Animation Block Party 2006 features more diverse award categories, a new jury of animation talents and fresh chances to exhibit films at more venues. Animation Block Party 2006 will officially transmit at Rooftop Films, Galapagos Art Space and BamCinematek.
ABP's festival jury will include Kyle Baker, Toni Tysen, OddTodd and Celia Bullwinkel. Software from Boinx and Autodesk are among the prizes offered by Animation Block
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The Texas Independent Game Conference program features leading independent game developers covering the challenges and issues developers are facing. Topics include:
* Where is the industry heading
Have you written a screenplay or television script that's not quite there yet? Are you stuck on the one you're writing? Attend the Writers Guild Foundation
Comic-Con Intl returns to San Diego with a Friday lineup that featured the world premiere of footage from ERAGON, STARDUST and SNAKES ON A PLANE.
DIRECTV and IGN Ent. launch the ground-breaking Championship Gaming Invitational, an international all-star, two-day video-gaming competition to be taped on July 21-22 and scheduled to air on DIRECTV Aug. 25-27.
Teams include: Team 3d (Top U.S. COUNTER-STRIKE 1.6 Team), Complexity (Top U.S. COUNTER-STRIKE 1.6 Team), NIP (Top Swedish COUNTER-STRIKE 1.6 Team), 20iD (Top U.S. BATTLEFIELD 2 Team) and Code 7 (Top Scandinavian BATTLEFIELD 2 Team).
Ai-Kon is Manitoba's largest anime convention. An all-ages event, the goal of Ai-Kon is the promotion of Japanese/Asian animation and culture to the public. In 2005 approximately 960 people attended Ai-Kon, and organizers anticipate attendance numbers of 1,000 to 1,200 for this year's convention. Started by the University of Manitoba Japanese Animation Club (UMAnime) in 2001, Ai-Kon took a re-organizational hiatus in 2002, returning in 2003. Ai-Kon has since become an autonomous event, run by an independent volunteer board.
The U.S. Postal Service chose the perfect site to launch the DC Super Heroes commemorative postage stamps with a first day of issue ceremony on July 20, 2006 at the San Diego Convention Center during Comic-Con International 2006, the worlds largest comicbook and pop culture show.
The DC Comics Super Heroes commemorative stamps and stamped postal cards are now available from the U.S. Postal Service (www.usps.com).
In the final part of our Superman Returns coverage, Bill Desowitz reports on the challenges and accomplishments met by several participating vfx studios.
How often does mainstream Hollywood scare up an animated horror film? Alain Bielik reports how Sony Pictures Imageworks combined performance capture and keyframe animation to create a unique hybrid style in Monster House.
Comic-Con International is the largest gathering of comic book, science fiction, film and television fans in the nation. Featuring celebrity guests, seminars on breaking into filmmaking and near 24-hour film retrospectives. Comic-Con is the place for fans of all things pop culture. For more information, visit www.comic-con.org.
Students in 24 countries will have the opportunity to test their skills in a number of creative endeavors and, perhaps, get a jump-start on their careers with a prestigious award from Adobe Systems.
Adobe has this date issued a call for entries for the sixth annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards for promising students in graphic design, photography, illustration, animation, digital filmmaking and computer arts.
The Stony Brook Film Festival is a filmmaker-friendly, well-attended festival, which takes place at a 1000+ seat theatre with a 40-foot wide screen. It features independent features and shorts in competition; premieres, special screenings, filmmaker panels and receptions. The event is held at Staller Center for the Arts on the campus of Stony Brook University. For more information, visit www.stonybrookfilmfestival.com.
An evil goblin king, a talking door knocker, fairies and a colony of goblins will join producer/director Brian Henson and members of the Jim Henson Creature Shop at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
At Comic-Con on Friday, July 21, 2006, at 10:30 am in Room 6B, IDT Ent. will present a special panel with the creative force behind the animated adventure, HELLBOY: SWORD OF STORMS. The panel will feature: Mike Mignola HELLBOY creator/creative producer; Tad Stones supervising producer/director; and Guillermo del Toro creative producer/director of 2004 live-action feature film, HELLBOY.
ASIFA-Hollywood is hosting a lineup of events at Comic-Con, including panels and animators animating live at the ASIFA-Hollywood booth 5434.
DreamWorks has lent ASIFA a paperless 2D animation system, where animation all-stars like Eric Goldberg and David Burgess will be animating live at the convention.
ASIFA-Hollywood is also hosting panels and screenings, which include:
Margaret Kerry Voice Acting TrialsThursday, July 2011:00 am-12:30 pmRoom 4
Animation On A Shoestring BudgetThursday, July 20
Portsmouth, New Hampshire's Hatchling Studio's short film THE TOLL is set to premiere July 20, 2006, at the Comic-Con Intl Independent Film Festival in San Diego, California.
Written and directed by Zack Pike, THE TOLL is a computer animated mockumentary featuring a troll that lives under a bridge. As the camera rolls, the troll's comments on work, life and love range from somewhat inappropriate to outrageously delusional, slowly revealing the hilariously tragic figure of a monster in denial.
VIZ Media Llc. (VIZ Media) has a variety of special events, theatrical premieres and speaker panels planned in and around the 2006 Comic-Con International from July 20-23, 2006, at the convention center in San Diego. VIZs booth is #4013.
Fox Atomic, the new youth-focused division of Fox Filmed Ent., announced its 2006-2007 lineup and theatrical release dates for three of their upcoming films. TURISTAS, a recent acquisition, will jump start the studios slate on Dec. 1, 2006, followed by THE HILLS HAVE EYES 2 and 28 WEEKS LATER, both going into production this summer, and being released in theaters in 2007. Also on the production slate for Fox Atomic is a re-imagining of the 1984 classic REVENGE OF THE NERDS and THE COMEBACKS, a sports comedy.
Continuing its strategy to independently develop and produce a new slate of feature films, Marvel Studios has signed director Louis Leterrier (TRANSPORTER 2, UNLEASHED) to helm a new big screen adaptation of THE INCREDIBLE HULK.
Taylor Jessen reviews five short films One Rat Short by Alex Weil, Smile by Chris Mais, Memorial by Matt Clausen and Jon Gutman, Coffee by Rohitash Rao and Abraham Spear, and Dog Worries by Chris Armstrong. Includes QuickTime movie clips!
Exodus Film Group announced that Christian Slater, Steve Buscemi and John Cleese will lend their voices to Exodus' CG-animated feature comedy, IGOR. The Weinstein Co. (TWC) has an all encompassing distribution deal for the film including North America as well as representing international rights. TWC recently returned from the Cannes Film Festival having sold the film into most foreign territories.
Guillermo del Toro is in talks to partner with Don Murphy's Angry Films to bring cult DC Comics DEADMAN to the big screen for Warner Bros. Pictures, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. Del Toro will develop comics-to-film adaptation with Murphy and Susan Montford.
With the 2006 Comic-Con upon us, new announcements of comics-to-film adaptations are flooding out. VARIETY reports that Warner Bros. Pictures is set to bring DC Comics cult favorite DOOM PATROL to the big screen. Akiva Goldsman will produce through his Warners-based Weed Road Pictures. Adam Turner will pen the screenplay.
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has announced the Emmy Award winners in Outstanding Voice-Over Performance as well as Individual Achievement in Animation for the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. Having won four-times previously for Outstanding Actor on FRAISER, Kelsey Grammer won his fifth Emmy for his voice work on THE SIMPSONS as Sideshow Bob.
These are juried award categories, which have no nominations and will be presented at the 2006 Creative Arts Awards on Saturday, Aug. 19, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
