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Bardel Zeroes in on Anton’s World
Are kids ready to peel their Christmas Orange all year round? That’s what the creative team at Vancouver-based animation studio Bardel Ent. are hoping as they get ready to shop a new 2D-animated property based on their award-winning special, The Christmas Orange. Produced in conjunction with TV Ontario, Anton’s World [...]
Marathon’s Team Galaxy Beams Down to Cartoon Network
Paris-based toon powerhouse Marathon Animation will be moving from the femme espionage world of Totally Spies! to the teen space cadet universe of Team Galaxy this fall. Cartoon Network has sealed the deal to air 52 half-hour episodes of the new high-energy series. ‘Team Galaxy combines excitement, adventure, and comedy’all [...]
Adobe’s New Production Studio Powers Up Workflow
Tech-heads rejoice: San Jose-based Adobe Systems Inc. unveils its brand new extension of its Creative Suite family of products, the Adobe Production Studio, today. Billed as the most complete post software solution available, Adobe Production Studio offers full new versions of Adobe’s video and graphics applications’Adobe After Effects 7.0, Adobe [...]
Wacom Introduces Super New Pen Tablet
Animators, designers and engineers addicted to big screens can start their week on a happy note as Wacom Technology Corp. introduces its Intuos3 12×19 pen tablet today. This new design tool is designed specifically for professionals and hobbyists who are using multiple large monitors or large widescreen displays such as [...]
Full Sail Swims with particleIllusion
Students at Orlando, Florida-based Full Sail school will be able to learn the ins and outs of wondertouch’s award-winning particleIllusion software program beginning this semester. Full Sail will incorporate wondertouch software into its new Digital Arts & Design Bachelor of Science Degree Program. The new degree program at Full Sail [...]
Three Miyazaki Shorts Premiere at Ghibli Museum
Hayao Miyazaki fans will have three more reasons to visit the famous Studio Ghibli Museum in Japan next year. Fan website www.nausicaa.net reports that from January 3 until March 13, three brilliant new shorts from Oscar-winning anime master Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle) will screen at the museum’s Saturn [...]
Academy Announces Seven Films Eligible for VFX Oscar
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced the seven films in consideration for Achievement in Visual Effects for the 78th Academy Awards. The titles in the running are, in alphabetical order, Batman Begins (Warner Bros.), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Warner Bros.), The Chronicles of Narnia: The [...]
EA Buys Jamdat Mobile for $680 mil
In what is seen as the largest acquisition in the company’s history, Elecronic Arts is buying cell-phone vidgame publisher Jamdat Mobile for a crisp $680 million in cash. Jamdat CEO Mitch Lasky will head EA’s worldswide mobile game business as part of this new development. Lasky will oversee Jamdat’s lineup, [...]
Sundance Fest Shorts Lineup Is Announced
Sundance Institute has announced the lineup for the 2006 Sundance Film Festival’s shorts program, which will feature 73 projects split into domestic and international competitive categories. These shorts were selected from a total of 4,327 submissions to the festival, which runs January 19-29 in Park City, Utah. Fans can also [...]
Narnia Roars for Lion’s Share of B.O.
Having missed the boat on Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, Disney hopes to gain its own epic share of the box office with The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which opens in 3,616 screens today. Directed by New Zealand native Andrew Adamson, who [...]
A Real-Life Replica of...
Cowabunga, dude! A real-life replica of Simpsons’ hometown of Springfield is...
Blue Sky’s...
Epic, the new animated adventure from director Chris Wedge and his gifted team...
