JANUARY 2010

CAH MEETS CROWDSTAR!

CAH has been developing art for Crowdstar's Happy Aquarium and their recently-released game Happy Island. Happy Island was the first game created solely for using Credits, which are Facebook’s in-house virtual currency. Facebook is planning a massive rollout of Credits to all kinds of apps in the near future.

You can find both games on Facebook.

DECEMBER 2009

CAH TEAM UPGRADES OFFICES IN SAN FRANCISCO, SHANGHAI

CAH ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL SELLS OUT FIRST PRINT RUN

Daomu is a CAH original graphic novel about adventurers and treasure hunters. It is an adaptation of the best-selling novel in China of the same name.

The prologue graphic novel was published in December 2009 and the first run has already sold out. Daomu will be released in the China mainland market later this month. The English adaptation will be coming to the North American and European market later this year.

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 2: BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN RELEASED ON DVD

Check out the creature animation featurette CAH worked on for Total Immersion in the Bonus Features of the high-profile Ben Stiller comedy.

NOVEMBER 2009

ANNOUNCES THE LONG-AWAITED RELEASE DATE OF COMMAND AND CONQUER 4

EA's Command and Conquer series has been synonymous with RTS gaming since its inception in 1995. Command and Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight is the latest installment of the popular franchise and is set for release on March 16th, 2010.

CAH has been providing art content to this franchise since C&C 3: Tiberium Wars, released in 2007. We were asked again to bring our artistic style to this game where we created everything from concept art to marketing images.

Our friends at EA were kind enough to give Concept Art House a great cameo on their show Battlecast Primetime, hosted by the always entertaining Raj Joshi.

OCTOBER 2009

GDC CONFERENCE HELD IN CHINA

Last year CAH had a keynote speech: Preparing a Leading Chinese IP for Videogame Development: The Daomubiji Case Study. Panel members included James Zhang (Chairman, Concept Art House), Xu Lei (Author, Daomubiji), Xuan Li (Development Director, Concept Art House) and Ken Chou (Creative Director, Concept Art House)

It was a great turnout and we were able to generate a lot of excitement for bridging the gaps between China and America's digital entertainment markets with Daomu, CAH’s original IP.

WORLD OF WARCRAFT RELEASES CAH’s COLLECTIBLE STEIN

CAH was asked to create another collectible World of Warcraft Stein for our friends at Blizzard. We created the Charge of the Great Dragonflight stein.

In other WoW news, some of the latest CAH additions to the recent TCG sets are: Death Wish; Conflagration Trap; Plague Igniter, and Stifling Decree for the Naxxramas and Scourgewar sets.

JULY 2009

RADICAL PUBLISHING AND CAH’s SHRAPNEL COMING TO A THEATRE NEAR YOU!

Radical comics burst onto the comic book scene in 2007. Known for their visceral art style and big name talent, CAH is excited to be working with Radical comics on their sci-fi epic Shrapnel, created by Nick Sagan and Mark Long, and written by Zachary Sherman.

The graphic novel describes a sci-fi future where humans have colonized the solar system and formed a Solar Alliance to govern the planets. The story focuses on Venus, the last rebellious holdout, and a self-exiled former Marine who teaches the colonists how to fight back.

Len Wiseman, director of Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard and Underworld has signed to develop and direct a film adaptation of the graphic novel Shrapnel for Radical Pictures.

CAH TEAM TRAVELS TO 2009 COMICON IN SAN DIEGO

As the largest event of US comic industry, Comic-Con attracts hundreds of thousands of artists, media representatives and fans every year. This past year, the CAH team was present to participate in the massive event.

The comic industry is not new for CAH, and many of our own artists have produced their own comic books in the past. However, this year we paid more attention to the event, because we at CAH are now producing both external customer comic projects and an original comic project in-house.

Who knows? Next year, CAH might have our own booth in Comic Con. We look forward to seeing you there!