Tag: Animation
#230 June 2013
June '13 Highlights - Issue 230
Blue Sky Goes Green
Epic, the new animated adventure from director Chris Wedge and his gifted team at Blue Sky...
Palm Springs ShortFest Announces 2013 Winners
The 2013 Palm Springs International ShortFest announced its Festival award winners on Sunday (June 23). This year, the well-attended North American short festival (June...
#229 April/May 2013
April/May '13 Highlights - Issue 229
A Croodaceaous-Era Flashback
DreamWorks Animation's latest feature The Croods goes back to the basics with a strong family comedy set...
Norway’s Fabelfjord to Produce ‘Dunderly’ Toon
Norwegian studio Fabelfjord is producing a new six-minute animated short based on popular children's book series Dunderly. Targeting two to eight-year-olds, the short is...
VFS Adds New Animation Campus
Vancouver Film School (VFS) has added a new Animation & Visual Effects campus located in the 106,000 square foot city-owned space in Gastown, which...
Lantz Foundation Ups LMU Gift
The Walter Lantz Foundation has upped its gift to Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television's Animation Department to just over $1 million,...
Simon Cowell to Make an Animated Feature
British media mogul and sharp-tongued reality show judge Simon Cowell (The X Factor, American’s Got Talent) told The Daily Star recently that the has...
One Minute Fest’s CanAnimation Challenge Open
Brazil's One Minute Festival--now the largest video fest in Latin America--has kicked off an innovative challenge for short film makers. Now open for submissions...
#228 March 2013
March '13 Highlights - Issue 228
Collodi's Wooden Boy Comes Back to Life
Italian director Enzo D'Alò serves up a faithful new animated feature based on...
Sullivan’s ‘Consuming Spirits’ to Screen in L.A.
L.A. audiences will have the chance to check out indie animator Christopher Sullivan’s widely acclaimed movie Consuming Spirits as the pic begins a week...
‘Butterflies’ Flies Home with Cinequest’s Top Prize
Australian director Isabel Peppard has taken home the top Animated Prize at this year’s Cinequest Intl. Film Festival in San Jose. The win makes...
Shows & Parade Planned for L.A. Puppet Festival
If you happen to enjoy puppetry as an art form, then you’ll be happy to know that April is the official month of the...
SVA Sets Dates for 24th Dusty Fest
Reeves Lehmann, chair of the BFA Film, Video and Animation department at School of Visual Arts in New York City, has announced that the...
U.K.’s Animation Tax Relief to Launch in April
The U.K. entertainment industry is eagerly awaiting the arrival of April. George Osborne, Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer (equivalent of a treasury secretary) recently...
SND to Distribute New ‘Triplets’ Animated Series
SND will handle worldwide distribution of Nicole Lambert’s Triplets, an original 78 x 7 minute animated series based on the bestselling children books and...
Random Cow, Reliance Partner for ‘Dog’s World’
Matt Flynn’s Los Angeles-based Random Cow Pictures and Reliance MediaWorks Ltd. have announced they will partner on a new 3D animated theatrical feature, titled...
Smiley Guy to Produce ‘Captain Canuck’ Web Toon
Richard Comely and George Freeman’s popular comic-book hero Captain Canuck is being adapted into a five-part animated series by Toronto’s Smiley Guy Studios. The...
Investment Unites Cosmic Toast, Partners as Toast & Jam
Financiers Howard Silverman and Neil Grossman have invested in animation producer Cosmic Toast Studios, folding it and several other companies under the umbrella Toast...
NVIDIA Releases New Quadro Graphics Products
NVIDIA has introduced a new line of NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics products that offer top workstation performance and capabilities for professionals in manufacturing, engineering,...
Neptuno Films to Distribute Character Farm’s ‘Katakune’
Neptuno Films has signed a deal with Singapore's Character Farm to distribute the 3D animated preschooler series Katakune in all territories except China.
Katakune is...
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