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Stuttgart: Successful FMX and 12th APD Come to a Close

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The 23rd FMX Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Immersive Media wrapped up Friday having provided some 4,000 attendees to a varied, well-balanced program...
Festivals & Events

DreamWorks Scores 5 Daytime Emmys; Netflix Tops Toon Outlets

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The 45th Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards took place Friday night in Pasadena, honoring programs, performers and creative craftspeople in the television and digital...
Features

Reel FX Plans Montreal Expansion, Promises 400 Jobs in 3 Years

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Dallas- and Santa Monica, CA-based Reel FX is expanding operations with a new studio in Canadian flagship studio in Montreal, which is expected to...
Digital Media

Oscar Winner Lupita Nyong’o Voicing Live Animation ‘Jack’ for Baobab

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Immersive animation powerhouse Baobab Studios (INVASION!) announced Friday that Academy Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Black...
Features

Ottawa Int’l Animation Fest ‘18 Bruce Bickford Poster Revealed

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The 2018 Ottawa International Animation Festival has revealed the official poster, created by Washington state-based artist Bruce Bickford. The self-taught, enigmatic  animation pioneer describes...
Top Stories

Foundry Builds on Google Cloud for Athera VFX Workflow Tech

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Timed to FMX in Germany, Foundry announces Google Cloud Platform as the underlying cloud service provider for Athera. Known in beta as “Project Elara,"...
Schools

RSP Student Short ‘Lucy and DiC’ Wins South Aus Screen Award

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A live-action short film co-starring a sass-mouthed CG robot which has become quite the online sensation has now added a South Australian Screen Award...
Television

Funimation Snags ‘Attack on Titan’ Season 3

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Funimation has acquired season 3 of the globally popular anime franchise Attack on Titan. The deal with Kodansha grants the Texas-based company international rights...
Features

Daily News Bytes: Lasseter’s Return Unlikely, Outsourcing in Anime, ‘Stolen Princess’ Hits $2.5M, & More

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”He Who Must Not Be Named”: Can John Lasseter Ever Return to Disney? As the end of his post-allegations “sabbatical” looms, THR examines the rise...
Features

Aardman Incubating ‘Chicken Run’ Sequel

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Nearly two decades after it first flew the coop, Aardman Animations is reportedly working on a sequel to the most successful ever stop-motion feature,...
People

Animation UK, UK Screen Alliance Name Council Reps

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Key audiovisual industry policy-making bodies UK Screen Alliance and Animation UK, which united in 2016, have elected new council representatives. The UK Screen Facilities...
Digital Media

Tatiana Maslany, Diego Luna, Emile Hirsch Join ‘Trollhunters’ Pt. 3

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Celebrated actors Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black), Diego Luna (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) and Emile Hirsch (Milk) will be lending their voices to...
People

Meg Guidon to Lead nineteentwenty’s New Longform VFX Dept.

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VFX post-production vet Meg Guidon has joined London-based nineteentwenty to lead the company’s new longform visual effects department. Guidon will apply her two decades...
Television

‘Ugly Americans’ Creator, Irony Point Producers Ink Comedy Central Pact

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Comedy Central has formed an exclusive partnership with production banner Irony Point, which will bring in founder Daniel Powell (co-creator, Inside Amy Schumer), head...
Features

CinemaCon: Paramount Animation Brings in ‘Monster on the Hill,’ ‘Luck’

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Paramount Animation took the CinemaCon 2018 stage in Las Vegas on Wednesday, revealing two new additions to its feature slate: Monster on the Hill,...
Television

Disney Channels Orders Anime-Inspired ‘Star Wars Resistance’

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Production has begun on another exciting animated extension of the Lucasfilm universe, Star Wars Resistance. Exploring the uncharted timeframe prior to The Force Awakens,...
Features

‘At the Ark at 8’ Harbors with SC Films

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London-based sales company SC Films (White Fang) has revealed its latest family animated feature At the Ark at 8 (3D), a French-German-Belgian CG co-pro...
Features

YTINIFNI Opens ‘Pinocchio’ Pre-Sales at Cannes

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International sales agency YTINIFNI PICTURES will be bringing a new CG twist on a classic story world to the Cannes Film Festival and market...
Features

GKIDS and Fathom Events Date ‘Fireworks’ US Release

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GKIDS and Fathom Events are continuing their partnership to present five new animated titles to US moviegoers this year. First up will be Akiyuki...
Television

‘Pikkuli’ Takes Wing Worldwide

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Monster Entertainment has inked a number of deals for season 1 of the adorable, non-dialog Finnish preschool series Pikkuli, produced by Sun In Eye...
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