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Features

Pokemon Is Japan’s Top Toon Franchise

Ryan Ball - August 13, 2008

The Pokemon movies have earned more than $455 million at the Japanese box office to become the highest-grossing animated property produced in the country,...

Schools

Sony Teams with Animation Mentor

Ryan Ball - August 13, 2008

Sony Pictures Imageworks and Sony Pictures Animation are enhancing their IPAX education program with help from online character animation school Animation Mentor. Leveraging Animation...

VFX

MAXON Introduces Cinema 4D 11

Ryan Ball - August 13, 2008

MAXON Computer unveiled Cinema 4D Release 11 (R11), the next generation of its 3D animation software suite, at SIGGRAPH. The release promises advanced capabilities...

VFX

Pixar Marks 20 Years of RenderMan

Ryan Ball - August 13, 2008

Pixar Animation Studios is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its Academy Award-winning RenderMan rendering solution at SIGGRAPH, where it has unveiled details of the...

VFX

Image Metrics Offers Facial Animation Tool

Ryan Ball - August 13, 2008

Image Metrics, a provider of facial animation solutions, is letting select visual effects and film studios get their hands on its new performance transfer...

VFX

eyeon’s Fusion 5.3 Available Across Linux Platforms

Ryan Ball - August 13, 2008

A major release for eyeon Software, its Unified Platform System of Fusion 5.3 for Linux offers the option to run Fusion on multiple distributions...

Festivals & Events

NewTeeVee Welcomes Animation

Ryan Ball - August 13, 2008

NewTeeVee, a website dedicated to chronicling explosion of online video, is opening its monthly Pier Screening in Los Angeles to animation, puppetry, machinima and...

Home Entertainment

Hahn Serves Up Alchemy of Animation

Ryan Ball - August 12, 2008

Veteran Disney producer Don Hahn (Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) has informed us that he has a new...

Home Entertainment

Cartoon Net, Adult Swim Added to ICO Mobile

Ryan Ball - August 12, 2008

ICO Global Communications Ltd (ICO) has reached agreements with Turner Broadcasting System Inc. to provide content from the Cartoon Network and Adult Swim for...

Home Entertainment

South Park, Filmation Superheroes on DVD

Ryan Ball - August 12, 2008

Cartman, Kyle, Kenny and Stan are joined at retail by some of DC Comics' most famous crime fighters as the complete 11th season of...

Schools

Animation Mentor Renovates Online Campus

Ryan Ball - August 12, 2008

Animation Mentor (AnimationMentor.com), an online character animation school created by animators for animators, has unveiled its new winter term curriculum for January 2009, and...

VFX

Autodesk Unveils Maya 2009

Ryan Ball - August 12, 2008

In celebration of the 10-year anniversary of the popular Maya modeling, animation and rendering software package, Autodesk announced Autodesk Maya 2009 at SIGGRAPH in...

VFX

Massive 3.5 Debuts at SIGGRAPH

Ryan Ball - August 12, 2008

Massive Software unveiled Massive 3.5, the latest upgrade to the artificial intelligence-driven animation system widely used in film, television and video games. Originally designed...

Video Games

Madden NFL 09 Hits Stores

Ryan Ball - August 12, 2008

Today is the day all fans of sports video games look forward to every year, the day when the latest edition of Madden NFL...

Features

Batman Rules Another Weekend

Ryan Ball - August 11, 2008

Warner Bros.' The Dark Knight pulled off its fourth straight domestic box-office victory, earning an estimated $26 million over the weekend to bring its...

Features

Imagi Picks Up DreamWorks’ Tusker

Ryan Ball - August 11, 2008

Daily Variety reports that Hong Kong- and Los Angeles-based animation company Imagi Int'l has taken the reins of the animated feature film Tusker, which...

Four Win aniBoom Radiohead Contest

Ryan Ball - August 11, 2008

Radiohead, aniBoom (aniboom.com) and TBD Records have named the winners of the In Rainbows Animated Music Video Contest. Members of Radiohead hand selected four...

Crunchyroll Adds Gonzo Anime Titles

Ryan Ball - August 11, 2008

Online media distributor Crunchyroll has acquired digital distribution rights to multiple GDH K.K. titles including Kaleido Star and Peacemaker Kurogane. Crunchyroll, which has built...

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