The BBC has committed to air Postman Pat on its CBeebies children’s channel through 2015 under a new deal with Classic Media. The popular preschool series is celebrating in 2011 its 30th anniversary and a 30-year releationship with the BBC. The new deal will see the broadcaster re-up the license [...]

Irish animation studio Telegael has optioned Betty G. Birney’s popular children’s book series According to Humphrey for TV and film. The books are narrated by a classroom hamster named Humphrey, and are published in the United Kingdom by Faber & Faber and in the United States by G.P. Putnam’s Sons. The [...]

The Producer’s Guild may have added a twist to this year’s awards season narrative by giving its best picture honor to The King’s Speech instead of The Social Network. But when it came to animation, the honors followed in the footsteps of most other awards this year by giving the [...]

In the booming world of animation, there are multiple paths to success for each link in the chain — producers, technology companies and talent. All three of which have come together in a recent animation talent contest run by the website MyOuterSpace.com in conjunction with Toon Boom Animation and the Academy [...]

Aardman Animations is preparing new stereoscopic 3D content starring Shaun the Sheep for the just-announced Nintendo 3DS handheld gaming console. The company announced a partnership with Nintendo and will create an exclusive series of one-minute shorts to appear on the console, which presents games and video in stereoscopic 3D without [...]