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Google Pays Valentine’s Day Homage to Ferris
We couldn’t get enough of Google’s wonderful animated tribute to Valentine’s Day and the 154th birthday of George Ferris, the inventor of the Ferris wheel this year. The Feb. 14th interactive Doodle features two Ferris wheels, packed with different animals. Once you click on the heart button, the wheels spin [...]
Animated Shaq to Hang with Warren Buffet’s Team
An animated version of basketball star Shaquille O’Neal will visit Warren Buffett’s toon Secret Millionaires Club, which airs this Sunday (January 20) at 9 a.m. on The Hub. Shaq, who is a savvy investor in real life, and has shares in Google and Tout, stops by the club to give [...]
Fortune Picks DreamWorks as Best Studio to Work for
DreamWorks Animation was snubbed by the Oscars this year, but studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg can raise his head up high for leading the only Hollywood studio in Fortune magazine’s list the best places to work in the U.S. this year. The Glendale, Calif-based studio, which has 2,350 employees, was 12th [...]
Wallace & Gromit Hang with Google
Wallace and Gromit have teamed up with Google to star in a festive video that aims to connect family and friends this holiday season. Appearing together with a number of other Aardman Animation characters for the first time, the video features Wallace and Gromit in a Google+ Hangout with Trixie and Captain [...]
‘Mike the Knight’ Is Google U.K.’s Top TV Trender
File this one under the special “Who Knew?” file. Mike the Knight, the CG-animated series from Hit and Nelvana has beaten such heavy-hitters as Showtime’s CIA thriller Homeland and BBC’s popular Sherlock series and landed on top of Google U.K.’s highest trending TV shows of the 2012 list. Google defines [...]
Google Pays Homage to Winsor McCay
Fans of Winsor McCay’s classic Little Nemo got a lovely present today (October 15) on the 107th anniversary of the comic-strip. The famous Google Doodle paid homage to the influential strip with one of the search engine’s most elaborate and visually arresting doodle animated projects to date, created by Jennifer [...]
Blender’s ‘Tears of Steel’ Debuts Online
Blender Foundation’s CG-animated short film Tears of Steel will have its live premiere at a special screening hosted by ASIFA-Hollywood today (Wednesday, Sept. 26) at Woodbury University in Burbank. The short will also debut online on YouTube and www.tearsofsteel.org. The short is the fourth Blender project produced via an open [...]
‘Angry Birds’ Honor Freddie Mercury’s Birthday
In honor of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury’s September 5 birthday, Rovio has released a new animated Angry Birds YouTube short using the song “Bicycle Race.” The video was produced to raise awareness for the special Freddie For A Day fundraising evening hosted by band members Brian May and Roger Taylor. [...]
TED-ED Site Uses Animation for Education
Over the past few years, TED’s thought-provoking conferences have offered a great way of sharing ideas, stories and methods of understanding our world. Now the non-profit group behind TED has launched a new website devoted to video lessons which blend animation and live-actions to help teachers and inspire students online. [...]
Google Celebrates Eadweard Muybridge’s Birthday
The famous galloping horses of English photographer Eadweard J. Muybridge (1830-1904) are moving once again on Google’s homepage today in honor of his 182nd birthday. The famous photographer used multiple cameras to capture animal movement and invented the zoopraxiscipe, a device used to project motion pictures. Muybridge is also considered [...]
Jon Vitti to Pen ‘Angry...
Emmy-winning writer Jon Vitti, who has worked on hit toons The Simpsons and...
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+ Canadian indie Guru Studio and publishing partner Immedium have released a...
