3D animation transmedia

Macaulay New Media Lab:  "The more I engage with this fledgling series, the more I find out about the qualities of a good transmedia story.  It isn’t enough to merely adapt a story for screen and print, there needs to be a compelling reason for it to bridge multiple mediums" ...

After writing Gears of War: Judgment, Tom Bissell talks to Maria Bustillos about the potentialities of video games as literature, as well as its challenges as a storytelling medium.

Ariston Anderson:  "As a filmmaker, Loach has adopted a working style not unlike that of the characters seen in his films. Unlike the traditional Hollywood model, he’s not driven by his own race to the top, but rather by a collective spirit, a desire to create harmony on the set and to appreciate his crew for a job well done."

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John Vaskis:  "Setting up a gaming crowdfunding campaign is easy. Creating a successful one that reaches its fullest potential takes some more effort though — think of it as the difference between beating Halo on Normal and Difficult."

David Licata:  "The web series can take many shapes, from a no-budget serial made in high-school media classes to Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog to Netflix’s long-format House of Cards."

Josh Spiegel:  "Great movie trailers are something of a lost art. While we are overloaded with ads for every new big-budget movie these days, they’re getting more obnoxious, cacophonous, and ruinous" ...

Gamasutra Exploring video game animation with a film industry veteran Gamasutra It's instantly noticeable just how movie-like and fluid the character animations are, especially on the protagonist -- although Gallat is keen to stress that he plans...

David Pescovitz:  'In 1978, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Lawrence Kasdan had early brainstorming sessions around Lucas's outline for "Raiders of the Lost Ark." They recorded the conversations and had the tape transcribed.'

Concept mapping and mind mapping are powerful graphic organizers, strategies for organizing and representing knowledge. They were developed during the seventies. The terms may seem to be interchangeable, but there are some differences in the way they are created and used.  

 " Please to meet you Hope you guess my name But what's puzzling me Is the nature of our game " Great lyrics from a great rock song! "Game" in the context of this Rolling Stones classic is  cool an...