Sunday, 11 September 2011

Puss In Boots : Most Interesting Cat In The Worlds?

The folks at DreamWorks are going full steam ahead with their clever web spots for their upcoming feature Puss in Boots. Yesterday, we discovered a new 35-second ad about Puss, spoofing Dos Equis’ “Most Interesting Man in the World.” The clever spot introduces Puss (Antonio Banderas) as the most interesting cat in the world, showing examples of how utterly fascinating and legendary the swashbuckling feline is. Directed by Chris Miller, the feature will be released on November 4 by Paramount. We’ve got to say these teasers are working like catnip for toon fans around the world!

TFOU And Alphanim Hatch Plan For 'Calimero'

Calimero, Pagot’s famous black chicken, has found a new home on TF1’s youth programming block TFOU. Alphanim and TFOU announced today that the new 104 x 11’ CG-animated Calimero, which is based on the popular character created by Pagot in 1963, will be part of the network’s programming in 2013, to coincide with the property’s 50th anniversary.

Aimed at kids 4 to 7, the new series will rediscover the world of Calimero and his friends Priscilla and Valeriano. According to press notes, the chick’s famous catch phrase “It’s just not fair!” will be starting point of new adventures and the opportunity for the character to set things right!

Calimero

Paris-based studio Gaumont Alphanim, which is known for producing series such as Galactik Football, Robotboy and Santa’s Apprentice, will distribute the program and manage the brand internationally on behalf of Calidra, the right owner. TF1 Licenses was appointed agent for France while TF1 Vidéo acquired video rights to the future series. For more info, visit www.alphanim.com

Alcon, Arc to Make 'Ormie Movie'

Canadian animation studio Arc Prods (formerly known as Starz Animation Toronto) will be co-producing a new feature with Alcon Entertainment, based on the short Ormie, it was announced Thursday at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival.

“Having worked with Alcon as a client has shown us their extraordinary expertise on both the business and creative sides,” said Steven Hecht, exec VP of business development at Arc.

Directed by Alcon’s Rob Silvestri, Ormie has won several awards at festivals in Savannah, Palm Springs and Seattle as well as New York Children’s Festival. It tells the simple story of a clever pig who is trying to reach the cookies on top of the refrigerator.

Ormie

Arc was responsible for the animation of this year’s Disney-released Gnomeo and Juliet and Focus Features’ 9 and has also provided vfx for Starz’s Camelot series. Silvestri worked as an animator on Gnomeo and Juliet, 9 and The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything. He is also directing Alcon’s upcoming feature OZ3D, a contemporary adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz.


Ormie

You can see the Ormie short here:

Knowledge and application of GPS

GPS or global positioning system, which was originally only applied to the military field, has been widely used in transportation, mapping and many other industries. Positioning technologies using wireless communication technology (GSM or CDMA), geographic information management technology (GIS) and other high technology to achieve control of the vehicle; through GSM network math channel, the signal transmitted to the vehicle monitoring center; monitoring center through the differential technique location information conversion, and then use the GIS map of the location of the signal out of language, and ultimately achieved through the service center vehicle positioning and navigation, security against robbery, rescue services, remote monitoring, track record and other functions.

GPS has been widely used abroad, bus, subway, car and other areas, at present, the domestic application of GPS jammers is still in the embryonic stage, but the momentum of rapid development. The transport sector have been fully aware of its traffic information management advantages.

GPS industry in the next 10 years of market growth is expected in 45% or more, the logistics industry will be the next major market for GPS applications. China is now 10 million to the status of freight cars, the market potential will be enormous. Automotive application market growth rate may reach 50%.

The system was originally developed by the U.S. armed forces in the 20th century, jointly developed by the age of 70, its main purpose is to land, sea and air three major areas of real-time, weather and global navigation services for intelligence gathering, monitoring of nuclear explosion and emergency communications and some other military purposes, the United States dominate the global strategy of key initiatives. GPS system after 20 years of research laboratory at a cost of 30 billion U.S. dollars, until March 1994 up to 98% of the global coverage of GPS satellite constellation of 24 satellites was officially laid to complete. Application of GPS system is now not only confined to the military field, but rather developed to car navigation, air observation, geographic surveying, marine rescue, protection of manned spacecraft exploration and other fields. GPS navigation wifi antenna systems also need to run a car navigation system. GPS systems are not enough light, it is only able to receive GPS satellite sends the data to calculate the user's three-dimensional position, direction and velocity and time information, there is no path to computing power. Hands of the user's GPS receiver in order to achieve line of navigation devices also need to include a complete hardware, electronic maps, navigation software, including car navigation systems.

GPS navigation hardware including chips, antenna, processor, memory,auto key programmer, screen, buttons, speakers and other components. But the present situation, the market GPS car navigation systems in the gap between the hardware is not large, built-in software, the map has also been difficult to tell who is good or bad design, and now there are eight maps of the company engaged in the navigation map Mapping and development of software, such as NavInfo, Kay Rucker, round after round through, inter-city links, after years of continuous development of improved, have been able to provide very good navigation map software.

To summarize, a complete GPS car care systems is a chip, antenna, processor, memory, display, speakers, buttons, extension slot, map navigation software nine major components. GPS navigation systems to determine the pros and cons, navigator can receive the GPS satellite number and path planning is the key. Navigation satellites can receive the number of the more effective, indicating that the current the stronger the signal, the navigation state of the work of the more stable. If a satellite navigation device less often or in the navigation search process frequently interrupt the navigation of the normal work, then it is not the first pass, let alone the quality of the merits of the.