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SMPTE Announces Honors & Awards
Digital Domain Financial Woes Deepen
Digital Domain Media Group defaults on payment obligations and is in talks to emerge from financial crisis.
Assorted Nuts Opens L.A. Arm
Indie development and production house Assorted Nuts Animation Studios has opened Assorted Nuts Entertainment, a new division based in L.A.
Disney Restores 'Hungry Hobos' for Telluride
Walt Disney Animation Studios debuted a newly restored digital print of the once-thought-lost 1928 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit animated short “Hungry Hobos” at the Telluride Film Festival.
Digital Domain Stock Plunges; Textor Plans Buyout
Shares of visual effects company Digital Domain Media Group have plunged 75 percent in four months; CEO John Textor tells regulators he’s considering buying the company.
'Black Dynamite'’s LeSean Thomas Talks Animation
Animator LeSean Thomas speaks at TEDxSinchon about his experience moving to Seoul to work in South Korea’s animation industry.
Warner Bros. Signs First-Look Deal with Gulfstream Pictures
RGH Unveils Wonders! TimeTravel Theme Park Attraction
RGH Themed Entertainment announces Wonders!, an imaginative new flight simulator attraction now in development for the $1.5 billion leisure-resort in Aqaba, Jordan.
MPC Expands NY Team
VIEW Conference Unveils 2012 Highlights
The VIEW Conference announces the presentation and discussion of director Genndy Tartakovsky’s 3D monster comedy “Hotel Transylvania.”
Encounter with Peru Part 1 - Non-Human Storytellers
I came across this amazing sculptured scene contained within a small, simple box. As I swung open its flimsy doors, it unveiled to me an astoundingly fantastical realm hidden within its tiny confinements. Its thoughtfully choreographed scene bloomed with magical stories exploding with imagination and fantasy. It rightly took my breath away.
'Dark Knight Returns' Premieres Set
Warner Home Video announces bi-coastal premieres of “Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1” at The Paley Center for Media in New York, Los Angeles.
'Hotel Transylvania' to Headline 3D Entertainment Summit
Event management company Unicomm and The Bob Dowling Group announce an all-star line-up of exclusive footage and content to be showcased at the fifth annual 3D Entertainment Summit.
SIGGRAPH Asia Speakers Announced
Cartoon Art Museum to Host 'The Art of ParaNorman' Exhibit
The Cartoon Art Museum presents original works of art from the feature film “ParaNorman” in an exhibit running from Saturday, August 11, through October 6, 2012.
'Ultimate Spider-Man' Leaps to #1
A new animated series, Marvel’s “Ultimate Spider-Man” has stormed to record ratings on Disney XD UK.
The New Field of Dreams
Within various Asian countries, millions of dollars are being spent to build elaborate facilities to house the next generation of media production. But who will use such facilities?
Paul Mason Animates an Australian Legacy
Paul Mason turned his life-long love of superheroes into a burgeoning career, recently celebrating the release of the fourth issue in his distinctively Australian series “The Soldier Legacy”.
Scientists Adding '3D Print' Button to Animation Software
A group of graphics experts led by computer scientists at Harvard have created an add-on software tool that translates video game characters into fully articulated action figures, with the help of a 3D printer.
TELETOON Announces Free Preview
TELETOON Canada is pleased to offer Canadians coast-to-coast free access to TELETOON during the TELETOON Free Preview event from Wednesday, August 15, 2012 to Sunday, September 30, 2012.
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art to Transfer Assets
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) and the Society of Illustrators have announced plans for MoCCA to transfer its assets to the Society.
Pixar Brings RenderMan to SIGGRAPH
Pixar Animation Studios announced that the RenderMan team will present new insights at SIGGRAPH 2012 into its very latest rendering technologies, including upcoming releases RenderMan Studio 4.0 and RenderMan Pro Server 17.0, along with live demonstrations of RenderMan On Demand, Pixar’s new cloud rendering service.