Toronto Animation Arts Festival International Issues 2019 Call for Entries
TAAFI is seeking both shorts and feature length films from across the globe for its 2019 edition, running February 15-17.
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Second Annual Animation First Festival Puts France in the Spotlight
Legendary director Michel Ocelot the guest of honor at the second annual edition of the only U.S. festival dedicated to French animation.
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Box Office: ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ Delivers Largest December Animated Opening
Racking up award nominations, Sony’s ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ lands the largest three-day animated opening of all-time in the month of December with a $35.4 million domestic bow.
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Netflix Releases Behind-the-Scenes Featurette for ‘MOWGLI: Legend of the Jungle’
Watch famed actor and first-time director Andy Serkis, Christian Bale and Benedict Cumberbatch don performance capture gear to recreate Rudyard Kipling’s famous tale of a young boy caught between the world of man and jungle.
Digital Domain Adds Studio in Montréal
Global VFX studio celebrates 25 years with the opening of its ninth location.
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Fantasy Worlds and Characters Abound in Disney’s ‘Nutcracker and the Four Realms’
MPC VFX supervisor Richard Clegg and his team create fully CG environments and complex digital characters such as Mother Ginger, the Mouse King, and an army of seven-foot tin soldiers for Disney’s new feature film adaptation of the classic holiday tale.
‘Cinderella,’ ‘Jurassic Park,’ ‘Hair Piece’ Added to National Film Registry
Disney’s ‘Cinderella,’ Steven Spielberg’s ‘Jurassic Park,’ and the independent experimental animated short film ‘Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy-Headed People’ among 25 films that will be preserved by the Library of Congress.
GKIDS Acquires ‘Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles’
Co-written and directed by Salvador Simó, and produced by Manuel Cristobal, ‘Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles’ received the Special Jury Prize at this year’s Animation Is Film Festival.
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VIDEO: See How Sony Pictures Imageworks Created the Winter Wonderland of ‘Smallfoot’
Visual effects supervisor Karl Herbst gives a behind-the-scenes peek into the tools and techniques used to bring the winter wonderland of ‘Smallfoot’ to the big screen.
9 Scientific & Technical Achievements to be Honored at Academy Sci-Tech Awards
Curtis Clark to receive John A. Bonner Award at the Academy’s annual Scientific and Technical Awards presentation on Saturday, February 9.
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Pixar Reveals Cast, Plot Details for 2020 Release ‘Onward’
Original new feature film directed by Dan Scanlon and produced by Kori Rae to feature the voices of Chris Pratt, Tom Holland, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Octavia Spencer.
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Creating A Stylized Universe for Sony’s ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’
Sony Pictures Animation head of character animation Josh Beveridge helps bring comic books to the big screen with a hand-crafted illustrative visual style that breaks all the rules of traditional CG.
GKIDS Acquires NorAm Rights To ‘Okko’s Inn’
New feature film from Studio Ghibli veteran animator Kitaro Kosaka set for theatrical release in April 2019.
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VIDEO: DreamWorks Animation Short ‘Bilby’ A Testing Ground for New Production Tools
Directors Pierre Perifel, JP Sans and Liron Topaz delve into the making of their CG-animated short ‘Bilby’ -- including the use of the studio’s new Moonray light rendering engine -- in a new exclusive video and accompanying Q&A.
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‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ Voted Best Animated Feature by LA and NY Film Critics
Sony Pictures Animation’s new Marvel superhero adventure takes top award from both groups; Hayao Miyazaki honored with Career Achievement Award.
‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ Barely Edges 'The Grinch’ to Remain Box Office Champ
Disney’s ‘Wreck-it Ralph’ sequel holds off Illumination’s Christmas tale to take top spot for third straight week.
Warner Bros. Prepping ‘Plastic Man’ Feature
Amanda Idoko hired to write the screenplay for comedic action-adventure based on the DC Comics super hero.
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Pearl Studio Gathers Top Talent for 4th Annual Brain Trust Summit
Distinguished thought leaders Daniel Dae Kim, Margaret Cho, Richard LaGravenese, Jenny Han and Jessica Gao to participate in three-day creative think tank summit.
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Nominations Announced for 76th Golden Globe Awards
Pixar’s ‘Incredibles 2,’ Wes Anderson’s ‘Isle of Dogs,’ Mamoru Hosoda’s ‘Mirai,’ Disney’s ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ and Sony’s ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ receive nominations for best animated feature.
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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.
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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.
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91st Academy Awards: 20 Contenders Advance in VFX Oscar Race
From Marvel’s ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ to Universal’s ‘Welcome to Marwen,’ 20 spectacular contenders vie for nominations at the 91st Academy Awards.
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46th Annie Award Nominations Announced
Animation’s biggest night set for Saturday, February 2, 2019 at UCLA’s Royce Hall.
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Mamoru Hosoda’s ‘Mirai’ Now in Theaters!
Gallery Nucleus exhibition, “Mirai and the Works of Mamoru Hosoda,” on display through Sunday, December 2.
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Miles Flails Through Web-Swinging 101 in New ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ Clip
Reluctant mentor Peter Parker and his bumbling protégé barely escape with their lives in latest look at Sony’s upcoming animated comic-adventure.
