3DjOBS is pleased to announce the launch of a New Local Job Search Engine with more than 2,000 indexed jobs and counting. The search engine uses a natural search technology to match "job title" with "location" thus providing users with the search results that only match against "all" the keywords searched for. For instance if a user searches for "Technical Director New York" only those jobs would come up in the search results but "Technical Director California" would not. This allows users to narrow down exactly what they are searching for and quickly find relevant jobs they might be looking for. So instead of searching for "game jobs" would result in too many irrelevant results, a user would search for "game jobs toronto" or "film jobs california" instead. After long days and nights of fun testing, everything is now running smoothly, but when there are thousands of lines of code we can say that some bugs got away undetected so we hope that you guys report any bugs that you might encounter.

Every day we add new jobs and index new studios from the industry and continually improve the site by adding new features. We encourage everyone to test out the new search and let us know what you guys think. Recently we signed up on Facebook so if you guys use it then you may also add us. We hope that this new search engine will help many new job seekers, college grads or professionals in the industry find great new jobs and employment. We also have another great big feature in the works that is projected for release sometime in April 2011. So enjoy and check back daily and dont forget to subscribe to our newsletter.

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According to a survey of 13,000 consumers aged 8 and up by a Netherlands based video game industry research company Newzoo estimates that 183.5 Million gamers spent $25.3 Billion in the US in 2009. Below is a breakdown by top countries for the gaming population and total estimated sales.

2009 TOTAL ESTIMATED GAMING POPULATION & SALES
US: 183.5 million / $25.29 billion
UK: 31.3 million / £3.78 billion ($5.61 billion)
Germany: 35.5 million / €3.65 billion ($4.67 billion)
France: 25.4 million / €3.57 billion ($4.57 billion)
Netherlands: 9.3 million / €590 million ($754 million)
Belgium: 4.7 million / €570 million ($729 million)

2009 GAME SALES % - US
Console (including handhelds): 60%
PC: 16%
Game portals: 11%
Massively multiplayer online: 8%
Mobile (incl. iPhone): 4%

2009 GAME SALES % - UK
Console (including handhelds): 63%
PC: 20%
Game portals: 7%
Massively multiplayer online: 5%
Mobile (incl. iPhone): 5%

2009 GAME SALES % - GERMANY
Console (including handhelds): 42%
PC: 36%
Game portals: 12%
Massively multiplayer online: 5%
Mobile (incl. iPhone): 5%

2009 GAME SALES % - FRANCE
Console (including handhelds): 68%
PC: 19%
Game portals: 5%
Massively multiplayer online: 4%
Mobile (incl. iPhone): 3%

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Core Digital Pictures Inc. a Canadian film and television computer animation special effects studio located in Toronto, Ontario on March 15, 2010 announced it has closed its business operations and has shut down. The company has not specifically discolsed the reasons as to why but according to Mike Valiquette at Canadian Animation Resources, the company run into financial difficulties after being in business for 16 years. It was a tough decision but the company had no choice but to fire an estimated of 150 artists and staff workers which where the most shocked after receiving the bad news on Monday March 15, 2010.

About C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures

Founded in 1994 in Toronto, Ontario Canada by William Shatner, Bob Munroe, John Mariella and Kyle Menzies, C.O.R.E. DP was a visual effects production house with 150 artists and staff workers. The Wild was CORES first feature cg animated film which was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. A crew of 400 temporary employees had worked on this film making it the largest production crew for a film made in Canada. Other feature films CORE has done post production work on include X-Men, Flubber, Dr. Dolittle, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, The Time Machine, Blade II, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Saw 2 and Lucky Number Slevin.

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Pixar Canada the subsidiary of Pixar Animation Studios located in Vancouver will start training new staff next month, May 2010, and begin on its short 3d animation film by early August. Currently the company has several jobs listed on PixarCanada.com and plans to hire additional 35 employees over the next 18 months adding to the 20 employees currently working at the studio.

The studio will make short 3d animations using characters from Pixars feature films which will continue to be made at the headquarters in Emeryville, California. These short 3d animated films will air on Disney Channel, Disney.com, DVD and possibly other Television networks such as the Family channel or YTV.

It will take 30-55 people 3 to 9 months to complete one short animated film and through the studios pipeline system, work done in Vancouver can be seen immediately in Emeryville. All post production work on the animated short films will be done in California.

Pixar Animation Studios is an Academy Award winning computer animation studio with the technical, creative and production capabilities to create a new generation of animated feature films, merchandise and other related products. Pixars objective is to combine proprietary technology and world-class creative talent to develop computer-animated feature films with memorable characters and heartwarming stories that appeal to audiences of all ages.

In partnership with Walt Disney Pictures, Pixars feature films include Toy Story, Toy Story 2, A Bugs Life, Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, Wall-E, Up and the upcoming Toy Story 3 to be released June 18, 2010.

To see all available job positions at Pixar Canada please visit www.pixarcanada.com/jobs.

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