DreamWorks Animation Hints at another “Shrek†Film
DreamWorks Animation declared that it was teaming with Merlin Entertainments to establish a “Shrek†themed visitor attraction, to be called Shrek’s Far Far Away Adventure, in London
February 27th, 2014
DreamWorks Animation declared that it was teaming with Merlin Entertainments to establish a “Shrek” themed visitor attraction, to be called Shrek’s Far Far Away Adventure, in London.
The first Shrek Far Far Away Adventure will open at County Hall on London’s South Bank in summer 2015, with six planned over the next nine years globally, after the tie-up with US firm DreamWorks. It will take visitants thru a live interactive adventure featuring Shrek, Fiona, Donkey, Puss in Boots and other characters from the franchise.
15 th Pune International Film Festival
The Pune Film Foundation has been organizing the Pune International Film Festival (PIFF) jointly with the
Government of Maharashtra for the past 14 years with great fanfare.
Pune International Film Festival (PIFF) was born in 2002. The aim was to attract the best in celluloid to
the city, a task that it has achieved and how, over the last 14 years and transformed from a sleepy town
to a bustling metropolis with a mix of varied cultures and hu
Phenakistoscope (1831) A phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893).The phenakistoscope was an early animation device. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. It consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radii evenly spaced around the center of the disk. Slots are cut out of the disk on the same radii as the drawings, but at a different distance from the center. The device would be placed in front of a mirror and spun. As the phenakistoscope is spun, a viewer would look through the slots at the reflection of the drawings which would only become visible when a slot passes by the viewer's eye. This created the illusion of animation.