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Big Bad Boo Ready for Business in Vancouver
A new Vancouver-based toon house founded by husband-and-wife team of Aly Jetha and Shabnam Rezaei, officially opened its doors in January. Located in the city’s historic Yaletown district, the studio is named Big Bad Boo and employs a great mix of top animation industry veterans. ‘We found so many good [...]
First Smurfs Movie Images Leaked
The Internet was humming yesterday with news about little sky-blue guys known as the Smurfs’or Les Schtroumpfs as they’re called in French. It all started when French network France 3 offered a brief news spot about the 50th anniversary of the famous property, which showed a peek at the CG [...]
Famed Poster Artist John Alvin Dies at 59
John Alvin, the creator of famous movie posters for popular films such as E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King, passed away on Wednesday from a heart attack at his home in Rhinebeck, N.Y. Alvin’s work came became prominent in the 1970s when movie posters were [...]
Ratatouille Cooks 10-Course Annie Sweep
It wasn’t exactly a big surprise when Brad Bird’s much-loved feature Ratatouille delivered a sweet ten-trophy sweep at the 35th Annual Annie Awards held Friday evening at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles, Calif. The Pixar/Disney release, which has grossed over $620 million at the box office worldwide, took home [...]
Christy Hui, From Martial Arts to Nature Princesses
Four years ago, Christy Hui shook up the Saturday morning landscape with her trend-setting animated hit Xiaolin Showdown, which generated a huge fan base when aired on Kids’ WB! and Cartoon Network.This fall, Hui is ready once again to take the toon world by storm with her new multimedia creation, [...]
Spain’s Filmax launches Online Store
Spanish mini-major Filmax Ent. will launch an online megastore to sell films and music worldwide, according to Variety. The studio behind such animated features such as Nocturna, The Hairy Tooth Fairy, El Cid, The Legend and the upcoming Donkey Xote is expected to launch the site by the spring of [...]
Two Versions of Softimage|XSI 6.5 Release Hit Market Today
Two new software packages from the Softimage family are available to CG artists this week. The Montreal-based company’a subsidiary of Avid Tech.’has announced the release of Softimage|XSI’ 6.5 Essentials (for artists) and Softimage|XSI 6.5 Advanced (for production facilities) today. Softimage has added Hair, Fur and Syflex Cloth features to XSI [...]
Persepolis, Golden Age Nab Grand Prizes at Ottawa
Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Parronaud’s black-and-white animated feature Persepolis, Koji Yamamura’s short Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor and Aaron Augenblick’s Golden Age were three of the big prize winners at the recent edition of the Ottawa International Animation Festival this past weekend. This year’s event, held September 19th thru 23rd, [...]
ASIFA-Hollyood Now Accepting Annie Noms
There are still three more months left in 2007, but the hard-working folks at ASIFA-Hollywood have already begun accepting nominations online for the 35th Annual Annie Awards. If you’d like your work to be considered in the Annies race this year, you can submit your entries on www.annieawards.org. The deadline [...]
TOKYOPOP Polishes More Dark Crystal Mangas
If you were one of those die-hard Dark Crystal fans who couldn’t wait to get their hands on the 25th anniversary DVD a couple of weeks ago, you’d be happy to hear about more tie-in plans for the Jim Henson classic property. TOKYOPOP announced this week that it will publish [...]
‘Star Trek’ Beams...
Paramount’s Star Trek Into Darkness landed on top of the domestic box office...
Universal Releases New Clip...
Universal has released the first clip from Illumination’s eagerly anticipated...
