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Features

Job, Joris & Marieke’s ‘Otto’ Premiering at TIFF

Mercedes Milligan - August 19, 2015

Netherlands animation, illustration, design and music studio Job, Joris & Marieke has announced that their newest short film, (Otto), will have its premiere during...

Digital Media

CONtv LIVE Launches with Chicago Comic Con

Mercedes Milligan - August 19, 2015

CONtv LIVE, presented by Verizon, will launch this weekend, bringing VIP subscribers access to a virtual front-row seat to Wizard World’s Chicago Comic Con....

Schools

MDC Inaugurates Animation & Gaming Complex

Mercedes Milligan - August 19, 2015

Miami Dade College in Florida will inaugurate the Miami Animation and Gaming International Complex (MAGIC) at its Wolfson Campus on August 21 at 10:30...

People

Phil Peterson Named Toon Boom Tech Advisor

Mercedes Milligan - August 19, 2015

Toon Boom Animation has named industry veteran Phil Peterson as technology advisor to the animation production software company. As part of his mandate, Peterson...

Television

Nick Greenlights ‘Pinky Malinky’

Mercedes Milligan - August 19, 2015

Nickelodeon has greenlit 20 episodes of social-media influenced animated comedy Pinky Malinky, the next original toon set to join the channel’s growing roster of...

Features

WB Plans All-Animated ‘Scooby’ Flick

Mercedes Milligan - August 17, 2015

Warner Bros. has announced plans to produce an animated feature take on Hanna-Barbera's classic toon Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?. Tony Cervone, whose toon town...

NIM Labs Unveils By-Artists-For-Artists Management Tool

Mercedes Milligan - August 17, 2015

L.A.'s NIM Labs has unveiled NIM: an innovative new browser-based studio management tool. NIM tracks the production pipeline from start to finish in a...

Digital Media

Endemol Shine Takes Control of Simon’s Cat

Mercedes Milligan - August 17, 2015

Endemol Shine UK has bought up a controlling stake in indie cartoonist Simon Tofield's Simon's Cat animation company, founded in 2008. In case it...

Features

‘Of Shadows & Wings’ Nabs Two Locarno Awards

Mercedes Milligan - August 17, 2015

Elice Meng and Eleonora Marinoni's first ever animated short Of Shadows & Wings has been awarded the Silver Pardino and the Youth Jury Award...

Features

‘Maya the Bee Movie’ Premieres in Colombia

Mercedes Milligan - August 14, 2015

Studio 100 International this week saw its CG family feature Maya the Bee Movie make its theatrical premiere throughout Colombia, on August 13. The...

Home Entertainment

‘Inside Out’ on Disc and Digital This Fall

Mercedes Milligan - August 14, 2015

Disney-Pixar’s Inside Out will be arriving on Digital HD and Disney Movies Anywhere on October 13, followed by Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray Combo Pack and...

Features

China’s Original Force Makes Feature Film Move

Mercedes Milligan - August 14, 2015

Original Force Animation -- a well-established Chinese service studio with a roster of TV and videogame clients including Disney, DreamWorks Television, Sony, Tencent, Activision...

People

Jeff Wolfe Joins Nathan Love as EP

Mercedes Milligan - August 13, 2015

Motion design and animation studio Nathan Love has hired on Promax BDA Award-winning producer Jeff Wolfe as Executive Producer. Wolfe joins the studio after...

Digital Media

Streamy Awards Nominees Revealed

Mercedes Milligan - August 13, 2015

Bolstered by some of the top online video talents of the day -- including Bart Baker, Flula and GloZell Green, the organizers of the...

Festivals & Events

Animago Announces 2015 Nominees

Mercedes Milligan - August 13, 2015

An independent jury of experts have made their final selections for nominees in the 2015 Animago Award competition. A pool of 1,008 international submissions...

Features

‘Regular Show: The Movie’ Debuts on Digital Sept. 1

Mercedes Milligan - August 13, 2015

Cartoon Network has announced it will release the first-ever full length feature based on J.G. Quintel’s Emmy-winning comedy Regular Show: The Movie via electronic...

Features

First Official ‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ Poster Arrives

Mercedes Milligan - August 12, 2015

DreamWorks Animation and 20th Century Fox have debuted the first official poster for upcoming CG sequel Kung Fu Panda 3, which strikes theaters with...

Television

‘Rick and Morty’ Scores Season 3 Renewal

Mercedes Milligan - August 12, 2015

Less than a month into its triumphant second season return to Adult Swim, original animated comedy Rick and Morty has received a season three...

People

WIA Awards Susan Bin 2015 Phyllis Craig Scholarship

Mercedes Milligan - August 12, 2015

Women in Animation (WIA) has awarded Harvard student Susan Bin the 2015 Phyllis Craig Scholarship, an annually bestowed purse of $1,000 given to one...

Television