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Posts from category "Internet"

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ANIMAX Helps Teens Cope with Chemo


October 20, 2004 by Ryan Ball No Comments divider image

Los Angeles, Calif.-based animation studio ANIMAX has produced a series of six short animated webisodes titled Coping with Chemo for the Starlight Starbright Foundation. The pieces are aimed at helping teens with cancer deal with the impact chemotherapy has on their lives and their bodies, and can be found at [...]

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Sims 2 Movies to Hit the Web


September 30, 2004 by Ryan Ball No Comments divider image

Electronic Arts’ eagerly awaited The Sims 2 debuted last week with a new feature that lets fans make animated movies using the Sims characters. Now the game publisher is creating its own Sims short films with the help of Rooster Teeth Prods., maker of the Red vs. Blue animated online [...]

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Jackson Offers Kong Peek


September 13, 2004 by Ryan Ball No Comments divider image

In his production diary on www.kongisking.net, director/producer Peter Jackson has added a new behind-the-scenes look at progress on his big-budget remake of King Kong for Universal pictures. The CG-laden movie began filming last week in Jackson’s native New Zealand. The video clip is from day 4 of principal photography and [...]

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Apple.com Gets New Robota Teaser


September 9, 2004 by Ryan Ball No Comments divider image

Many fans of sci-fi and fantasy have been tracking the progress of the $50 million CG feature, Robota, since director Doug Chiang’s concept art for the film appeared as an illustrated book published by Chronicle Books. Two animated trailers have surfaced since then and another has just hit the web. [...]

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Ghost In The Shell 2 Director Does Q&A


September 3, 2004 by Ryan Ball No Comments divider image

Mamoru Oshii, director of the anime cult favorite, Ghost in the Shell, and writer/director of the eagerly awaited sequel, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, will answer fan questions online. The Q& A session will take place through the movie’s official message board at www.ghost2.com/board/showthread.php?t=62. Admirers of Oshii’s work can [...]

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JibJab Free to Use Guthrie Tune


August 27, 2004 by Ryan Ball No Comments divider image

JibJab Media last month drew fire for using Woody Guthrie’s classic song "This Land is Your Land" in its much talked about animated short poking fun at presidential candidates George W. Bush an John Kerry. Now the Associated Press reports that the toon makers and the publishers of the song [...]

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JibJab Toon Gets More Hits than Kerry, Bush Sites Combined


August 16, 2004 by Ryan Ball No Comments divider image

Reston, Virgina-based comScore Media Metrix today released its monthly analysis of consumer Internet behavior, noting that JibJab.com, home of the famous "This Land is Your Land" political spoof, drew three times as many American visitors than both the John Kerry and George Bush websites combined. JibJab.com logged 10.4 million unique [...]

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Anime Network Programming Director Chats Online


August 11, 2004 by Ryan Ball No Comments divider image

Chris Nelson, director of programming for Anime Network, will be the featured guest tonight, Aug. 11, as Anime News Network re-launches its chat feature. Visitors to www.animenewsnetwork.com/chat.php will be able to pose questions to Nelson from 9 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. (ET). ‘ During the chat, Nelson will discuss the [...]

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Stan Lee’s Sunday Comics Goes Online


July 28, 2004 by Ryan Ball No Comments divider image

In a move announced at Comic-Con Int’l in San Diego over the weekend, Stan Lee, ibooks, Inc., and Komikwerks, LLC have launched Stan Lee’s Sunday Comics, a subscription-based service that will offer online readers access to comics by such top creators as Joe Kubert, Bernie Wrightson, Keith Giffen and Gil [...]

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Animated JibJab Brothers Shine on Leno


July 27, 2004 by Ryan Ball No Comments divider image

Fans of Jibjab Media’s brilliant Flash-animated web toon, This Land, which has a lot of fun with George W. Bush and John Kerry, were delighted to see the creators Evan and Gregg Spiredelli on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night. Congratulations on the talented entrepreneurs who persevered through [...]

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