Animated feature nominees include ‘The Good Dinosaur,’ ‘Hotel Transylvania 2,’ ‘Inside Out,’ ‘Minions’ and ‘The Peanuts Movie.’
Licensing veteran and former consultant joins French CG animation studio as a permanent staffer.
Managing director Maria Hanafy to run international animatics shop’s 10th location, joining offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, São Paulo, Bangkok, Tel Aviv, Düsseldorf and Shanghai.
Event sponsored by Rising Sun Pictures, The Foundry and Tyroe to provide young artists with insight into the minds of visual effects studios and recruiters.
Filmmakers join John Krasinski and Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs for Oscar Nominations in 24 Categories, including short animation, feature animation and visual effects.
Accomplished directors join live-action division; company adds Roxanneanco as East Coast rep for live action, design and animation.
Directed by ‘Shrek the Third’ co-director Raman Hui, live-action/CG-animated hybrid feature will open in 3D on January 22 in all major North American markets.
Produced by Duplass Brothers TV, new animated series created by Mike Luciano and Phil Matarese features the voices of Katie Aselton, Rob Corddry, Mark Duplass, Nick Kroll, Jason Mantzoukas, Molly Shannon and more.
Third TV series-inspired global app allows users to play all four turtles simultaneously.
‘LEGO NEXO Knights’ premieres Monday, January 11 at 5:30 P.M. (ET/PT) on Cartoon Network.
2016 speakers are a diverse group of animation leaders that includes Disney’s Eric Goldberg and Hanna-Barbera artists Tony Benedict, Willie Ito and Jerry Eisenberg.
Based in Hong Kong, Eyers will focus on strengthening the planning process for Turner networks Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Toonami and POGO.
Deadline for Finland’s only short film competition is January 31st.
Twenty-nine creative jury members, split equally between men and women, from 15 countries to judge the best in global Advertising and Digital work based on excellence in idea and craft.
Led by VFX Supervisor Colin Davies and VFX Producer George Macri, Spin VFX delivers seamless invisible effects for more than 100 shots including period specific-matte paintings and seasonal augmentation as well as paint and compositing work.
Four time Emmy winner to receive the Cinema Audio Society Filmmaker Award at the 52nd Annual CAS Awards on February 20th in Los Angeles.
Vancouver VFX house reveals the processes that drive some of cinema’s most memorable digital characters, including the prawn-like aliens of ‘District 9,’ ‘Jurassic World’s velociraptors, and the eponymous title character of ‘Chappie.’
Independent developers can now create convincing character animation during game play within Unreal Engine 4.
Roger Deakins, Janusz Kaminski, Ed Lachman, Emmanuel Lubezki and John Seale receive nominations for outstanding achievement in film; winners of the 30th Annual American Society of Cinematographers Awards for Outstanding Achievement to be announced February 14.
Latest installment in the ‘Star Wars’ saga becomes the highest grossing film of all time in the domestic market, surpassing the $760.5 million lifetime gross of ‘Avatar’ in a record-shattering 20 days of release.
Abstract: Animated series from Vancouver-based animation studio Slap Happy Cartoons set to air on Corus Entertainment’s YTV.
Toronto native has directed commercial campaigns for Samsung, Subaru, T-Mobile, Mazda VW and more, including the award-winning ‘Pep Talk’ for Netflix and ‘Sky Diver’ for Bud Light.
Animated feature inspired by the 1988 classic film produced by Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall is available on Digital HD and DVD on February 2.
‘Frankie Comics’ creator to serve as first artist in a series of traveling Cartoonist-in-Residence events throughout San Francisco in 2016.
NoxStudio’s epic animated fantasy short wins Valve-sponsored award in drama category.
