Prime Focus sets the look for ‘My Name is Khan

Prime Focus has provided Digital Intermediate services for the recently released movie ‘My Name is Khan‘. The film has been color graded by Rohan Desai, DI head and Chief Colorist, Prime Focus, who has some of the biggest Bollywood projects to his credit including ‘Black‘, ‘Saawariya‘, ‘Ghajini‘, ‘New York‘ and ‘Wake up Sid‘, to name a few. Overseen by Dharam production and Red Chilies Entertainment and distributed by Fox Star entertainment.

, the movie features leading actors like Shahrukh Khan and Kajol. It is also one of the biggest deliveries for Prime Focus, with multiple versions for Distributor- Fox and various negative options for its worldwide release.‘My Name is Khan‘ is a story being told by Rizwan Khan, the protagonist of the movie, about the events of his life right from his childhood. Since the film moves through various time zones and eras, the visuals needed to be subtlety defined in terms of look without disturbing the narrative. The film posed a number of challenges for the team at Prime Focus. Talking about them, Rohan Desai said "One of the biggest challenges in the film was to hold all the different visuals together despite them being so different in terms of look, and to make them flow through seamlessly. The other challenge was to strike a balance between realism and glamour, to make the viewers believe in ‘Rizwan Khan‘ who is an ordinary man, set off on an extraordinary journey.

"Working with Prime Focus has been a wonderful experience, much like our previous partnerships in projects like ‘Black‘ and ‘Ghajini‘. I completely trust Rohan‘s sensibility as a Colorist and I am extremely pleased with the look and feel of the Film" said Ravi K Chandran, DOP. "My Name is Khan is the kind of film that makes me proud to be a feature film colorist and my biggest satisfaction is being able to bring the Director and Dop‘s vision of this enthralling story to the screen" concluded Desai.

Happy Birthday Photoshop- Adobe Photoshop Celebrates 20 Years

  

Hard as it may be to believe today, once upon a time you had to take your pictures carefully and develop them with even greater care; a lost memory then was truly lost.

But all that started to change 20 years ago on Friday, when the first version of Photoshop was released, and began to usher in the age of digital photograph editing that we depend on more than ever today. Now we can't just imagine a world without Photoshop, we can't imagine the English language without it. How many software packages become verbs?

The Photoshop story began in 1987, when Thomas Knoll programmed a pixel imaging program he called Display. It didn't do much; primarily, it displayed grayscale images on a black-and-white monitor. But it also provided a creative foundation for what would soon become one of the most important apps in the world. Knoll and his brother, John, built on Display's functionality by giving it processing capabilities. Adobe licensed the software in 1988, renamed it Photoshop, and shipped the first version on February 19, 1990.

Since then, Photoshop has become a phenomenon, its capabilities becoming synonymous with graphic design the world over. Many of the features that even casual users take for granted now weren't in the earliest incarnations: layers, without which any large-scale task would seem impossible today, weren't introduced until version 3.0; the healing brush, which essentially made wrinkles, pimples, and moles a thing of the past, bowed in version 7.0. Adobe estimates that there are more than 10 million users of Photoshop worldwide.

"Twenty years ago, Adobe predicted that it would sell 500 copies of Photoshop per month," Thomas Knoll said in a statement. "I guess you could say, we beat those projections! It's amazing to think that millions of people use this software today. We knew we had a groundbreaking technology on our hands, but we never anticipated how much it would impact the images we see all around us. The ability to seamlessly place someone within an image was just the beginning of Photoshop's magic."

"For 20 years Photoshop has played many different roles," said Shantanu Narayen, the president and chief executive of Adobe. "It has given creative people the power to deliver amazing images that impact every part of our visual culture and challenged the eye with its ability to transform photographs. It's no exaggeration to say that, thanks to millions of creative customers, Photoshop has changed the way the world looks at itself."

Adobe is celebrating Photoshop's birthday with events around the world. Adobe Germany is hosting a 20-hour online marathon, featuring 15 local Photoshop experts revealing some of their favorite secret tricks. Digital imaging contests in India and France will showcase the work of Photoshop users in those countries.

There are plenty of online festivities, as well. You can check out the webcast of a celebration the National Association of Photoshop Professionals will host at the Palace of the Fine Arts Theater in San Francisco on Thursday night at 7:30 PM, where key figures in Photoshop's birth and adolescence will be on hand to commemorate the event. Or you can watch a special Adobe TV broadcast that reunites the original Photoshop team and offers glimpses of the fabled Photoshop 1.0, working on a refurbished Mac from that long-ago era. Of course a Facebook group and Twitter feed are also involved.

If you think this year's festivities are something, just wait until next year, when Photoshop will finally be able to drink. That's going to be a party worth remembering. And one thing's for sure: The photos will look terrific.

