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Women in Animation Presents Panel on CG Toons on TV
If you’re looking for a chance to mingle with toonerati types and attend a panel discussion on 3D animation for television, the Women in Animation International Annual Meeting is the event for you. Scheduled for Thursday, April 27 at the Nickelodeon Animation Studio in Burbank, Calif., from 6:30 to 9:30 [...]
Cartoon Network Holds Benefit Silent Auction for Fyn Stec
If you happen to be in Los Angeles this Thursday evening, you may want to visit Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank. The good folks at the studio are hosting a special animation benefit silent auction from 5:30 to 9 p.m to benefit Fyn Stec, the son of animation art director [...]
Russo Writes the Book on [adult swim]
As Cartoon Network’s [adult swim] block continues to deliver strong ratings and fans anxiously wait the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie to open in the fall, we caught up with Ron Russo, author of a new book titled Adult Swim and Comedy. Russo, who has been teaching about the block [...]
New Windows Version of Call of Duty 2 Open to Gamers
Santa Monica-based Activision and Infinity Ward are releasing a new Windows PC update for the hit game Call of Duty 2, which includes the anti-cheat software PunkBuster, as well as two new multiplayer maps. Plans have also been announced to offer MOD that will let fans create new single player [...]
Digital-Tutors Nabs Innovator of the Year Award
PL Studos’ Digital-Tutors has received the Innovator of the Year Award from the folks at The Journal Record, a leading business publication in the Midweat. The publication honored companies who are setting themselves apart with products and services that are changing the market place and who exemplify an innovative spirit. [...]
Grass Greener at Entertainment Rights
Nikkie Grass (nee Sherrard) has been appointed the new head of marketing at U.K’s family entertainment group, Entertainment Rights. Before joining the ER team, Grass was at Disney, where she was marketing director for Buena Vista International Television and created marketing campaigns for key TV shows including Desperate Housewives and [...]
Winnie the Pooh DVD Hits the Fans
It’s a big day for Disney fans at the DVD stores today as the Mouse House releases a new digitally remastered version of the 1987 feature, Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin. Winnie the Pooh, which gets his official star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today (with [...]
Captain Planet Rules Boomerang on Earth Day
If you’re looking for new ways to celebrate Earth Day (you’re done with the whole tree-planting thing!), we suggest you tune in to Boomerang’s 13-episode marathon of the ’90s-era show, Captain Planet and the Planeteers. Always a good place to catch favorite shows from the past, Boomerang will be offering [...]
DAZ Introduces Developer Program with New DAZlStudio 1.3
Utah-based 3D software and models developer DAZ Productions has released a new developer program (Software Development Kit SDK) with the latest version of its free digital art software, DAZlStudio 1.3. The product enables third-party developers to fully integrate their own technology directly into DAZlStudio. “Consumers across the globe demand engaging [...]
Fischinger to Swim in DVD Waters
The prayers of abstract expressionist animator Oskar Fischinger’s fans have finally been answered. L.A.-based Center for Visual Music will release a new DVD featuring ten of Fischinger’s beautiful abstract animated works on May 15. The upcoming Oskar Fischinger Ten Films DVD high-def digital transfers with remastered audio versions of Spirals, [...]
Academy Makes Animation...
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has...
Shout! Unleashes...
The Eisner Award-winning comic-book series by Joe Quesada, Paul Jenkins, Bill...
