Singer Says Quicksilver...
Just in time for the Memorial weekend, fanboy favorite Bryan Singer announced...
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Pukeko and Grand Ent. Introduce ‘Apple Dog’
New Zealand-based Pukeko Pictures (The WotWots) has signed a deal with China’s Grand Entertainment to provide creative and technical oversight on the new animated series, Apple Dog’s Adventure. The 200 x 10-minute series has already been been pre-sold to Kaku Satellite TV (which has a viewer coverage of over 600 million [...]
Komixx Opens U.S. Office
U.K. family entertainment media company Komixx Entertainment Ltd.—makers of the new kids’ animated series Toby’s Travelling Circus, and partner company with Random House Children’s Publishers UK—has opened its first international office in Los Angeles as part of its expansion into the U.S. market. With Toby’s Travelling Circus now regularly attracting [...]
Clean-up Artists: Once Unsung, Now Unemployed
Since this past week has been one in which a lot of unexpected things happened, let’s go even further. Imagine a time in which, against all present trends, traditional hand-drawn animation makes a substantial return. Suddenly, all those classically-trained and experienced animators are once more in demand for their primary [...]
iPi Motion Capture 2 to Showcase at Machinima
Russia’s iPi Soft, developers of advanced markerless motion-capture software technology, are planning a big (virtual) presence at this week’s 2012 Machinima Expo (Nov. 16-18)—the online event which takes place on its website via Livestream and in Second Life, now in its fifth year. iPi will be shining a spotlight on [...]
Toon Crowd-Funder Anipipo Previews
Japanese / Thai I.T. service development company Goopa has launched a preview of its crowd-funding service Anipipo on Thursday, Anime News Network reports. The site will be available in English and Japanese and is being developed to exclusively fund animated projects through individual contributors. Anipipo is being led by Hiroaki [...]
Paul Frank Tapped as BabyFirst’s EVP of Development
U.S.-based baby-focused TV channel BabyFirst has appointed veteran TV exec Paul Frank as its exec VP of series development in conjunction with plans to launch new prime time programs for moms and parents in 2013. Based at the channel’s L.A. headquarters and reporting to BabyFirst CEO Guy Oranim, Frank will [...]
Tissa David Memorial Planned in New York
We got word today through Michael Sporn’s blog that a memorial has been planned for the late animator and teacher Tissa David at the Academy Lighthouse Theater in New York on Tuesday Oct. 23rd at 7 p.m. The program will include five speakers and will have feature various clips from [...]
Fincher Launches ‘Goon’ Kickstarter Campaign
Oscar-winning director David Fincher (Social Network) has launched a new Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a new animated feature based on Blur/Dark Horse Studios’ The Goon. Finch will exec produce the project, which will be co-directed by Blur Studio’s president Tim Miller and Jeff Fowler. Based on an offbeat [...]
A Real-Life Replica of...
Cowabunga, dude! A real-life replica of Simpsons’ hometown of Springfield is...
Blue Sky’s...
Epic, the new animated adventure from director Chris Wedge and his gifted team...
