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 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 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 [...]

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 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 [...]