Japan Media Arts Festival – call for entries dates:

Thursday, 15 July 2010 − Friday, 24 September 2010 (Arrival no later than the deadline date)

Art Division
Art works using new media and digital technologies
Interactive Art / Installation / Movie / Digital Photograph / Still Image / Website, etc.
Entertainment Division
Entertainment works using new media and digital technologies
Game / Play Equipment / Movie (VFX, CM, MV, etc.) / Character / Website, etc.
Animation Division
Feature Length Animation / TV Animation / Original Video Animation (OVA) / Short Animation, etc.
Manga Division
Story Manga / Comic Strip Manga / Non-commercial Manga / Digital Manga, etc.

More info about prizes and entry rules here: http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/

ORGANIC MOTION AND INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL MEDIA & ARTS ASSOCIATION LAUNCH STUDENT ANIMATION CONTEST

Winning Student to Receive Academic Internship
Winning Programs to Gain Full Access to Markerless Motion Capture Facility

Click here to read full press release.

This tutorial will show you how to apply rendering styles to your scenes and how to animate a camera using a Scene object in SketchUp. Also, it will take through the necessary steps to export an animation and reformat it for SmartPhones in Adobe AfterEffects.

Tutorial 1 – Styles and Scenes in SketchUp

Tutorial 2 – Exporting an animation from SketchUp

Tutorial 3 – Reformating your animation in AfterEffects for SmartPhones using 3gp multimedia container

If you have any questions please contact me at moskalp@canisius.edu

Read Adobe’s press release on how the company is moving toward interactive television and when you might expect to see Flash on you TV set.

What does this mean for you as graphic designer or interaction designer?

Click here to read the press release.

Learn about Open Screen Project.

Interesting article from New York Times about new Walt Disney Family Museum: Exploring the Man Behind the Animation by Edward Rothstein.

Click here to read the article.