Pentamedia
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Pentamedia Graphics Limited is a graphics
, multimedia solution and animation
company in India
. The company is engaged in enterprise as well as open source multimedia solution.
The company has created numerous animated features, both traditionally
and computer
-animated, and once employed as many as 2000 employees. However, in the past few years they have laid off all but 200.
They have done work for Western studios (for example, for the 1999 Warner Bros.
film The King and I
).
Pandavas: The Five Warriors received a regional award in India in 2000. Gulliver's Travels was released in Los Angeles, and was shortlisted for an Oscar.
25, First Main Road
United India Colony
Chennai 600 024
INDIA
Graphics
Graphics are visual presentations on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, computer screen, paper, or stone to brand, inform, illustrate, or entertain. Examples are photographs, drawings, Line Art, graphs, diagrams, typography, numbers, symbols, geometric designs, maps, engineering drawings,or...
, multimedia solution and animation
Animation
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...
company in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. The company is engaged in enterprise as well as open source multimedia solution.
The company has created numerous animated features, both traditionally
Traditional animation
Traditional animation, is an animation technique where each frame is drawn by hand...
and computer
Computer animation
Computer animation is the process used for generating animated images by using computer graphics. The more general term computer generated imagery encompasses both static scenes and dynamic images, while computer animation only refers to moving images....
-animated, and once employed as many as 2000 employees. However, in the past few years they have laid off all but 200.
They have done work for Western studios (for example, for the 1999 Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
film The King and I
The King and I (1999 film)
The King and I is a 1999 animated film adaptation of the stage musical The King and I, which in turn is adapted from the Anna Leonowens story. The film was produced by Warner Bros. Animation and Morgan Creek Productions, and released theatrically by Warner Bros. Family Entertainment on March 19, 1999...
).
Pandavas: The Five Warriors received a regional award in India in 2000. Gulliver's Travels was released in Los Angeles, and was shortlisted for an Oscar.
Company Address
Pentamedia Graphics Limited25, First Main Road
United India Colony
Chennai 600 024
INDIA
Animated feature films
- Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of MistsSinbad: Beyond the Veil of MistsSinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists is the first feature length CGI film created exclusively using motion capture. While many animators worked on the project, the human characters were entirely animated using motion capture. At a reported US$30 million, Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists is reported to...
(2000) (3D) - Pandavas: The Five Warriors (2000)
- Alibaba (2002)
- Son of Alladin (2003)
- The Legend of Buddha (2004) (2D)
- Gulliver's Travel (2005) (IMAXIMAXIMAX is a motion picture film format and a set of proprietary cinema projection standards created by the Canadian company IMAX Corporation. IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems...
3D) - Tarzan and the Aliens (2008) (3D)
- Laika in Space (????) (3D)
- James Read and Joe Steel go Wildly up the bum (????) (3D)
See also
- Crest Animation StudiosCrest Animation StudiosCrest Animation Studios Ltd. is an Indian animation studio. It was founded by Shyam Raja Ramanna in 1990 under the name Crest Communications and it first went public in 1995...
, its major Indian competitor - Future Thought ProductionsFuture Thought ProductionsFuture Thought Productions is a creative animation studio that creates, produces or contributes to film, television, web and mobile animation. Future Thought is amongst the first studios in the world to have employed Macromedia's Flash software for the UNICEF television series Meena along with...
- Hanuman (2005 film)