestine were made at the studios at Angoulême.

Since 1999, over 259 films pitched at Cartoon Movie, with a total budget of 1.8 billion Euros, have secured their financing and have been released thanks to this annual forum aimed at strengthening the production and distribution of animated feature films in Europe.

Cartoon Movie is organized by CARTOON with the support of Creative Europe - MEDIA, CNC (Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée), Bordeaux Metropole, the city of Bordeaux and the Pôle Image Magelis.

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The Power Of The Daleks Animation Review

Here manjit jhita feels about The Web Of Fear and The Enemy Of The World were (mostly) recovered back in 2013, there’s been a renewed desire to see more from the Patrick Troughton era of Doctor Who. But with no further sign of goodies from Morris and his team (though we are assured the search is ongoing), it’s fallen to BBC Worldwide and a team led by director Charles Norton to bring us the next best thing – an animated version of Troughton’s debut story The Power Of The Daleks.

Much of the fun of the story is in discovering its twists and turns for yourself, so we’ll skimp on plot details here (they’re available all over the internet anyway), but for the uninitiated, the story involves a post-regenerative Doctor and his companions Ben and Polly landing on the planet Vulcan (not that one). There they discover a human colony under threat from a group of rebels, and a crashed space capsule – containing some dormant Daleks. But chief scientist Lesterson is keen to wake them up…

This is not the first time missing Doctor Who episodes have been animated, but The Power Of The Daleks is the first complete story to receive the treatment. Fortunately there’s a wealth of reference material to work from; this is one of many stories represented by John Cura’s off-air photographs, or ‘tele-snaps’, as well as a number of short snippets of 8mm film footage which are included if you purchase the series pass. The result is a product which does its best to match the original shot-for-shot, with the visuals edited to match the pacing of the soundtrack rather than the other way around. Die-hard fans familiar with the tele-snaps may notice occasional cosmetic changes – but with the possible exception of a costuming error in the first episode, these shouldn’t detract from the story one bit.

Anyone who’s seen previous reconstructed lost episodes will know the sort of animation to expect here; though being worked on by a new team, it’s still been done to a BBC Worldwide budget with a relatively tight turnaround time. As such, the style is far more Pugwash than Princess Mononoke, but it’s surprisingly effective. The fact that the story features Daleks works in the project’s favor; though the movement of the human characters may be jerky, the Daleks glide flawlessly across the screen in a way they simply wouldn’t have been able to in their more rickety live-action form.

This isn’t to say that the humanoid characters are badly animated, though. It’s true that some characters are better represented than others – Ben in particular doesn’t bear that much resemblance to Michael Craze – and at times expressions don’t quite come off, but for everything that doesn’t work about the characters there’s several things that do, and there are times when the animators do a lot with very little – there’s a moment in episode 3, for instance, when Bragen’s expression changes such a small amount but manages to convey a huge shift in meaning. All of the best character work has been saved, quite rightly, for Patrick Troughton’s Doctor. Troughton’s face is so expressive, and his performance so powerful and nuanced, that any recreation will struggle to capture it entirely, but Norton and his team do a stupendous job, with the animated Troughton stealing every scene he’s in just as the original did.

At the risk of enraging the purists, there are times when the animated Power Of The Daleks actually improves upon the original. The animation medium allows for lighting tricks and effects that would have been impossible to produce within the confines of the original’s time and budget, and as a result there’s an added depth and atmosphere to a number of scenes. For an example of the improvements, compare the conveyor belt scene in the surviving footage to its animated counterpart; though both are striking, the animated version has a number of extra little touches, like the individual Daleks’ eyestalks lighting up and raising as they wake up.

That said, the animation does of course owe its success to the original transmission, and it would be impossible without the original soundtrack, recorded off-air by a fan in 1966 and subsequently restored by the audio genius that is Mark Ayres, who has also created a new Dolby 5.1 mix for those capable of playing it. This is the best that the story has ever sounded, and it’s often easy to forget that you’re watching visuals which have been synced to an archival soundtrack, rather than a fresh production in its own right.

