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  • Tata Play Binge celebrates Children’s Day with these 8 animated titles

    Tata Play Binge celebrates Children’s Day with these 8 animated titles

    Mumbai: With Tata Play Binge, it’s time to celebrate Children’s Day filled with a lot of laughter, wonder and a side of teachings for our young hearts. The evolution of children’s content has witnessed a shift from generic toons that kept kids entertained to now value-bringing content that teaches them morals and life lessons in a fun and engaging manner. So, this Children’s Day on 14th November, Tata Play Binge brings a selection of animated content that offers a unique balance to entertainment and teachings to kids, making them a great family watch. Get ready to kick back and relax with your little ones as the platform brings you the perfect line-up of some of the most exciting and thoughtful toons ever!

    Turning Red – Disney+ Hotstar

    Turning Red introduces Mei Lee, a confident, dorky 13-year-old torn between being her mother’s dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. Her protective, if not slightly overbearing mother, Ming, is never far from her daughter—an unfortunate reality for the teenager. And as if changes to her interests, relationships, and body weren’t enough, whenever she gets too excited (which is practically ALWAYS), she ‘poofs’ into a giant red panda! The movie makes for a fun and relatable watch, enabling young kids, especially girls who are embracing teen-age by pushing them to instill self-belief and move forward through life, regardless of the challenges they face.

    The Boss Baby – Netflix

    Boss Baby is the story of seven-year-old Tim, who gets jealous when his parents give all their attention to his little brother. Tim soon learns that the baby can talk and the two team up to take on the CEO of Puppy Co. to foil his menacing plans. What ensues is a roller coaster of drama and adventure that tests the bonds of brotherhood. Starring Alec Baldwin, Tobey Maguire, and Lisa Kudrow as voice actors, Boss Baby is a wholesome comedy with never-ending quips and a baby in a suit that oozes awesomeness and is, well, the ‘boss’. So, this children’s day, let your kids get inspired to be the ‘Boss Baby’ of their lives!

    Shrek – Amazon Prime Video

    A classic tale with a twist, Shrek is the story of a fearsome ogre who lives by himself in his swamp. Infuriated when his land gets taken away, he sets on a mission to get it back. He makes a deal to get it back, on the condition that he retrieves Princess Fiona for the fairytale-hating Lord Farquaad of Duloc. As he falls in love with her on the way, it creates complications that he must resolve. Will he pick the princess or his land? Starring Eddie Murphy and Mike Myers, Shrek is an adventure drama that teaches kids about the value of friendships, honesty, and most importantly, the difficulty one can face while making hard choices.

    Up And Away – ZEE5

    A re-imagination of an age-old tale, Up and Away, a Danish animated film, is the story of Hodja, a boy from Pjort. Wanting to explore the world, he borrows a flying carpet from his neighbour. In return, he must find and return the man’s granddaughter, Diamond, to her grandfather. With a multitude of challenges ahead, like the all-eating Sultan who wants to get his hands on Hodja’s flying carpet, he sets out for the adventure of a lifetime. The film teaches bravery, a sense of right and wrong, and compassion, making it a Children’s Day must-watch.

    Killer Bean Forever – MX Player

    Top-notch assassin Killer Bean is the best in the business and is his boss’ most trusted guy, constantly called upon to clean up the mess when things go bad. But with Detective Cromwell stuck between him and the head of a mob, Killer Bean uses his quick thinking and skills to learn that he might be the next target. With the hunter now becoming the hunted, will he get out of this mess, alive? Killer Bean Forever brings intense action and drama in the most hilarious way possible.

    Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation – SonyLIV

    The third film in the Hotel Transylvania franchise sees Count Dracula feeling lonely and depressed while running his hotel for monsters. In an effort to cheer up his spirit and show him a good time, his family books a luxury vacation cruise exclusively for monsters where he falls in love with the mysterious cruise captain. Will the captain’s secrets tear them apart? The film teaches lessons of trust, honesty, and letting go of the past making the film a family-watch.

    The Legend Of Hanuman – Disney+ Hotstar

    The Legend Of Hanuman takes us on a journey, as Lord Mahadev is reborn as Hanuman to serve Lord Rama, and becomes a beacon of hope amidst the harrowing darkness. This series teaches kids about Indian mythology along with righteousness, bravery, and courage as we witness Lord Hanuman on a variety of adventures, each more challenging than the last!

