The story, created by Winfried Debertin and aimed at young children, follows the son of Galileo Galilei as he helps his father make world-changing discoveries.
January 20th, 2014
The story, created by Winfried Debertin and aimed at young
children, follows the son of Galileo Galilei as he helps his father make
world-changing discoveries.
A German
producer-distributor has joined with Indian animation house DQ
Entertainment (DQE) to co-produce a CGI animated series about the son of
Italian inventor Galileo Galilei. Penta TV in Germany has come onboard
Leo & The Pisa Gang (52x11), which is currently in development with
MPP Productions and DQE. Other series in development with DQE include
season two of Peter Pan for ZDF in Germany, Raz & Benny (52x11)
alongside Foothill Entertainment in the US and several other TV series
with US prodco Rollman Entertainment.
Earlier this year DQE said it and Rollman were aiming to coproduce five TV series by 2016 with budgets totalling about US$35m.
Macquarie Capital has invested $53 milloin equity on the visual effects industry, Prime Focus World—the 2D to 3D conversion, visual effects and animation arm of India s Prime Focus Limited. The first phase includes $38 million, followed by remaining $15 million in a second transaction.
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.