And of course, the story itself is a bona fide classic. There’s a tendency among Doctor Who fans to unfavorably re-evaluate stories like this which have gone into the fan mythos as being so well-regarded, but Power is a joy from beginning to end. It avoids the pitfall of so many six-part stories, which have an unfortunate habit of sagging in the middle, by featuring multiple plots which twist and turn their way through the running time, keeping up the intrigue for characters and viewers alike. It also features the Daleks at their most inventive and ruthless, in a way that we possibly wouldn’t quite see again until 2005’s ‘Dalek’. Early in the story, the Doctor remarks that a single Dalek is enough to bring the colony to its knees – and with these Daleks, it’s easy to buy into that.

Then there’s Patrick Troughton, taking the biggest gamble the show would ever take as he presents a take on the Doctor so completely different from William Hartnell’s, and at first it’s not even certain that he still is the Doctor. But what is instantly for sure is that he’s a mischievous, likeable figure, something which only grows throughout the story as he recovers all of his faculties. It’s such a confident, layered performance that there can be no doubt by the end of the story that his casting was a triumph.

Those who purchase the series pass will also have access to a number of bonus features, the longest of which being new 22-minute documentary Servants And Masters, which takes a look back at the making of the serial. It’s an engaging, pacy documentary, but at times it suffers from the inevitable problem that there’s not many of the original contributors left standing, so the likes of Nick Briggs, Andrew Beech and Kim Newman are drafted in to give their opinions on the tale instead. Also included are the five minutes or so of surviving footage. Most of this is taken from off-air 8mm recordings and as such is of quite poor quality, but after watching the animation it’s fascinating to get a glimpse of the reality and see how the two stack up. The photo gallery runs to fifteen minutes and contains a mix of (non-tele-snap) photos from the story, animation storyboards, test designs and finished sets, while elsewhere the animation test footage feature is interesting for anyone interested in the process, as actors are drafted in to film certain movements to help the animators get them right. The package is rounded off by the animated trailer that announced the release and a clean version of the Patrick Troughton opening credits – neither of which offer anything new, but both of which are nice to have for completion.

Whether you’re a devoted fan who was old enough to watch The Power Of The Daleks when it first went out, or a casual fan of the new series, you’ll be doing yourself a service if you pick up a copy of the animation in whatever format suits you best (A color version will be available in the new year). And we’re not just saying that because the likelihood of more stories being animated is wholly dependent on the success of this one; The Power Of The Daleks is a classic in every sense, and in its political intrigue and the way it handles the Daleks - not as shrieking grunts but as intelligent, scheming creatures – it feels strangely contemporary. And as much as we’d happily trade it in for a copy of the original, the animation does lend the story an extra sparkle that adds to the magic far more than it detracts.

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French Animation Festival A Dual Celebration

Manjit Jhita explain this is how The 2016 French Animation Film Festival was held over two weeks but still managed to span two months, after the official opening on Wednesday, October 26, screenings later that week, and then in early November.

The festival, organised by Alliance FranÁaise in Jamaica, was also intended to bridge distances among far-flung French-speaking countries.

Stefane Daley of Alliance FranÁaise said: "The main reason for putting on the festival is to promote French and francophone culture in Jamaica. And for this specific festival, October is the month of animation in France."

October 28 is International Animation Day, honouring film pioneer Emile Reynaud and animated comics being screened for the first time. This was done at the MusÈe Grevin, Paris, on October 28, 1892.

The French have followed through on their pioneering animation role and Daley said definitively that "the best animation comes from France". The country is also an international hub for animation, as the Annecy International Animated Film Festival takes place in Annecy, France, each June.

Naturally, France is a focal point for French-speaking countries and Daley said in selecting the films for the animation, one of the objectives was to screen productions from varied Francophone areas, including the Ivory Coast and Mozambique.

The four features shown were Adama (by Simon Rouby), Phantom Boy (Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli), Aya de Yopougon (Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie) and Battledream Chronicle (Alain Bidard). Jamaican animator Kemar McInnis' Restaurant Fuss and Ideas, were also screened.

Daley pointed out that the themes were varied, Adama being about war and a boy following his older brother, Phantom Boy being family fare, Aya de Yopougon providing laughs and Battledream Chronicle a sci-fi film which deals with slavery and the desire for freedom.

