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Mass Animation’s first “crowd-sourcing” project is Live Music, a short film portraying the forbidden love between an electric guitar (Steve Vai) and a violin (Ann Marie Calhoun) in a music store. Live Music is being released with the animated feature, Planet 51. -Source: http://www.examiner.com/article/sony-joins-with-mass-animation-to-launch-dcu-online-animation-contest-on-facebookAs Vice Chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment and President of Sony Pictures Digital, Yair Landau knew he had a pretty good gig. With his hands on the pulse of the animation, visual effects, and game worlds, Landau and his teams had experienced more than their share of achievements, awards, and other accolades during his 17-year tenure. Even so, Landau felt something exciting brewing and knew he wanted to be a part of it.“Observing the rapid changes in digital technology over the years, I had a good idea of the direction things were heading,” says Landau. “I have always believed that technology is primarily to make creative storytelling more accessible for more people. With that in mind, I started looking into the possibilities of making a ‘Wikimovie’, an animated short film collaboratively created by interested animators from all over the world. That’s how Mass Animation got started.”Since launching in theaters (together with TriStar Pictures’ Planet 51), Live Music has been accepted to no fewer than 6 film festivals, and won an award at the Chicago International Children’s Festival. Even without those honors, however, a simple viewing of the film proves that the innovative process worked big-time.Despite working with such a large and diverse team of animators, Landau describes the experience as nearly seamless.“The most rewarding aspect of this project was that literally all the animators were absolutely delightful to work with,” he says. “Concurrently developing both the application and the film was often challenging, but the actual submission and integration of the Maya files went amazingly smoothly. Over 90 percent of the winners’ shots worked the first time we integrated them from the Facebook pipeline. That is pretty amazing.”The experience was clearly a positive one for the participants as well.We actually circulated a questionnaire about the experience afterwards,” says Purcell. “Many of the participants said how much they appreciated the opportunity to work with Autodesk Maya on a major animated work and with people in a professional atmosphere. This was just a huge opportunity, both for us and for all these animators.”Live Music has been so successful, in fact, that Mass Animation has already moved on to their next big collaborative project, this time teaming up with DC Universe™ Online. Animators will have the chance to work on a true dream project, animating some of the most iconic super heroes in DC Comics’ illustrious history.-Source: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=14447788