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New Deals Secured for Figaro Pho

Posted In | News Categories: Business, Cartoons, Licensing, Mobile and Wireless, Television | Geographic Region: Australia | Site Categories: Business, Cartoons, Licensing, Mobile and Wireless, Television
Chocolate Liberation Front announces new global deals for “The Adventures for Figaro Pho” and the release of an app based on the show for iOS and Android devices.

Engine Room Helps Rev Up NASCAR

Posted In | News Categories: Broadcast Design, Business, CG, Television | Geographic Region: North America | Site Categories: Broadcast Design, Business, CG, Television
Engine Room teams up with FOX Sports to create custom animation pieces involving intensive and rapidly produced, animated comic-style CG recaps of each weekly NASCAR race.

Moody Gardens Installs 4K 3D System

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Qube Cinema installs its 4K 3D system at Moody Gardens for the GSCA Film Expo and Digital Symposium.

Digital Domain Appoints Terry Clotiaux Head of Feature Film

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Digital Domain names Terry Clotiaux VP of Feature Film, as well as elevating Joanna Capitano to Executive Producer and Lisa Beroud as a member of the company’s senior management team.

Bent Image Lab Helps Animate Comedy Central's Kroll Show

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Bent Image Lab helps animate “Demo Monster” skit for Comedy Central’s new sketch comedy series, “Kroll Show.”

Faceware Unveils Retargeter 4.0 with AutoSolve at GDC

Posted In | News Categories: Business, CG, Events, Games, Places, Technology, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: North America | Event: GDC | Site Categories: Business, CG, Events, Games, Places, Technology, Visual Effects
New software upgrade creates quality markerless facial motion capture from video at unprecedented speed.

Calabash Animates More Lucky Charms

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Award-winning studio’s latest project for General Mills amps up the energy and the creativity.

FriendsWithYou Makes Wish Come True

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Ontario’s public educational media organization TVO joins Guru Studio and Home Plate Entertainment to develop new CG Preschool series from FriendsWithYou called “Wish Come True.”

CAKE Gets Ready to Soar with Space Racers

Posted In | News Categories: Business, Cartoons, CG, Licensing, Television | Geographic Region: Europe | Site Categories: Business, Cartoons, CG, Licensing, Television
Kids’ and family entertainment content distributor CAKE announces a distribution deal for new pre-school animation series “Space Racers.”

Bubble Guppies Swim to UK’s Milkshake

Posted In | News Categories: Business, Licensing, Places, Television | Geographic Region: Europe | Site Categories: Business, Licensing, Places, Television
The Popular animated preschool series, “Bubble Guppies,” will air in the UK on Channel 5’s Milkshake! programming block beginning Spring 2013.

Nickelodeon Lands New Tablet Deal

Posted In | News Categories: Business, Cartoons, Games, Mobile and Wireless, Technology, Television | Geographic Region: North America | Site Categories: Business, Cartoons, Games, Mobile and Wireless, Technology, Television
Fuhu’s award-winning nabi Jr. tablet features apps, games, videos and more from hit Nickelodeon preschool series, “Dora the Explorer,” “Team Umizoomi” and “Bubble Guppies.”

JS Communications Pulls Rhythm & Hues Bid

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South Korean entertainment and media company JS Communications withdraws its bid to acquire the El Segundo-based visual effects company Rhythm & Hues.

Thomas Newman to Score Pixar’s Good Dinosaur

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Thomas Newman, the composer of the musical scores for “Finding Nemo” and “WALL-E,” reveals that he will be collaborating on the upcoming Pixar feature, “The Good Dinosaur.”

a52 Hires CG Lead Andrew Romatz

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CG and VFX artist Andrew Romatz joins the ranks of award-winning visual effects studio a52.

Geomerics Launches Major Update to Enlighten Middleware

Posted In | News Categories: Business, CG, Games, Technology | Geographic Region: Europe, North America | Event: GDC | Site Categories: Business, CG, Games, Technology
New workflow features, new platform support and future game lighting technology on display at GDC 2013.

Legoland & CN Launch World of Chima

Immersive new interactive water ride, THE WORLD OF CHIMA, being built simultaneously with roll-out of major new product line and a national television series.

NVIDIA Unveils Industry's First Visual Computing Appliance

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NVIDIA GRID VCA delivers remote GPU acceleration and turnkey simplicity for small and medium-size businesses.

Adobe and MAXON Form Strategic Partnership

Posted In | News Categories: Business, CG, Games, Motion Graphics, Technology, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: North America | Site Categories: 2D, 3D, Business, CG, Games, Motion Graphics, Technology, Visual Effects
MAXON and Adobe announce strategic alliance to bring creative professionals new levels of digital media content creation.

EA CEO John Riccitiello Resigns

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Electronic Arts announces change in executive leadership; Larry Probst appointed Executive Chairman.

Hornet Delivers New Stop Motion Spot

Posted In | News Categories: Business, Commercials, People, Stop-Motion | Geographic Region: Europe | Site Categories: Business, Commercials, People, Stop-Motion
Hornet’s Peter Sluszka creates a new stop-motion commercial campaign for Ireland's Permanent TSB.