Tag: Epic
‘Lucas the Spider’ Snares Fresh TV in Its Adorable Web
Fresh TV Inc. (creator of the Total Drama franchise) has joined forces with animator Joshua Slice and snagged exclusive rights to “web” phenomenon Lucas...
Nickelodeon Launches Social VR Experience SlimeZone with IMAX
Nickelodeon and IMAX Corp. have teamed up to bring the network’s first multiplayer social virtual reality experience “SlimeZone” to IMAX VR Experience Centres globally...
Blue Sky Icon Chris Wedge to Keynote at FMX 2018
Germany’s top animation and vfx confab FMX has announced the initial lineup for its upcoming event, which takes place April 24-27 in Stuttgart. Blue...
Stuttgart: William Joyce Set for FMX, APD Dates, AniComs & Trailer #3!
Things are starting to click into place for the annual animation takeover in Stuttgart, Germany formed by the threeway intersection of the Stuttgart Festival...
Fox, Blue Sky Fly with Animated Short-Inspired Spy Caper
The 2009 animated short Pigeon: Impossible by Lucas Martell has inspired a new feature-length project, which will be produced by Fox Animation, Blue Sky...
Epic Games Brings Real-Time Innovations to SIGGRAPH
Epic Games will be holding its first SIGGRAPH Unreal Engine User Group (and party!) on July 31 at L.A.'s Orpheum Theatre, from 4:30-9 p.m....
Pre-SIGGRAPH Highlights & Tech News
‘Fortnite’ Trailer Rewrites Traditional CG Workflows
Epic Games has released a 3-minute launch cinematic trailer for its toon-styled multiplayer survival game, featuring a detailed...
eOne’s ‘PJ Masks’ Scores New UK Broadcaster & Licensees
Entertainment One (eOne) has secured a new broadcast partner and a raft of licensees for hit preschool superhero show PJ Masks in the UK,...
RSC’s ‘Tempest’ Goes 21st Century with Real-Time Digital Character
For the first time in its four-century history, William Shakespeare's stormy fantasy The Tempest will be presented with all the wonder and magic that...
Oscar Winning Moonbot Studios Cuts Jobs
Moonbot Studios, a home-grown award-winning multiplatform animation and publishing house based in Shreveport, Louisiana, has restirred rumors of a relocation and/or sale of the...
SIGGRAPH: Emerging Tech
+ SIGGRAPH continues to reveal programming highlights for the July 24-28 event in Anaheim, CA. On Wednesday, check out the Emerging Technologies "Best of...
Epic Awards $75k in Unreal Dev Grants
Epic Games has announced a new round of Unreal Dev Grants recipients, with awards totally $75,000. This batch comprises teams spread across Europe --...
Academy Invites 683 New Members for 2016
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has extended membership invitations to 683 distinguished filmmakers, artists and executives “who represent the best in...
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Roger Enrico Dies: Former DreamWorks Animation Chairman Was 71
Corporate titan best known for making Pepsi a pop-culture icon was “a leader in every sense...
FMX ’16 Sets Attendance Record
The 2016 FMX conference on animation, effects, games and transmedia wrapped up in Stuttgart on Friday, with the 21st edition welcoming 3,500 attendees --...
GDC 2016: Creating Films and Content for VR
In addition to pure single- or multiplayer games in virtual reality, several studios are also producing movies and "experiences" for this new medium. One...
World Animation Summit: Spotlight on ‘Peanuts’
This fall, Blue Sky Studios, the creators of the Ice Age films, Epic and Robots, will bring Charles Schulz's beloved Peanuts strip to 3D...
Building a New Foundation
A tale of an unlikely inter-species friendship, Home steers DreamWorks Animation into new creative and technological territory.
DreamWorks Animation veteran Tim Johnson says his path...
The New World of Animation: Different Realities
The 2015 Wearables TechCon in Santa Clara featured much more than just well known fitness sensors. It also had headsets, tracking sensors and artificial...
At the Game Developers Conference 2015
The Game Developers Conference this year proved to be bigger and badder than ever. What started as an intimate gathering of U.S. game developers...
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