She noted that "these are all quality films, which have been nominated for or won awards. So although the festival is free, it is quality entertainment."

The festival was held at the Multi-Functional Room, main library, University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus, (the university's Department of Modern Languages contributing significantly to the accommodation) and Daley said this helped pull in audiences over the four nights.

With a full house on opening night and a "steady crowd" on the other three, Daley said the festival attracted not only people who came specifically for it but also passers-by. While Alliance Francaise did not experience increased registration during the festival, Daley said valuable contacts were made.

There is a possibility that the films will be shown again, but to a specific audience that might not have had a chance to attend the festival, which started at 7 p.m., nightly.

"We are looking at doing screenings for high school students. We are hoping to arrange some days for them to come in," said Daley.

For future stagings, Daley would like to have more input from Jamaican animators, pointing out that it is a free platform for exposure. She is also hoping to be able to access a larger room at UWI as the event grows.

The 2016 French Animation Film Festival was sponsored by Total Jamaica, Nationwide and the CHASE Fund, the Modern Languages Unit at UWI, Mona.

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Animation A Growing Career Field

The Term Defines:

Manjit Jhita think animation can land on top of the world dictating conditions in every industry some in years past? Though its immediate impact may well not be obvious in a few industries, but it surely plays an hidden hand in that. By simply the word, animation recognizes the act of supplying life. Technically, it is a creation of optical illusion of movement by quick display of a series of images or paintings. This can be done either with hand-made skill, computer made imagery, 3d objects or a blend of techniques. Most of the credit goes to the creation of computer technologies that contain been helping us to create 2D and 3D animations right from the start. It has significantly cut down the work and time, thereby, lowering the cost associated with it.

Not surprisingly, the phenomenon of motion was well explained long before in the palaeolithic give paintings, where animals are depicted with multiple thighs in superimposed positions to give a clear picture for the flow of motion. But today, we are able to minimize fine all these action flow in the form of 2D and 3D formats. Right from shows in the news to animated feature films, we take the help of these formats. The ability of animation can be rightly understood in advertisements, infomercials, e-cards, etc. Vodafone zoo ads, which are critically acclaimed serves as the perfect example for current trend.

Various Approaches Include:

2D relies upon vector graphics. It means they comply with certain statistical equations. Similar to 2D is 3D, which bargains with the creation of moving pictures in 3D digital environment. Of late, 3D has recently been the lifeline in almost all of these projects. There are good number of 3D animated films in the industry such as Character, Ice Age, The Incredibles, Rio, Madagascar, A bug's life, Ratatouille, and so forth, where you can sense a lot of difference from 2D movies. Both 2D and 3D come under computer movement techniques.

Other famous techniques include Traditional, Full, Small, Rotoscoping, Live-action/animation, Puppet, Clay surfaces, Cutout, Silhouette, Model movement, Go motion, Object, Image, Brickfilm, and Pixilation. These kinds of techniques only suggest a greater scope of search in animation. To give it a credit, two impressive awards are reserved namely:

• Academy award for best animated feature

• Schools award for best cartoon video clip

Therefore, it can be concluded that the field of movement has a long way to look and form a rich source of money for them that will have taken it as their employment opportunity.

Manjit Jhita found animation can be an important career approach for aspirants in the near future. Hence, this is a try to unveil some of the crucial facts behind animation. Please do revert me with your invaluable comments. 

How to Create Flash Animations?

Flash images are created specifically for the network and interactive two-dimensional vector graphics and animation. Network designers can use Flash to create navigation control bar, dynamic signs, animations with synchronized audio, or even complete visual rich website. Flash image belongs to a compact vector graphics, so you can quickly download it, and it is capable of scaling to meet the viewer's screen size. Manjit Jhita say you can draw your own pictures or import many works to create the image synthesis. And arrange and edit in the scene. Like movie, flash is also divided into several frames based on the length of time. After the completion of the images, you can export it as a Flash video, and embedded in HTML pages and upload to the network serve with the web.

