“Blue’s Clues” creator Traci Paige Johnson and award-winning feature film producer Caroline Baron team up to launch new children’s media company yummico. Initial release is the food adventure series “yummiloo,” debuting March 20 with interactive app.
Disney cleans up at the Oscars this year with wins for Pixar feature, “Brave,” and the John Kahrs-directed “Paperman.”
Members of the VFX community are planning a protest to occur on Sunday during the red carpet pre-show for the Oscars in order to raise awareness on the economic problems threatening Hollywood's visual effects houses.
Day 4 of the LA leg concludes at Paramount.
Day 3 of the LA leg of the Oscar Showcase Tour finished up with a screening for The Simpsons production crew.
Day 3 in LA continues with a screening, Q&A and tour of Sony Pictures Animation.
The Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film announces the highlights of the 2013 edition of the festival, which runs this year from April 23 to April 28, 2013.
Britain's first Oscar-winning animator Bob Godfrey dies at 91.
NVIDIA announces Ralph V. Gilles and Erez Lieberman Aiden as the keynote speakers for the fourth-annual GPU Technology Conference.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announces the release of “Superman: Unbound” on DVD and Blu-ray combo pack May 7.
Poetica announces the signing of director Douglas Purver to its roster of artists.
Day 3 of our LA tour began at Sony Pictures in Culver City.
Animation legends discuss the lasting effects of winning Best Short.
Day 2 in LA concludes with a screening at the Motion Picture Academy hosted and moderated by Jason Schwartzman.
Brett Ratner joins with Six Eleven Media to produce a TV version of the successful online game “FarmVille.”
Flying Bark Productions announces that Alexs Stadermann has been confirmed as Director, Barbara Stephen will be the movie’s Producer and Alexia Gates-Foale will be Line Producer on the 3D stereoscopic production, “Maya the Bee.”
Petro Vlahos, the visual effects pioneer who developed the blue-screen and green-screen process, died on February 10 in Los Angeles at the age of 89.
Day 2 in Los Angeles continues at Disney Feature Animation, highlighted by a studio tour with John Musker.
The head of 20th Century Fox TV‘s animation department leaves the studio to pursue additional opportunities.
Day two in LA continues at Disney's immense Animation Research Library - the ARL.
The SoCal leg of Oscar® Showcase Tour kicked off with a screening Monday night at Woodbury University, sponsored and organized by ASIFA-Hollywood.
William Watts Biggers, the co-creator of the cartoon “Underdog,” dies at the age of 85.
Reel FX announces that Shane Acker will direct their upcoming untitled CG-animated feature based on the comic series “Beasts of Burden.”
Kent Pritchett joins Colorflow as Lead Colorist.
UtopiaPeople announces the launch of UtopiaBook, cloud-based system that works simultaneously as a booking tool, as well as a management and organizational hub.
