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Digital games have come a long way since the days of Pong - and Australian games companies are helping them go even further. This has led to the Australian games industry earning a reputation for quality in a vast worldwide market hungry for new content....
Australian animation is internationally recognised, Leisure (1976), Harvie Krumpet (2003) and Happy Feet (2006) have all won Oscars. Leisure employs cell style animation, Harvie Krumpet is made using the method of stop-motion claymation and Happy Feet fe...
Ben Snow, Visual Effects Supervisor for Van Helsing (2004) and Pearl Harbour (2001). Hidden behind the scenes in film, television, new media and game production, a number of Australian individuals and companies have been quietly contributing their creati...
Rockstar Games co-founders Jamie King and Gary Foreman, a former Image Metrics General Manager Nicholas Perrett, and entertainment technician Paul Coyne have officially announced the formation of 4mm Games. Jamie King is currently President of 4mm Games, ...
,ÄúBeing a centre for innovation, SDC staff decided that they could contribute more to the art community than by purely procuring art and decided to develop and coordinate an annual National Digital Art Award, with science being the link between health an...
3D software company Allegorithmic aims to help decrease the size of downloadable clients with >a new automatic texture compression tool, Substance Redux. Xsens Technologies and Image Metrics have combined their motion capture and > >facial animation capab...
,ÄúBeing a centre for innovation, SDC staff decided that they could contribute more to the art community than by purely procuring art and decided to develop and coordinate an annual National Digital Art Award, with science being the link between health an...
When playing PROTOTYPE in Neural-THX Surround, sound elements are placed in front of, beside and behind gamers, enabling them to react to audio cues all around them. "Game developers and consumers alike are recognising the importance of accurate surround ...
Rockstar Games co-founders Jamie King and Gary Foreman, a former Image Metrics General Manager Nicholas Perrett, and entertainment technician Paul Coyne have officially announced the formation of 4mm Games. Jamie King is currently President of 4mm Games, ...
When playing PROTOTYPE in Neural-THX Surround, sound elements are placed in front of, beside and behind gamers, enabling them to react to audio cues all around them. "Game developers and consumers alike are recognising the importance of accurate surround ...
3D software company Allegorithmic aims to help decrease the size of downloadable clients with >a new automatic texture compression tool, Substance Redux. Xsens Technologies and Image Metrics have combined their motion capture and > >facial animation capab...
# Article Title 1 Allegorithmic Substance Redux Compresses Game Textures 2 Image Metrics Improves Games with Language and Mo Cap 3 Ready At Dawn Engine Gains Perforce SCM Phill Tippett Talks CG Wolves AWAKEN - WAKE UP CALL DORIAN GRAY DISTRICT 9 - WALKIN...
Digital games have come a long way since the days of Pong - and Australian games companies are helping them go even further. In recent years Australian developers have notched up a host of successes ranging from the innovation of Auran's epic world-beati...
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Providing strategic leadership and assistance to the film, television, and digital media sectors of Victoria. >áPrototype Completion Report (245KB)>(To be completed as part of the final milestone, with the other deliverables as outlined in your contract.)...
The computing and video games software industry operates a close partnership with the hardware industry, and as such, software obsolescence directly contributes to hardware obsolescence. Steam is a digital distribution system designed for the Microsoft W...
The computing and video games software industry operates a close partnership with the hardware industry, and as such, software obsolescence directly contributes to hardware obsolescence. Steam is a digital distribution system designed for the Microsoft W...
Australia is developing a new niche export sector in digital game development services which were estimated to be worth $108.3 million, according to a trade analysis report released by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Digital games services co...
Plaything is a major international symposium focusing on current and> future trends in the field of digital games, featuring key Australian> and International game designers theorists and artists. dLux media arts gratefully acknowledges the financial ass...
This includes computer and video games, online games and games on handheld and mobile devices. prepared for the International Game Developers Association discusses the threats of digital decay and technological obsolescence for digital games. This paper...
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