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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has made available online a tremendous resource for animation and filmmaking aficionados with its new Production Art Database. The database contains records for more than 5,300 items from the library’s collection, including motion picture costume and production design drawings, animation art, storyboards [...]

One of our favorite comics at Animation Magazine is The Rocketeer, created way back in the early 1980s by Dave Stevens and turned into a live-action feature film by Disney in 1991. The movie version of The Rocketeer was a box office flop, but has found new popularity in recent [...]

It’s a well-known fact that one of the beauties of creating an animated series for the web is that you don’t have to worry about the usual bureaucracies and demands of the traditional gatekeepers. That’s why talented Hollywood screenwriter Claire-Dee Lim, who penned the popular family feature Firehouse Dog, decided [...]

DC Comics will reboot its entire line of superhero comic book titles, relaunching 52 comic titles with first issues that will be released day and date digitally and in print. The relaunch spins out of the current Flashpoint event and will kick off Aug. 31, when DC will release the [...]

Spike and Mike’s Festival of Animation has announced a new YouTube partnership with Mondo Media, creators of the Happy Tree Friends series. Bringing you daily dose of tasteless toons, Spike and Mike’s Sick & Twisted YouTube page is back with a brand new look and new independent cartoons. Here’s a [...]

Yesterday we posted news about The Amazing World of Gumball being the first series from Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe to be picked up in the states. Today, we have word on some of the shorts that the studio is producing, with six of them having been released for online viewing. [...]

NBC’s comedy series 30 Rock airs its 100th episode tonight, and to celebrate the networks is releasing a trio of animated shorts. The first short is up on NBC.com (and debuted on EW.com), and features the animated adventures of Jack Donaghy, Executive Superhero. The short features Alec Baldwin as Donaghy [...]

Big Idea Entertainment announced its popular animated faith-based series VeggieTales is coming to mobile devices via a channel on Sprint TV. The VeggieTales channel features complete shows of Big Idea Entertainment’s best-selling silly songs and DVD content including, Pistachio: The Little Boy That Woodn’t, Sweetpea Beauty: A Girl After God’s [...]

Canada-based animation studio Cuppa Coffee has started a new division called Lemon Squeezy Interactive that will focus only on mobile and online content. The new division’s debut product is an app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch based on the Cuppa Coffee property Bruno and the Banana Bunch, debuting this [...]

The Lebrons, a new animated series featuring the voice and likeness of NBA star LeBron James, has premiered online. The series is produced by James’ Spring Hill Productions and Believe Entertainment Group, and includes the voices of Niecy Nash, Jason Weaver, Michael Bell, Wesley Jonathan, Alex Desert, Dempsey Pappion, Dave [...]


As expected, DreamWorks Animation made an early splash at the Cannes Film...

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