Saturday, August 19, 2017
Herotainment & Toonz Launch ‘Smighties’ on YouTube
Herotainment and Toonz Media Group have launched their original animated series Smighties worldwide on YouTube and YouTube Kids. The 39 x 7 min. comedy-adventure debuts with three episodes ... Continue Reading →
Monster’s ‘Harry & Bip’ off on Worldwide Waddle
Monster Entertainment has only just picked up distribution rights for the newly completed animated series Harry & Bip (15 x 2), and has already sold the non-dialogue CG comedy to ... Continue Reading →
Up to 10% of Jobs May Be Cut at Restructuring Rovio Animation
Rovio Entertainment, creator of the hit Angry Birds mobile game, entertainment and licensing franchise, may eliminate up to 35 jobs or nearly 10% of total employees as it restructures ... Continue Reading →
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How Women Modernized the Disney Princess
BuzzFeed‘s Ariane Lange revisits the studio’s post-Walt princess history to follow the path of evolution from Ariel to Moana, with ... Continue Reading →
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VIDEO: ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Teaser Trailer (2017)
Medieval knights! Dragons! Nazis! Mark Wahlberg! And robots from space! Michael Bay’s latest kajillion dollar franchise ... Continue Reading →
CAKE Presenting New Angry Birds Toons at MIP
Kids’ entertainment company CAKE will launch two new series starring characters from The Angry Birds Movie at this fall’s MIPCOM market: Piggy Tales: Third Act and Piggy ... Continue Reading →
Rovio’s ToonsTV Comes to Apple TV
Rovio Entertainment’s kid-friendly ToonsTV video on demand app — which has so far accrued over 5.6 billion views — is now available worldwide through Apple TV in the ... Continue Reading →
Breaking Into The Biz, Part 2
How will you get your start in the animation writing game? Last issue, we spoke to three of Baboon’s team of award-winning scribblers, who each got their break using one classic ... Continue Reading →
Ask a Baboon Ask A Baboon – Issue #253
Putting More Spring in Your Springboard, Part 1
Think of your favorite episode of your favorite cartoon… Got it? Well, guess what – the perfect plot, the ingenious jokes: those ... Continue Reading →
Ask A Baboon – Issue #250
Comedy Is When A Bird Hits A Pig … Twice
Our writers explore the fine lines between slapstick, ... Continue Reading →
