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LICENSING INT’L ’06: The Pros Talk
June 22, 2006 – With the Licensing Show in full swing at the Javitz Center in New York, we were lucky enough to catch up with some of the industry’s tie-in product pros. Here’s a sampling of what they had to say a...
Lee Mendelson, Producer of This is America, Charlie Brown and all of the other Peanuts primetime specials
June 01, 2006 – With the buzz of the approaching Comic-Con in the air and Paramount Home Entertainment releasing This is America, Charlie Brown on DVD this month, we thought it would be a great time to catc...
Animation Magazine's Updated Movie Release Guide
May 10, 2006 – We know you're dying to know when your favorite animated and CG-heavy movies are hitting the theaters. We update this partial list regularly as studios confirm the release dates. AMO is your one-st...
Comedy Central Launches Online Contest
April 11, 2006 – Finally, a chance to strut your slapstick stuff for Comedy Central! The giggle-wielding network has teamed up with web video hot spot IFILM to kick off Comedy Central’s Test Pilots, an onlin...
Foster’s Friends Spice up BK Menu
April 10, 2006 – Burger King will be adding a dash of make-believe magic to its Kids Meals from late April to mid May with the help of the eccentric crew from Cartoon Network’s Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friend...
Beckmann, Kidd on Board with Gnomon
April 05, 2006 – The CG brainpower over at Hollywood’s Gnomon School of Visual Effects just got a boost as visual effects specialist Richard Kidd and Disney development pro Patricia Beckmann will join the ranks of ...
RESFEST Sounds its Call
March 24, 2006 – The innovative RESFEST film festival has issued a call for shorts, animation, design films and music videos for its 10th annual global tour. Selected works will be shown at 40 top venues across six...
Nick Takes Japanese Plunge with Domo and Polygon Pictures
March 23, 2006 – Nickelodeon has clinched deals for its first-ever Japanese development projects with the Domo Production Committee, an affiliate of Japan’s largest broadcaster NHK, and the Japanese 3D toon top dog...
Bratz U.K. Market Share on the Rise
February 15, 2006 – According to the U.K.’s January NPD Report, the market share for MGA Entertainment’s hip chick Bratz brand has increased 18% from its 2005 standing.
“Bratz has been the number one doll property...
Little Einsteins Make the Grade on Disney
February 14, 2006 – The Disney Channel has renewed Curious Pictures’ charming educational series Little Einsteins for a second season. Gary Marsh, entertainment president at Disney Channel Worldwide, made the a...
Mobius Grasps Animal Logic
February 13, 2006 – The creative brains over at Australia’s vfx powerhouse Animal Logic earned major kudos at the 2006 Mobius Awards in L.A. this past Friday, taking home First Place in the Special Effects category fo...
Toon Time in Vegas
January 20, 2006 – As TV execs and animation producers convene in Vegas this month to attend the NATPE Confab at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Hall (Jan. 24-26), we thought it would be a good idea to hear what some of ...
Loonland’s New Sales Look Sells
November 28, 2005 – It looks like some of the glam from TV-Loonland’s recent sales team makeover has buyers pining for the quality properties in the Germany-based company’s impressive catalogue. Spearheaded by CEO Sel...
A Few Thoughts on Brand Licensing
October 25, 2005 – Compiled by Sarah Gurman
If you happen to be in London this week, you’ll meet all kinds of animation consumer and licensing professionals at the Brand Licensing Show (Oct 25, 26). Based in the c...
Studio B Joins Adrenalini Team
October 21, 2005 – Pesky and Bejuba! Entertainment have announced that Studio B has partnered with them on their latest project, The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers!. Production just began on the series, which is ...
Exopolis Gives Nicktoons New Look
October 21, 2005 – Los Angeles-based Exopolis just wrapped up its redesign of the Nicktoons Network, delivering five promo packages, six 30-second animated network IDs, 20 navigation features, four logo animations an...
MICPOM Hat Trick for BRB
October 21, 2005 – Spanish toon house BRB Internacional recently made key announcements at MIPCOM about three of its hottest series, The Invisible Man, Iron Kid and Bernard.
BRB’s The ...
Chapman’s Roary Revs Engine
October 20, 2005 – London-based Chapman Entertainment debuted its high velocity stop frame animated series Roary the Racing Car at MIPCOM Jr. on Saturday Oct. 15. The launch of this second project for the fami...
CBBC in Tune with 19 and Create’s Hipster & Jack
October 20, 2005 – Create Media Ventures and 19 Entertainment announced yesterday the first pre-sale of their new 2D animated co-production Hipster & Jack to the U.K.’s CBBC. Michael Carrington, head ...
Jetix O-ban Star-Racers Shifts into MIPCOM Gear
October 19, 2005 – Jetix Europe launched its new animated sci-fi series O-ban Star-Racers in collaboration with French studio Sav! The World Productions on Saturday Oct. 15, at MIPCOM Jr. Super RTL, France 3 a...
