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Festivals & Events

Pomann Celebrates ‘Doug’s’ 20th Anniversary

Mercedes Milligan - August 11, 2011

Award winning sound shop Pomann Sound held a nostalgic party in their New York City studio last week to celebrate the 20th anniversary of...

Festivals & Events

Disney’s D23 Expo Boasts Stars & Sneaks

Mercedes Milligan - August 10, 2011

Disney’s ultimate fandom expo, taking place August 19 – 21 at the Anaheim Convention Center, has announced its planned sneak peeks and appearances by...

Top Stories

Lucasfilm, Imageworks Release Alembic 1.0

Mercedes Milligan - August 10, 2011

The public release of Alembic 1.0, the open source project developed jointly by Sony Pictures Imageworks and Lucasfilm Ltd., was announced at SIGGRAPH in...

Top Stories

The Bakery Showcases Relight at SIGGRAPH

Mercedes Milligan - August 9, 2011

French software house The Bakery (www.bakery3d.com; stand 471) is setting out to dazzle the SIGGRAPH Vancouver crowds this week with the latest additions to...

Top Stories

Disney and Autodesk Sign XGen Agreement

Mercedes Milligan - August 9, 2011

At SIGGRAPH, which is taking place in Vancouver, B.C. this week, Walt Disney Pictures and Autodesk, Inc. (www.autodesk.com, stand 429) announced an agreement to...

Home Entertainment

Entertainment One Takes On Two ‘Babar’ Series

Mercedes Milligan - August 8, 2011

Indie distributor Entertainment One (eONe) has secured home entertainment and digital rights to the classic Babar animated series, as well as the new CG...

Home Entertainment

Disney Announces Adds to 2011 Blu-ray 3-D Slate

Mercedes Milligan - August 8, 2011

Walt Disney Studios has announced a slew of family favorites set to join their slate of 3-D Blu-ray releases this year. The films will...

Television

Exclusive: ‘Pound Puppies’ New Episode Clip

Mercedes Milligan - August 8, 2011

New episodes of Hasbro Studios' Pound Puppies will begin airing on The Hub at the end of the week, following the week-long “Dog Days...

Festivals & Events

Three Top Toons to Debut at Toronto Festival

Mercedes Milligan - August 4, 2011

The Toronto International Film Festival (running September 8 – 18) has announced the line up for this year’s TIFF Kids program (formerly the Sprockets...

Television

Hub Unleashes New ‘Pound Puppies’ Episodes

Mercedes Milligan - August 4, 2011

The Hub’s top-rated series Pound Puppies will return with new episodes on August 13, capping off the week-long Dog Days of Summer programming event...

Commercials

Aardman Sets Record with Nokia Spot

Mercedes Milligan - August 3, 2011

Aardman Animations has put its name in the record books once again as their Sumo Science directorial team (Will Studd and Ed Patterson) have...

Top Stories

Skyreader’s ‘Giant Trouble’ Hits App Store

Mercedes Milligan - August 3, 2011

Skyreader Media, the eReading division of Canada’s Skywriter Media and Entertainment Group revealed it’s latest eBook, Giant Trouble, is now available for Apple’s iPad,...

Top Stories

Aardman & Tate Movie Project Opt for CelAction

Mercedes Milligan - August 2, 2011

Acclaimed Brit studio Aardman Animations has completed The Itch of the Golden Nit, a production with Tate Media, using the animation software CelAction2D. The...

Features

Trailer for Production I.G’s ‘A Letter to Momo’ Launches

Mercedes Milligan - August 2, 2011

Kadokawa Pictures has made available the first trailer for A Letter to Momo (Momo no e Tegami)—the latest feature animation project from Production I.G...

Television

Dentsu to Bring ‘LBX’ Bots to Americas

Mercedes Milligan - August 1, 2011

Dentsu Entertainment USA is gearing up to launch popular Japanese TV animation & franchise Little Battlers Experience to North, Central and South America, president...

Features

Not Your Grampa’s Campfire Story – ‘Cowboys & Aliens’

Mercedes Milligan - July 29, 2011

Industrial Light & Magic helps intergalactic creatures invade the Wild West in Universal’s Cowboys & Aliens. The latest ripple in the tidal wave of comic-book-based...

Top Stories

Wild, Wild Life: Creating the VFX of ‘Zookeeper’

Mercedes Milligan - July 11, 2011

They say that love conquers all, and in the latest CG-laced live-action effort from Sony Imageworks, love conquers the very laws of the animal...

Features

Prepare for the Stampede!

Mercedes Milligan - July 8, 2011

Eleven Arts and FUNimation are bringing Vash the Stampede to Stateside screens with the U.S./Canadian release of Trigun: Badlands Rumble. One of Japan’s most celebrated...

Festivals & Events