ANIMATION FACILITY SET FOR BURBANK.Byline: Daily News A pair of production service specialists announced Wednesday the launch of a Medialab Studio LA in Burbank to provide cutting-edge animation technology services for the entertainment industry. Backed by Four Media Co. and Canal Plus as a joint venture, the operation will be staffed by 10 employees and is bidding for five prospective projects within the next three months. The multimillion-dollar project is housed within Four Media's facilities on Hollywood Way. The business, billed as the first of its kind in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , will allow film producers to create animated characters and manipulate them at a much faster rate than conventional processes with up to 15 minutes of animation achieved in a single day. MediaLab said the cost to producers will be about $500 per minute of animation, compared with $10,000 per minute for traditional animation Traditional animation, also referred to as classical animation, cel animation, or hand-drawn animation, is the oldest and historically the most popular form of animation. In a traditionally-animated cartoon, each frame is drawn by hand. . Four Media President Rob Walston said, ``MediaLab offers a technology whose potential is virtually limitless and one that is currently missing from the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. market.'' The operation also will provide classes in using the software in partnership with Silicon Graphics, a leader in workstations used in creating digitally based special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. such as the dinosaurs <onlyinclude> This list of dinosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the superorder Dinosauria, excluding class Aves (birds, both living and those known only from fossils) and purely vernacular terms. in ``Jurassic Park,'' through the Silicon Studio training center in Los Angeles. |
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