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Festivals & Events

Annecy Unveils Features in Competition Slate

Ramin Zahed - April 15, 2011

The organizers of the prestigious Annecy Festival of Animation unveiled the list of the features competing in the 2011 edition of the event (June...

Festivals & Events

‘Planet Sheen,’ ‘Sym-bionic Titan’ Win Top Pulcinellas

Ramin Zahed - April 11, 2011

The 15th edition of Italy’s popular Cartoons on the Bay festival drew to a close this past weekend in Rapallo. Among the animated...

People

Disgusted Animation Exec Brings Nothing to MIPTV Market

Ramin Zahed - April 1, 2011

After many years of cluttering the market with cheaply produced, nasty-looking animated shows about robots, aliens, baby dolls who look like tiny Parisian hookers...

Home Entertainment

Giving Linus a Break!

Ramin Zahed - April 1, 2011

The Peanuts gang is back in a new stand-alone DVD special in Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown. It’s not every day that...

People

Animated People: Top Draw’s Wayne Dearing

Ramin Zahed - March 30, 2011

On the eve of the MIPTV market in France, we caught up with Wayne Dearing, founder and manager of Manila-based Top Draw Animation, one...

Bakery’s Relight to Be Served Fresh at NAB

Ramin Zahed - March 30, 2011

French 3D CG software company The Bakery has announced that it will unveil its new animation and visual effects lighting and rendering solution Bakery...

Television

The Totally Odd Couple – ‘The Looney Tunes Show’

Ramin Zahed - March 25, 2011

Bugs and Daffy share a home in The Looney Tunes Show, an offbeat new half-hour toon which introduces the classic characters to a new...

Features

Brazilian Rhapsody – Blue Sky’s ‘Rio’

Ramin Zahed - March 25, 2011

Under the direction of Carlos Saldanha, the team at Blue Sky delivers Rio, a visually stunning valentine to the birds, the beauty and infectious...

People

Animated People: Berkeley Breathed

Ramin Zahed - March 16, 2011

15 Minutes with… Berkeley Breathed Acclaimed cartoonist (Bloom County, Opus) and children’s book author (Mars Needs Moms) Animag: How did you...

Home Entertainment

Back to Metropolis

Ramin Zahed - March 14, 2011

The Man of Steel deals with his own mortality in the acclaimed new Warner/DC animated movie, All-Star Superman. Indubitably, there are legions of...

Features

Aliens Among Us

Ramin Zahed - March 14, 2011

Veteran supe Greg McMurry reveals some of the clever ways he and the artists at ILM, and Hammerhead delivered the visual magic for...

Features

The Great Pretender: ‘Rango’

Ramin Zahed - March 4, 2011

Director Gore Verbinski and ILM vfx supervisor Hal Hickel discuss the making of Rango, a highly original, visually arresting animated feature about a chameleon...

Festivals & Events

Execs and Producers Talk TV Toon Biz at Kidscreen Summit

Ramin Zahed - February 17, 2011

It’s a busy week for TV development execs, buyers and producers at they gather for the annual Kidscreen Summit held at New York City’s...

Television

Much More Than Meets the Eye!

Ramin Zahed - February 11, 2011

The Hub’s new Transformers Prime series adds sophisticated storylines and top-notch CG animation to the popular franchise. Director Michael Bay has promised fans that the...

Features

Love and the Star-Crossed Lawn Ornaments

Ramin Zahed - February 11, 2011

Director Kelly Asbury and producer Baker Bloodworth talk about the challenges and rewards of their new animated movie Gnomeo and Juliet. It’s certainly not surprising...

Television

Watch Out, Captain Hook!

Ramin Zahed - February 11, 2011

Disney TV animation’s new preschool show Jake and the Never Land Pirates revisits Peter Pan’s old haunts. More than a century after the first...

Festivals & Events

Hinge Digital Announces Design Contest Winner

Ramin Zahed - February 8, 2011

We are pleased to announce that artist/illustrator Erin Koehler is the winner of Hinge Digital’s inaugural “Bringing your World to Life” character design contest....

Festivals & Events

‘Dragon’ Fires Up the Annie with 15 Wins

Ramin Zahed - February 6, 2011

DreamWorks’ Dragon has delivered another triumphant sweep. Chris Sanders and Don DeBlois’s How To Train Your Dragon won 15 out of 24 award categories,...

Television

Open Season: To Russia With Love

Ramin Zahed - January 14, 2011

Boog the Bear gets a taste of life in a Russian circus in the next installment of Sony’s Open Season saga. Boog, Elliot, Giselle...

Television

A Mouth-Watering Treat!

Ramin Zahed - January 14, 2011

The new addition to FOX-TV’s Sunday night lineup is Bob’s Burgers, Loren Bouchard’s hilarious toon about a strangely endearing family that runs a small...

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