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Siggraph Movie Panels Announced
CG-animated and vfx-packed blockbusters will have a big presence at this year’s Siggraph confab, taking place in the L.A. convention center August 5-9. The show organizers have released their Production Session highlights (full program available at s2012.siggraph.org), here are some can’t-miss toon related sit-ins: Building Disney-Pixar’s Brave: Pencils to Pixels [...]
Pixar’s ‘Brave’ Princess Rules the Weekend Box Office
We can all take a deep breath. Pixar has still got its box office superpowers. The studio’s 13th animated feature Brave took the number-one spot at the box office, with a remarkable $66.7 million domestic gross. Pixar’s first movie with a female lead proved to be the fifth best debut [...]
Everything You Need to Know About Pixar’s ‘Brave’
Pixar breaks the toon and tech molds once again with its 3-D Scottish princess adventure tale. Move over, Cinderella: There’s a new princess in town, and she’s got more than a time-sensitive pumpkin to worry about. Meet Merida, the red-headed, bow-and-arrow-toting teen heroine of Disney-Pixar’s latest animated adventure, Brave, which [...]
Pixar Unleashes Trailer & Images for ‘Monsters University’
Only two days before the nationwide release of its summer movie Brave, Disney/Pixar has unveiled new images and a trailer for the studio’s 2013 summer movie Monsters University. Slated for a June 21, 2013 release, the movie is directed by Dan Scanlon (Cars, Master and the Ghostlight), produced by Kori [...]
Lasseter Reveals More About ‘The Good Dinosaur’
With fans’ anticipation for Brave reaching high-frenzy levels in the next couple of weeks, the folks at Bleeding Cool managed to chat with Disney/Pixar Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter about some of Pixar’s upcoming movies. Here’s what he had to say about The Good Dinosaur and Pete Docter’s “inside-the-mind” project. [...]
Art of the Matter
An artistic mouse and a musically talented bear form a special bond in the charming new French animated feature Ernest and Celestine. Mentioning Didier Brunner’s name in international animation circles often evokes a mixture of awe and admiration. The talented and prolific French producer and his Paris-based studio Les Armateurs [...]
Russian Animation on Ice
How Moscow studio Wizart Animation is updating the nation’s CG industry with its first feature effort, The Snow Queen. The worlds of fairy tales and animation are inextricably linked—from the earliest days of long-form animated film, fanciful tales from around the world have found new life through the freedom of [...]
Tales from the Weird Side
Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch taps his childhood memories to create the offbeat world of the hot new Disney Channel cartoon. The fun tagline for Disney Channel’s new show Gravity Falls describes its location as “just west of weird.” But if you’re looking for the real spot where the toon’s [...]
The Long, Strange Odyssey of ‘Foodfight!’
The news that the Godot of animation, Foodfight! was FINALLY going to be released (albeit only on DVD and only in Europe), puts an end to the bizarre saga of the most ill-fated epic in toon trench history. Created and produced by digital effects shop Threshold Entertainment, which was technologically [...]
Pixar Teases 2014's ‘The Good Dinosaur’
Pixar’s upcoming dinosaur project has a name, as well as a few details for animation fans to ponder. Up’s Bob Peterson will direct The Good Dinosaur, which postulates that the asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs never happened and the creatures still walk the Earth today. “It’s time [...]
Jon Vitti to Pen ‘Angry...
Emmy-winning writer Jon Vitti, who has worked on hit toons The Simpsons and...
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