MIPCOM 2005 Q&A
October 18, 2005 – Have you felt the impact of the CG revolution in your arena?
This week, TV executives, animation producers and buyers are attending the MIPCOM-Jr and MIPCOM markets in Cannes, France (www...
MIPCOM 2005 Q&A
October 17, 2005 – What do you think is HOT and what's NOT right now?
This week, TV executives, animation producers and buyers are attending the MIPCOM-Jr and MIPCOM markets in Cannes, France (www.mipcom.co...
MIPCOM 2005 Q&A
October 14, 2005 – What’s the biggest challenge facing TV animation producers?
This week, TV executives, animation producers and buyers are attending the MIPCOM-Jr and MIPCOM markets in Cannes, France ...
Cartoon Network Exhibit Launches at OMSI
October 07, 2005 – Cartoon Network’s highly interactive "Animation" exhibit had its official debut on the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 4, at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI). Attendees on hand for th...
Curious Pictures Piques Interest
September 30, 2005 – Big Apple animation studio Curious Pictures has announced a slew of key creative team moves on the heels of its anti-parental oppression hit, Codename: Kids Next Door, winning Best Televisio...
Lobo Train Full Speed Ahead for Toyota
September 02, 2005 – San Paulo-based animation and design studio Lobo created some high velocity effects for Train, a new animated spot highlighting the raw power and AWD capabilities of Toyota’s Kluger. Th...
Warner, Headstart Get Down with Da Jammies
September 01, 2005 – With the popularity of the animated band, Gorillaz, and the recent announcement of a Cartoon Network/Andre Benjamin (Andre 3000 of Outkast) series, it seems like pop music and animation doub...
Aardman Picks Up Belgian Panic
July 18, 2005 – It looks like Cowboy, Indian and Horse have a new home. After spotting Vincent Tavier and Steven Aubier’s Panique au Village (A Town Called Panic) at the MIP TV confab, Aardman j...
DisneyToon Ups Snedeker, Ferguson
June 24, 2005 – Feature animation powerhouse DisneyToon Studios has announced two key promotions, raising Brian Snedeker to senior VP of pre-production and Karen Ferguson to VP of 3D production.
Snedeker will r...
BKN Signs Game Deals for Legend of the Dragon
June 22, 2005 – BKN International announced Tuesday at the Int’l Licensing Show that it has sealed video game deals for its animated property, Legend of the Dragon, with The Game Factory Inc. and Planeta De...
Anime Expo Exposed
June 20, 2005 – With a bundle of Miyazaki screenings, a rocking night of everything Gundam and an evening of Midnight Madness, the 2005 Anime Expo (AX2005) promises to thrill anime aficionados and novices a...
CalArts Delivers Bradbury Future Fest
June 15, 2005 – Creative production designs inspired by the prose of sci-fi master Ray Bradbury will be on display Sunday, June 19, 2005 (from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.) at the Foundry (1583 Fishburn Ave) in downtown L.A...
Tronic’s Cool Moves for Nike Air Jordan XX
May 27, 2005 – For those of you who have sported Air Jordan’s since Nike delivered the AJ1s in 1984, New York-based Tronic Studio has cooked up three online CG spots designed to make the latest version of the bal...
Z Animation Builds for Longford Homes
May 02, 2005 – Claire Armstrong and Joel Parod, Z Animation’s husband-and-wife directing duo, have wrapped up production on a southwest-flavored, 30-second animated spot for Longford Homes, a residential and...
DJs Compete to Score New Oedekerk Toon
April 19, 2005 – Steve Oedekerk and O Entertainment, producers of Jimmy Nuetron, have teamed with ACIDPlanet.com to launch a contest aimed at finding the best piece of original music to score their new anima...
Discovery Kids, WGBH Do the Time Warp Trio
April 15, 2005 – WGBH and Discovery Kids have announced that they’re co-producing a brand new time traveling series, Time Warp Trio, which is slated to arrive in households via Discovery Kids on the NBC...
Betting on Angelus Awards Student Film Festival
April 15, 2005 – Hollywood’s 10th annual Angelus Awards Student Film Festival has issued a call for entries through July 1, 2005. The festival recognizes films, documentaries and animation for outst...
ER’s Postman Pat Delivers to the BBC
April 14, 2005 – Entertainment Rights (ER) has announced that the BBC has commissioned another 28 episodes of its critically acclaimed Postman Pat series. This brings the number of Postman Patepisodes...
Jakers! Makes Weekday Move
April 14, 2005 – Following its highly successful weekend run on PBS for the past two years, CG-animated Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks will hit the Monday through Friday programming scene, it was an...
BFC Ready to Pump New Episodes for Three Projects
April 13, 2005 – Due to strong international interest generated at MIPTV, BFC Berliner Film Companie announced yesterday that it will extend the number of episodes for three of their animated kids’ properties:...
Profound Effects’ Useful Assistants 1.7 at Your Service
April 13, 2005 – Vfx developer Profound Effects has announced that its workflow automation tool for Adobe After Effects, Useful Assistants (UA) 1.7, is now available for shipping. Version 1.7 will attend to Adobe A...
