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32Ten Builds Lunarscape Set for Honey Maid Ad
San Rafael, Calif.-based model shop at 32TEN Studios recently wrapped work on a stop-motion animated, national TV spot promoting Kraft Foods’ new Honey Maid’s Grahamfuls product. The team at 32TEN designed and built the characters and a “lunarscape” for this new spot, a whimsical stop-action film in which a robot [...]
myKaZootv Signs Distribution Deal with Ameba
Online children’s music video channel myKaZootv, has signed a deal with digital distributor Ameba to reach new audiences and boost exposure for its content of family-friendly music. “We’re excited to partner with Ameba, and to provide some of the best artist-driven music content created just for children,” says Richard Ellis, [...]
DC Comics Legend Joe Kubert Passes Away
DC comic book artist Joe Kubert, has died at the age of 85. Best known for creating the characters Sgt. Rock and Hawkman, Kubert was also the founder of the Kubert School of cartooning in New Jersey. His other creations include the comic books Tor, Son of Sinbad, and Viking [...]
Fantasia Fest Honors ‘King of Pigs,’ New Hertzfeld Short
Korean film The King of Pigs won the top prize for animated features at the Fantasia International Film Festival, while animator Don Hertzfeld’s latest won the best animated short prize. The Montreal-based festival honored The King of Pigs, a drama about two former middle-school classmates reuniting amid difficult circumstances and [...]
First Look at 3rd ‘Toy Story Toon’: ‘Partysaurus Rex’
Rex, the plastic dinosaur, faces the greatest threat of all time — bath time — in Partysaurus Rex, the most-recent Toy Story Toon short, set to play in front of the Sept. 14 release of Pixar’s Finding Nemo 3D. “If you’re a bath toy you get really intense playtime. It’s [...]
DWA’s ‘Dragons: Riders of Berk’ Bows Sept. 4 on CN
DreamWorks’ Dragons: Riders of Berk, a new animated series based on the Oscar-nominated feature film How to Train Your Dragon, premieres Sept. 4 at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT on Cartoon Network. Dragons is the third episodic television series from DreamWorks Animation, and its first on Cartoon Network. This weekly animated series [...]
Teletoon Offers 6-Week Preview to Canadian Cable Viewers
Teletoon Canada will offer Canadians free access to Teletoon during the Teletoon Free Preview event, running Aug. 15 to Sept. 30. During this six-week preview, subscribers of participating television service providers can tune into Teletoon’s English- or French-language linear, Video On Demand and broadband services for free. Teletoon will launch its [...]
Poser’s Miki Gets an Update, New Pal in Tyler GND
Smith Micro Software is previewing at SIGGRAPH 2012 the fourth edition of Miki, the most-popular 3D figure in its Poser software, and unveiled Tyler, the first male GND (Girl/Guy Next Door) from Poser artist Blackhearted. The company has asked the Poser content developer community to help out by creating clothing, hair, [...]
Cartoon Network Launches Watch-Play iOS App
Cartoon Network has released a new app for iOS that allows viewers to watch episodes of their favorite CN series and play games at the same time. CN 2.0, now available on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, includes all the features and content from the original video app, plus exclusive games [...]
Disney Launches Open-Source BRDF Explorer
Walt Disney Animation Studios is making its BRDF Explorer, a shading and rendering toolset, available to the industry through a new open-source site. BDRF stands for bidirectional reflectance distribution function, the mathematical description of how a surface reflects light. The BDRF Explorer is an advanced, physically-based shading and rendering toolset that evaluates [...]
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