By Joyce Kam
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Like many animation fans, John Chan Yu-fung was taken with Hayao Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky when it first appeared in 1986. He kept thinking to himself: "Wouldn't it be great to create an animated world of my own?"
He did. And one of his works swept the animation category at the 11th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards in 2005.
Another, a 12-minute collaboration with Postgal Workshop on the social problems faced by the elderly, scooped the top prize at the DigiCon6 Awards 2008 Hong Kong Regional Competition and the grand prize at the finals in Japan in March.
"Technology has made animation easier to create and distribute. There's growing demand from advertising, music and film industries, especially from China. Hong Kong has lots of youths who are creative but they do need a chance to show off their work," said Chan.
Eddy Hui Shun, chairman of the Hong Kong Maya User Group, a nonprofit organization that promotes and cultivates professionalism in digital content creation, concurs.
That's why he has organized Panorama - Asia Pacific Animation Challenge and Animation Camp 2009 with Hong Kong Cyberport IncuTrain Centre. Sponsored by Autodesk, winners go home with products from the world leader in design software, cash prizes and trophies. The competition is open to works by students aged over 18 and fresh graduates from Hong Kong, the mainland, Australia, India, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore until November 1. Finalists from each country
and region are invited to the Animation Challenge Bootcamp while their work will be aired on Animax network.
In the four-day bootcamp, finalists get rare direction from well-known studios such as Lucasfilm Animation Singapore, which helped create the Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series as well as some of the visual effects for Transformers, and Imagi Studio from Hong Kong, developers of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Astro Boy.
"We deliberately excluded Japan and Korea because their animation productions are mature," said Hui. "We're hoping students can get a big picture of how their counterparts are doing in other emerging countries."
Hui, who is also deputy program leader of multimedia design at City University, believes Hong Kong's edge lies in a dynamic student community that is constantly stimulated to break new ground by the local film industry.
"We need to focus on our strengths to stay ahead of the pack because countries like Singapore are catching up really fast with their government providing strong support," he added.
Besides City University, the only others offering multimedia studies that include a strong animation component are Polytechnic University and the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education.
Hui said around 60 to 70 percent of his students can get a job in the industry.
"The animation market has huge potential. For instance, local movie McDull Kung Fu Kindergarten, launched a few months ago, was a great success in Hong Kong and the mainland. We hope to serve as a seedbed to foster interest in digital arts among the next generation," he said.
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вторник, 13 октября 2009 г.
Easypano Launches Online Panoramic Virtual Tour Service
Hey, guys! New services from Easypano are released.
NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Shanghai, China, 10/13/2009 - Tour Hosting is an online virtual tour service from Easypano Holdings, helps realtors and tour providers to create 360 virtual home tour online. Tour Hosting platform also provides free panorama software for stitching 360 photos.
Easypano Holdings, a leader in panorama and virtual reality technology, is pleased to announce the availability of new site for virtual home tour online creating and hosting tour-hosting.com.
Tour Hosting platform enables real estate agents and brokers to easily create and host professional real estate virtual tours online! Both panoramic photos and still digital photos can be used to create a virtual home tour in Tour Hosting platform. You may use our free panorama stitching software Instant Pano to stitch your digital photos to panoramas.
Advantages of Tour Hosting Platform
With Tour Hosting service, you can build professional virtual home tours for your real estate property with unlimited 360 panoramas and digital photos. The virtual home tours contain many great features, including full screen display, branded with your own company logos and whole virtual tour download option.
Panoramic images can make your virtual tours more professional and attractive. With Easypano Tour Hosting, to get 360 panoramas can be quite easy! In order to make panorama stitching process the most convenient and effective, we have developed Instant Pano (download at tour-hosting.com) especially for real estate agents to get panoramas quickly with normal digital camera, and it is totally FREE!
Registration is free. Simply upload your panoramas and still photos to tour hosting platform to create professional virtual home tours with free templates.
We offer online video tutorial guiding you through tour creating process, and also live help and free training.
Subscription fee:
Monthly $29.95; Save more on annual subscription.
By subscribing to Tour Hosting Service, you can create and host unlimited virtual tours within your subscription period. For any subscription:
• No limitation on quantity of virtual home tours;
• No limitation on number of photos and panoramas in a single virtual tour.
How to Use Tour Hosting Service?
To create your own online virtual home tours, simply sign up Tour Hosting User Panel. Three steps to create your first professional virtual home tour:
Enter property information->Upload digital images and panoramas of the property->Choose a template and preview your tour!
Then the virtual tour is completed and saved in your user panel. After subscribing, you will be able to publish the tours online. You can create unlimited virtual tours in your user panel account.
After publishing all your virtual home tours online, you can post the virtual tour link to your MLS listings, and download the whole tour.
About Easypano
Founded in November 2001, in Shanghai, China, Easypano (easypano.com) has been developing and marketing panorama software, virtual tour software and solutions, which enable real estate agents and virtual tour providers to create interactive features tours for real estate properties.
