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Visual FX and Tech
Flip Your Lid’s Wraps FoxLab Project
June 5, 2003West Hills, Calif-based animation studio Flip Your Lid recently wrapped production on a cool new 3D...
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Visual FX and Tech
SplutterFish Releases New Plug-In for 3ds max
June 5, 2003With a little help from their friends at the ubiquitous Industrial Light & Magic, a Venice,...
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Gaming
Alienware to Use Seagate Drives in Gaming Systems
June 5, 2003Alienware, a leading manufacturer of high performance computer gaming PC systems has chosen to arm its...
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Schools
Oregon 3D Center to Hold 3ds max Weekend
June 5, 2003Continuing its series of top-shelf seminars in the Pacific Northwest, the Portland-based Oregon3D Center for Visualization...
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Features
Brittany Murphy Goes to CGI Down Under
June 4, 2003Since making a splash in 8 Mile, Don’t Say A Word and Just Married, Hollywood hottie...
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Features
Disney Chief Says Pixar/Disney Partnership to Last
June 4, 2003Disney chieftain Michael Eisner is seeking to counter the notion that the box-office success of Finding...
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Television
Spike vs. Spike TV
June 4, 2003He must be thinking he’s “doing the right thing!” Bloomberg reported today that filmmaker Spike Lee...
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Television
Cartoon Network’s Cartoon Bloopers Debuts Friday
June 4, 2003Wilma! I forgot the @#%$&* Line! Did Fred Flintstone really say that? Well, not exactly. But...
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Festivals and Events
Hi-Tech and Low-Tech Duke It Out at Annecy
June 4, 2003Nestled in the French Alps, on the shore of Lake Annecy and in the shadow of...
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Visual FX and Tech
CGI Artists Share Secrets of Matrix Reloaded
June 4, 2003The elusive Wachowski Bros.(as in Larry and Andy) may not be ready for their close-up (they...
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Gaming
Vid Games Laws Ruled Unconstitutional
June 4, 2003A federal appeals court late Tuesday threw out a Missouri county’s ban on the sale of...
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Commercials
Acclaim President Steps Aside
June 4, 2003Greg Fishbach, co-founder and longtime CEO of struggling video game publisher Acclaim Entertainment, has resigned and...
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Features
Will Nemo’s Success Put a Damper on Disney/Pixar Talks?
June 3, 2003Now that Andrew Stanton’s Finding Nemo blew all the competition out of the water with a...
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Home Entertainment
The Animatrix and South Park: Season 2 Offer DVD Relief
June 3, 2003With the dog days of summer reruns upon us, it’s a relief to know that there...
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Visual FX and Tech
Top F/X House to Host Left Coast CGI-Fest
June 3, 2003If you like a little more depth to your CGI explanations than the two-minute “How Did...
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Visual FX and Tech
Houdini Apprentice Challenge Announces Panelists
June 3, 2003With just over seven weeks before the Houdini Apprentice Challenge 2003 winds up at SIGGRAPH in...
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Gaming
Ultimate Gamers Expo Hosts Samsung World Cyber Games Finals
June 3, 2003The inaugural Ultimate Gamers Expo to be held in Los Angeles in the third week of...
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Gaming
Vidgame Genius Signs with Fox
June 3, 2003The creator of one of the world’s most famous and best-selling video games has signed a...
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Licensing
Marvin and Daffy Go to Mars, For Real!
June 3, 2003Just in time for the debut of the new Duck Dodgers series on Cartoon Network (August),...
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Features
Blade III Sharpens Its Teeth
June 2, 2003The third installment of the Blade franchise will be written and directed by David Goyer, who...
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Features
Disney/Pixar’s Fish Tale Scales New Heights
June 2, 2003Finding Nemo, Disney/Pixar’s whopper of a CG toon about a clownfish’s search for his lost son,...
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Television
Scholastic Announces New Latino-Themed Toon for 2004
June 2, 2003At a time when most art funding is being slashed by the government, it’s a relief...
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Television
TOKYOPOP Launches 2nd Stars of Manga Competition
June 2, 2003Los Angeles-based anime and manga house TOKYOPOP has announced the launch of its second Rising Stars...
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Television
Big Weekend for Small-Screen Toons
June 2, 2003While Finding Nemo was the center of attention this past weekend, two small-screen toons also managed...
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Festivals and Events
Gollum Takes Home Another Precious Prize
June 2, 2003For the second year in a row, Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth epic scored...
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People
Sesame Opens New Doors to Van Roden
June 2, 2003Pete van Roden has been named the new VP of themed entertainment at nonprofit educational organization...
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Technology
Technical Animation & Video’s 3ds max 5 Training DVD Set
June 2, 2003We all know that it’s not easy to be a good teacher, and that’s the reason...
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Technology
Compaq’s Evo N800w
June 2, 2003Animators, game developers and artists dealing with digital video have always been on the lookout for...
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Features
Belleville Picked Up By Sony Pictures Classics
May 30, 2003Following a successful showing at Cannes, the animated feature Les Triplettes De Belleville (U.S. title Belleville...
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Features
Nemo Splashes Onto Screens
May 30, 2003Disney and Pixar have done it again. The team that brought us Toy Story, Toy Story...
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Television
‘Mao Mao, Heroes of Pure Heart’: Parker Simmons’ Loveable Trio Hits the Road
June 30, 2019***This story was written for the August ’19 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 292)*** If you...
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Features
Watch: New English-Language Trailer for ‘Maquia’
August 16, 2018Eleven Arts Anime Studio has announced the English dub cast and English dubbed trailer for Maquia:...
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