TV

Disney Preps More Manny Content, Products

Handy Manny’s building himself a media empire. Disney Channel is expanding the popular animated series with new programming and a new consumer products line. The character will star in a new series of 20 animated shorts under the banner title of Handy Manny’s School for Tools ... more

Features

Cameron Signs on to Heavy Metal

James Cameron has joined director David Fincher as co-executive producer on a new Heavy Metal feature film and is also set to direct a segment. Cameron joins a distinguished lineup of filmmakers already signed on to the project, which like the 1981 original will be an animated anthology of adult sci-fi and fantasy segments, reports ... more

Gaming

E3 News: Sony, Nintendo Move on Gear, Game Titles

Videogame giants Sony and Nintendo kicked off the first day of E3 by announcing a slew of new titles and more than a few twists on the hardware as they looked to gain favor with the gaming industry. Nintendo held its press conference early, announcing sequels and updates to ... more

Visual FX

Pixologic Unveils GoZ for ZBrush

Pixologic has introduced GoZ, a special new feature of Pixologic’s ZBrush, which is designed to easily connect data workflow to and from modo with a single button click. Once inside modo, rendering ZBrush data with photorealistic results or modifying a model becomes easier and any texture, normal, and displacement maps ... more

Commercials

Aardman Animates Healthy Message for U.K.

A U.K. public-service campaign promoting healthy diets and exercise has released a new animated announcement created by Aardman Animations. The spot is directed by Aardman’s Steve Harding Hill and features simple plasticine figures to explain how modern life can be unhealthy if adults ... more

Events

Disney’s D23 Expo Details Are Announced

Disney fans will be able to get sneak previews of upcoming new movies and behind-the-scenes info about classic toons at the first D23 Expo, scheduled to take place at the Anaheim Convention Center Sept. 10 thru 13. Presented in conjunction with D23.com, the official online ... more

Internet

Piracy Kills One Piece Simulcast

Toei Animation has pulled its plans to stream an online simulcast of new episodes of the anime series One Piece due to an episode being stolen from the FUNimation Entertainment servers and illegally posted online. The streams were set to begin May 30 at 7 p.m. PDT on FUNimation’s website, only one hour after the ... more

Animated Person

Philip Hunt, Creative Director, Studio aka

This week, director Philip Hunt’s charming CG-animated project Lost and Found took home the top audience award at the Palm Springs Short Festival. Produced by Hunt and his team at London’s Studio aka, the special has been nabbing awards left and right since it aired on... more

Tech Reviews

Adobe’s Creative Suite 4 (CS4)

You can’t really discuss any one component from Adobe without discussing the entire suite and how the programs work together. However, we can only fit so much info into such a small space that I’ll focus on the biggies, and then follow up with the “supplemental” programs—those without the fanfare of Photoshop, After Effects and ... more

Question of the Week

Question of the Week

Last week, our judges picked the winning entries for our annual Pitch Party contest! 1. Clerence by Chelsea Gordon-Ratzlaff 2. Jolly & Roger’s Misguided Adventures by Stephen Silver and Frank Rocco, 3. Monkey and Robot’s Flying Circus by Kenneth Gray and Mars Elliot. Which one of the pitches was your favorite? Do you agree with our judges' selection?

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Editorial

Classic Crawlers
John Lasseter Discusses the New Bug’s Life Blu-ray

Editor’s Note: Fans of Pixar’s 1998 holiday movie A Bug’s Life had reason to rejoice this week as Disney released a new Blu-ray High-Def edition of the movie on Tuesday. Directed by John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton, Pixar’s second feature was a follow-up to the hugely popular Toy Story and was often considered to be far superior to DreamWorks' CG-animated insect movie, Antz, which was released in October of the same year. ... more