Dream Job: Corporate Heart By Kristinha M. Anding
Miguel Salinas says he has always admired Adobe. So four years ago, when the former journalist and nonprofit/corporate communications professional was presented with the opportunity to work within Adobe's newly formed corporate social responsibility department, he leapt at the chance....
Mark In
Is 3D difficult or impossible to teach and learn, as one past Siggraph panel had it? While the panel specifically addressed 3D animation, the growing use of 3D for animation and graphics in games, TV, the Web, and feature films points to the next frontier of computer-based skills....
Beta Sight: Frantic Films Software Deadline By Matt Estela Visual Effects Supervisor, Jackanory
Fans of the original BBC children's classic Jackanory, which aired from 1965 until going off the air in 1996, could catch the series during its highly...
By S. D. Katz
China, the most populated country in the world, has a shortage of movie theaters. While U.S. exhibitors struggle to justify replacing all those new film...
By S. D. Katz
Outsourcing is a hot-button issue. It provokes demands for protectionism in Rust Belt states or not-so-mild irritation from consumers speaking to the...
By S. D. Katz
At 17, Daming Chen was expelled from the Peking Opera School for fighting with the principal’s son...
By S. D. Katz
Rob Minkoff is an animator and director who began his career at Disney. In 1994, he codirected Disney's The Lion King, the most successful cel-animated...
By S. D. Katz
I'm sitting in Vicks, a Beijing club in a KTV (karaoke) room having just finished singing an appalling rendition of Sinatra's My Way. No one is listening...
By S. D. Katz
Right time, right place. That's what it's like to be an animation company in China today. Production is never easy, but being in the capital city of the...