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‘Floreana,’ ‘North of Blue’ Top LA Animation Festival
Louis Morton’s ‘Floreana’ and Joanna Priestly’s ‘North of Blue’ win grand prizes; best comedy award goes to Alison Snowden and David Fine’s ‘Animal Behaviour.’
ASIFA-Hollywood Announces Festival Partnerships for Annie Awards
Grand prize winners from the Annecy, Hiroshima, Ottawa & Zagreb Festivals eligible to submit their work for Annie Award consideration at no charge.
Nick Park Stays True to His Early Style in ‘Early Man’
Four-time Oscar winner maximizes more organic, stone-age look with targeted CG and no 3D printing on Aardman Animations’ Annie Award-nominated stop-motion feature.
46th Annie Award Nominations Announced
LOBO/Vetor Zero Bring Back Coca-Cola Polar Bears for Delightful ‘Rules of Christmas
International creative animation & design studio LOBO/Vetor Zero animates new Coca-Cola holiday campaign, ‘Christmas Rules.’
Art&Graft Sign With Final Frontier in Asia
London-based studio specializes in character-driven 2D and 3D narrative animation, character design and channel rebrands.
GLAS Animation Festival Unveils 2019 Poster by Manshen Lo
Le Cube Delivers New Animated Spot for China
Featuring a retired and recently widowed former Russian cosmonaut, Le Cube’s ‘Back to the Stars’ is the latest film in Ritz-Carlton’s Let Us Stay With You series.
‘Tweet Tweet’ Takes Best Short at animago 2018
Zhanna Bekmambetova’s first animated project among 12 winners chosen at the 22nd edition of the AWARDS & CONFERENCE.
Blinkink Signs Directors James Papper & Sophie Koko Gate
Spain’s Quirino Awards Issues 2019 Call for Entries
Deadline for submissions to second annual event recognizing Ibero-American animation is December 8; award ceremony to be held April 6, 2019 on the island of Tenerife.
Final Frontier Names Chris Colman Executive Producer
Multi-disciplined British animation professional most recently worked with Shanghai-based animation feature film development studio Oriental DreamWorks.
Walter Campbell Joins MPC London as Creative Head of Business Development
Legendary creative will lead end-to-end creative and production solution at the London branch of the VFX powerhouse.
Jaime Álvarez Sobreviela, aka Mr Kat, Signs with Final Frontier in Asia
Peru-based artist, character designer and IP creator best known for creating ‘Mr Kat and Friends’ the latest addition to Shanghai studio’s animation and design roster in Asia.
Framestore Appoints Suzanne Jandu Head of 2D
Look dev artist for the Harry Potter franchise and lead compositor on the Oscar-winning ‘The Jungle Book’ to work across Framestore’s Advertising, Television and Immersive divisions.
LOBO Adds Directing Duo Alton to Animation Roster
São Paulo-based duo behind ‘100 Years in 100 Seconds,’ the short film created for the 2018 Annecy Festival celebrating 100 years of Brazilian animation, signs with international creative animation and design studio for global representation.
Framestore Pictures Signs Director Laurent Ledru
London’s Golden Wolf Sets Up Shop in New York
Cutting-edge design and animation studio occupies adjacent studio space in SoHo to Psyop and sister company Blacklist.
animago AWARDS Announces 2018 Nominees
Thirty-six 3D animation & design, visual effects, visualization and AR/VR nominees selected from 856 submissions from 61 countries.
GLAS Animation Festival Now Accepting Submissions for 2019 Edition
VFX Supervisor Patrick Ferguson Joins MPC LA
LOBO Expands U.S. Presence with New NYC Studio
Independent creative animation and design studio expands to new location in New York City led by creative director Guilherme Marcondes, art director Felipe Jornada and executive producer Luis Ribeiro.
SIGGRAPH 2018: A Chat with Computer Animation Festival Director Larry Bafia
Ahead of this year’s SIGGRAPH Conference, Computer Animation Festival director Larry Bafia reflects on his experiences heading up this year’s edition, and dishes up some sage advice for first-time attendees.
Emile Awards Now Accepting Submissions for 2018 Edition
Expanded two-day event running December 7 & 8 in Lille, France to include talks, master classes, workshops, exhibitions and screenings.