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Granny and Geronimo Make Waves at Cartoons on the Bay Festival
The 14th Edition of the Cartoons on the Bay festival (held in Rapallo, Italy) came to a close this past weekend, with Brown Bag Films’ Oscar-nominated short Granny O’Grimm emerging as one of the most lauded projects at the annual event. Directed by Nicky Phelan, the delightful tale of a [...]
Rai Fiction Unveils A New Season of Toons
French fantasy author Jules Vernes and Greek hero Ulysses take center stage in two of the new animated series unveiled by Rai Fiction at Italian festival Cartoons on the Bay this past weekend. At a well-attended press event in Rapallo, Rai Fiction and animation manager Luca Milano shared some of [...]
Machinima Moves to the Next Level
One of the most fascinating aspects of animation is how the field continues to grow and mutate in so many different directions. While we’re seeing the applications of animation in the 3-D realm in spectacular studio features such as How to Train Your Dragon and Toy Story 3 this year, [...]
Weinsteins Develop 3-D Animated Pic Based on Caveman’s Drawing
The Weinstein Company is hoping to make a big comeback in the family entertainment business with a new animated feature based on early cavemen drawings discovered at the Spanish cave of Cueva de las Monedas. Weinstein is preparing a stereoscopic 3-D feature based on the 32,000-year-old figures of some prehistoric [...]
Win Signed Copies of Waking Sleeping Beauty Posters!
The folks at Disney have been kind enough to provide Animag readers with five collector’s edition one-sheet posters of the acclaimed documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty, signed by the director, Don Hahn. To win this cool item, all you have to do is email us the names of three hit Disney [...]
Hallmark Preps Hoops & Yoyo Holiday Special
Hallmark’s popular online e-card characters Hoops and Yoyo will be starring in their own cable holiday movie in the near future. Hallmark Channel is developing a new animated movie featuring the cute, Helium-voiced pink and green duo as part of its effort to beef up its original programming fare. In [...]
Shrek, Chomet and Besson Set to Shine at Annecy
Screenings of Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist, a ‘work-in-progress’ sneak peek at Luc Besson’s feature The Mechanics of the Heart and the European premiere of DreamWorks Animation’s Shrek Forever After are all part of the star-studded 50th Anniversary Edition of the Annecy Intl. Animation Festival, which takes place June 7-14. John [...]
Enter the Green Gladiator
Will The Hulk find peace on a distant planet? Don’t count on it! A word to the wise: If you have a powerful, green superhero roaming your planet who does a great job of getting rid of the bad guys, don’t put him in a spaceship and blast him into [...]
Revenge of the Euro Features
Don’t miss the 2010 edition of Cartoon Movie if you’re jonesing for a close look at what’s brewing in the hot, European animated melting pot! While acclaimed European features such as Tomm Moore’s The Secret of Kells, St’phane Aubier and Vincent Patar’s A Town Called Panic and Jacques-R’my Girerd’s Mia [...]
The Heart-Breaking Happiness Machine
Polish director Tomek Bagiński discusses the making of his beautifully animated CG short The Kinematograph. Polish director Tomek Bagiński’s name is familiar to those who have been paying attention to the thriving European CG animation scene over the past decade. Bagiński’s previous shorts’the Oscar-nominated The Cathedral (2004) and BAFTA-winning Fallen [...]
BinWeevils Appoints Henwood...
U.K.-based digital social world BinWeevils, for kids 6-12, has appointed media...
Blue Sky’s...
Epic, the new animated adventure from director Chris Wedge and his gifted team...
