Portsmouth Miniatures Studio, the New Zealand studio where Weta Workshop planned to film miniatures for THE HOBBIT, caught on fire yesterday, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
With MIPCOM just around the corner, Emmy Award-winning animation producer and industry veteran Bill Schultz announced the formation of his new company, Home Plate Entertainment (HPE).
Dr. Toon recounts the life and death of the theatrical animated short.
Santa Monica and NYC-based Blind has hired Reelize reps (Marci Miles and Julie Ford) to handle Midwest sales duties for the studio.
PhaseSpace Inc. is inviting SIGGRAPH attendees to step into the shoes of filmmaking luminaries such as James Cameron and Robert Zemeckis, directing actors and guiding the action through a virtual camera using state-of-the-art optical motion- capture technology.
Australia-based Omnilab Media has teamed with U.S.-based Backyard Animated Pictures to launch Oktobor Animation in Auckland, New Zealand, reports VARIETY.
Framestore and Nokia today launched a competition inviting amateur animators and VFX enthusiasts to contribute ideas for an exciting new special effect for their new project, FX Studio.
The number six is a very sexy number, if you know your Latin. It’s no coincidence that day six of the Animators are God? Series at Observatory belongs to Signe Baumane. Signe is famous for her “Teat Beat of Sex” episodes; animated films that have been called delightfully silly, charmingly honest, ambiguously serious and sexually explicit. In her own words, they are films that examine sex-themed topics from the perspective of a very knowledgeable female lecturer.
Well, I am back in Savannah (for now). The Incubator Studio ended and I sadly said “goodbyes” to the folks at Bloomfield College and Cicely Tyson High School.
Smith Micro Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMSI) Productivity and Graphics Group today announced the availability of Anime Studio Pro 7, the all-in-one tool for professionals and digital artists to create stunning 2D movies, cartoons and cutout animations.
In a June 14th letter to investors, Lionsgate said that activist shareholder Carl Icahn has a track record of "value destruction and self-serving actions," according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.
Cuppa Coffee Studios President and Executive Producer Adam Shaheen has announced an expansion of the 50,000 square-foot studio to include 30 more stages, bringing the total number of stop-motion stages to 70.
Soviet-era poster propaganda comes to life in Guru Studio's latest animated music video for Crash Karma's hit single Fight.
Boston and Los Angeles-based filmmaker Paul Cummings has signed with LA-based creative studio DUCK.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has announced the planning opening of a development studio in Montreal that by the end of 2015 will employ 300 people.
Cary Granat and Ed Jones' family films studio Bedrock Studios will make its debut with the production of the animated feature TURKEYS, reports VARIETY.
Luxology, an independent technology company developing next-generation 3D content creation software, is today introducing a new Studio Lighting & Illumination Kit.
Access to new DVD and Blu-ray releases from Warner Bros. will not be available for rental until 28 days after their release, according to an accord the studio reached with Netflix, VARIETY reports.
Studio Ghibli is set to adapt Mary Norton's classic children's book THE BORROWERS, reports VARIETY.
LOST AND FOUND has been awarded the 2009 BAFTA for ANIMATION at the British Academy Children's Awards which celebrate excellence in the art forms of the moving image for Children.
The Los Angeles Times has a long feature about the recent trend of studio executives getting sacked wherein it compares the turmoil in Hollywood to that of a slasher flick.
Smith Micro Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMSI) Productivity and Graphics Group, today announced the availability of Anime Studio Debut 6.1 and Anime Studio Pro 6.1.
We offer some highlights from "The Marc Davis Celebration of Animation: Hayao Miyazaki" last month at The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Studio Ghibli, the studio that produces the films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata among others, and Digital Video, the makers of Toonz, jointly announce the delivery of a special version of Toonz developed by Digital Video based on Studio Ghibli's specifications.
Such derived version will be also made available to the larger community of Toonz users, under the name of Toonz Harlequin v. 6.0.
