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SVA Sets Dates for 24th Dusty Fest
Reeves Lehmann, chair of the BFA Film, Video and Animation department at School of Visual Arts in New York City, has announced that the 24th Annual Dusty Film & Animation Festival will be held in the metropolis Saturday, May 4 through Tuesday, May 7, 2013. The four-day event will showcase [...]
Zodiak to Launch ‘LoliRock’ at MIPTV
Zodiak Kids will be bringing the noise to the MIPTV market in Cannes next month as it launches Marathon Media’s new 2D animated series LoliRock. The 52 x 26 series features elements of magic, mystery and music and is developed in partnership with France Televisions and Disney Channel (France). A [...]
Autodesk Unveils New Gameware at GDC
At the Game Developers Conference taking place in San Francisco this week, Autodesk unveiled new versions of its widely used game development middleware from the Autodesk Gameware product line. Updates for the company’s Scaleform, Navigation, Beast and HumanIK ‘wares bring developers enhance compatibility for multiple platforms and game engines, increased [...]
‘Guardians’ Rise Above ‘Pi’ on Home Ent. Charts
DreamWorks Animation’s Rise of the Guardians may have only been the studio’s 18th-highest grossing film at the box office when it hit theaters last year, but it’s definitely getting a second wind in the home entertainment sphere. HV sales charts (to March 17) reveal that Guardians releases—distributed by Paramount Home—came [...]
Silver Dolphin Launches ‘Little Critter’ Apps
Little Critter, the ambiguously rodent-like character from children’s author Mercer Mayer’s beloved series, has come a long way since his publishing debut in 1975. Stepping into the 21st century, Little Critter is starring in new interactive adventures for young children thanks to kids’ educational/activity books publisher Silver Dolphin Books. The [...]
TVO Helps Make ‘Wish Come True’
Guru Studio and Home Plate Entertainment have announced TVO (Ontario, Canada’s public educational media organization) has joined the development team for their new animated preschool series Wish Come True (52 x 11), a property created by art collective/creative studio FriendsWithYou. Wish Come True is a CG animated series for kids [...]
Fuhu Signs Deal for Nick Tablets, Content
Nickelodeon and kids’ consumer products developer Fuhu Inc. have announced a multi-year deal that will see Fuhu produce and distribute Nickelodeon-themed table accessories and nabi Jr. tablets pre-loaded with the network’s content. The first product of the partnership is the recently released touch-screen nabi Jr. tablet, which comes with educational apps, games [...]
TV Bytes: Horrid Henry, Figaro Pho
The pre-MIP-TV deluge of toon TV sales news continues to trickle in, with big deals being announced by Novel Entertainment, Chocolate Liberation Front in advance of the mega market in Cannes next month. U.K.’s Novel Entertainment has announced new sales for its animated kids’ program Horrid Henry through its global [...]
BRBPlay debuts New Look, Content
BRBPlay.com, the online multimedia channel from Spanish kids’ entertainment producer/distributor/licensor BRB Internacional, has launched a new design and increased the scope of its services for kids and their parents. Approaching its second anniversary, the portal is responding to user demand by adding new specific sections for parents, schools and kindergartens—in [...]
NVIDIA Unveils Premiere Visual Computing Appliance
Computer hardware firm NVIDIA debuted an industry first at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Calif. this week: a Visual Computing Appliance (VCA), a new device that will enable small and medium sized businesses to enhance GPU performance on any Windows, Linux or Mac client on their network. The [...]
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German software producer Boinx has unveiled some special upgrades the 3.1...
