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 Me 2...
View Article‘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 Pictures. The award, presented...
View ArticleReturn 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 passion project — one that was a love...
View Article‘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 attendance of 85,000. The full list of...
View ArticleDiSalvo 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 Group, who oversees animation for the...
View ArticleThe 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 field of computer animation passed a milestone when...
View ArticleAnimex 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 United Kingdom. This year’s festival adds a day...
View ArticleAt 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 is now a mega-event, with more than 25,000 attendees and...
View ArticleThe 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 intelligence technology apps for virtual...
View ArticleBuilding 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 to directing the...
View ArticleWorld 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 animated life with The Peanuts Movie. Tom McLean, editor of...
View ArticleGDC 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 of the most promising of these is Baobab...
View ArticleFMX ’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 — an all-time high for attendance at the event....
View ArticleDaily News Bytes
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 of the word, owning a rare combination of...
View ArticleAcademy 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 our global film community, and...
View ArticleEpic 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 — two of which are demonstrating their games at the...
View ArticleSIGGRAPH: 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 Show” presentation, featuring HALUX...
View ArticleOscar 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 company with the...
View ArticleRSC’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 the playwright could only have dreamt of, thanks to...
View ArticleeOne’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, where the brand will get its first toy line launch on February...
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