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| Posted: 03 Jul 2010 06:00 AM PDT
 Tapulous, a leading mobile gaming company, to strengthen Disney Interactive Media Group's Mobile Business BURBANK, Calif. – (July 1, 2010) -- The Walt Disney Company today announced the acquisition of Palo Alto-based Tapulous, Inc., a leading developer of music games for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Through a merger agreement, Tapulous is now a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company reporting into Disney Interactive Media Group (DIMG). As a part of DIMG's mobile games group, Tapulous strengthens the company's portfolio of games and entertainment offerings in the fast-growing mobile arena. Through this deal, Tapulous founders, Bart Decrem and Andrew Lacy, as well as their development team in Palo Alto, CA will be joining DIMG's mobile content group. Decrem and Lacy, previously CEO and COO of Tapulous, will now take on the leadership roles for the DIMG mobile group with Decrem reporting to DIMG President Steve Wadsworth. "Mobile gaming is seeing unprecedented growth and this is the right time to invest to strengthen our position in the mobile business," said Wadsworth. "In a short time, Bart and Andrew have built Tapulous into a successful and accomplished mobile games developer that's emerged as one of the most successful companies in the industry. We welcome the Tapulous team to the Disney family and look forward to integrating their popular games into Disney's offerings." In the last year, DIMG has enjoyed many successes in its mobile business counting several "platinum" performing apps with more than 1 million downloads including Disney's Alice in Wonderland Lite, Fairies Fly Lite and JellyCar 2, which is Disney's most successful premium game in the app store to date. In addition, DIMG creates and delivers unique mobile content and manages a Disney-branded mobile phone service in Japan in association with Softbank. "Tapulous has been on the leading-edge of mobile gaming. By joining Disney, we will be able to continue to excel in this evolving industry and more quickly realize our vision to lead the mobile, social entertainment revolution," said Decrem. "With Disney's powerful breadth of content and heritage in technological innovation, they are the perfect partner for Tapulous. It is a true honor to join the Disney team." About Tapulous Tapulous is a leading mobile games developer. Its flagship title Tap Tap Revenge has been installed by more than 30% of iPhone/iPod touch users and remains one of the most successful gaming franchises on the iPhone platform. The company's other popular games include the wildly innovative Riddim Ribbon and Tap Tap Radiation, the #1 game on the iPad at launch. Founded in 2008, the company is headquartered in downtown Palo Alto, Calif. For more information, please visit www.tapulous.com. About Disney Interactive Media Group Disney Interactive Media Group (DIMG) is a segment of The Walt Disney Company responsible for the global creation and delivery of Disney branded interactive entertainment, multi-platform video games and lifestyle content across all current and emerging media and platforms. DIMG produces and distributes a broad portfolio of content from its four primary lines of business which include Disney Interactive Studios, Disney Online, Disney Online Studios and Disney Mobile. Products and services released and operated through DIMG include virtual world blockbuster, Club Penguin, Disney.com. and Family.com, as well as the upcoming critically-acclaimed Disney Epic Mickey. DIMG is headquartered in North Hollywood and Glendale, Calif., and has internal development studios around the world including Avalanche Software, Propaganda Games, Black Rock Studio, Junction Point Studios and now Tapulous. ### Related links: corporate.disney.go.com  |
| Posted: 03 Jul 2010 05:54 AM PDT
 In this Video tutorial for 3ds max 2010, we'll start talking about how we can use Hair and Fur module to create hair stuffs. We'll follow some basic steps to understand how we can create hair just over some polys, and then we'll see how to control hair density, length, shading. We'll add some splines, and we'll follow right pipeline to use multiple splines as hair guides, and we'll see how to control it in real time to adjust the hair look. Then we'll take a look at various parameters to control the stylish, the color, and how to add more chaos and realism to it, as mutant color variation, frizz, kink and multi strand effect. Just to finalize tutorial part 1, we'll see a little bit of lighting and rendering parameters to understand how to create shadows and how to optimize global illumination look over the hair. Watch video tutorial Related links: max.cgcookie.com  |
| Posted: 03 Jul 2010 05:52 AM PDT
 CG Arena interviews with Chris Nichols - Artist with 5 years experience have worked at Bardel Entertainment, Spin VFX and CIS Vancouver on various different roles. Read the Interview Related links:  |
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