| Career watch: The colourful world of animation
The range of jobs available for a computer animator can be mind boggling. There is hardly any industry that doesn't require or use computer animators." "These days animation is used in almost all the industries from automobile, pharmaceutical, medicine, aerospace, civil, and architectural," says Anand Kannan from ToonSkool, Bangalore. According to Radhakrishnan, top IT companies like Tata, Reliance [Get Quote], Satyam [Get Quote], UTV, Pentasoft, Rhythm & Hues, have jumped into the fray. International animation houses like Walt Disney [Images] studios, Paprika Animation Studio, Technicolor labs, SONY are looking at tie-ups with Indian animation companies too. Puneet Sharma, General Manager of Zee Institute of Creative Arts (ZICA) says, "As per the NASSCOM Report 2006 (NASSCOM - Primary Research & Analysis, Pg 127), the starting salaries of freshers is between Rs 8,000-Rs 12,000 per month.
Droplet Technology Demonstrates Live 3G Mobile Video Services at 2008 ...
MENLO PARK, Calif., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Droplet Technology, Inc. today began a 4-day showcase of the company's 3G personal mobile video services at CES 2008 (January 7-10, Meeting Room #70127, Sands Expo & Convention Center, Las Vegas). Personal mobile video services provide real-time or non-real-time exchange of user-generated or user-selected video, with at least one mobile handset involved. At CES 2008, Droplet is showcasing video services running live on off-the-shelf commercial handsets over multiple 3G wireless (AT&T HSDPA/UMTS and Verizon EV-DO) and Wi-Fi networks, including: Droplet's patented breakthroughs in all-software video processing and video communications eliminate the traditional hardware costs, complexities, and constraints that limit today's video-enabled devices and services.
Protege touted to replace Serdang maverick Yap
KUALA LUMPUR: Serdang MP Datuk Yap Pian Hon has been called many things in life but the one nickname that has stuck is a cat with nine lives". Surviving many political obstacles, recent events however appear to suggest that the maverick politician has used up all those lives.
Whats worse for the MCA politician is that his protege-turned-bitter rival Datuk Liew Yuen Keong is the man touted to replace him.
The official line is that Liew, the Seri Kembangan assemblyman, is taking over under the partys plan to inject fresh talent into parliament.
Only rumours. It is up to the partys leadership but my track record speaks for itself, said Yap when met at his office, showing off his daily schedule.
Its a list of programmes taking him to every corner in Serdang, attending functions and addressing problems including flooding, traffic congestion and poor service by the local authority.
Adobe offers Premiere Pro, After Effects betas
Buttons, text and images are stored as layers and layer sets so you can edit them later in Photoshop. The preview of Premiere Pro is available for Mac OS X 10.4.9. After Effects CS3 is also available as a public beta from Adobe. After Effects includes several new features including Shape Layers and the Puppet tool. The application now has the Brainstorm feature, which allows users to naturally evolve animation variations based on parameters you choose. After Effects will be available as a standalone product, or as a component of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium and Master Collection software in mid-2007. The After Effects CS3 Professional preview is available to After Effects 7.0 users worldwide. It is available to licensed users of either the After Effects 7.0 Standard or Professional (full, upgrade, and education), Adobe Production Studio Standard and Premium (full, upgrade, and education), Adobe Video Bundle (full, upgrade, and education) or Adobe Web Bundle (full, upgrade, and education).
Overlooking Seattle? Pistons must deal with Sonics before facing ...
The 6-foot-8 Green ranks among the top six among rookies in scoring (nine points, sixth), rebounds (4.9, sixth), assists (1.3, fourth), free throw percentage (69.7, fourth) and minutes played (25.6, fifth). While the Pistons are aware of the potential pitfalls that exist with playing a hungry Sonics squad the day before they face Boston, Billups wouldn't want the Pistons' current plight to be any different. "I'm happy where we're at, and what the future hopefully holds for this team," Billups said. "It feels good to be where we're sitting at right now." Dixon fitting in Juan Dixon, acquired by Detroit from Toronto just before the trading deadline, is the latest player to join the Pistons and praise team's close-knit locker room atmosphere. "It's a big difference," Dixon said when asked about the Pistons locker room compared to others.
Playground-enhanced malls: good for economy, bad for teens
Competition with superstores is the first reason I conjure up in favor of playgrounds in the middle of malls. Superstores with food, clothes and electronics at prices that can't be beat may seem a convenient way to shop, but they do not offer much entertainment for young children forced to tag along. Don't get me wrong. There are plenty of distractions for bored kiddies in a superstore. There's the electronics department in which children tall enough to reach the controls can play demo versions of the hottest new video games for hours. Children waiting for their turn on the video game demo can watch the latest movie on multiple flat screens -- some in high definition. In the toy section, there might be a loose ball to bounce down the puzzle aisle or an unsecured tricycle to ride up the board-game aisle.
Hillary Stuns--Four Theories
I'm as flummoxed as everyone else, having gone along with the near-universal consensus that Obama would win. Mystery Pollster has his work cut out for him. But I'm confident that soon enough there will be so many powerful explanations for what now seems an out-of-the-blue event that it will appear to be overdetermined. It's important to memorialize this moment of utter stupefaction. That said, here are four possible factors: .
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