Legendary Toon Designer Gene Hazelton Dies
April 12, 2005 – Famed animation designer/comic strip artist Gene Hazleton passed away on April 6, 2005 at age 85.
Born in 1919, Wesley "Gene" Hazelton began an extensive and diverse career in his teen...
Nelvana Announces Sales Team Shuffle
April 12, 2005 – Nelvana announced some key changes to its international sales division team on Monday: Emanuel Petry assumes a new role in the company as she will begin overseeing European development and internat...
4Kids to License Kappa Mikey
April 11, 2005 – 4Kids Entertainment will get to know the ins and outs of Mikey Simon, the star of Animation Collective’s Kappa Mikey, as the company has acquired worldwide licensing rights to th...
PBS KIDS Sprout Planted on Comcast
April 05, 2005 – Finally, Oscar the Grouch and the Teletubbies are willing to work around your schedule now that Comcast Corp., PBS, Sesame Workshop and HIT Ent. are introducing PBS KIDS Sprout On Demand, a new vid...
Stash’s GSA Awards to Launch Careers
April 04, 2005 – An interview for a potential dream job and your hard work proudly displayed on the cover of a DVD viewed by some of the industry’s biggest players?! Let’s just say Stash DVD Magazine has som...
PorchLight Brings Caren Shalek On-Board
April 04, 2005 – PorchLight Entertainment has tapped Caren Shalek to serve as senior VP, consumer products with instructions to build an expanded consumer product representation business focusing on children’s...
Animation Co-op Winds Up for Project Pitch
March 25, 2005 – The Animation Co-op has confirmed its annual Project Pitch for the evening of Saturday, April 2, at 2340 Overland Ave. in Los Angeles, Calif. Artists, filmmakers and toon aficionados will gather at...
Bejuba!, Snowden Fine Shoot for the Stars with Ricky Sprocket
March 16, 2005 – Tatiana Kober, owner of production and distribution company Bejuba! Ent., announced that her team will join forces with Oscar-winning producers Alison Snowden and David Fine of Snowden Fine Ltd. to...
New Flight Plan for Porchlight's Jay Jay
March 11, 2005 – Fasten your seat belts and get ready for a first-class publicity campaign because Jay Jay Jet Plane, the popular PBS series for preschoolers, is launching its biggest marketing and audience ...
Toons Emerge as Strong Contenders in Daytime Emmy Race
March 02, 2005 – The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced today its nominees for the 32nd annual Daytime Emmy Awards, and the categories for children’s programming are chock-full...
Game Trust, Shockwave Issue Interactive Challenge
February 25, 2005 – Feel the satisfaction of developing an awesome game, score a licensing agreement for said form of electronic entertainment and win a tricked out Vespa? It may sound too good to be true, but that...
The Price is Right for Animazoo’s Mocap Solution
February 17, 2005 – Brighton-based Animazoo has announced a turn-key solution for motion capture taught and created in academic settings. The company is offering a $30,000 package including Gypsy4, a full body wireles...
Mattel to License Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi
February 17, 2005 – Warner Bros. Consumer Products and Cartoon Network have announced that Mattel will be the master toy manufacturer for the Cartoon Network’s newest animated rockers, Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi...
Nancy Fowler Moving On Up at DIC
February 09, 2005 – DIC Ent. has promoted Nancy Fowler (formerly Bassett) to the newly created position of president, worldwide consumer products. Fowler joined DIC’s ranks in 2002 and most recently served as senior V...
Harmony Gold Serves up Robot Hunter
January 25, 2005 – Harmony Gold will be offering the animated feature Casshan: Robot Hunter based on the original Japanese TV series this year at NATPE. This new project comes on the heels of the highly succes...
Agogo Hong Kong Makes NATPE Debut
January 25, 2005 – Steven Ching, CEO of Agogo Hong Kong, announced that the company will be exhibiting its new animated properties for distribution and pre-sale in booth #1640 at NATPE for the first time. Agogo...
Tigar Hare Gets Shorties
January 20, 2005 – Tigar Hare Studios, a 3D animation, visual effects and graphic design house, created a 30-second, 3D animated spot using high dynamic range imaging (HDR) for Mattel’s latest small doll line, Shorti...
Zoic Puts MasterCard Spin on Game of Life
January 18, 2005 – Zoic studios recently collaborated with Smuggler’s directing team, StyleWar, and advertising agency McCann Erickson to produce "Career Path," a 30-second spot announcing the opportun...
Jan Nagel Tapped to Represent Agogo in U.S.
January 14, 2005 – Steven Ching, CEO of Agogo Hong Kong, announced the selection of Jan Nagel, marketing consultant and president of Women In Animation International, to represent Agogo and its Animation Services in ...
Academy Picks Seven VFX Oscar Contenders
December 17, 2004 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today the list of seven films it will consider for Achievement in Visual Effects.
This year’s big vfx contenders are Warner Bros.&#...
