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Month: July 2013
Teaching (with) Transmedia: “Looking for Walter”
Do you remember the first time you crossed through an entrance of a Disney building, and took a further look to the marvelous message forged by “Uncle Walt” engraved on the wall: “If you can dream it, you can do it”? Each transmedia producer or storyteller in the world has faced the challenge of […]
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celum SUMMIT 2013 AMERICA
The impressive skyline of downtown Chicago next to the endless waters of Lake Michigan provides a worthy setting for our first celum SUMMIT in America, hold in the contemporary location “venueSIX10”. The conference will be dedicated to Social Media Content Management. Join us in this vibrant city to be among the first to experience our […]
Samsung’s Juan Pablo Gnecco To Keynote Createasphere’s TransVergence Summit
Createasphere, the leading community builder uniting business leaders, content creators, emerging technology providers and thought leaders working in entertainment and media, is pleased to announce that Juan Pablo Gnecco, Senior Director of Multi-Screen Innovation at Samsung, is set to deliver a special keynote on day one of the TransVergence Summit being held August 7-8, 2013, at […]
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The Transmedia Opportunities of Sharknado 2
We are just two weeks away of the explosion of Sharknado phenomenon and Syfy is working on the sequel. The social media impact of Sharknado has been so strong with only $ 800.000-1 million production budget. Syfy has already announced a contest among the fans for the best tagline for the sequel. Sharknado 2 could […]
Exploding Text in Motion
This week on MacBreak Studio, I show Steve Martin from Ripple Training how to “blow away” text. One of the most fun and powerful things to do in Motion is combining different features. In this episode, I use a Replicator to “create” some text by using a text layer as the source object to which […]
The Foundry and Pixar Animation Studios Announce a Strategic Collaboration
The Foundry and Pixar Animation Studios today announced a concerted technical collaboration to bring KATANA and RenderMan together, creating a combined best-of-breed toolset for high-end lighting and rendering. KATANA will now include a full RenderMan license as standard, along with a base set of shaders and free KATANA batch render licenses to help get the […]
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Transmedia – When and Why?
It’s over twenty years since professor Marsha Kinder coined the term ”transmedia” and over seven years since professor Henry Jenkins published the seminal work ”Convergence Culture”. Transmedia as such is, as many have pointed out over the years, not anything particularly new, despite the aura of buzzwordyness the term has acheived. Still, it’s apparently a […]
Sharknado Preparedness
On Thursday, July 11, 2013 SyFy Network aired The Asylum’s Sharknado a B-Movie that embraced its genre status, and took twitter by storm. Starring Tara Reid and Ian Ziering, the movie drew 1.4 Million viewers, a respectable number for a SyFy feature if not a winner in the overall ratings game. On Twitter, the squall […]
Premiere Pro News Notes #05 (Color Edition)
A series of as-they-come notes on news of assorted Premiere Pro tutorials, tips, and related tools continues. Here's a month of news for color-related Premiere resources. For even more on color, see PVC blogs CUT.N.COLOR by Steve Hullfish and Answers Occasionally Given by Alexis Van Hurkman, as well as the Tao Colorist Newsletter from Patrick […]