    Krishna: Makhan Chor – ZEE5

    The film follows the story of Lord Krishna, showcasing his adventures and courage as a young boy who is very mischievous and goes on various quests to help the ones around him. However, his escapades always cause trouble for his mother. Krishna: Makhan Chor is a movie filled with mischief, innocence, and a familial bond, one that is sure to bring your family closer together.

    Wondering how to get the subscription of these OTT apps? We have Tata Play Binge for you. Viewers can avail the entire package of 22+ apps (Disney+ Hotstar, ZEE5, SonyLIV, MX Player, Lionsgate Play, Apple TV+, KLiKK, Aha, VROTT, Sun NXT, Hallmark Movies Now, ReelDrama, Chaupal, Namma Flix, Planet Marathi, manoramaMAX, iStream, Tarang Plus, Hungama Play, Eros Now, ShemarooMe, Curiosity Stream, EPIC ON, Travelxp, DocuBay, and ShortsTV) and Games under one subscription, in one app, without having to subscribe or remember the password of every app. Sounds amazing? It is amazing!!

  • Youku Tudou licenses Paramount’s movie titles for TVOD

    Youku Tudou licenses Paramount’s movie titles for TVOD

    MUMBAI: China’s Youku Tudou, Inc has entered into a content licensing agreement with Paramount Pictures that will bring more than a hundred film titles from Paramount Picture’s library to Youku Tudou.

     

    Popular franchises and titles such as Transformers, Shrek, Star Trek, Mission: Impossible and Forrest Gump will be viewable through Youku Tudou’s subscription service and select future Paramount releases will be available through TVOD.

     

    Youku Tudou’s subscription service currently offers a wide selection of content from both foreign and domestic studios. More licensed content as well as Youku Tudou web-native content will be added on an ongoing basis.

     

    “The consumer-driven demand for premium online services in China is growing rapidly. With top branded content such as Paramount Picture’s array of films, our commitment to enhancing our subscription services to create a premium experience and drive consumer-based revenue continues in earnest,” said Youku Tudou chairman and CEO Victor Koo.

     

    With this agreement, Youku Tudou now has a library of over 4,000 movie titles that encompass domestic, foreign and original productions.

  • Sony Pix’s ‘Pixathon’ will showcase various celebrated movies of popular franchises back to back

    Sony Pix’s ‘Pixathon’ will showcase various celebrated movies of popular franchises back to back

    Mumbai, July 24: Sony PIX has come up with yet another original and innovative property for its viewers. ‘PIXATHON’ will showcase various celebrated movies of popular franchises back to back which will have the audience glued to their seats. Watch your favourite movie series such as Rocky, Shrek, Iron Man, Spiderman, Mission Impossible and all of Bond series back to back only on Sony PIX. The channel is also carrying out innovative campaigns to promote the premiere of their blockbuster movies.

    To start with, the viewers got a chance to meet the ‘Green Hero’. The organic eating and eco-friendly hero Shrek launched the ‘Go Green’ project to promote the premiere of the movie. The viewers took part in the first ever Shrek PIXATHON and watched all 4 Shreks back to back on July 21.

    For the first time in India the viewer’s also got the chance to watch the sexy, hot and stylish Robert Downey as Iron Man 1 and 2 back to back only on Sony PIX. Tony Stark’s stylish and charismatic mean machine livened up the small screen on July 13.

    In future, the fans will also get the opportunity to be part of the Rocky legacy as they participate in ‘Discover the Rocky in You’ campaign. The motivational, inspiring and emotional story of the boxing icon will come alive on Sony PIX on August 4 as it premieres Rocky 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6. Also, swinging its way to the small screen is the Spiderman PIXATHON. The fans can catch all four parts of the web slinging superhero back to back on August 15. It doesn’t stop here…very soon; viewers will also get a chance to watch all of Mission Impossible and Bond series.

    To break the clutter around channel association the property has been termed PIXATHON.

    Saurabh Yagnik, EVP & Business Head, Sony PIX added, “This year we have enthralled our audiences with the two biggest premieres on television, Men in Black 3 and The Amazing Spiderman – the highest rated premieres of 2013. We have significantly stepped up our investments in acquiring high quality content and popular franchises. We also constantly strive to interact and engage with our viewers, by not just offering exceptional titles but also presenting them a completely memorable viewing experience. PIXATHON is one such initiative by us that will bring us another step closer to our audience.”

    So with titles like Shrek, Rocky, Spiderman, Mission Impossible and the entire Bond series to showcase in their library, Sony PIX is sure to pose a stiff competition to the other English movie channels.

