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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 [...]
Paul Dini’s the Man for Gatchaman
Warner Bros. Animation veteran Paul Dini’whose amazing credits include Batman: the Animated Series, Superman, Batman Beyond, Duck Dodgers and the ABC series Lost‘has been tapped to collaborate on the upcoming script for Imagi Animation Studios’ upcoming feature Gatchaman. ‘The original series was one of the classics of early anime, and [...]
Milla Fights More Zombies in Resident Evil: Extinction
If flesh-eating zombies, post-apocalyptic scenarios and a butt-kicking Milla Jovovich rock your boat, then you’ll find yourself drawn to Sony’s third Resident Evil chapter, opening nationwide in theaters today. Directed by franchise writer Paul W. S. Anderson, this latest adventure finds our genetically altered heroine Alice fighting the latest zombie [...]
Weinsteins, Exodus Seal the Deal
The Weinstein Company and Exodus Film Group announced that the first movie developed under their CG-animated co-production deal wiill be Navy Seals, a family comedy/adventure about a team of misfit seals who have to rescue a brave pod of U.S. navy dolphins in peril. The story concept for the movie [...]
Speed Racer Drives More Licensing Deals
Since tomorrow (Sep. 21) is the official 40th anniversary of the classic anime series Speed Racer, we had to dig up some related news to share with you. The folks at Speed Racer Enterprises inform us that they’ve signed four key licensing agreements for the classic toon in addition to [...]
Academy Spotlights Canadian Women Animators
Oscar nominees Janet Perlman, Caroline Leaf, Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis and Oscar winner Torill Kove will share the spotlight at a special evening decidated to ‘Canadian Women in Animation’ at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater, Wednesday, Oct. 17 at 7:30 p.m. The talented [...]
Edgar & Ellen Scare Up New Viewers on Nicktoons
Star Farms’ popular pranksters Edgar & Ellen are ready for their ghoulish close-ups on Nicktoons this fall. The mischievous twins get two special back-to-back premiere episodes on Oct. 7 at 8 p.m. Based on the best-selling book series from Simon & Schuster, the series follows the adventures of the ‘brother-and-sister [...]
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London-based animation studio Nexus as announced an exclusive partnership with...
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