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So, This Dentist and His Family Get in an RV ‘
Michael Eisner and Eric Fogel team up to bring viewers Glenn Martin DDS, a claymated sitcom about a dentist and his family, which premieres this month on Nick at Nite. When it comes to natural ideas for a claymated summer TV series, a family sitcom about a dentist doesn’t exactly [...]
A New Chapter for The Jungle Book
DQ Entertainment sets up a robust animation pipeline for its upcoming new CG-animated series. While Disney’s 1967 feature adaptation of The Jungle Book will always be associated with Rudyard Kipling’s literary masterpiece, a big multi-national production is taking another stab at adapting this beloved classic. This time, however Mowgli, Baloo [...]
Cartoon Network Picks Up Another Live-Action Pilot!
This isn’t an animation-related story, but it’s definitely indicative of the direction in which Cartoon Network has been heading for the past year or so. We learned today that the cable network once dedicated to producing and airing top-notch animated shows has picked up another live-action drama. The new show [...]
French Roast Wins SIGGRAPH’s Best in Show
French Roast, Fabrice O. Joubert’s witty animated short about a Parisian caf’ patron who can’t pay his bill has won SIGGRAPH 2009′s Best in Show Award. The CG-animated project is produced by The Pumpkin Factory. “This year’s accepted films really overwhelmed us with the level of technical expertise and expert [...]
Kickstand Introduces StretchMesh 1.5 for Autodesk Maya
Kickstand LLC has announced the worldwide availability of StretchMesh 1.5 software for Autodesk Maya software.This new surface deformation plug-in is designed to seamlessly integrate with Maya 3D modeling and animation software. It also introduces new techniques into the character pipeline and gives polygonal geometry a ‘stretchy’ quality for better control [...]
Paley Center Celebrates Hanna-Barbera’s 70th Anniversary
The Paley Center in Beverly Hills is hosting a 70th anniversary celebration of Hanna-Barbera Studio, on Saturday, August 22 at 4:30 p.m. Jerry Eisenberg (The Flintstones), Willie Ito (Yogi Bear), Tony Benedict (The Jetsons) and Butch Hartman (The Fairly OddParents) are among the panelists scheduled to discuss the famous studio [...]
Fantastic Mr. Fox Comes Out of Hiding
At long last, we get to see the first trailer for Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson’s much-awaited adaptation of Roald Dahl’s popular children’s book. Scheduled to open on November 13, the 20th Century Fox feature seems to deliver a very retro stop-motion animation style (and we couldn’t be happier!). Anderson, [...]
Quantum Quest Details Revealed
Although some of the more over-hyped animated features and vfx projects were hogging the spotlight at Comic-Con last week, a smaller indie 3-D, CG-animated large-format feature also revealed some interesting details during an entertaining panel. The underdog feature was Quantum Quest, an action-adventure film which uses actual space imagery from [...]
Simpsons Announces 21st Season Guests
The Simpsons exec producer Al Jean has revealed the celebrity guest voices lined up for the 21st season of the long-running hit animated series. Jean told EW.com that Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin stars in an episode in which Homer wins a million-dollar lottery and hires the band to play [...]
Heyward’s A Squared Connects with AOL
A Squared Entertainment LLC, a new Los Angeles-based children’s media company formed by DIC founder Andy Heyward and Amy Moynihan, has partnered with AOL to launch a slate of new entertainment properties for kids. Warren Buffett, Gisele Bundchen, Martha Stewart and the late Carl Sagan are some of the personalties [...]
Wiig and Cooper Guest Voice...
The parade of stars stopping by The Simpsons office to do guest voice stints on...
Boinx Unveils New Features of...
German software producer Boinx has unveiled some special upgrades the 3.1...
