Atlantyca Entertainment, the Italian entertainment company behind the hit animated series Geronimo Stilton, launched Atlantyca IP Agency, a new branch that will focus on selling Atlantyca’s extensive catalog of children’s publishing properties. Lucia Geraldine Scott, a five-year veteran of the company, has been appointed as sales manager of the new [...]

Updated re-imaginings of fairy tales have been all the rage of late, with two of the year’s highest-profile features arriving this week on home video. Up first is Oz: The Great and Powerful (Disney, Blu-ray $39.99, 3D Blu-ray $44.99, Blu-ray/DVD combo pack $44.99, DVD $29.99). Directed by Sam Raimi of Evil [...]

Ringling College of Art and Design students Lindsey St. Pierre and Ashley Graham won the gold medal in the animation category at the 40th Student Academy Awards for their film Dia De Los Muertos. Here’s a clip from the CG-animated short: The silver medal award went to Will, a film [...]

Montreal-based animation software giant Toon Boom announced today at the Annecy Market the launch of its “What I Like About Harmony” contest. Open to all Harmony users around the world, this contest is a wonderful opportunity to invite the global Harmony community to express what they feel about the software. [...]

To mark the 85th birthday of celebrated American illustrator and author Maurice Sendak, Google has created a lovely animated Doodle, which debuts on June 10. Best known for penning beloved classics such as Where the Wild Things Are (1963) and In the Night Kitchen (1970). Several of Sendak’s popular books were [...]