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Disney Magic Artist Goes Online
Disney Online, part of the Walt Disney Internet Group and creator of www.disney.com, has launched Disney Magic Artist online (www.disney.com/magicartist). Powered by HP, the new site lets guests design and print their own coloring pages, greeting cards, calendars, play sets and personalized, color-printed pages for scrapbooks and photo albums featuring [...]
Greenlightjobs Offers Online Job Search
Anyone who has packed up and moved to Hollywood knows how difficult it can be to find a career in the entertainment biz. That’s why greenlightjobs is providing a virtual door to squeeze a foot in. Created and managed by former E! Network human resources exec., Lisa Kaye, greenlightjobs launched [...]
Activision, Disney Need Help Casting Extreme Skate Kids
After a month-long nationwide casting call, Activision Inc. has narrowed its search for real kids to be animated in the upcoming video game Disney’s Extreme Skate Adventure. Of the ten youngsters selected to have their likenesses incorporated into the game, only two will nab co-starring roles with Toy Story stars [...]
Fox Signs On With CinemaNow
According to Reuters, online movie service CinemaNow has inked a distribution deal with Twentieth Century Fox, whose properties include Ice Age and Daredevil. Despite concerns over online movie piracy, Fox joins Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a CinemaNow partner. CinemaNow, based in the Los Angeles suburb of Marina [...]
Garfield, MovieTickets.com Help Make Web Safe for Kids
Garfield Island (http://www.GarfieldIsland.com), a subscription-based, kid-safe, parent-approved web browser and community, is getting help in promoting Internet safety from MovieTickets.com. A by-product of the partnership is a “Kids Zone” page on MovieTickets.com where parents can purchase child-appropriate movie tickets online. Garfield Island, the flagship product of Children’s Technology Group, Inc. [...]
Frank and Ollie Animate the Web
As we prepare the Animation Magazine special tribute to Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston issue, the legendary Disney animators invite you to visit their website at www.FrankAnOllie.com Frank and Ollie designed the site themselves, with technical assistance from friend and partner Mike Clark. Features include biographies, filmographies, tips for animators [...]
Cosgrove Hall Puts Ghosts in the Machine for BBCi
Following the success of its two Doctor Who internet dramas, BBCi is unleashing terror on the web with the help of animation studio Cosgrove Hall. Described as horror and adventure laced with dark humor, Ghosts Of Albion is written by Buffy the Vampire Slayer cast member Amber Benson and Buffy [...]
The Return of Opus and Bill
The Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip Bloom County will be re-launched on the web this month. Beginning March 17, subscription-based www.mycomicspage.com will offer the full run of Berkeley Breathed’s famous strip, which was retired in 1989. Breathed will eventually make the entire Bloom County and Outland collection available digitally through his [...]
Mainframe Ent. Online with Animation Collective
Canadian computer animation house Mainframe Ent. has teamed up with New York-based Animation Collective to jointly market web design and flash animation services for television, film, home video and the internet. The deal marks the first new venture for Mainframe under the direction of recently appointed CEO Rick Mischel. Mainframe [...]
Oscar Hopeful The ChubbChubbs Free to Download
As part of its Oscar Showcase, Movielink http://www.movielink.com/ will offer a free download of Sony Pictures Imageworks’ Academy Award-nominated short, The ChubbChubbs. This is the first time the film will be available online for high-speed Internet users. The ChubbChubbs, which screened in theaters prior to Sony’s Men in Black II [...]
BinWeevils Appoints Henwood...
U.K.-based digital social world BinWeevils, for kids 6-12, has appointed media...
Blue Sky’s...
Epic, the new animated adventure from director Chris Wedge and his gifted team...
