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Television

Sugar Dough Series In The Oven

Ryan Ball - October 30, 2002

Animation studio Siriol Prods., (SuperTed, Hilltop Hospital) is developing a series with children’s cookbook author Maisie Parrish, based on characters from her book Sugar...

Commercials

Reel FX Toys With Zoid Spot

Ryan Ball - October 30, 2002

Thunder, a new spot for Hasbro’s Zoids line of mechanized action figures, features a CG version of one of the toys rampaging through a...

Video Games

TDK Gives Gamers The Power of Grayskull

Ryan Ball - October 29, 2002

Game publisher TDK Mediactive Inc. announced that Masters of the Universe He-Man: Power of Grayskull has shipped for the Game Boy Advance handheld system. The...

Festivals & Events

Gigantor Bigger Than Ever At Screening

Ryan Ball - October 29, 2002

With a DVD box set of the classic anime TV series now on store shelves, Rhino Home Video is teaming up with the Japanese...

Home Entertainment

Lost World Found On Video

Ryan Ball - October 29, 2002

Arguably the best filmed version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s literary classic since Willis O’Brien’s 1925 silent epic, The BBC’s two-part TV miniseries The...

Television

J.J. Sedelmaier Rocks Schoolhouse For The Daily Show

Ryan Ball - October 29, 2002

To help illustrate the importance of the midterm elections and explain how they work, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart called on...

Warner Bros. Offers Virtual Tour Of Harry Potter Set

Ryan Ball - October 29, 2002

For fans who can’t wait for Harry Potter to open up his Chamber of Secrets, Warner Bros. offers an exclusive peek inside some of...

Features

The Real Mayor Of Halloween Town; Henry Selick on A Holiday Classic And What’s Growing In the Pumpkin Patch

Ryan Ball - October 28, 2002

Nearly a decade after its release, Tim Burton’s stop motion epic The Nightmare Before Christmas has become a holiday institution, as evidenced by packed...

Features

MTV Makes Jackasses of B.O. Competition

Ryan Ball - October 28, 2002

MTV and Paramount pulled off a stunning upset at the boxoffice over the weekend. The $5 million shot-on-video feature-length version of the popular Jackass...

VFX

Armaverse Unveils Phase 3 Armatures

Ryan Ball - October 28, 2002

Since 1995, Armaverse has been a supplier of cost-effective armature building components for the stop motion animator who doesn’t have a machine shop or...

Home Entertainment

KidCartoons Personalizes Comics, Cartoons

Ryan Ball - October 28, 2002

Building on the concept of the personalized book, which incorporates the name of the reader or person read to in the text, KidCartoons has...

Television

EM.TV Becomes Major Supplier To Swiss Tube

Ryan Ball - October 28, 2002

Germany-based EM.TV & Merchandising AG has signed a deal that will see it deliver three hours of programming per day to Swiss national broadcaster...

People

Nike Co-founder Cross Trains At Vinton

Ryan Ball - October 25, 2002

Privately held Portland, Ore.-based animation house Vinton Studios recently got a boost when Nike co-founder Philip Knight made a major investment in the company...

Features

Ghost Ship Docks In Theaters

Ryan Ball - October 25, 2002

Featuring extensive visual effects work by Photon VFX, Ghost Ship is the latest creep-out from the folks who brought us the recent remakes of...

Festivals & Events

Futurama Scribe Honored For Lifetime Achievement

Ryan Ball - October 25, 2002

Emmy award-winning Futurama writer and supervising producer Patric Verrone was honored with the fifth annual Animation Writing Award by the Animation Writers Caucus (AWC)...

Festivals & Events

Nancy Cartwright Graces NY Fest

Ryan Ball - October 25, 2002

Animatus Studio and the High Falls Film Festival in Rochester, N.Y. will host "An Afternoon with Nancy Cartwright: My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy"...

Television

TerraGlyph, Lupus Animate Oscar Wilde For Channel 4

Ryan Ball - October 25, 2002

TerraGlyph Prods. and Lupus Films will bring some of Oscar Wilde’s best known children’s stories to television for U.K.’s Channel 4. The companies have...

Television

Toys, Dinosaurs Rule Nov. On Toon Disney

Ryan Ball - October 25, 2002

Toon Disney will air the blockbuster CG hits Toy Story, Toy Story 2 and Dinosaur during the month of November. Featuring the voice of Tom...

Video Games

3ds max locked in Mortal Combat

Ryan Ball - October 24, 2002

In creating the animated in-game cinematic opener for the upcoming Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, Midway employed Discreet’s 3ds max 5 to execute realistic 3D...

Features