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Luxology’s modo 301 Says Bonjour
San Francisco-based 3D creation software house Luxology announced today that it will use Bonjour technology from Apple to power its upcoming modo 301 release. Luxology will ship a comprehensive upgrade to modo that includes network rendering based on Bonjour in summer 2007. Bonjour is Apple’s standards-based networking technology that automatically [...]
Spanish Tooth Fairy Sweetens TV Deal
A Spanish mouse version of the Tooth Fairy will be getting its own animated TV show soon. Variety reports that The Hairy Tooth Fairy, Spain’s biggest box-office hit of the year, will spread its wings on the small screen. Spain’s Filmax Entertainment and Argentina’s Patagonik will co-produced a completely CG-animated [...]
Monster Sails Away with Lifeboat Luke
Monster Distributes has picked up an animated children’s series about a lifeboat and a magical seaside town . Targetting kids 4-7, the 52 x 5 show is called Lifeboat Luke and uses narration, effects and music to tell the story of a whimsical town and its colorful cast of boats, [...]
Decode’s Urban Vermin Invades VOOM Animania
Decode Ent.’s CG animated series about two fighting raccoon brothers is getting ready for its High Def close-up. The Canadian shop has announced that its series Urban Vermin will be featured on VOOM’s Animania network. ‘We are thrilled to work with DECODE Entertainment to produce programming that can be viewed [...]
An $18 Million Weekend for Sony’s Surfing Penguins
The animated penguins of Sony’s Surf’s Up caught a relatively mellow tide at the box office this weekend as the pic landed in at No. 4 with an estimated $18 million fro 3,528 theaters. Competing with the cool birds for family audience attention were Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: At [...]
Sony Rides Penguin Wave with Surf’s Up
DreamWorks’ green ogre and Disney’s ghoulish pirates will get some killer competition today in theaters in the shape of cute, CG-animated surfing penguins. Sony Pictures Animation’s sophomore effort, Surf’s Up, is expected to make an impressive splash in 3,528 theaters in the U.S. Directed by Ash Brannon (Toy Story 2) [...]
Humanitas Toasts Three Kids’ Toons
Congratulations are in order for the writers of three great children’s animated series which are up for the prestigious Humanitas Prize this year. Nominated for the $25,000 Humanitas kudos in the children’s animation category are: ”The Gift‘ episode of Mike Young Productions/Entara’s JAKERS! The Adventures of Piggley Winks (PBS) written [...]
Vooz Goes Green with Myo & Ga
Korean outfit Vooz, the creator of the popular Pucca character, will be spreading an environmental message with its new children’s animated series Myo & Ga. The new toon combines adventure and fantasy with serious environmental topics, as seen through the eyes of Ga, a sea turtle, who has to track [...]
Persepolis and TekkonKinkreet Get U.S. Dates
Two well-received indie animated features have announced their U.S. opening dates. Michael Arias’ anime/CG hybrid hit Tekkonkinkreet will be distributed by Sony on July 13 in Los Angeles and New York. Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s 2D black-and-white feature Persepolis, which took home the Grand Jury Prize at the recent [...]
Buddha Toon to Aid Thailand’s Poor
Thailand’s MonoFilm will donate profits from the sales of its animated movie The Life of Buddha to charity, according to a recent Variety story. Produced by Wallapa Pimthong, the $5 million film sold to Italy’s Dujass Film S.P.A., says Rachel Prapeimporn Jamawatr, MonoFilm international relations supervisor. “We were surprised in [...]
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...
