A presentation by Chris Edwards, CEO of LA based Third Floor to the Visual Effects Society in Sydney on 5th June 2008
A special released talk related to three new courses AFTRS are offering in 2008 featuring Previsualisation elements - Animation Directing, Games and Virtual Worlds.
This is a podcast of a talk Chris gave in Sydney [...]

Previously highlighted on the LAMP site here The Thursday’s Fictions cross-media jamboree continues on and has been put into the Atom finals awards 2008 as Best Multimodal Production (other 3 entries below).
Award Recipients - Names: Richard James Allen, Gary Hayes, and Karen Pearlman
Award Recipients - Organisations: The Physical TV Company, AFTRS LAMP (The Australian Film [...]

Gary Hayes will be speaking and representing LAMP, AFTRS and new Australian Content at The 2008 KANZ Australia Korea New Zealand Broadband Summit on 19-20 June 2008 in Seoul, Korea
The nine or so Australian speakers at the two day summit will be led by Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the [...]

Jennifer discusses legacy technologies leading up to mobile phone 3rd generation services and draws up on staggering statistics that indicate a change toward mobile content delivery over PC content delivery. She illustrates the impact mobiles are making as the new delivery platform of choice; right now there are twice as many mobile phones in the [...]

Andrew Apostola and Peter Giles outline typical online revenue generating systems and business models. They touch on direct payment types such as free and chargeable content, and indirect payment types such as pay per click advertising models based on traffic volume and sales results. They discuss various forms of subscription models, one example being micro-payments [...]

LAMP Lab: Marysville, Victoria, February 2008
Title: Portable Ghosts - NZ
Tagline: The best way to solve ghost mysteries is to have ghosts helping you!
Project Description: Become a Ghost Detective from the TV show to the virtual world onto the mobile, the web, print and into the real world. A truly unique social network experience that is [...]

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LAMP Lab: Marysville, Victoria, February 2008
Title: Catalyst - ABC, NSW
Tagline: Science that Excites and makes a difference
Project Description: ABC TV’s prime-time science magazine program broadcast on ABC 1 and 2 increases its reach to younger viewers via Ruben ‘The Surfing Scientist’ and provides depth and stickiness to existing viewers through it’s collaborative social network Fatherhood [...]

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A mini ARG (Alternate Reality Game) with virtual world parallel components as part of the 8th LAMP residential in Marysville, Victoria Australia.
We have been running LAMP residential workshops for nearly 3 years now and on the first day we normally run a team bond/building game. The last eight have been 2+ hour long location puzzles, [...]

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LAMP Lab: Marysville, Victoria, February 2008
Title: The Land of a Thousand Legends - NSW
Tagline: Doragon Taido!
Project Description: The Land of a Thousand Legends is a fully integrated cross media project For 6 to 9 years olds incorporating television, online, mobile and real-world play. Based on the TV series Master Raindrop, it’s an interactive adventure where [...]

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GROWING WORLDS: TURNING YOUR STORIES IN TO GAMES
Presented by AFTRS LAMP, Australia Council’s Story of the Future and Film Victoria
So what makes a great game and what skills do creators of these experiences need in order to develop compelling commercially viable content for the future?
A seminar, interview and workshop for story-tellers interested in adapting [...]