Category: Production
Ariel Costa Directs Dark Anime Thriller For Siemens China
Brazilian animator and director also known as BlinkMyBrain collaborates with agency R/GA Shanghai and production company Final Frontier for 2D-animated ‘Guardian.’
BES Animation To Produce Second Season of ‘Kitty is Not a Cat’
Disney Channel Hatches Third Season of ‘DuckTales’
Emmy Award-nominated series produced by Disney Television Animation receives Season 3 pickup ahead of its Season 2 premiere.
SAG-AFTRA Reaches New Deal on Television Animation Contract
New tentative agreement set to continue through June 30, 2020 still subject to SAG-AFTRA ratification.
Advanced Imaging Society Unveils 2018 Technology Lumiere Award Honorees
DreamWorks Animation, Google VR, NVIDIA, The Mill, and the USC Institute for Creative Technologies among 15 award recipients to be honored at 9th Technology Lumiere Awards.
Blinkink Delivers New Gorillaz Video, ‘Tranz’
U.K. animation specialists team up with Gorillaz director & co-creator Jamie Hewlett and director Nicos Livesey to create the world’s most famous virtual band’s first-ever performance video.
Mexico’s Pixelatl Festival Wraps 2018 Edition
Girl Power: Pitch Me The Future development prize awarded to ‘Forgotten Forest’ by Madelein Treviño.
Folimage, YLE, and 9 Story Win 2018 Cartoon Tribute Awards
Cartoon Forum wraps 29th edition in Toulouse, France with annual awards ceremony recognizing companies with a positive impact on the television animation industry.
Walk on the Wild Side: Alison Snowden & David Fine Talk ‘Animal Behaviour’
The Oscar-winning duo behind ‘Bob’s Birthday’ returns to the NFB with a new short film exploring the animal side of human nature.
Is NVIDIA’s New RTX Real-Time Ray Tracing Technology Really a Game Changer?
Industry analyst Jon Peddie weighs in on the significance of NVIDIA’s recently announced Turing GPU architecture and AI-enhanced photorealistic rendering.
A Girl and Her Robot: ‘Next Gen’ Arrives on Netflix
Writer and directors Kevin Adams and Joe Ksander discuss the making of the Chinese-Canadian animated co-production about the bittersweet power of memories.
PGA to Honor Marvel’s Kevin Feige with David O. Selznick Award
Marvel Studio president to be honored at 30th Annual Producers Guild Awards on Saturday, January 19, 2019.
Warner Bros. Taps Jon and Josh Silberman to Write Wile E. Coyote Screenplay
‘Galaga Chronicles’ Bolsters Team with ‘Star Trek’ Producer Roberto Orci
Emmy-winning studio ShadowMachineto provide animation for new television series based on Bandai Namco’s classic arcade game.
Reel FX Recruits Chris Miller To Direct Untitled Wish Project
Oscar-nominated ‘Puss n’ Boots’ and ‘Shrek the Third’ director to helm upcoming original feature that takes place in both the real world and a world of mythical creatures.
Dancing Goddesses: How Nina Paley Animated Stone Sculptures for ‘Seder-Masochism’
We’ve been grooving all summer with the Pointer Sisters and Paley’s animated stone goddesses dancing to the infectious “You Gotta Believe” by Norman Whitfield -- now let’s see how they were made.
‘Peppa Pig’ Theatrical Release Marching to Mainland China
Under new co-production deal, Entertainment One and Alibaba Pictures set theatrical Release of ‘Peppa Pig’ for Chinese New Year 2019.
Titmouse Promotes Jennifer Ray to VP & Head of Production for Vancouver Animation Studio
Vice president and supervising producer Kevin Gamble to oversee Titmouse Canada’s expansion including sales and new office move.
VIDEO: Watch NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s Keynote Address at SIGGRAPH 2018
Learn about NVIDIA’s Turing architecture-based GPUs, which allow artists to render photorealistic scenes in real time, add new AI-based capabilities to their workflows, and enjoy fluid interactivity with complex models and scenes.
20 Projects Selected for Cinekid’s Junior Co-production Market 2018
2018 Shotgun Pipeline Award Winners Announced
UTS Animal Logic Academy, 4th Creative Party, Zoho Studio and Territory Studio honored for outstanding achievement in pipeline tool development.
WATCH: Netflix Releases New Trailer for ‘Next Gen’ Feature
Charlyne Yi and John Krasinski lead the voice cast in Chinese-Canadian animated co-production about an unlikely friendship between a rebellious girl and a runaway combat robot.
Solid Angle Introduces Arnold 5.2
New release of Academy Award-winning rendering software includes new Cell Noise shader, multi-threaded Adaptive Subdivision, Texture Baking, and deeper integration with Cryptomatte.
NVIDIA Unveils Quadro RTX, World’s First Ray-Tracing GPU
New Turing-based design revolutionizes workflow of millions of designers and artists on the desktop and in the datacenter.