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Congrats to the 2011 Nominees!

By Dan Sarto | Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at 5:01pm

AWN would like to congratulate all the animation and visual effects Oscar nominees. This is the place for exclusive coverage of AWN Oscar Tour, where the nominees for Best Animated Short tour studios in Los Angeles and the Bay area. Hear from the filmmakers about their Oscar-nominated work right here. For now find out the facts about all the animated nominees at the AWN Oscar Showcase.

Cartoon Headline News

CN Acquires Short-Form Series from Australian Children’s TV Foundation

Cartoon Network is continuing its support of local Australian original content with the acquisition of a package of 10 new children’s short-form series from Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF).

Animation Headline News

UFO Finishes Featuring and Wecker for VIVA Germany

UFO has just finished work on two ident packages for VIVA Germany. The director team started work developing ideas for the two concepts in early October 2010.

Media Headline News

Postman Pat Delivers New BBC Commitment Through 2015

Classic Media, a global media company with a portfolio of some of the world’s leading family entertainment brands, today announced that it has secured an ongoing commitment from premium children’s platform, CBeebies, for the UK’s favourite postie and popular pre-school series, Postman Pat®, until 2015.

Film Headline News

Wonder Pets Creator Has Time Out with Live-Action Short

Little Airplane Productions Founder and President Josh Selig will have his short, live-action film “The Time-Out Chair” featured in The Museum of Modern Art’s Family Films series.

Effects Headline News

Inception Leads VES Nominations

The Visual Effects Society (VES) today announced the nominees for the 9th Annual VES Awards ceremony recognizing outstanding visual effects artistry in 24 categories of film, animation, television, commercials and video games.

Blogs

Levy Hits the Bullseye with 'Directing Animation'

By Dan Sarto | Friday, January 7, 2011 at 12:06pm

Without good direction, you end up with drek. Problems with sequence timing or the render pipeline can be solved with relative ease – problems of mismanagement are difficult to overcome and usually spell doom. Animation directors aren’t directing animation, they’re directing a group of people who are working in arguably the most time consuming and exacting of creative mediums. David Levy's new book Directing Animation at its heart strives to teach the reader how to keep an animation production crew happy, productive and on task.

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