Flash Timeline, frames and layers

Timeline is used to organize and control the contents of images at different times, layers and frame. The most important ingredient of the Timeline is frames, layers and the playhead. The Timeline window is a place to adjust animation playback speed and put the images into different layer. Timeline shows image of each frame.

The creation of animation is realized by changing the content of a subsequent frame. You can make a moving object by a scene. And then you can increase or decrease the size of the object, rotate, change color, fade, or change shape to edit the object. All changes can occur in isolation or simultaneously.

Flash animation of the sequence

There are two ways to produced sequenced animation in Flash: one connected to continuously changing frame by frame changes in animation, and the inner plug animation.

To produce an image requires each frame in the frame to frame changes in the animation. And to make interpolation animation, just make the start and the end of the image of the frame, an intermediate frame is automatically created by Flash. Frame-by-frame changes animation file size increases far more than the interpolated animation, so we more commonly used interpolation animation.

Flash Advanced Design 

Flash has a special layer - sports-oriented layer. The sports-oriented layer allows drawing a path interpolation entity, collection or block dynamic changes along this path. It can chain multiple layers to a motion guide layer, so that more than one object along the same path of movement. Using a motion guide layer, you can create a movement along a specific route animation.

 

Flash animation output

When using the Flash authoring network courseware animation, it also need some other files. If you want to open the flash images in the browser, you must first open an HTML document, this document start Flash Player and play images in return. In addition to the HTML document, you can create a Flash animated GIF image version, JPEG or GIF image, so that there is no Flash Player installed needed.

Besides, you can also import your SWF files and make into FLV format for sharing your flash video on YouTube, Yahoo Video or other video sharing sites. In other site, if you want to edit your FLV files for sharing online.

I love movies and video researcher. I like to share some knowledge's and skills which I studied. In my experience of making video conversions, these are 2 that I have tried before and found it is very useful. You can go to convert flv to QuickTime and convert vob to avi to get more info.

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Manjit Jhita - Game of War: Top 5 Tips and Cheats

Game of War: Fire Era contains elements of your chosen MMORPG/strategy games. The constantly moving world of this mobile game can be compared to other mobile games, such as Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North. You need to keep an eye on your town's resources, soldiers, structures etc. as you say with rival armies and other harmful entities.

This kind of mobile MMORPG/strategy game will test your limits as you strive to reinforce your personal stronghold. Following amassing a nice variety of troops and putting jointly a good village for them all, we came away with 10 tips/tricks/cheats for the game.

1 ) Behind Video game of War: Fire Age

In order to get less experienced players into the game's basics, CheatMasters. com provided some info on the game's basics:

Game of War: Fire Age is a building simulation and real time strategy game. Players can construct structures and train armies that can be used for offensive and defensive purposes. There are also allegiances to join, which is especially crucial as allies can share resources as well as help one another in their respective tasks. Besides from working together, players can also attack the other person, and the winning team will be able to gain additional resources as rewards.

2. Date A Local Alliance

Don't play the solitary wolf role during your time with the game. You'll have a less complicated time dealing with rival soldires just as long as you adopt some forces. Pick the right options and you'll have the support you'll need in those tight situations. Units also make the development of buildings easier. Help to make sure you return the opt to your close friends by paying attention to the goals you see when you take a peek under the "Alliances" tab. The more you aid your alliances, a lot more loyalty points and platinum you'll obtain.

3. Take full advantage of Resource Fields

Following building a decent military services, look for resource areas on the map and occupy them. In all probability you'll find quite a few unoccupied ones at first, is actually a good idea to go to them too. Likewise have in mind that you should go for the time that you lack (iron for example). Interesting about occupying is that you don't forever own that area once occupied, just harvest it until troops get to maximum capacity and then they automatically return home with the loot.

4. Choose Quests That Have Better Rewards

The better the rewards, the better the quest! May always select the quests with higher levels. Just go with the quests that honor you with the useful resource rewards that you really need. If you're eager to get the right resource items for your operation, pick lower level quests that contain them.


5. Be aware of All The Recipes You Have within your Forge

The more daily requests you complete, the more crafting items likely to procure. Put those creating items toward the new item recipes you'll see in your forge. Replicate items can be shaped together to produce new items, which contributes to new item recipes.

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