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Titmouse Games Dives into Seven Haunted Seas
Hollywood-based toon shop Titmouse (adult swim’s Metalocalpyse) has officially launched its original game development studio venture, Titmouse Games. This new gaming arm is overseen by gaming veteran Aaron Habibipour who joins the team as creative director. Habibpour has worked on titles such as Guitar Hero, Darkwatch and Gun, and has [...]
Shaman, Sweet Dreams Win Big at SXSW
Shaman by Luc Perez and Sweet Dreams by Kirsten Lepore took the Best Animated Short and Special Jury Awards at this week’s South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. Shaman, a tribute to Inuit culture, consists of 7,000 hand drawings’a mix of acrylic on paper and 2D computer animation. A [...]
Pixar’s UP to Open Cannes Festival
Disney/Pixar’s UP has been selected as the opening ceremony film for the prestigious Cannes Festival this year. Directed by Pete Docter (Monsters, Inc.) the 3-D feature will makes its big Cannes splash on Wednesday, May 13. This is the first time an animated feature has opened the festival in the [...]
Wild Things Poster Is Unleashed
A new poster for the much-anticipated adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are has hit the web recently. The Warner Bros. feature has been delayed several times, but it now looks like it will be ready for its October 16 release date. Directed by innovative helmer and writer [...]
CBeebies Gives Chuggington Second Season Pass
BBC’s CBeebies Channel has picked up 26 more episodes of Ludorom’s popular CG-animated series, Chuggington‘bringing the total episode number to 78 x 10. The show premiered in the U.K. in the fall of 2008 on BBC Two and launched on CBeebies last January. It has already been sold to 140 [...]
Annecy 2009 Announces Official Selection
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival (June 8-13) has released the names of the shorts, TV series, student projects and commercials of its 2009 Official Selection categories. Nick Park’s Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death, PES’ Western Spaghetti, George Schwizgebel’s Retouches, David O’Reilly’s Please Say Something, BLU’s [...]
Geronimo Will Be the Big Cheese at MIPTV
Atlanytica Entertainment and Moonscoop will be offering a sneak peek at their eagerly anticipated new series Geronimo Stilton at MIPTV this year. Based on Elisabetta Dami’s best-selling children’s book series published by Edizioni Piemme in Italy and Scholastic in English, the (26x 22) 2-D animated show follows the adventures of [...]
BRB’s Papawa Pops Up in Italy, Portugal
Watch out, Lost! BRB’s wild animated series Papawa, which is about a mysterious island and its nightmarish residents, is taking over Europe, one country at a time. We just got word that the show, produced by Screen 21 and Televisio de Catalunya in Catalonia, has been picked up by Mediaset [...]
The Secret of Kells Gets Solid Raves
The new European animated feature The Secret of Kells (also known as Brendan and the Secret of Kells) has been getting fantastic reviews in Ireland, where it was released last week. Produced by Cartoon Saloon/Les Armateurs/Vivi Films, this beautifully animated feature was directed by first-time helmer Tomm Moore’with co-director Nora [...]
Cartoons on the Bay Announces ’09 Lineup in Tiglio
RAI Trade’s Cartoons on the Bay festival has revealed more details about this year’s upcoming tributes and programs, which will take place April 2-5 in three main location’Rapallo, Santa Margherita Ligure and Portofino. The Golfo region of Tiglio will host movie previews, special events, conferences, meetings with authors, directors, producers [...]
Jon Vitti to Pen ‘Angry...
Emmy-winning writer Jon Vitti, who has worked on hit toons The Simpsons and...
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+ Canadian indie Guru Studio and publishing partner Immedium have released a...
