Italy’s View Conference...
Italy’s popular computer graphics conference View has announced its 2013...
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DIC Hits Right Notes with Online Music Service
DIC Ent. is expanding its empire with a new online production music business called Cuetunes (www.cuetunes.com). The new site, which debuted this month, offers quality, cost-effect production music to film and TV professionals, indie producers, teachers and students. One of the biggest selling points of this new service is that [...]
FICCI Frames Focuses on Original Indian Toons
This week’s well-attended FICCI-Frames confab in Mumbai (March 25-27) offered several animation and vfx-related panels exploring the growth of the industry in the region. Some of the top Indian studio players offered their take on how to make their new content reach a broader audience worldwide. In one panel moderated [...]
Annecy Unveils Eclectic ’08 Lineup
The organizers of the prestigious Annecy International Animated Film Festival have announced the lineup for this year’s edition (June 9-14). This year, 1,866 projects were submitted to the world-famous festival (40 features, 718 short films, 159 TV series, 25 TV specials, 36 educational/scientific projects, 139 animated ads, 94 music videos [...]
Z Animation Lays 2D Tiles
The creative team at New York- and L.A.-based studio Z Animation recently wrapped a new 30-second traditionally animated spot for Bella Casa, one of India’s top tile, bath and kitchen retailers. Directed by John Ryan, the High Def commercial was created by Bangalore’s Disha Communications and will be projected in [...]
Britney Blows Her Head Off on South Park
The career of everyone’s favorite troubled pop star, Britney Spears, has been getting a much-needed shot in the arm thanks to animation this week. A couple of weeks ago, Spears debuted her new animated music video ‘Break the Ice,’ in which her anime-inspired spy persona picks up where her live-action [...]
Persepolis Nabs Another Prize at Cartoon Movie
Although they lost the Oscar to Brad Bird and Ratatouille, Persepolis directors Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud won the Award for Best European Director of the Year at this week’s Cartoon Movie gathering in Postdam, Germany. Other nominees in the category were Victor Maldonado and Adrian Garcia for the Spanish [...]
48 Euro Pics Bow at Cartoon Movie
If you happen to be in Germany next week and would like to take a sneak peek of what the European animated feature film community has to offer, you should definitely check out the tenth edition of Cartoon Movie (March 5-7) in Potsdam/Babelsberg. Kicking off this year’s lineup is a [...]
Pirates Helmer to Navigate First Animated Pic
Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski is getting ready to follow up his CG-laden phantom swashbucklers with a fully animated feature, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Oscar-winning producer Graham King (The Departed, The Aviator) is reported to be attached to Verbinski’s new animated venture, which is described only as [...]
Evangelion 1.0 Nabs Tokyo Fair Top Honor
Evangelion 1.0: You are (Not) Alone has been given the Animation of the Year Award by the organizers of this year’s Tokyo International Fair (TAF). Directed by Hideaki Anno, Masayuki and Kazuya Tsurumaki, 1.0 is the latest installment of the franchise, based on the 1994 manga by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto about [...]
And Your Oscar Winners Are…
Just in time of the real Academy Awards ceremony, which takes place this Sunday (check them out on ABC at 5 p.m.), we’ve tallied your votes for your favorites in the Best Animated Feature, Best Animated Short and Best Visual Effects categories. This year, we had a huge response from [...]
Amazon’s LoveFilm and...
LoveFilm and Disney have signed a new pact which allows the Amazon subscriber...
CN All About ‘Adventure...
Cartoon Network Enterprises is riding the runaway Adventure Time train...
