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Festivals & Events

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s … Comic-Con International!

Ramin Zahed - July 10, 2011

Before you snap your spine picking up the official event guide for San Diego’s massive comics, animation and pop-culture event, take a quick glance...

Features

Sweet Serpent – ‘The Ballad of Nessie’

Ramin Zahed - July 10, 2011

Stevie Wermers-Skelton and Kevin Deters’ charming Ballad of Nessie brings a certain lake-dwelling Scottish monster to animated life. Here’s a lesson for animation students: Don’t...

Features

Timmy Turner Comes to Life!

Ramin Zahed - July 8, 2011

Butch Hartman and his Fairly OddParents team deliver a zany live-action movie adaptation of the global Nickelodeon hit phenom. Who can believe that it’s been...

Features

The Robots Invade a New Dimension

Ramin Zahed - July 8, 2011

Michael Bay’s shiny Transformers are back for their third big-screen outing, but this time they require a lot more vfx magic in 3-D. Here’s the...

Features

Trailer for Miyazaki’s ‘Kokuriko-Zaka’ Is Up!

Ramin Zahed - July 7, 2011

Although Americans will have to wait until February 2012 to see Studio Ghibli’s 2010 feature Arrietty in theaters, Japanese audiences will have the chance...

Features

A Sneak Peek at ‘A Monster in Paris’

Ramin Zahed - July 1, 2011

An excellent new clip for Bibo Bergeron’s upcoming 3-D, CG-animated feature A Monster In Paris (Un Monstre a Paris) premiered on the web this...

Festivals & Events

‘Eagleman Stag’ Wins Prize at LAFF; ‘Switez’ Wins at Palm Springs

Ramin Zahed - June 27, 2011

Mike Please’s The Eagleman Stag won the Best Animated Short prize at the 17th Edition of the Los Angeles Film Festival this past weekend. Voiced...

Features

Girerd’s ‘Aunt Hilda!’ Begins Production

Ramin Zahed - June 20, 2011

Acclaimed toon helmer Jacques-Remy Girerd’s upcoming project Aunt Hilda! has landed SND-M6 Group as its theatrical and DVD distributor. Girerd, whose 2009 feature Mia and...

Festivals & Events

SIGGRAPH Launches Business Symposium

Ramin Zahed - June 16, 2011

There’s one more reason to check out this summer’s hot SIGGRAPH event in Vancouver (August 7-11). The organizers are preparing a one-day event for...

Television

‘Canimals’ to Pounce in France This Fall

Ramin Zahed - June 16, 2011

The new 3-D stereoscopic, CG-animated series Canimals will premiere on Canal+ Family and Télétoon+ in France this October. Produced by BRB Internacional, Aardman and...

Features

Seeing the (Green) Light!

Ramin Zahed - June 16, 2011

Sony Imageworks vfx supervisor Jim Berney and his team revisit the classic comic book and use real-world references to construct the luminous world of...

Television