Tag: Epic
Animex Sets Diverse Speaker Lineup
Animex Festival for animation and computer games has announced its lineup for the 2015 edition, scheduled for Feb. 9-13 at Teesside University in the...
The Evolving Role of the CG Director of Photography
The key live-action title has gaining traction in the animation business after years of being seen as a largely live-action only task.
This year the...
DiSalvo Named Creative Director of Paramount Animation
Veteran animator Lino DiSalvo has joined Paramount Animation as its new creative director. The announcement came from Adam Goodman, president of the Paramount Film...
‘Through the Hawthorn…’ Tops Stuttgart Honors
The Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film concluded its 21st edition April 27 by announcing the winners of the Trickstar awards.
The festival reported a record...
Return to Rio
Director Carlos Saldanha and Blue Sky Studios take the sequel into unknown, Amazonian territory.
For Carlos Saldanha, the 2011 animated feature film Rio was a...
‘Frozen’ Tops Toon Category at PGA Awards
Disney's Frozen added to its significant awards-season momentum by taking home the Producers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion...
Five Animated Movies Get PGA Award Nods
Five movies were nominated for Best Animated Feature Producers Guild Awards this morning (Jan. 2). They are:
The Croods (DreamWorks Animation)
Producers: Kristine Belson, Jane Hartwell
Despicable...
Animated Titles Dominated 2013 Global Box Office
The animation community got some great news as the final numbers for the 2013 box office came out. Universal/Illumination's Despicable Me 2 ($393.5 million),...
Settling the Score: The 2014 Musical Oscar Race
The big Toon Town players are not just concerned with the coveted Best Animated Feature trophy—the genre also tends to be well represented in...
The Animated Feature Contenders
Although some naysayers were complaining about the quality of the animated features in contention this year, how can you really be grumpy about a...
19 Films Submitted for Animated Feature Oscar
According to the Academy, 19 films have been submitted for consideration in the animated feature film category for the 86th Academy Awards.
The movies are (in...
Star-Studded Awards Soiree Launches Animation Summit
This year's edition of Animation Magazine's World Animation and VFX Summit began on a high note on Sunday night with a star-studded awards ceremony...
Final Days to Pick Up Animation Summit Tickets
Animation Magazine has announced its full lineup of guests and events for next month's three-day event (Nov. 3-5). Sony Pictures Imageworks' award-winning vfx supervisor...
‘The Croods’ Is First DVD Mailed to Voters
The team at Fox/DreamWorks are hoping that being the first studio to send out their DVD screeners to Academy members will get them a...
Fox Gets ‘Epic’ Results on Home Ent. Charts
Fox Home Entertainment scored the number one spot on both Nielsen's VideoScan First Alert and Blu-ray Disc charts with Blue Sky Studios' CG-animated family...
It’s WAY Too Early to Predict the Oscar Animation Race!
Yes, it's absurd to start talking about the Oscar race even before Labor Day weekend has arrived, but The Hollywood Reporter has jumped the...
Studio Heads Comment on ‘Animation Saturation’ in Theaters
Disney/Pixar chief creative officer John Lasseter, DreamWorks topper Jeffrey Katzenberg and Illumination Entertainment's founder/CEO Chris Meledandri are among the top studio heads talking about...
Home Viewing Gets ‘Epic’ This Week
Home audiences have the chance this week to enjoy the richly animated CG magic of Fox/Blue Sky's Epic on DVD ($29.98) and Blu-ray sets....
‘Despicable Me 2’ Sets New B.O. Records in the U.K.
Universal/Illumination's blockbuster sequel Despicable Me 2 is now the highest-grossing film of 2013 in the U.K. Universal Pictures International told The Hollywood Reporter that...
Paramount Animation Getting ‘Monster Trucks’ in Gear
There's some intriguing fresh grist for the Toon Town rumor mill this week: Deadline.com has heard hints that Paramount Animation is close to poaching...
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