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Stan Winston Tribute Added to SIGGRAPH
A tribute to the late special effects master Stan Winston, a special conversation between Disney/Pixar’s chief creative officer John Lasseter and Oscar-winning 2D animator Frederic Back and a sneak preview of Lucas Animation’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars are all part of this year’s special Studio Events program at SIGGRAPH, [...]
American Greetings Fights for Strawberry Shortcake Rights
Who knew Strawberry Shortcake could be such a little troublemaker? According to a story in The Los Angeles Times, Cleveland-based American Greetings, which owns the rights to the famous ’80s character Strawberry Shortcake has won a temporary restraining order to stop the sale of licensing partner DIC to Toronto-based Cookie [...]
Mike Young’s Toon Aids China’s Earthquake Victims
Proceeds from a special screening of Mike Young Productions and Global Digital Creations’ Happy Little Submarines feature will be used to build new schools in earthquake-affected areas on China. Based on the studio’s Dive Olly Dive! animated series, the feature was released in over 260 Digital Cinema Multiplexes across China [...]
Pitch Party 2008 Voting Underway
Animation Magazine’s 7th Annual Pitch Party is on and you can now click here: www.animationmagazine.net/pitch_party_08_vote.html to view all of this year’s entries and vote for your favorites. All pitches are presented as 1/6th-page advertisements that offer new ideas for animated shows that that just may get picked up for development. [...]
SIGGRAPH Asia Festival Deadline Approaches
The SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 Computer Animation Festival is open for submissions and is seeking innovative and provocative works from all around the world. The SIGGRAPH Asia event will take place Dec. 10-13 in Singapore. Submission deadline is June 20, 2008. All subjects or topics will be considered. Submissions should belong [...]
Paley, Plympton Nab Annecy Palmares Prizes
The 32nd edition of the Annecy Int’l Animation Festival proved to be the year of the New York indie animators as Nina Paley’s Flash-animated feature Sita Sings the Blues won the top prize for best feature and Bill Plympton’s latest offering Idiots and Angels received a Special Mention Cristal from [...]
Daytime Emmys Drawn to Toons
Emmy loves animation’at least the Creative Arts Daytime Emmys did this past Friday (June 13) as many of our favorite animated shows received the coveted prize. PBS, Nick Jr., Disney Channel, Kids’ WB!, Nickelodeon, Kabillion and Discovery Kids saw several of their toons honored by the TV academy. The straight-forward [...]
Nicktoons Hungry for Three Delivery
Animation Collective’s sizzling new toon, Three Delivery, will be served up by Nicktoons on June 27. An awesome mix of martial arts, high-speed bike races, paranormal mysteries and Chinese food, the 26-episode toon is set in a mythical Chinatown (inspired by cityscapes in New York and San Francisco) and follows [...]
Hulk, Happening Outperform Predictions
Friday the 13th proved to be a lucky date for Marvel and Universal as their reboot of The Incredible Hulk brought in an estimated $54.5 million domestically over the weekend. Playing in 3,505 theaters, Hulk was the second-best grossing feature ever for a Father’s Day weekend release, right after Fantastic [...]
Russian World Studios Launches Toon Division
A full-length feature based the fairy tale Konyok Gorbunok will be the first project of Russian World Studios’ newly launched animation arm. Variety reports that the Russian studio will begin production of the film this fall. Controlled by the Sistema Group, RWS was founded 10 years ago and has offices [...]
Jon Vitti to Pen ‘Angry...
Emmy-winning writer Jon Vitti, who has worked on hit toons The Simpsons and...
Global TV News Bytes: Guru,...
+ Canadian indie Guru Studio and publishing partner Immedium have released a...
