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DWA Sets China Facility; Will Co-Produce ‘Kung Fu Panda 3'
DreamWorks Animation is heading east. The company announced a joint venture called Oriental DreamWorks, which will establish itself at a new complex in Shanghai called the “Dream Center” and will be the co-production home of the upcoming feature Kung Fu Panda 3. The company will focus on film and TV [...]
Benjamin Reveals ‘Archer’ Crossover with ‘Bob’s Burgers’
Get ready for the most off-beat animation crossover of all time, as the FX series Archer is set to collide with the Fox hit Bob’s Burgers. The thread that ties the shows together is voice actor H. Jon Benjamin, who told EW.com that he’ll pull double duty as both Bob [...]
BOXX Demos New renderPRO & renderBOXX at SIGGRAPH
BOXX Technologies announced that its newly redesigned renderPRO and upgraded renderBOXX will debut at SIGGRAPH 2012. “We understand the applications our customers employ to create, test, and modify their ideas,” said Shoaib Mohammad, BOXX VP of marketing and business development. “So our optimized configurations, using the latest Intel processors and [...]
Toon Boom Unveils Harmony 10 at SIGGRAPH 2012
Toon Boom Animation has announced the release of Toon Boom Harmony 10 at SIGGRAPH 2012 in Los Angeles. The new version of the animation software delivers all the benefits that a 64-bit engine brings to your hardware, namely overall enhanced performance, a much faster user interface and interactive playback, as [...]
Rules, Categories Updated for 40th Annual Annie Awards
ASIFA-Hollywood has announced the rule and category changes for the upcoming 40th anniversary edition of the Annie Awards. Changes to the rules and categories this year include: Achievement Awards for Television are now referred to as Television/Broadcast and include not only general television and cable programming, but also internet, mobile, [...]
‘Lorax’ Pops, Ponies Get Married on New Discs
Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, a hit at the box office for Universal and Illumination Entertainment, arrives on home video ahead of a strong pack of animated and VFX releases that includes a favorite among the Bronies tribe. Directed by Chris Renaud (of Despicable Me fame), The Lorax (Universal, $29.98 DVD; $34.98 [...]
Toon Goggles Launches Viewing App for Sony Tablets
Online kids channel Toon Goggles is partnering with Sony to launch an exclusive app to deliver children’s content to Sony tablet computers via the Google Play app store. The app will have exclusive content available in the U.S. and Canada until early October. The app will provide viewer’s instant access [...]
‘Dark Knight Rises’ Posts Third Straight B.O. Win
It was a three-peat for the final episode in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. The Dark Knight Rises topped the box office for the third straight weekend, taking in $36 million domestic for a to-date total gross estimated at $354 million. The international gross edged up slightly higher to a total [...]
Scaling the VFX Heights of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’
The third and final chapter in Chris Nolan’s Batman trilogy delivers plenty of spectacular visuals and mind-boggling vfx scenes that linger in memory long after the final credits roll. The stakes are bigger than ever for Batman in The Dark Knight Rises, the final installment in director Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed [...]
Spidey’s VFX Revealed: Extreme Webslinging Ahead!
Our writer goes behind the scenes of Sony’s Amazing Spider-Man reboot to uncover the secrets of some of its high-end visual effects. It has been only five years since Marvel Comics’ iconic webslinger last graced the scene in the Sam Raimi-directed Spider-Man 3, but Sony is banking that fans are [...]
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...
