Head Behind-the-Scenes on Disney’s New ‘Encanto’ Featurette
Directors Jared Bush and Byron Howard, co-director Charise Castro Smith, producer Yvett Merino, songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda, and stars Stephanie Beatriz and John Leguizamo share with viewers a look at the making of the studio’s 60th animated feature film, coming to U.S. theaters November 24.
‘Demi’s Panic’ Encourages Moving Past PTSD… Even in a Pandemic
For Daniel and Lorena Hernández Leonard, braving the terrifying ordeal of taking their sick daughter to the hospital during the height of COVID-19 led to their first animated short about dealing with traumatic anxiety; legendary indie animator Bill Plympton directs, providing just the right pencil sketch style to illustrate such distress.
HP Heads Into the Omniverse with New High-Performance Tech Offers
Newly announced Z by HP, Teradici, and NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise subscriptions bring real-time connection to remote workers collaborating across multiple systems and applications.
Season 2 of ‘Go, Dog. Go!’ Debuts on Netflix December 7
DreamWorks Animation and Wildbrain’s CG animated series, based on PD Eastman’s classic children’s book, is back with all-new episodes featuring more adventures of Tag Barker and Sooch Pooch in Pawston.
Exclusive Clip: ‘DreamWorks Madagascar: A Little Wild’
Melman goes camping and proves the fearless team is not so fearless; Season 5 debuts today with all-new episodes on Peacock and Hulu.
Call for Entries - Golden Kuker in Sofia, Bulgaria
Film submissions open until 28 Feb 2022 for the competition at: https://2022.animationfest-bg.eu/en/festival/register/ or https://filmfreeway.com/GoldenKukerSofia
Netflix Reveals First Look at Lorne Michaels’ ‘Saturday Morning All Star Hits!’
Check out key art from the all-new hybrid live-action / animated adult comedy series, where Saturday morning cartoons take on a whole new meaning; Kyle Mooney and Ben Jones’ irreverent celebration of the 80s and 90s hits the streamer December 10.
Breaking Down the Elaborate Designs of ‘Maya and the Three’
Co-executive producer Jeff Ranjo and production designer Paul Sullivan share how creator Jorge R. Gutiérrez’s unique vision, where Rankin and Bass meet ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ served as their guide in developing and producing the epic worlds and characters of Netflix’s 9-chapter tale of a Mesoamerican warrior princess and her quest to save humanity.
Trioscope Expands Leadership with Key Appointments
Former Mondo Media CEO John Evershed named chief strategy officer, while Taylor Church joins as vice president of production; announcement comes on the heels of a year of rapid growth and recent $5.25 million investment from BITKRAFT and Sony.
Noitom and Trick 3D Bring ‘The Jolliest Elf’ Home for the Holidays
Companies team up, using cutting edge mocap and real-time rendering technology with Unreal Engine to deliver all-new, 12-episode 3D animated series in less than one year.
DreamWorks Releases ‘Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous’ Season 4 Trailer
Our six campers finally escape Isla Nublar, only to discover grave new dangers when shipwrecked on a mysterious island; all-new episodes of the Annie Award-winning series hit Netflix on December 3.
Animated Short ‘On/Off’ Shows the Strength of Structure in Creativity
Director Nicolás P. Villarreal’s award-winning, Oscar-qualified 2D film celebrates how discipline and focus are important qualities people usually need to achieve their dreams.
Inaugural Class Announced for CAPE Animation Directors Accelerator
Program provides an opportunity to develop and hone creative and leadership skills via a series of panels, workshops, and masterclasses; selected applicants to be paired with high-level animation industry mentors.
Netflix Drops ‘F Is for Family’ Guest Announcement Video
Neil Patrick Harris, Patti LuPone, and Fred Melamed join the cast of the long-running animated comedy, bringing even more hilarity to the show as it enters its fifth and final season, premiering November 25.
Lenovo and DreamWorks Expand Partnership
Leading animation studio taps computer manufacturer to deploy ThinkStations throughout departments; multi-year agreement follows last year’s roll-out of Lenovo computing infrastructure already transforming production operations.
‘Arcane’: Overcoming the ‘Curse’ of Video Game Adaptations
On Netflix’s new series, based on Riot Games’ hugely successful ‘League of Legends,’ creators Christian Linke and Alex Yee’s years of insider knowledge and passion for the property helped drive the project in ways other game-based efforts have been unable to achieve.
Unity to Acquire Weta Digital's Tools and Technology
Deal calls for purchase of leading VFX studio’s proprietary software systems, pipeline, and engineering talent; Oscar-winning VFX team will become WetaFX, remaining under Peter Jackson’s majority ownership and helmed by CEO Prem Akkaraju.
Netflix Announces Expanded Anime Slate
Streamer plans to produce even more episodic and feature content, tapping Japanese talent and studios to expand its content library; announcements made at first ever Netflix Festival Japan 2021 include new anime titles ‘JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure STONE OCEAN,’ ‘The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh,’ and ‘Kakegurui Twin.’
NVIDIA Reveals Omniverse Avatar Platform
New technology generates interactive AI avatars with ray-traced 3D graphics by connecting speech AI, computer vision, natural language understanding, recommendation engines and simulation technologies.
NVIDIA Announces Omniverse Replicator Synthetic AI Data Generation Engine
Powerful system produces physically simulated data for training neural networks; first implementations shown are NVIDIA DRIVE Sim and NVIDIA Isaac Sim apps.
Netflix Drops ‘Back to the Outback’ Trailer and Poster
All-new 3D/CG animated comedy follows a group of ‘deadly’ animals who make a break from the Australian Wildlife Park; streaming December 10, the family adventure sets out to prove just because something is different, doesn’t mean it isn’t beautiful.
BOXX Systems Now Offering NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise
Leading high-performance workstation, rendering and server system provider’s platforms, along with NVIDIA’s real-time simulation and collaboration platform for 3D production, now available to unite creative teams working remotely across the animation and VFX space.
NVIDIA CEO Shares Vision for AI, Robotics, Omniverse Avatars and Digital Twins
In his virtual GTC keynote, company founder and CEO Jensen Huang introduced a host of new technologies, including his Toy Jensen miniature avatar, to demonstrate transformative uses of the tech giant’s latest offerings in accelerated computing and the Omniverse Enterprise virtual world simulation and collaboration platform.
Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs’ Unnamed Company Buys Moonbug
Former Disney executives, backed by Blackstone Group, acquire the popular children’s media company for a reported $3 billion.
How Outstanding Localization Helped ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Reach Global Success
While dubbing in anime is famously hit-or-miss, the renowned anime’s English dub is a beloved and exemplarary work that deserves study, and recognition.