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Cosmic Quantum Ray, Phineas & Ferb Big Winners at Cartoons on the Bay
Mike Young Productions’ Cosmic Quantum Ray and Disney’s Phineas and Ferb were two of the winners in the top categories at this year’s Pulcinella Awards, which was held Saturday (April 4) as part of the Cartoons on the Bay Festival in Rapallo, Italy. The International Jury, headed by Alice Cahn, [...]
Rai Fiction Toons Up 3 New Shows
Italian pubcaster Rai Fiction unveiled its new slate of animated programs this weekend at the 13th edition of the Cartoons on the Bay festival held in Rapallo (April 2-5). Luca Milano, Rai Fiction’s marketing manager overseeing animated showed images from three of the new toons in productions. Headling the new [...]
MIPTV Wrap: Day Three ‘The Time-Wasters Stayed Home!’
Despite the lousy weather, most of the toon execs I cornered today seemed pretty happy about their business meetings’of course, they would just say that to the gullible press, right? It was a bit depressing to see the vast space occupied by Warner Bros. Animation in previous years (Sander Schwartz, [...]
It’s a Cracking New Game, Gromit!
Telltale Games delivers an awesome new series of games for two beloved Aardman characters. It’s a well-known fact that if you’re a game designer dealing with characters as universally revered as Nick Park’s Wallace and Gromit, you definitely have your work cut out for you. Fortunately, the team at San [...]
Iron Man Gets A Face Lift
Nicktoons debuts a stylish new animated series starring a teenaged version of the Marvel superhero. If you tune in to the new series Iron Man: Armored Adventures expecting an animated version of actor Robert Downey Jr. fighting nefarious characters, you may be in for a little bit of a surprise. [...]
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 [...]
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...
