Annecy Announces Professional Conference Lineup

May 14, 2013 by Ramin Zahed 1 Comment

The upcoming Annecy Festival of Animation has announced this year’s lineup of professional animation panels. The pro conferences have been organized by Christian Jacquemart and Rene Broca. Here is the 2013 rundown: Development, Pipeline Choices, Post-Animation Tuesday, June 11th, 9:30 am-12:30 pm Speakers: Alexandre Bretheau and Pierrot Jacquet (Cube Creative [...]

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More Than Just a Pretty Picture

April 2, 2012 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments

An appraising look at Jean-François Laguionie’s latest work of art, The Painting. From this side of the Atlantic, it can be easy to lose sight of the fact that feature animated projects need not revolve around spunky princesses, spunky sass-talking animals or courageous yet irreverent super-heroes. Luckily, the creative capitals [...]

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French ‘Tableau’ Offers Artistic Alternative

January 3, 2012 by Ramin Zahed 1 Comment

This holiday season, French animation fans had a chance to check out a more unusual home-grown animated movie as well as the global blockbusters such as Puss in Boots and The Adventures of Tintin. Directed by Jean-Francois Laguionie (Monkeys’ Castle, Island of Black Mor) and produced by Armelle Glorennec and [...]

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