As for me - I use A3D PanoStitcher and am fully satisfied with it. Ouh, I think that to find your soft you have to try everything of the kind ;)
NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Shanghai, China, 10/13/2009 - Tour Hosting is an online virtual tour service from Easypano Holdings, helps realtors and tour providers to create 360 virtual home tour online. Tour Hosting platform also provides free panorama software for stitching 360 photos.
Easypano Holdings, a leader in panorama and virtual reality technology, is pleased to announce the availability of new site for virtual home tour online creating and hosting tour-hosting.com.
Tour Hosting platform enables real estate agents and brokers to easily create and host professional real estate virtual tours online! Both panoramic photos and still digital photos can be used to create a virtual home tour in Tour Hosting platform. You may use our free panorama stitching software Instant Pano to stitch your digital photos to panoramas.
Advantages of Tour Hosting Platform
With Tour Hosting service, you can build professional virtual home tours for your real estate property with unlimited 360 panoramas and digital photos. The virtual home tours contain many great features, including full screen display, branded with your own company logos and whole virtual tour download option.
Panoramic images can make your virtual tours more professional and attractive. With Easypano Tour Hosting, to get 360 panoramas can be quite easy! In order to make panorama stitching process the most convenient and effective, we have developed Instant Pano (download at tour-hosting.com) especially for real estate agents to get panoramas quickly with normal digital camera, and it is totally FREE!
Registration is free. Simply upload your panoramas and still photos to tour hosting platform to create professional virtual home tours with free templates.
We offer online video tutorial guiding you through tour creating process, and also live help and free training.
Subscription fee:
Monthly $29.95; Save more on annual subscription.
By subscribing to Tour Hosting Service, you can create and host unlimited virtual tours within your subscription period. For any subscription:
• No limitation on quantity of virtual home tours;
• No limitation on number of photos and panoramas in a single virtual tour.
How to Use Tour Hosting Service?
To create your own online virtual home tours, simply sign up Tour Hosting User Panel. Three steps to create your first professional virtual home tour:
Enter property information->Upload digital images and panoramas of the property->Choose a template and preview your tour!
Then the virtual tour is completed and saved in your user panel. After subscribing, you will be able to publish the tours online. You can create unlimited virtual tours in your user panel account.
After publishing all your virtual home tours online, you can post the virtual tour link to your MLS listings, and download the whole tour.
About Easypano
Founded in November 2001, in Shanghai, China, Easypano (easypano.com) has been developing and marketing panorama software, virtual tour software and solutions, which enable real estate agents and virtual tour providers to create interactive features tours for real estate properties.
As for me - I use A3D PanoStitcher and am fully satisfied with it. Ouh, I think that to find your soft you have to try everything of the kind ;)
среда, 7 октября 2009 г.
Industry’s Only End-to-End Solution for Collecting, Processing, Hosting and Delivering Street Level 3D Data and Imagery
Little review for iPhone holders:
BERKELEY, Calif.-- earthmine today announced the immediate availability of two additions to its software suite; the earthmine SDK for iPhone for integrating street level 3D data into iPhone applications, and earthmine Server which enables organizations to host and manage the earthmine platform on their own servers. With these new products, earthmine now delivers a complete solution for working with street-level 3D and image data with flexibility and mobility unmatched in the industry.
“These two additions to our software suite mark a significant expansion of earthmine’s offering and customer base,” said Anthony Fassero, earthmine’s co-Chief Executive Officer. “The earthmine SDK for iPhone brings immersive and accurate street level data to the world’s fastest growing mobile platform, and the earthmine Server puts the entire earthmine platform within the customer managed computing environment. Now, earthmine supports any application, large or small, public or private.”
earthmine SDK for iPhone Puts earthmine’s 3D Data in Your Hand
The new earthmine SDK for iPhone brings earthmine’s rich street-level 3D experience to the large user base of iPhone and iPod Touch users. The earthmine SDK for iPhone provides developers with core functionality to retrieve and display earthmine’s panoramic imagery and provides an extensive set of tools to create immersive applications and unique experiences on the iPhone. Users of the earthmine SDK for iPhone can access the entire earthmine data set from their mobile device, putting immersive street level imagery right in their pocket, enabling customers to use their iPhone or iPod Touch to map features, take measurements, and display relevant geo-contextual content from assets in a geospatial database to billboards displaying movie trailers and advertising.
