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Two Millimages Toons Will Screen in Cannes
French animation house Millimages will have a strong presence at the Cannes Film Festival this year. It was announced this week that the studio’s feature animated project Les Lascars: The Movie (Round Da Way) will be joining the lineup at the fest’s Critics Weeks sidebar. Based on a popular 2D [...]
Red Stick’s Peek at Disney’s Princess & the Frog
Disney’s veteran animation visual effects supervisor Marlon West gave an excellent and inspiring presentation about the making of the much-anticipated holiday release The Princess and the Frog on Friday at the Red Stick Animation Festival in Baton Rouge. The Disney veteran showed several animatic clips and one semi-finished sequence from [...]
Plympton’s Hot Dog Lands Baton
New York’s indie darling Bill Plympton added yet another award to his ever-growing kudos gallery for his 2008 short Hot Dog this weekend.The Annie-nominated short was the winner of the Red Baton for Best Animated Short at the 2009 Red Stick Animation Festival in Baton Rouge. Here is the list [...]
Thomas Borch NielsenDirector, Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms
Who would have thought that an unusually funny movie about disco-dancing worms, yes worms, would come out of Denmark’s thriving animation scene? Although the film hasn’t been picked up for distribution in the U.S. yet, we thought it would be a good idea to catch up with the talented director, [...]
Barker’s Runaway Pulls into Cannes
Canadian animator Cordell Barker’s latest short Runaway will make its world premiere at the 48th Intl. Critics’ Week at Cannes (May 14-22). The fast-paced offering from Barker, who is best known for his hugely popular, Oscar-nominated short The Cat Came Back (1988) and also for Strange Invaders (2001), centers on [...]
SpongeBob Collector’s DVD to Swim in the Fall
Can’t get enough of the happy-go-lucky yellow sea sponge? Then mark your calendar for Sept. 22. That’s when Nickelodeon Home Ent. will release SpongeBob SquarePants: The First 100 Episodes DVD set. The $99.98 set is marketed as the first SpongeBob collector’s edition and will include over 36 hours of episodes, [...]
Red Stick Panels Focus on Web Content
During the past two days, attendees of the 5th Annual Red Stick Animation Festival in Baton Rouge have been treated to several informative panels about the future of animated content on the web. Featuring insights from executives working in the animation and content providing business, the panels provided an interesting [...]
Talking Toons in Baton RougeA Report from Red Stick Animation Festival
The beautiful port town of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is hosting the fifth edition of the eclectic, entertaining and all-around useful Red Stick International Animation Festival this week (April 22-25). Under the direction of Stacey Simmons, associate director for ecocnomic development at LSU Center for Computation and Technology, the fest has [...]
Wolverine, Magneto and an Exclusive X-Men Clip!
Wolverine and the X-Men brought Marvel’s misunderstood mutants back to animation when it debuted on Nicktoons earlier this year, and now it’s three-part debut episode Heroes Return has arrived on DVD. Here’s an exclusive look at a scene from the series: Wolverine is the star of the new series, which [...]
DQE to Fly with The Little Prince
Indian animation powerhouse DQ Entertainment has embarked on the production of a new CG-animated series based on Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s beloved masterpiece, The Little Prince, alongside French producing studio Method Films and production partners France 3, WDR, Sony BMG and Rai. According to the Hyderabad-based studio, the series has a [...]
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