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Graham Chapman Pic Sponsors Animation Contest
In celebration of the new feature film A Liar’s Autobiography – The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman, an international online animation competition titled ‘Animate Chapman’ was launched today. The contest, which is open to students, amateurs and professional animators alike, aims to find creative animators to bring Chapman [...]
Disney Fine-Tunes Pixel Animation App
Disney Interactive has launched a new app for creating original and Disney-themed pixel art and animation for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The free app, which is called Disney Pixel’d is available on the App Store this week (itunes.com/apps/pixeld). Users can create one-of-a-kind pixel art that literally pops as you make [...]
Jackson Confirms Third ‘Hobbit’ Feature
It’s official: Peter Jackson has confirmed that he will be expanding his two-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit into a trilogy. Warner Bros. is probably thrilled to hear the news and fans are rejoicing as the Oscar-winning director will be pulling from material from the appendices and Tolkien’s notes [...]
Henson Company Cuts Ties with Chick-fil-A
The Jim Henson Company will no longer do business with Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A. Dan Cathy, president and COO of Chick-fil-A recently told the Baptist Press that Chick-fil-A was “guilty as charged” in its opposition to same-sex marriage. A report from the LGBT advocacy group Equality Matters said that Chick-fil-A donated more [...]
‘Ben & Holly’ Returns to Nick Jr. UK
The second season of eOne Family’s Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom has begun its weekday run (7.15 a.m. and 5.30 p.m.) on Nick Jr. UK. Thirteen more episodes from season two will be broadcast on the channel at the end of the year. Channel 5’s Milkshake! will also air the [...]
Scholastic to Throw Big Bash for Clifford’s 50th
Scholastic Media will kick off the 50th anniversary celebration of Clifford the Big Red Dog on September 24th—in conjunction with the publication of Norman Bridwell’s Clifford and the ‘Biggest Birthday Party Ever’ at Scholastic headquarters in New York City, a live event, which will be streamed to classrooms nationwide. The [...]
Little Airplane Flies with New ‘Small Potatoes’ App
Little Airplane Productions has partnered with social gaming platform Huzutech to create a new HTML5 app for its popular Small Potatoes Facebook page (www.facebook.com/thesmallpotatoes), which boasts 1+ million users. The Small Potatoes Potato Maker app is set to debut on July 1, 2012. It will allow fans of the short-form [...]
‘Small Potatoes’ Sprouts New Homes Globally
Little Airplane Productions’ has secured a trio of deals with prominent broadcasters for its short-form, animated series Small Potatoes. The spuds are due to appear on leading German kids’ channel KiKA, Rai in Italy and on TV Brasil. KiKA will air the series as 13 x 7’ and Rai and TV Brasil [...]
Six Point Harness Kickstarts ‘Dick Figures’ Movie Campaign
Six Point Harness has launched a Kickstarter campaign for a feature-length Dick Figures movie. The animated Dick Figures series of about 40 shorts has recorded more than 115 million views since debuting just over a year ago on Mondo Media’s YouTube channel. It has become one of the most-viewed and highest-rated animated series [...]
Believe Entertainment Group’s ‘The LeBrons’
Good things happen when the worlds of professional basketball and animation collide—and no, for once we are not talking about Space Jam. We’re talking about the cool webtoon The LeBrons which just wrapped its first season after garnering over 50 million views on YouTube. Starring Miami Heat forward LeBron James, [...]
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