The earthmine SDK for iPhone joins the earthmine SDK for Flash as part of the toolkit for client application development. The earthmine SDK for Flash allows for the rapid development of Adobe Flash, Flex and AIR applications, delivering earthmine data to both browser-based and desktop applications. The component exposes a wide variety of overlays including tags, billboards and polylines, allowing developers to integrate diverse data sets with earthmine’s immersive 3D environment. The earthmine API is also available to users of earthmine’s platform and provides full flexibility in deploying client applications across different platforms and environments.
earthmine Server Provides Expanded Hosting Options
With its new earthmine Server the company greatly expands the earthmine audience by now offering two hosting options for its visually impressive and spatially accurate street level 3D data. For organizations that require full control over their hosting solution, including intranet only access and customized network security, earthmine Server allows customers to run the entire earthmine platform within an enterprise’s own computing infrastructure. When an application demands massive scalability, the earthmine Server can scale horizontally simply by adding more servers in a load balanced configuration, offering a simple solution to both small enterprises delivering solutions across their local intranet, and to large consumer facing applications.
earthmine continues to offer the earthmine Cloud Service, as a fully managed and scalable option. The earthmine Cloud Service gives enterprises the opportunity to focus on building applications without the overhead of managing servers, storing large data sets and maintaining up-time. “We firmly believe the earthmine Server and earthmine Cloud Service together meet the needs of earthmine’s wide variety of customers,” said Anthony Fassero. “From local government and intelligence agencies to local search portals, earthmine delivers a full suite of products and solutions for both public and private facing applications.”
Pricing and Availability
The earthmine SDK for iPhone and earthmine Server are available immediately as part of the earthmine solution. Customers have the choice of utilizing data within earthmine’s data library or scheduling data collection through the earthmine Project Partner Program to meet specific data needs. Platform users have the choice of further customizing their package by choosing an appropriate hosting option and client application SDKs to build a fully customized solution. Pricing is dependent on customization options.
BERKELEY, Calif.-- earthmine today announced the immediate availability of two additions to its software suite; the earthmine SDK for iPhone for integrating street level 3D data into iPhone applications, and earthmine Server which enables organizations to host and manage the earthmine platform on their own servers. With these new products, earthmine now delivers a complete solution for working with street-level 3D and image data with flexibility and mobility unmatched in the industry.
“These two additions to our software suite mark a significant expansion of earthmine’s offering and customer base,” said Anthony Fassero, earthmine’s co-Chief Executive Officer. “The earthmine SDK for iPhone brings immersive and accurate street level data to the world’s fastest growing mobile platform, and the earthmine Server puts the entire earthmine platform within the customer managed computing environment. Now, earthmine supports any application, large or small, public or private.”
earthmine SDK for iPhone Puts earthmine’s 3D Data in Your Hand
The new earthmine SDK for iPhone brings earthmine’s rich street-level 3D experience to the large user base of iPhone and iPod Touch users. The earthmine SDK for iPhone provides developers with core functionality to retrieve and display earthmine’s panoramic imagery and provides an extensive set of tools to create immersive applications and unique experiences on the iPhone. Users of the earthmine SDK for iPhone can access the entire earthmine data set from their mobile device, putting immersive street level imagery right in their pocket, enabling customers to use their iPhone or iPod Touch to map features, take measurements, and display relevant geo-contextual content from assets in a geospatial database to billboards displaying movie trailers and advertising.
The earthmine SDK for iPhone joins the earthmine SDK for Flash as part of the toolkit for client application development. The earthmine SDK for Flash allows for the rapid development of Adobe Flash, Flex and AIR applications, delivering earthmine data to both browser-based and desktop applications. The component exposes a wide variety of overlays including tags, billboards and polylines, allowing developers to integrate diverse data sets with earthmine’s immersive 3D environment. The earthmine API is also available to users of earthmine’s platform and provides full flexibility in deploying client applications across different platforms and environments.
earthmine Server Provides Expanded Hosting Options
With its new earthmine Server the company greatly expands the earthmine audience by now offering two hosting options for its visually impressive and spatially accurate street level 3D data. For organizations that require full control over their hosting solution, including intranet only access and customized network security, earthmine Server allows customers to run the entire earthmine platform within an enterprise’s own computing infrastructure. When an application demands massive scalability, the earthmine Server can scale horizontally simply by adding more servers in a load balanced configuration, offering a simple solution to both small enterprises delivering solutions across their local intranet, and to large consumer facing applications.
earthmine continues to offer the earthmine Cloud Service, as a fully managed and scalable option. The earthmine Cloud Service gives enterprises the opportunity to focus on building applications without the overhead of managing servers, storing large data sets and maintaining up-time. “We firmly believe the earthmine Server and earthmine Cloud Service together meet the needs of earthmine’s wide variety of customers,” said Anthony Fassero. “From local government and intelligence agencies to local search portals, earthmine delivers a full suite of products and solutions for both public and private facing applications.”
Pricing and Availability
The earthmine SDK for iPhone and earthmine Server are available immediately as part of the earthmine solution. Customers have the choice of utilizing data within earthmine’s data library or scheduling data collection through the earthmine Project Partner Program to meet specific data needs. Platform users have the choice of further customizing their package by choosing an appropriate hosting option and client application SDKs to build a fully customized solution. Pricing is dependent on customization options.
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