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Cyber Takes TV’s Ozie Boo! to the Movies
The animated French preschool series Ozie Boo! is getting a big-screen upgrade, thanks to its creators, Cyber Group Animation. Variety reports the feature will, like the TV series, feature five baby penguins and a green theme. The film is set for release in France in 2010, with Cyber handing both [...]
Canada Film Board to Stream Archive Online
The National Film Board of Canada has made more than 700 films’including such animated classics as The Log Driver’s Waltz and Cosmic Zoom‘available for streaming for free on its website, www.NFB.ca. The online project is part of a $1.3 million project to digitize the board’s archives. The board plans to [...]
NewTek Upgrades LightWave 3D
LightWave 3D maker NewTek has announced the release of a major upgrade to the software. LightWave v. 9.6 has implemented more than 625 feature requests and reported issues, and is the fifth free upgrade in the LightWave v. 9 series. Benefits of the new version include fiber FX cloning, layout [...]
Craft Director Tools Extended to MAXON’s CINEMA 4D
Craft Animations has announced the availability of its Craft Director Tools for users of MAXON’s CINEMA 4D. Craft Director Tools uses high-end artificial intelligence and autonomous control systems to speed up the traditional animation process. Combining these unprecedented animation tools with CINEMA 4D’s ease-of-use and image quality, users receive a [...]
Animated Lies Earns Top Short Honor at Sundance
Lies, an animated short film from Swedish director Jonas Odell, has earned the top prize for international shorts at the Sundance Film Festival.The film features three episodes dealing with the subject of lies and their consequences, and is Odell’s second successful short. His 2006 short, Never Like the First Time! [...]
SpongeBob’s Kenny to Host Annies
Tom Kenny, the voice actor behind SpongeBob SquarePants, will once again be the host for Annie Awards, to be held Jan. 30. Kenny will be joined at the 36th annual event by a group of distinguished presenters, including animation legend June Foray, actors Brad Garrett (Ratatouille, ‘Til Death), Seth Green [...]
Wall’E, Bolt, Panda Oscars Top Toons
Pixar pic earns six noms; Bashir gets foreign-language nom Surprises abounded as the Oscars announced their nominated films, with Disney’s Bolt joining DreamWorks’ Kung Fu Panda and Pixar’s WALL’E‘which earned six total nominations’competing for the animated feature nomination. While WALL’E and Kung Fu Panda were expected, Bolt beat out the [...]
Al Jazeera Creates Animation Series
Qatar-based Al Jazeera Children’s Channel is developing a 3D animated series called Salaheldine. The ongoing series, about a hero who pursues a dream of uniting his people in battle and delivering them from enemies, is set for release next year. The series is being produced by JCC and Malaysia, with [...]
Disney Takes DQ’s Twisted Abroad
Walt Disney Television International (Southeast Asia) has picked up India-based DQ Entertainment’s CG-animated series Twisted Whiskers for 12 new territories. The deal means the series will be seen on Disney Channel in Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, Palau, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, South Korea, Hong Kong and Papua New Guinea. [...]
Sony’s 2012 Moved to November
Director Roland Emmerich’s sci-fi film 2012 has been pushed back from its original July 10 release date to Nov. 13. Execs at Sony tell Variety the move makes sense given the studio’s strong summer slate and its success with a mid-November release on the past two James Bond films. The [...]
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