Revolution Makes Me Giddy
Why is it a morning that sends tingles down my spine?
It aint the coffee!!
Is it because the monkey man lost his little evangelical cronies nomination to his own party and is going to have a harder time eliminating a woman's right to govern her own body?
Is it because inditements are possibly pending on monkey man's brain?
Is it because I start animating today on 'Robot Chicken' and get to see all my pals including my best man Bryan Garver?
The answer to all these questions are YES!! thats why I tingle!!!
All that and the gifts Steve 'Atomic' Jobs has bestowed upon us content making mortals...
Yep folks...once again Apple has seen the future and laid it right at our fingertips and eyeballs with the new video ipod and imac g5 entertainment center!!!
The planets are lining up towards content revolution!!
Just read these two articles that are all about the new 'broadcast' possibilities for short animated content like the stuff me and my pals have been producing over the years...but have had limited venues for distribution.
Channeling Animated Digital Content
By Christopher Panzner
Christopher Panzner looks into how traditional TV programming is finding its way into new media avenues, the growth of DTV and how new technology is making the industry rethink its way of business.
He writes:
'Upstream, Mainstream and Downstream'
Heavy.com recently announced it is launching “broadband’s first ever fall season of programming” with seven original machinima shows (animated digital videos using video game engines) called 'Must Stream TV.' TV is bleeding through the black box breach into broadband and vice versa, in anticipation of the target date set by the U.S. Congress for the completion of the transition to DTV: Dec. 31, 2006. Upstream (i.e., going from the net to the TV) is Al Gore’s Current TV, the 'first national network created by, for and with an 18-to-34-year-old audience,' which launched in August in 20 million homes with programming 'pods,' from 15 seconds to five minutes long.
Mainstream (i.e., TV to net) are the existing terrestrial and cab/sat channels, now all digital and using streaming media. And downstream (i.e., local TV/cable/DVD to the net) are Christian web TV stations, the pornographers, community access, local government and commercial Spanish channels, video jukeboxes like MTV, pirate radio-soon-to-video-jukeboxes, bloggers and vloggers and other rogues, more or less. And, standing on shore waiting to get our broadcaster feet wet, thereÂ’s you and me.'
Read the whole fantastic article here:
Then read:
Short Takes: Interstitial Demand Growing
By Karen Raugust
Karen Raugust looks at how the growing demand for interstitial content is creating opportunities for large animation houses and independent animators alike.
She writes:
'The demand for interstitial programming has never been greater. Leading cable networks have long used interstitials, often animated, to help create a branded on-air look-and-feel, test material before creating long-form series, help promote the channel and its content, and bring snippets of entertainment to the air. These days, the growing number of television networks are being challenged more than ever to carve a distinct niche in a fragmented landscape. As a result, theyÂ’re increasingly looking for interstitials to help differentiate themselves from their competition.
Online and Mobile
Animated interstitials are not only useful on-air, but they are applicable to online and mobile platforms, too. Most networks use some sort of short-form programming on their websites, either to drive viewers to the channel and/or as exclusive content to bring them to the site. Cartoon Network posts several of its Sunday Pants shorts online, which allows viewers to watch them over and over, while enabling the channel to gauge popularity by measuring click-through rates. It also has offered some of its branding spots on the web.'
Read the complete article here:
It aint the coffee!!
Is it because the monkey man lost his little evangelical cronies nomination to his own party and is going to have a harder time eliminating a woman's right to govern her own body?
Is it because inditements are possibly pending on monkey man's brain?
Is it because I start animating today on 'Robot Chicken' and get to see all my pals including my best man Bryan Garver?
The answer to all these questions are YES!! thats why I tingle!!!
All that and the gifts Steve 'Atomic' Jobs has bestowed upon us content making mortals...
Yep folks...once again Apple has seen the future and laid it right at our fingertips and eyeballs with the new video ipod and imac g5 entertainment center!!!
The planets are lining up towards content revolution!!
Just read these two articles that are all about the new 'broadcast' possibilities for short animated content like the stuff me and my pals have been producing over the years...but have had limited venues for distribution.
Channeling Animated Digital Content
By Christopher Panzner
Christopher Panzner looks into how traditional TV programming is finding its way into new media avenues, the growth of DTV and how new technology is making the industry rethink its way of business.
He writes:
'Upstream, Mainstream and Downstream'
Heavy.com recently announced it is launching “broadband’s first ever fall season of programming” with seven original machinima shows (animated digital videos using video game engines) called 'Must Stream TV.' TV is bleeding through the black box breach into broadband and vice versa, in anticipation of the target date set by the U.S. Congress for the completion of the transition to DTV: Dec. 31, 2006. Upstream (i.e., going from the net to the TV) is Al Gore’s Current TV, the 'first national network created by, for and with an 18-to-34-year-old audience,' which launched in August in 20 million homes with programming 'pods,' from 15 seconds to five minutes long.
Mainstream (i.e., TV to net) are the existing terrestrial and cab/sat channels, now all digital and using streaming media. And downstream (i.e., local TV/cable/DVD to the net) are Christian web TV stations, the pornographers, community access, local government and commercial Spanish channels, video jukeboxes like MTV, pirate radio-soon-to-video-jukeboxes, bloggers and vloggers and other rogues, more or less. And, standing on shore waiting to get our broadcaster feet wet, thereÂ’s you and me.'
Read the whole fantastic article here:
Then read:
Short Takes: Interstitial Demand Growing
By Karen Raugust
Karen Raugust looks at how the growing demand for interstitial content is creating opportunities for large animation houses and independent animators alike.
She writes:
'The demand for interstitial programming has never been greater. Leading cable networks have long used interstitials, often animated, to help create a branded on-air look-and-feel, test material before creating long-form series, help promote the channel and its content, and bring snippets of entertainment to the air. These days, the growing number of television networks are being challenged more than ever to carve a distinct niche in a fragmented landscape. As a result, theyÂ’re increasingly looking for interstitials to help differentiate themselves from their competition.
Online and Mobile
Animated interstitials are not only useful on-air, but they are applicable to online and mobile platforms, too. Most networks use some sort of short-form programming on their websites, either to drive viewers to the channel and/or as exclusive content to bring them to the site. Cartoon Network posts several of its Sunday Pants shorts online, which allows viewers to watch them over and over, while enabling the channel to gauge popularity by measuring click-through rates. It also has offered some of its branding spots on the web.'
Read the complete article here:
posted by Tennessee Reid at 5:58 AM
1 Comments:
that is a great article a bunch of which goes right over my head, but I am interested in seeing where this goes. People more and more don't want the hastles of a broadcast schedule. They want to punch up what they want when they want. I'm too old and crotchity to be a "bit torrent" savy duder...although i wish i was cool enough to get it. If programming in your TV was more like visiting a URL and requesting what you want and downloading at will, then I could see one could have a pretty hot property on their hands.
The business side of my brain is nearly dead. It gets very little stimulation, because I am not driven or stimulated by it. But I sure love sockin it to the man and seeing artists get theirs. But greed is just consuming. Just look at the Lucas model: if you are more concerned with the toy sales, you make bad creative decisions. This generation has more adaptive skills than most. Shit keeps evolving...there are so many new standards and things to learn and unlearn..it is just a shift in conciousness. We don't arrive. We never arrive.
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