Italy’s View Conference...
Italy’s popular computer graphics conference View has announced its 2013...
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Pegbar Hosts Dublin Animation Event April 15
Irish animation group Pegbar is holding its next event April 15 at the Science Gallery in Dublin. The event will feature a number of short talks from guest speakers including Norton Virgien (director of Rugrats and Duckman), Jason Tammemägi (director of Fluffy Gardens and Ballybraddan) and renowned multimedia artist Fergal Brennan. [...]
Zemeckis to Oversee ‘Gnome Attack’ at Sony
Robert Zemeckis has re-emerged at Sony Pictures Animation, which has optioned the book How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack for him to produce as a mix of CG animation and live-action, Variety reports. The film is being developed as an R-rated feature with a budget in the $20 million [...]
New Trailer for U.S. Release of ‘Mia and the Migoo’
GKids has released an official trailer for the U.S. release of Mia and the Migoo. Directed by Jacques-Remy Girerd, Mia and the Migoo is a hand-painted animated feature that won the best animated feature award at the 2009 European Film Awards. The U.S. version will debut April 22 and will feature [...]
‘Apollo’s Pad’ Open for Business on Teletoon at Night
Apollo’s Pad has made the jump from edgy webseries to late-night cable in Canada. The series, produced by Lenz Entertainment and Galleon Entertainment, has been picked up by Teletoon to run on its Teletoon at Night block aimed at older teens and adults. Eight episodes have been produced especially for [...]
‘Rio’ Ready to Party at the U.S. Box Office
The box office goes in two very distinct directions this weekend, with horror fans likely headed to Scream 4 while animation offers a bright 3D trip to Rio. Directed by Carlos Saldanha and produced by Fox’s Blue Sky Studios, the animated feature Rio is set to open in an estimated [...]
Shorts Star Figaro Pho Gets New CGI Series
The Chocolate Liberation Front and Ambience Entertainment are set to produce a new animated series called The Adventures of Figaro Pho that will be distributed worldwide by ZDF Enterprises, ABC Commercial and D360. The producers describe the series as follows: “Figaro Pho is a warm-hearted, curious and mischievous character who just [...]
Toon Boom Shows New Harmony Solution
Toon Boom Animation has unveiled its new Harmony solution at MIP-TV. The company, which was demonstrating the software at its booth at the trade show, described the new solution as follows: Draw the Line Between Flash and a True Animation Pipeline: Harmony delivers capabilities that simply did not exist before. Starting [...]
Disney’s Summer TV Debut is ‘Rated A for Awesome’
Disney announced the launch of Rated A for Awesome, a new CG animated series developed and produced by the company’s London-based production hub for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Following the adventures of four ordinary kids and a monkey with perfect hair who are on a quest to make [...]
Canal + Brings ‘Action Dad’ to France
ToonZone Studios’ animated series Action Dad has been picked up for broadcast in France by Canal +. The series consists of 26 22-minute episodes and was produced by Los Angeles-based ToonZone with financing from the Animation Development Co. Aimed at kids ages 6-11, the comedy series about a super-spy family [...]
Six Ads Make Finalist List for 2011 Animated Com Award
Six international ads have been nominated for the 2011 Animated Com Award, with winners to be announced in conjunction with the 18th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film. The nominees are as follows: Advertising category Compare the Market: “Compare the Market ‘Streets of Ambitiousness,’” Passion Pictures, Great Britain Amnesty International: “Death [...]
Amazon’s LoveFilm and...
LoveFilm and Disney have signed a new pact which allows the Amazon subscriber...
CN All About ‘Adventure...
Cartoon Network Enterprises is riding the runaway Adventure Time train...