  • ‘The game development and design visualisation markets have grown the quickest for us’ : Rob Hoffman- Autodesk Global product marketing manager media and entertainment division

    ‘The game development and design visualisation markets have grown the quickest for us’ : Rob Hoffman- Autodesk Global product marketing manager media and entertainment division

    Autodesk which manufactures software technologies for the media and entertainment industry as one of its major activities, is looking to grow the business in India.

     

    Realising that a lot of production facilities in the US are doing their film, TV and gaming work from India, the company is keen to aggressively tap this market segment.

     

    Indiantelevision.com’s Ashwin Pinto caught up with Autodesk Global product marketing manager media and entertainment division Rob Hoffman to find out more on how the firm’s software is helping the media industry.

     

    Excerpts:

    For a software solutions company catering to manufacturing, building and construction, how much of revenue does the media and entertainment segment contribute?
    The 3D entertainment space is a sizeable business for Autodesk. Our core areas have always been R&D and designing products like Autocast. We cover the areas of film, television, game development and design visualisation.

     

    For us, the game development and design visualisation markets have grown the quickest. You now have next generation gaming consoles like Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo. There is a huge demand for game titles.

    Could you shed light on how your solutions accelerate collaborative digital content creation workflow?
    We have 3Ds Max 2008 and Maya 2008. We have done a lot of work to accelerate the creative work that our clients do. We do this in two ways. We have worked on the two softwares so that they perform much faster on the new generation of hardware – whether they be multicore or multiprocessor workstations, latest operating systems or graphics cardsware.

     

    We are trying to take advantage of new technologies coming out and take advantage of the speed these technologies give our software. We have also done a lot of work with the user interface and the workflows of both our softwares. The aim is that artists complete their projects much faster. Something that takes six steps to complete in the past we have managed to reduce to three steps.

     

    This is a very important goal for us as it represents time savings for the artist. Modelling and animation type features have helped us achieve this. Our aim is to enable clients achieve their tasks with much more efficient tools.

    In what manner have your products been used to enhance films?
    Our 3D products are used extensively on films like Pirates Of The Caribbean, Shrek, Spiderman. Maya has been used a lot here. It has been an extensible software from the standpoint that production facilities and artists are able to enhance the software or extend its capabilities through different kinds of scripting. The software also has rich features in animation, modelling and the ability to create different types of visual effects.

    You mentioned gaming as growing the quickest. What is the work being done here?
    We work closely with the large game facilities globally to find out what challenges they face and then we try to address that within our software. We have added games specific features and functionality in the 2008 releases of our software.

    Could you shed more light on how the two products have been enhanced?
    With Maya one of the big things that artists and production facilities have been telling us is that they needed the product to run faster not just on existing hardware but also on new hardware.

     

    They also need the artists to work faster on the software in terms of the graphic user interface and the workflow. We have done work on modelling capabilities. We have enhanced the functionality of features that artists are used to.

     

    We have also done a lot of work on performance. So we have done a lot of work to take advantage of either a single core or a multicore workstation. We have rewritten a lot of the software algorithms to make it inherently faster.

     

    The Maya Mesh Smooth workflow, for instance, has been dramatically streamlined. You can now preview a smoothed mesh while editing the mesh cage – with a strong performance, particularly on multiprocessor workstations. Other much-requested workflow enhancements include the ability to position objects along a curve, replace objects within a scene, and convert instances to objects.

     

    To make it more effective on game consoles we have a new hardware shader API. With Maya clients can effectively create and display sophisticated looks for content destined for the next-generation game consoles. In particular, native support for DirectX HLSL shaders in addition to the existing CgFX support lets clients work with assets in the viewport and see them as they will be seen on the target console. Artists get better representation of the content they are creating using Maya. They don’t have to continuously go back and forth between Maya and the game engine.

     

    We have also done work on character animation. We have new rigging and skinning capabilities. We have got new non-destructive skin editing capabilities. The animator can now add more bones to an arm without disturbing the surface object. Maya also supports a large number of operating systems from Windows to Linux. We now also support Windows Vista 32 and 64
    bit.

    What about 3Ds Max?
    For 3Ds Max we have worked on the viewing of a large, complex scene. It has been known to work with large amounts of data. Artists can have a character with several million polygons. The performance is really good. The issue was that if the artist had tens of thousands of objects with millions of polygons the performance would be slow.

     

    We have worked on 3DS Max so that the artists will get the same performance with several objects that they would get working with one object.

