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Long Weekend News: ‘Tad,’ ‘Simpsons,’ ‘Planet Earth’

February 18, 2013 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

It was another big weekend of awards for animated titles. Fox-TV’s long-running animated series The Simpsons received a Writers Guild honor for the episode “Ned and Edna’s Blend Agenda” written by Jeff Westbrook. The episode was competing against three other episodes of the show and the “Forget-Me-Not” episode of Family [...]

Six Point Harness and Titmouse Launch Rug Burn Channel

December 7, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

Six Point Harness and Titmouse have launched a new YouTube animation channel called Rug Burn. The founders of these prominent independent animation studios have been close friends for years, but their studios are in competition with each other in the TV animation industry, and now online. “We are cartoon-fist-punching each [...]

Hanks Promotes Animated Web Series ‘Electric City’

July 18, 2012 by Ramin Zahed 3 Comments divider image

Tom Hanks’ new animated series Electric City, premiered on Tuesday on Yahoo.com. Set in a troubled dystopian world which is the result of a series of ecological and human-related disasters, the 20-part show was written by Hanks and also features the multi-Oscar-winning actor as the voice of Cleveland Carr, a [...]

Hanks’ ‘Electric City’ to Debut on Yahoo on July 17

July 3, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

The new animated project exec produced and voiced by Tom Hanks will premiere on Yahoo.com on July 17. The show, which is titled Electric City, was originally announced in January. Hank’s Playtone and Reliance Entertainment are behind the project, which will be available on Yahoo.com. Other celebrity voices include Jeanne [...]

Tom Hanks Creates Show for Yahoo

January 9, 2012 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments divider image

Hollywood royal Tom Hanks has created a new animated sci-fi series set to stream exclusively on Yahoo as the ‘net portal’s first foray into narrative storytelling entertainment, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Partners are to be announced next week. The show, titled Electric City, will star Hanks as the voice [...]

Rising Stars of Animation: 2011

October 7, 2011 by Ramin Zahed 1 Comment divider image

We searched high and low to find some of the brightest, bravest and most talented up-and-coming over-achievers in the toon scene. Zack Keller & Ed Skudder Co-Creators, Dick Figures [6 Point Media] Work goes faster when you have a good buddy helping you out—or hurling insults at you, or postulating [...]