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Shut Up! Cartoons Signs on With Gotham Group
YouTube channel Shut Up! Cartoons has entered into a representation agreement with The Gotham Group, which is recognized as the powerhouse management firm in the animation industry. The Gotham Group will represent Shut Up! Cartoons’ series for television and other brand extensions. The Alloy Digital-owned property boasts a stellar roster [...]
12 DreamWorks Pics Get Dates; ‘Dragon 3' Confirmed
Fox and DreamWorks Animation have set release dates for twelve features the studio will distribute in its new deal with the toon powerhouse. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the slate is the most ambitious for an animation studio in Hollywood history. The announcement included details on a feature called B.O.O.: [...]
Fantasia Fest Honors ‘King of Pigs,’ New Hertzfeld Short
Korean film The King of Pigs won the top prize for animated features at the Fantasia International Film Festival, while animator Don Hertzfeld’s latest won the best animated short prize. The Montreal-based festival honored The King of Pigs, a drama about two former middle-school classmates reuniting amid difficult circumstances and [...]
First Look at 3rd ‘Toy Story Toon’: ‘Partysaurus Rex’
Rex, the plastic dinosaur, faces the greatest threat of all time — bath time — in Partysaurus Rex, the most-recent Toy Story Toon short, set to play in front of the Sept. 14 release of Pixar’s Finding Nemo 3D. “If you’re a bath toy you get really intense playtime. It’s [...]
DWA’s ‘Dragons: Riders of Berk’ Bows Sept. 4 on CN
DreamWorks’ Dragons: Riders of Berk, a new animated series based on the Oscar-nominated feature film How to Train Your Dragon, premieres Sept. 4 at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT on Cartoon Network. Dragons is the third episodic television series from DreamWorks Animation, and its first on Cartoon Network. This weekly animated series [...]
Teletoon Offers 6-Week Preview to Canadian Cable Viewers
Teletoon Canada will offer Canadians free access to Teletoon during the Teletoon Free Preview event, running Aug. 15 to Sept. 30. During this six-week preview, subscribers of participating television service providers can tune into Teletoon’s English- or French-language linear, Video On Demand and broadband services for free. Teletoon will launch its [...]
Poser’s Miki Gets an Update, New Pal in Tyler GND
Smith Micro Software is previewing at SIGGRAPH 2012 the fourth edition of Miki, the most-popular 3D figure in its Poser software, and unveiled Tyler, the first male GND (Girl/Guy Next Door) from Poser artist Blackhearted. The company has asked the Poser content developer community to help out by creating clothing, hair, [...]
Cartoon Network Launches Watch-Play iOS App
Cartoon Network has released a new app for iOS that allows viewers to watch episodes of their favorite CN series and play games at the same time. CN 2.0, now available on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, includes all the features and content from the original video app, plus exclusive games [...]
Disney Launches Open-Source BRDF Explorer
Walt Disney Animation Studios is making its BRDF Explorer, a shading and rendering toolset, available to the industry through a new open-source site. BDRF stands for bidirectional reflectance distribution function, the mathematical description of how a surface reflects light. The BDRF Explorer is an advanced, physically-based shading and rendering toolset that evaluates [...]
Sony, ‘Smurfs’ Producer Plan Hybrid ‘ALF’ Movie
The Alien Life Form from the planet Melmac is plotting a comeback. Sony Pictures Animation has acquired the rights to ALF, the iconic 1980s sitcom about a wisecracking alien who lives with a typical suburban family, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Plans are for the studio to develop ALF into [...]
A Real-Life Replica of...
Cowabunga, dude! A real-life replica of Simpsons’ hometown of Springfield is...
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Epic, the new animated adventure from director Chris Wedge and his gifted team...
