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The new animated Star Wars Rebels series will premiere in the fall of 2104 as a...
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Nathan Love Animates National Geo Promo
Nathan Love director Jim McKenzie has delivered an evocative, nostalgic promo for National Geographic Channel’s The 80s: The Decade That Made Us miniseries. A rousing contrast to National Geographic’s traditionally grounded advertising, the animated spot serves up a trio of grinning, buff cheese ball characters working out in synch to [...]
Marc Craste & Studio AKA Deliver BBC’s Culture Spots
U.K.’s award-winning animation house Studio AKA has produced a 3×30 second spots highlighting BBC Radio 4’s new Cultural Exchange feature, which is billed as “a major new cultural sharing scheme providing listeners with 75 expertly curated cultural moments – a great poem or photograph, a painting or a piece of [...]
A Capital Venture
Show creators Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick discuss tackling season five of The Venture Bros. for Adult Swim, and what keeps fans coming back for more. Back in 2003, as Adult Swim viewers were enjoying spoofy recycles of defunct toon heroes in shows like Space Ghost Coast to Coast, The [...]
Maxon, Adobe Execs Discuss Cineware
Maxon and Adobe unveil a revolutionary new workflow system between After Effects and Cinema 4D at NAB. There’s always an exciting buzz in the air when two big software companies join forces to provide CG artists with new and improved digital tools for their work. At this year’s NAB Show [...]
MAXON, Adobe Form Strategic Alliance
MAXON, developer of 3D animation software CINEMA 4D, has announced it has entered into a strategic alliance with Adobe Systems Inc. to collaborate on technology for creatives in the motion graphics and vfx industry. As part of the venture, both companies will collaborate and engineer a pipeline between Adobe After [...]
NewTek’s LightWave 11.5 Hits the Market
NewTek’s LightWave 3D Group has announced the release of LightWave 11.5, the latest version of its award-winning 3D modeling, animation and rendering software for artists and designers. A no-charge upgrade to LightWave 11.5 is available to all registered LightWave 11 customers via the LightWave 3D website. LightWave 11.5 includes new [...]
The Return of a Seasonal Friend
Channel 4 and Lupus Films revive Raymond Briggs’ beloved characters in a new animated special The Snowman and the Snowdog. It’s been 30 years since audiences around the world fell in love with the animated adaptation of the children’s book The Snowman. Produced by the late British animation veteran John [...]
Bent, Hallmark Scare Up ‘Hoops & Yoyo Halloween’
Portland, Oregon-based toon studio Bent Image Lab has joined forces once again with Hallmark, this time to produce the 2D-animated comedy special Hoops & Yoyo’s Haunted Halloween, which airs Oct. 26. Based on the popular Hallmark e-card characters created by artist Bob Holt and Mike Adair, the seasonal special was [...]
Peter Hannan Has an ‘Embarrassing’ New Toon
It’s always cause for celebration when one of our favorite animation creators has a new show out. This week, CatDog creator Peter Hannan launched his new toon called Really Freaking Embarrassing on SMOSH’s Shut Up! Cartoons YouTube channel. We caught up with the talented writer/director/animator/musician/jack-of-all-trades to get the details about [...]
Adobe Introduces New Creative Cloud
Adobe has announced the release of its Adobe Creative Cloud, a new way of providing tools and services for creatives. A subscription-based offering, Adobe Creative Cloud is a hub for making, sharing and delivering creative work and it is centered around a powerful release of Adobe Creative Suite 6 software, [...]
Academy Makes Animation...
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has...
Shout! Unleashes...
The Eisner Award-winning comic-book series by Joe Quesada, Paul Jenkins, Bill...