Disney’s Rapunzel renamed ‘Tangled’

Producer Roy Conli, producer of Disney’s Rapunzel, made an announcement on the official Walt Disney Animation Studios Facebook page which confirms the movie’s new title, Tangled:“Hey everyone, I’m Roy Conli, producer of Disney’s next animated film. I have some exciting news to share, and it was important to me that YOU guys – the Disney fans – hear it first. I want to tell you about Walt Disney Animation Studio’s 2010 release, Tangled. It’s a really fresh, smart take on the Rapunzel story. In our film, the infamous bandit Flynn Rider meets his match in the girl with the 70 feet of magical golden hair. We’re having a lot of fun pairing Flynn, who’s seen it all, with Rapunzel, who’s been locked away in a tower for 18 years. I’m so proud of the crew working on this film – they’re doing a fantastic job creating an awesome story with great characters and a stunning world – and it’s all going to look amazing in 3D. All of us here at the studio are incredibly excited for you to see Tangled when it comes out in theaters this November.”

Koochie Koochie Hota Hai - 2010 (Theatrical Trailer)

Koochie Koochie Hota Hai is an upcoming Bollywood film that will be released in Summer 2010. The film is an animated take on Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, and marks the 12 year anniversary of its release.See the first preview of the trailer.

Priyanka Chopra makes animated video debut

Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra is on a spree of firsts this year. After winning a national award recently for her role in “Fashion”, the actress is now making a debut in an animated video in order to raise environment consciousness.
Produced by Red Dot Productions, it is an attempt to inspire people to take action such as saving water and electricity, planting trees and reducing pollution, as a part of the NDTV-Toyota Greenathon Campaign.
“It was the first time I shot for an animated video and I had to imagine everything as I was standing against a chroma screen… We were very sure about the fact that it had to appeal and connect with the audience and not be boring and preachy. The animation has made it visually appealing and interesting,” Priyanka said in a statement.
Priyanka who is also the ambassador of the campaign, will be seen in a mix of animation and real life sequences in the video.
Titled “Hawaaein, patte, paani”, it has been penned by legendary lyricist Gulzar and composed by musician trio Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy.
In the video, the actress shows a polluted, dry and barren landscape and is looking for a solution. As she finds it, a green sapling sprouts out of the cracked earth.
She hands the sapling to a little girl, who gives it to carefree young people. These youngsters inspired by the little girl hand out saplings to people and urge them to think of the impact of their everyday actions on the planet. As these people take further such steps, Priyanka’s world begins to change for the better.
The video will premiere on NDTV 24×7, NDTV India and NDTV Profit Wednesday. It can also be accessed on green.ndtv.com.

 

Spider-Man Swings Into Theaters in 3-D on July 3, 2012

Spider-Man will swing into theaters worldwide in 3D animation special effects beginning July 3, 2012, it was announced today by Jeff Blake, Chairman of Sony Pictures Worldwide Marketing & Distribution.The new film which is still untitled, will begin production later this year directed by Marc Webb from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt. Avi Arad and Laura Ziskin will produce the film from Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios. Commenting on the announcement, Blake said, “Spider-Man is the ultimate summer movie-going experience, and we’re thrilled the filmmakers are presenting the next installment in 3D.Spider-Man is one of the most popular characters in the world, and we know audiences are eager and excited to discover Marc’s fantastic vision for Peter Parker and the franchise.”

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America (SCA), a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation. SPE’s global operations encompass motion picture production and distribution; television production and distribution; digital content creation and distribution; worldwide channel investments; home entertainment acquisition and distribution; operation of studio facilities; development of new entertainment products, services and technologies; and distribution of filmed entertainment in more than 130 countries

NOKIA C-SERIES

C-series Nokia has applied for trademark in Finland. Thing is clear from the Patent and Trademark Registration Database service. So far, Nokia's phones, the designation is divided familiar four-digit number series, entertainment series, Nseries phones, and the benefit for Eseries phones in series. What will most likely Cseries will continue to pay at least part of a four-digit designation - perhaps even full. Nokia phones to share the four categories targeted at different user groups, whose names are Connect, Live, Achieve and Explore. Explore category of Nseries devices in series and Achieve category Eseries devices in series. Information about what equipment will include Cseries, not yet. It is possible that in the future Cseries brand below include both the Connect and Live-categories of equipment and then either of the two, which probably would be the Connect category. Of course, it is also possible that Cseries must therefore include a whole new range of devices and creates for itself its own laitekategoriansa.

Nokia's Connect-category devices are mainly "traditional phones," the Live category in turn includes the current 7xxx - 8xxx series and style phones. Nokia model number series of the most important quantitatively, 6xxx series, in turn, includes virtually all the Connect category. Cseries equipment features, such as the amount of either of the first release or sale of the revenue is not timetable yet has any information. Nokia has failed at the moment pending trademark applications Cseries-14 April 2009 but it will rise properly to the public until now juttumme this time. Application has been filed a trade / service category 'mobile phones, smartphones, accessories and spare parts for mobile phones. " Previously, Nokia has applied for trademark Nseries Eseries 9/1/2006 and 28/3/2006 brands. At that time, Nokia was already the marks before applying formally announced the first alabrändit with their products. Nokia has not applied for the brand to other potential new series ending in addition to names Cseriesin. Nokia are trying to get some kind of context, comments C-series immediately after the weekend on Monday