ANIMATIONWorld Magazine

Creator and executive producer Genndy Tartakovsky continues the epic story of ‘Samurai Jack’ with a new season set to premiere on Adult Swim’s Toonami block in 2016.

Indie animation distributor garners a total of 11 nominations for ‘Boy and the World,’ ‘Extraordinary Tales,’ ‘Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet’ and ‘When Marnie Was There.’

New tools and workflow improvements include max creation graph enhancements, one-click print studio access, simple simulation data import, text and shape mapping, and more.

This year’s Best Animated Feature nominations include Starburns Industry’s ‘Anomalisa,’ Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ and ‘The Good Dinosaur,’ Aardman’s ‘Shaun the Sheep the Movie,’ and Blue Sky’s ‘The Peanuts Movie.’

Corus Entertainment-owned Nelvana sells over 800 episodes of content from its extensive library to multiple subscription video-on-demand service providers around the world. 

Produced by Julie Roy for the National Film Board of Canada, ‘Carface’ is one of the 10 shortlisted films in consideration for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

Short film narrated by David Tennant of ‘Doctor Who’ fame celebrates the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity.

Disney and Pixar’s CG-animated feature performs below expectations, bringing in $39.2 million for the three-day weekend, the lowest debut for a Pixar film since the $33.3 million take of ‘A Bug's Life’ in 1998.

Deadline for the International Competition at the 23rd Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film is December 1; Animated Com Award deadline is January 15.

New Zealand’s Pukeko Pictures signs co-production deal with Guangdong Huawen Century Animation Company to produce sister show to ‘The WotWots.’

CG-animated comedy featuring the voices of Rob Schneider, Heather Graham, Ken Jeong, Gabriel Iglesias, Loretta Devine, Michael McElhatton, Colm Meaney and Bill Nighy arrives in theaters January 15, 2016.