     

    It is about being faster and working with larger amounts of data. Our aim is to allow the artist to focus on the art itself as opposed to focussing on the tools and spending time trying to find out how to use them. Our product also allows artists to get a better representation within the interactive environment. Clients also do not have to go through a trial and error process.

     

    We have done a lot of work on the pipeline. A lot of artists have used scripting as a way to automate or enhance 3Ds Max. We have made the software become more intuitive for artists who are not as technically savvy. This way the scripting capabilities are opened up for artists who traditionally would not have used it in the past.

    What advantages does Autodesk provide vis-?-vis the competition?
    Our products are industry standard software. So there are more people trained on our software. This is because our software is used widely. Artists can get a job more easily if they know how to use our software. We also spend heavily on education. We invest in building an education curriculum for schools.

     

    We also print our own learning tools. We have DVDs. We do community work as well. We have a community website where artists can come and share ideas. Since Autodesk is a big and stable company it allows to invest in supporting software development or customer service or technical assistance.
    ‘Due to education programmes we are seeing the number of artists grow rapidly in India. We see India as a market that has come in and will help out the rest of the world create content‘

    What potential do you see in India for growing the business?
    The potential is great. Right now you are seeing more work being done in India not just to create local content but also for the global market. A large number of talented artists can be found in India. So a lot of production facilities in the US are doing their film, TV and games work from India.

     

    Due to education programmes we are seeing the number of artists grow rapidly in India. We see India as a market that has come in and will help out the rest of the world create content.

    How many Indian clients do you have and what is the strategy being followed to grow the business here?
    We have a huge number of artists using our software. It is growing daily. We are doing different types of awareness activities. We will be conducting roadshows across the country. We will have super user events where we will bring customers from large production facilities like Industrial Light and Magic. People will talk about projects like Pirates Of the Caribbean.

     

    A lot of development work for our software has been done in India. As far as partnering with Indian software firms to enhance our offerings, this is something we will always look into. It is a question of whether or not it makes sense at a certain time to do so.

    Globally who are some of your major clients and what have been the key learnings working with them?
    We have clients throughout the world. Some of them are Planet Digital in New Zealand, Industrial Light and Magic, Disney, Dreamworks in the US, The Moving Picture Company in Europe. These firms really push the capabilities of the software. So we constantly learn about their requirements and challenges.

     

    They do things never done before. It is about learning where the industry is going and what are the issues that will come up.

    What are some of these issues?
    There are two challenges right now. The first one is that there is a need for talented artists. If an artist has talent, any job they want can be done with any production facility in the world. This is why we work on education initiatives. We do a lot of work on learning tools and work with schools and universities.

     

    The other challenge is that the entertainment industry’s work is getting more complex. Films like Lord Of The Rings mean that viewers expect to see bigger and more beautiful effects. So production facilities have to constantly outdo themselves. In television we are moving from standard definition to high definition.

     

    The themes and characters are more complex. On the games front, the amount of data the consoles can handle is larger than the amount of content that the companies had to deal with in the past. Can software work with these large amounts of data in an efficient manner? That is what clients look for.

     

    With the transition from standard to high definition in television, there is a need for new software capabilities. For those working in traditional broadcasting they have to now adopt a more film like production process. The data complexity that they work with is starting to come close to film.

     

    The other issue that they run into is that although they are working with more complex data, their budgets are much smaller compared to film. The timelines to finish the production are much shorter. Our aim has been to see that artists get high quality of work in a less amount of time. Our software has been used in commercials, interviews as well as episodic TV shows.

    Could you talk about Autodesk’s R&D facilities?
    For 3Ds Max we have development facilities in Montreal, and Toronto. We have development groups working on the software. We also have a pure science group that works on new technologies. They work on different ways to approach problems.

     

    The other thing to remember is that when we develop software, we work closely with the production facilities using them. We use their knowledge to help our developers create better software. Production facilities give us their perspective and ideas on how we can better serve them.

    What role does the Autodesk reseller network play in expanding your presence globally?
    They play an important role globally for us. They are the ones who work and talk with our customers on a day to day basis. We have a close relationship with our resellers throughout the world.

     

    Resellers give us feedback on customer’s opinions. We also ensure that our resellers are knowledgeable and skilled. They have to be familiar with the industry they are addressing.
    What is Autodesk University?
    This is a networking event held annually. As of now, we only hold it in the US. This year it will be in Las Vegas. The event allows us to better understand the requirements of clients.