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News from NATPE: Words from the Wise
If it seems a bit quiet in your neck of the woods this week, it’s because many of the animation execs, buyers, sellers, producers and distributors are attending the NATPE confab in Las Vegas (Jan. 16-18). We asked many of the big industry movers and shakers to tell us about [...]
Last Chance to Get Free Tickets to Special Happily N’Ever After Screening
Would you like to take a sneak peek at the new CG-animated feature Happily N’Ever After? If you live in the Los Angeles area, Animation Magazine, ASIFA’Hollywood and Lionsgate are inviting you to a free screening of the feature on Thursday, Jan. 4th at 7:30 p.m. at the Laemmle Music [...]
Bandai Plugs In New Honneamise Online Community
Top Japanese animation outfit Bandai Visual USA has jumpstarted Honneamise, a new anime community on MySpace.com. The jazzed-up site (www.myspace.com/honneamise) offers related info and downloads from Patlabor, Patlabor 2, Gunbuster and other popular titles released by the label. Visitors to the site will also be able to view a special [...]
A Good Month for Entertainment Rights’ Kid Brands
U.K. media group Entertainment Rights has announced the delivery of several new programs across four key brands to three of the U.K. ‘s major broadcasters: Rupert Bear’Follow the Magic was successfully launched on Five’s Milkshake! block, its premier pre-school platform achieving a 27% share or 99,500 kids aged 4-6 tuning [...]
HIT’s Benelux Consumer Division Goes In-House
HIT Entertainment, the U.K. home of such brands as Bob the Builder, Pingu, Thomas & Friends and Angelina Ballerina ahs moved its consumer products division for the Benelux region in house. The Belgium. Netherlands and Luxembourg consumer products arm will be led by HIT’s VP of business development Jon Owen [...]
Digital-Tutors Announces RealFlow4 Training
Oklahoma City-based interactive training outfit Digital-Tutors has announced the release of Intro to RealFlow 4, a guide to creating realistic fluid and dynamic simulations with RealFlow4. Including a trial version of RealFlow 4, the guide contains four hours of project-based training and offers a unique approach to new and experienced [...]
Pirates Sequel Steals Record DVD Booty
Arrrrr, time to bring on the grog! The folks at Disney Home Entertainment are celebrating today as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest posted a record 5 million DVD sales on its first day in stores. Released on Tuesday, the movie is likely to become the No. 1 live-action [...]
Hertzfeldt, Weil and Augenblick Shorts to Shine at Sundance
The Sundance Film Festival announced several new animated titles set to screen Jan. 18-28 at Park City, Utah. Alex Weil’s SIGGRAPH 2006 hit One Rat Short, Aaron Augenblick’s Golden Age, Don Hertzfeldt’s Everything Will Be OK and Joanna Quinn’s multi-award-winning Dreams and Desires’Family Ties are some of the more familiar [...]
Three Comic Voices Sign Up for FOX’s Two Dreadful Children
Chris Kattan (Saturday Night Live), French Stewart (3rd Rock from the Sun) and Meredith Roberts (Kitchen Confidential) will be voicing characters for the upcoming FOX-TV animated series Two Dreadful Children. Created by Dave Hemingson, the man behind the short-lived Kitchen Confidential, the toon will center on a redneck family that [...]
NaturalMotion High on endorphin 2.7
U.K.-based software developer NaturalMotion has announced the release of new versions of endorphin 2.7 and related Learning Edition (eLE). The new versions of the award-winning software features new fluid effects support, a Maya control panel plug-in, extended forces and torques, additional file format support and improved user resources. endorphin 2.7′s [...]
A Real-Life Replica of...
Cowabunga, dude! A real-life replica of Simpsons’ hometown of Springfield is...
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Epic, the new animated adventure from director Chris Wedge and his gifted team...
