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Disney Fools With Animation Pitch
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney has acquired the proposed animated family feature The Fool’s Errand, pitched by American Pie 2 scribe David H. Steinberg. The story, which will reportedly follow a court jester’s quest to restore peace to a kingdom, is Steinberg’s first stab at the genre, a stretch [...]
Nintendo Revolutionizes Trading Cards
In the past, if you wanted to add functionality to your trading cards, you could stick them in the spokes of your bicycle to get a great tick-tick-tick sound as you rode. Now Nintendo is giving card traders something more high tech to do with their acquisitions. The new e-Reader [...]
Barad Steps Down From Pixar Board
The Dow Jones Business News reports that Jill Barad is stepping down from Pixar’s board of directors. The former chairman of Mattel Inc. has been a director at the digital animation studio since 1997 and has declined the possibility of re-election at the company’s 2002 annual meeting scheduled for Oct. [...]
Futurama Takes Emmy
The 2002 Primetime Creative Arts Awards portion of the 54th Annual Emmy Awards was held on Saturday, Sept. 14 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Among the honors bestowed were the Emmys for animation and visual effects categories. Matt Groening’s Futurama broke the long wining streak of his own [...]
Phil Roman Designs Howdi Gaudi
Phil Roman, president/CEO of Film Roman and a former producer of The Simpsons, is back with a new animation series to be launched at MIPCOM Jr. Howdi Gaudi is inspired by the creativity of noted Catalan architect Antoní Gaudí and rides on the success of the Christmas in Gaudinia special [...]
Bazley Animates Vixen For BBC2
Bazley Films will direct, animate and produce a section of High Eagle Prods’ animated film for the BBC, The Cunning Little Vixen. Bazley, whose team includes former Disney and Warner Bros. artists, was recently founded by Richard Bazley, best known for his supervising work on Warner Bros.’ The Iron Giant. [...]
IBM Brings Supercomputing To Animation
To facilitate collaboration, editing and animation rendering, IBM has made its General Parallel File System (GPFS) available to media producers worldwide. The company claims that this supercomputing technology allows content creators to quickly, easily, and simultaneously access, exchange, and edit rich media files. Supercomputing is the ability to compile millions [...]
Buffy FXers Bite Into New Venture
Producer Steve Schofield and Creative Directors Chris Jones and Loni Peristere from the visual effects team behind the WB series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, have left San Francisco-based Radium to start Zoic Studios in Los Angeles. Zoic, which opened for business on Sept. 4, has retained work on Buffy, Angel [...]
SEMAFX Animation Fest Kicks Off In Michigan
The SEMAFX Network (Southeast Michigan Animation and Special Effects) is holding its Second Annual Film Festival of Animation and Shorts on Tuesday, September 17, 2002. Hosted by Schoolcraft College in Livonia and sponsored by Discreet, Rw Productions, CreativeCOW.net and TBRVideo, the event will feature guest demo artists, refreshments, door prizes [...]
Cartoon Super Saturday
Kids and many adults will be glued to the set this Saturday, Sept. 14 as a bevy of new animated shows premiere. Warner Bros. debuts Ozzy & Drix on Kids’ WB! Based on characters from the feature film Osmosis Jones, the series follows the adventures of Ozzy, a white blood [...]
Adobe’s Creative Cloud...
Adobe announced that a major update to Adobe Creative, the company’s flagship...
‘Kung Fu Panda 3'...
Production on DreamWorks Animation’s late-2015 release Kung Fu Panda 3...
