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Passings

In Memoriam: Remembering the Animation & VFX Greats Who Left Us Last Year

Animation Magazine - December 19, 2022

In 2022, we lost many talented men and women who enriched and brightened our world by the remarkable contributions they made to the fields...

Features

Critics Prrraise the Artistic Daring of DreamWorks’ ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’

Animation Magazine - December 19, 2022

The other swashbuckling shoe is about to drop when Puss in Boots: The Last Wish brings Shrek's debonaire feline friend back to the big screen. In...

Features

Netflix Cools on ‘Ember’ from ‘Klaus’ Director Sergio Pablos

Animation Magazine - December 19, 2022

Another buzzy animation project has been plucked off the Netflix slate, with the news that hand-drawn animated feature Ember will not go forward at the...

Features

Animated Murakami Adaptation ‘Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman’ Heads to U.S. with Zeitgeist Films

Animation Magazine - December 19, 2022

Pierre Földes's festival buzz-maker animated feature Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman will finally get a stateside theatrical release next year. Zeitgeist Films, in association with Kino...

Festivals & Events

SIGGRAPH Asia 2022 Drives the Future of CG, VFX & XR

Animation Magazine - December 15, 2022

The 15th edition of SIGGRAPH Asia, ACM SIGGRAPH’s annual conference and trade exhibition on computer graphics and interactive techniques in Asia, wrapped up at...

Festivals & Events

Critics Choice Awards Nominates 5 Animated Features, ‘Pinocchio’ Scores Triple Nod

Animation Magazine - December 14, 2022

The Critics Choice Association (CCA) announced today the film category nominees for the 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards. The winners will be revealed at an...

Features

Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘How Do You Live’ Set for July Premiere in Japan

Animation Magazine - December 13, 2022

Studio Ghibli fans were treated to good news today, as the Japanese animation workshop revealed a hand-drawn teaser poster and the Japanese theatrical release...

Shorts

ASIFA, Distributors Issue Statement on “Shocking” Theft of Award-Winning Animated Short

Animation Magazine - December 12, 2022

A bizarre and troubling situation has been exposed on the film festival circuit: Russian animator Natalia Chernysheva's award-winning 2012 short film Snowflake (Снежинка) has...

Shorts

How ‘Canary’ Directors Dallaire & Therriault Let Their Animated Vision Soar

Animation Magazine - December 9, 2022

The classic story of "the boy who cried wolf" is refitted into a modern, CG-animated tale of unlikely friendship and tragic loss in Canary,...

A Day in the Life

A Day in the Life – #326 December 2022

Animation Magazine - December 8, 2022

This month, we pay a visit to director Hillary Bradfield, whose new animated short Reflect (part of the Short Circuit experimental shorts anthology available...

Festivals & Events

‘Marcel the Shell,’ ‘Wendell & Wild’ Make Critics’ Pick Lists

Animation Magazine - December 8, 2022

As the end of the year draws near, groups of film critics around the world are surveying the cinema landscape to make their calls...

Passings

‘Schoolhouse Rock’ Co-Creator George Newall Dies Age 88

Animation Magazine - December 8, 2022

Adman turned animation hitmaker George Newall, one of the creators of the iconic educational cartoon Schoolhouse Rock!, died on November 30 at a hospital...

People

Disney CFO Christine McCarthy Rumored as Iger’s Successor

Animation Magazine - December 6, 2022

Following the surprising return of Bob Iger to the helm of The Walt Disney Company, longtime Mouse House executive and current Senior Executive Vice...

Archives Animation Magazine – #326 January 2023

Animation Magazine - December 5, 2022

In this month’s issue of Animation Magazine ▩ Learn the secrets of the stop-motion magic behind Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. ▩ Go behind the scenes of DreamWorks Animation’s...

Passings

Pixomondo Founder Thilo Kuther Dies Age 58

Animation Magazine - December 5, 2022

Thilo Kuther, founder of Oscar- and Emmy -winning virtual production, visualization and VFX company Pixomondo, died Tuesday, November 29 due to cancer. The 58-year-old...

Immersive

Disney World to Close Splash Mountain in January to Make Way for Tiana’s Bayou Adventure

Animation Magazine - December 2, 2022

Walt Disney World in Florida has announced it is officially shutting down the Splash Mountain log flume ride on January 23, 2023. The news...

Television

FX Orders Monster Hunter Toon Pilot ‘Trenches’ from Drew Goddard

Animation Magazine - December 1, 2022

FX Network is eyeing an addition to its primetime comedy animation lineup, ordering a pilot for a new concept created by Drew Goddard. Dubbed The...

Streaming

DC Toons Aim for Amazon as WB Shops for New Animation Homes

Animation Magazine - November 30, 2022

During a talk at the Content London event, Warner Bros. Television Studios' Chairman Channing Dungey revealed that the company is close to finalizing a...

Technology

Ragdoll Dynamics 3.0 Adds Real-Time Character Physics Animators Can Steer Like a Puppeteer

Animation Magazine - November 29, 2022

Imbalance today releases Ragdoll Dynamics 3.0, giving animators an easy way to automate character physics in Maya. Animators can now create believable, nuanced animation...

People