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The Name’s Oso, Special Agent Oso
A new animated preschool show on Playhouse Disney pushes the visual envelope while gently spoofing secret agent movies. James Bond and all the other Cold War-era spies have inspired their share of clever spoofs throughout the years. However, you’ll have to look really hard to find a preschool show that [...]
Jurassic Choo Choo
Creator Craig Bartlett talks about his new animated creation Dinosaur Train, a Jim Henson Company project which is scheduled to pull into PBS KIDS this fall. It’s always great news when a new show by an animation veteran gets the greenlight. That’s why fans of Hey Arnold! had a big [...]
Alphanim’s 21st Century Game Plan
Heath Kenny, the recently appointed creative director of the French studio, discusses the 2009 slate and plans for increasing the company’s global profile. Last year, French animation studio Alphanim, home of Galactik Football, Robotboy and Hairy Scary, tapped animation veteran Heath Kenny as creative director to act as the link [...]
A Graphic Take on Tweens
The creators of CarpeDiem and TV-Loonland’s My Life Me take a break to tell us about their great-looking new project. Four excitable tweens try to make sense of the joys and anxieties of life in the hip, new 52 x 11 animated series My Life Me, co-produced by TV-Loonland and [...]
They Came From MIPTV’
As international animation content producers and buyers head over to Cannes this month (March 30-April 3) in search of the next big thing, we put our feelers out there to bring you news about these shows, even before the market gets rolling. Here are a few items about toons that [...]
When Earthlings Attack!
After winning the Best Feature Prize at Ottawa, Aristomenis Tsirbas’ indie labor of love, Battle for Terra, is ready for its 3-D blitz. Only a few weeks after DreamWorks’ splashy Monsters vs. Aliens opened in 3-D theaters across the country, a smaller-scale indie movie about a different kind of alien [...]
MIPTV Wrap: Day Two
Perhaps it was the sunshine finally making an appearance on the Croisette or everyone adjusting to the fact that according to Reed Midem, there has been a 10 percent drop in attendance at MIPTV this year. Either way, most of the execs we ran into today were reporting a better [...]
Executive Q&A: MIPTV 2009
The first quarter of the year finds international animation content producers and buyers heading over to Cannes for the MIPTV market (March 30-April 3) and the Cartoons on the Bay festival (April 2-3) in Tiglio, Italy. We surveyed some of the top animation execs attending these events to get a [...]
MIPTV Wrap: Day One
Over 13,000 participants and 4,500 companies from 111 countries are expected to attend this year’s MIPTV market in Cannes, France this year. But if you were actually one of the people who made it to the overcast region this week, you may think that the numbers were down this year. [...]
JAM Media Rolls with Hybrid Toon Roy
Roy, a new 13×26 animation/live-action hybrid series from Dublin-based JAM Media will be making a splash at MIPTV this month. Commissioned by CBBC and executive produced by Sue Nott, Roy (formerly titled Badly Drawn Roy) centers on the trials and tribulations of a cartoon boy who is born in the [...]
Academy Makes Animation...
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has...
Shout! Unleashes...
The Eisner Award-winning comic-book series by Joe Quesada, Paul Jenkins, Bill...
