2024 TAAFI Film Festival
The in-person festival runs festival April 4-6 and celebrates over 100 animated films and their creators, showcasing the beauty, the weird, the awe-inspiring, and everything in between.
The in-person festival runs festival April 4-6 and celebrates over 100 animated films and their creators, showcasing the beauty, the weird, the awe-inspiring, and everything in between.
The amateur animator shares how she used Instagram’s algorithms to her advantage, the niche she discovered and how she capitalized on it.
This year’s festival takes place April 5-14 in Utrecht, Amsterdam and online; it will explore the theme of ‘home’ in animation.
The 3-day international animation festival, running April 5-7 in Brighton, England encompasses a global perspective and provides an accessible venue for everyone to learn about animation.
The oldest Greek animation festival returns virtually for its 19th edition March 28 – 31.
The international animation festival returns April 14-20 to Bydgoszcz, Poland for short film competitions, animation screenings, masterclasses, and workshops.
The distributor gains North American rights for the Oscar-nominated director’s entire catalog including ‘Belle,’ ‘Mirai,’ ‘The Girl Who Leapt Through Time,’ and ‘Wolf Children;’ new theatrical and home entertainment releases will highlight Hosoda’s unique artistry.
Based on the classic children’s book by Crockett Johnson and starring Zachary Levi, the live-action / animated hybrid features a grown-up Harold who draws himself right off the page into the real world, where he has a lot to learn; coming to theaters in August.
The bright red, tiny shapeshifting pet returns in a 3DCG preschool adventure series, produced by Guru Studio, that explores friendship and imagination; show debuts today, March 20, on Disney Junior and Disney+.
Director Simon Otto’s upcoming comedy also lands Fiona Shaw, Jodie Whittaker, and Bill Nighy; the adaptation of Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning writer/director Richard Curtis’s children’s book series comes to Netflix later this year.
The first 3 episodes of Dark Moon’s new webcomic, the prequel to the 2022 ‘Dark Moon: The Blood Altar’ series, are now available on the Webtoon Entertainment platform; new episodes roll out weekly.
As demonstrated at NVIDIA GTC, developers and visual content providers can get more creative control with new 3D asset generation tools; Shutterstock 3D AI generator Speedy 3D is now in early access, and Getty Images has released Edify-powered APIs.
Anya Taylor-Joy stars as a young girl snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers into the hands of a great Biker Horde in the standalone action-adventure origin story of the fan-favorite eponymous one-armed heroine from ‘Mad Max: Fury Road;’ the film hits theaters nationwide May 24, 2024.
At NVIDIA GTC, an interactive demo of the new Omniverse Cloud APIs featured a physically accurate digital twin of a car streamed in full fidelity to Apple Vision Pro’s high-resolution displays, leveraging powerful spatial computing and blending 3D photorealistic environments with the physical world.
With the addition of the production management solution, the tech giant’s industry cloud for M&E, Flow, will link previously disparate workflows of pre-and post-production, fostering broader collaboration and efficiency.
The mystery-thriller, which take viewers into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark-side powers in the final days of the High Republic era, debuts June 4 with its first 2 episodes exclusively on Disney+.
The new, seamless solution leverages Reallusion’s iClone, Character Creator, and NVIDIA’s Audio2Face to revolutionize multi-lingual facial lip-sync animation production.
The company’s Neural Radiance Fields tools for virtual production, VFX, TV, and entertainment lets users process information locally while retaining complete control without reliance on cloud services.
The new film, set to release in 2026, will also star Quinta Brunson, Bowen Yang, Xochitl Gomez, Matt Berry, and Paula Pell; DNEG will produce the animation.
Four National Film Board of Canada animated shorts are headed to the festival, with the Oscar-winning animator’s latest, along with Michèle Lemieux’s pinscreen film, ‘Le tableau (The Painting)’ among the films selected for the official short film competition.
‘Infinity Train’ creator Owen Dennis and CBS Eye Animation Productions’ upcoming adaptation of the beloved multiplayer mystery game from Innersloth will feature the voice talents of Randall Park, Yvette Nicole Brown, Elijah Wood, and Ashley Johnson.
The veteran actors discuss their work as a young Abe Lincoln and Joan of Arc in the series refresh of Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Bill Lawrence’s original 2002 animated comedy that follows the teenage clones of the greatest minds in history who must tackle modern-day high school challenges; 10-episode sophomore season now streaming on Max.
All 10 Season 7 episodes of Adult Swim’s award-winning sci-fi comedy about a sociopathic genius scientist who drags his inherently timid grandson on insanely dangerous adventures across the universe, plus loads of special features, are now available on Blu-ray and DVD; the collection is also available for Digital purchase from Amazon Prime Video, AppleTV, Google Play, and Vudu.
The epic two-part science-fantasy continues with the saga’s next chapter in the people of Veldt’s fight against the Motherworld; film debuts April 19.