Animated People
Mind-Altering: French Animator Bruno Collet Discusses His Oscar-Nominated Short ‘Memorable’
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Gaming
Singer/Actress Eve to Voice XIII
May 7, 2003Video game publisher Ubi Soft Ent. announced that recording artist and film star Eve will lend...
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Schools
CalArts Awards Honorary Degree to Roy E. Disney
May 7, 2003Walt Disney Co. vice chairman Roy E. Disney will receive an honorary degree from CalArts. CalArts...
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Licensing
Pinocchio 3000 Feature on the Block
May 7, 2003CinéGroupe’s upcoming CG feature film, Pinocchio 3000, is now available for licensing. Carlton Consumer Division will...
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Television
Spike TV Zeroes in on John Leguizamo
May 6, 2003Emmy Award-winning actor/writer/comedian John Leguizamo (Ice Age, Moulin Rouge, Empire) has created a 30-minute adult animated...
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Home Entertainment
Monsters on DVD Rampage
May 6, 2003Today’s home video releases unleash a couple of beasts in the form of a six-armed stop-motion...
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Visual FX and Tech
BOXX Boxes Get New Processors
May 6, 2003BOXX Technologies announced that its XXtreme series of 3DBOXX workstations, RenderBOXX rendering systems and ServerBOXX servers...
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Gaming
4 Million+ Matrix Games to Ship Worldwide
May 6, 2003In what is Atari’s largest initial shipment ever, more than 4 million copies of the Enter...
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Internet
Disney to Launch Toontown Online
May 6, 2003Disney Online will officially launch a downloadable version of Disney’s Toontown Online (www.toontown.com), a massively multiplayer...
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Schools
Ex’pression Center Dedicates Lab to Chuck Jones
May 6, 2003Ex’pression Center for New Media in Emmeryville, Calif. has named one of its state-of-the-art digital media...
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Licensing
Toons Laugh to the Bank in South Africa
May 6, 2003Warner Bros. Consumer Products has licensed Loony Tunes’ Tweety, DC Comics’ Batman and Superman and Cartoon...
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Features
X Marks the Spot
May 5, 2003Twentieth Century Fox’s X2: X-Men United took the box office by storm over the weekend with...
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Television
Boogiepop Phantom Creeps to Anime Network
May 5, 2003The hit anime thriller Boogiepop Phantom, produced for U.S. distribution by The Right Stuf Int’l, has...
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Festivals and Events
Studio Ghibli Returns: The Latest hit Opens Anime Fest at the Cinematheque
May 5, 2003The American Cinematheque’s First Annual Anime Festival opened in Hollywood at the Egyptian Theatre over the...
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Home Entertainment
Disney to Release A Bug’s Life Collector’s Edition
May 5, 2003Buena Vista Home Ent. will release a collector’s edition of its hit CG family flick A...
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People
Henry Selick Directs at Carl’s Fine Films
May 5, 2003Henry Selick, director of the Tim Burton-produced stop-motion holiday classic The Nightmare Before Christmas, will lend...
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Gaming
EA Awarded Superman Rights
May 5, 2003Warner Bros. Consumer Products and DC Comics have granted Electronic Arts worldwide interactive rights to develop,...
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Internet
Toon Scribe Jeffrey Scott Chats Online
May 5, 2003The Big Cartoon DataBase and AnimationHQ will sponsor an online chat with Emmy-winning cartoon writer and...
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Features
SPECIAL FEATURE: Missed It by That Much; It’s always as fascinating to learn who almost got the voice-over part as who ended up with it.
May 2, 2003When voice actor and cartoon character are perfectly matched, it becomes impossible to imagine someone else...
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Features
Vinton to Animate Burton’s Corpse
May 2, 2003The Hollywood Reporter confirmed a rumor that Portland, Ore.-based Vinton Studios will animate producer Tim Burton’s...
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Home Entertainment
T2: Extreme DVD to Feature HD Version
May 2, 2003Terminator2: Judgment Day broke new ground in the use of digital visual effects technology. Now Artisan...
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Gaming
EA, LEGO Engineer BIONICLE Game
May 2, 2003Electronic Arts and LEGO Interactive are collaborating on a video game based on BIONICLE, the popular...
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Internet
Bandai Lanuches Geneshaft Website
May 2, 2003Bandai Ent. today launched http://geneshaft.bandai-ent.com in conjunction with the upcoming DVD release of Kazuki Akane’s anime...
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Licensing
Koala Brothers Under Big Tent Ent.
May 2, 2003Following news of a European toy license deal with Hasbro, London-based Spellbound Ent. has licensed its...
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Features
The X Factor
May 1, 2003The summer of big effects movies gets an early start with Friday’s release of Twentieth Century...
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Television
Comedy Central on House Arrest
May 1, 2003Comedy Central is taking animation to the mike by mixing it with stand-up comedy. According to...
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Home Entertainment
ADV Films Acquires Three Anime Series
May 1, 2003ADV Films has picked up the anime series Azumanga Daioh, Magical Shopping Street Abenobashi and Final...
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People
Burger Joins Splash Design as CG Supervisor
May 1, 2003Splash Design creative has brought on animator Steve Burger as its new CG supervisor. He will...
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People
Jim Danforth: Stop-Motion Legend
May 1, 2003In the world of stop-motion special effects animation, the name Jim Danforth is as big as...
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Visual FX and Tech
VES Offers Advice on Finding and Keeping a Job
May 1, 2003The Visual Effects Society will present “Finding and Keeping a Job in Today’s Visual Effects Industry,”...
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Commercials
First L.A. Anime Fest Tomorrow
May 1, 2003The American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre kicks off the 1st Annual Los Angeles Anime Festival...
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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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