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Cecropia Opens Game-Related Animation Studio in Orlando

Game and interactive entertainment developer Cecropia Inc, formed by Papyrus Studios co-founder Omar Khudari, has announced the opening of its animation and production st...

Simon Carless, Blogger

November 15, 2004

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Game and interactive entertainment developer Cecropia Inc, formed by Papyrus Studios co-founder Omar Khudari, has announced the opening of its animation and production studio in Orlando, Florida. The studio will create the artwork and animation for the company’s 'interactive films', the first of which will be completed and released in 2005. The Orlando studio is currently comprised of 20 animation industry veterans, including Walt Disney Feature Animation alumni from that company's recently closed Florida animation studio, who work in collaboration with Cecropia’s gaming veterans and engineers located in the company’s Boston headquarters. Cecropia intend to add another 10 employees to the Orlando studio by the end of the year. According to the company, the product of this intriguing collaboration between traditional 2D animators and contemporary game creators are "interactive films that allow players to act in the role of animated characters and control their behavior, expressions and reactions to other characters." Cecropia's official home page is designed around a teaser picture for The Act, apparently showing a 2D hand-drawn image of a Casablanca-styled vintage film scene, although no specific information on the company's first title has yet been released.

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Simon Carless

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Simon Carless is the founder of the GameDiscoverCo agency and creator of the popular GameDiscoverCo game discoverability newsletter. He consults with a number of PC/console publishers and developers, and was previously most known for his role helping to shape the Independent Games Festival and Game Developers Conference for many years.

He is also an investor and advisor to UK indie game publisher No More Robots (Descenders, Hypnospace Outlaw), a previous publisher and editor-in-chief at both Gamasutra and Game Developer magazine, and sits on the board of the Video Game History Foundation.

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