Submissions to Japan’s New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival open April 15. By Jennifer Wolfe | Monday, March 4, 2019 at 4:34pm The New Chitose Airport in Japan, a gateway known as the “Entertainment Airport” for the world to access Hokkaido, has set the sixth edition of the New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival for November 1-4, 2019. The[…..] […]
By Mercedes Milligan | March 1, 2019 Music mogul DJ Khaled is set to host Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards 2019, the biggest, slimiest party of the year for kids, broadcasting live Saturday, March 23, at 8 p.m. (ET/PT) from the Galen Center in Los Angeles. The host pick and this year’s nominees were announced by Double Dare host Liza[…..] […]
CGGE：You have been in China market for a long time. What do you think is the biggest difference between the current China market and that 10-year ago? Splash：Yes, the first series we produced in China was “Dive Olly Dive” which later became “Happy Little Submarines” which in turn become a GDC property. This showed them the[…..] […]
By Mercedes Milligan | March 1, 2019 Loot Crate has announced the launch of a new Rick and Morty Crate, in collaboration with Cartoon Network Enterprises, which will deliver exclusive goodies inspired by Justin Roiland’s Adult Swim smash hit to subscribers every quarter, and allow fans of the franchise to get schwifty in a whole new way![…..] […]
The VR company Magic Leap is located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, and is an AR platform similar to Microsoft HoloLens. As a mysterious and low-profile company, its main R & D direction is to project images directly through the human eye to the retina. In this way, your brain will think the images are real. The company will[…..] […]
‘First Man’ wins Oscar for Best Visual Effects; ‘Black Panther’ wins three awards including Costume Design, Production Design & Original Score. By Jennifer Wolfe | Sunday, February 24, 2019 at 8:19pm LOS ANGELES – Statuettes were handed out at the 91st Academy Awards Sunday night, with the Oscar for Best Animated Feature going to Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey,[…..] […]
By Mercedes Milligan | February 22, 2019 The 2019 FMX Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Immersive Media — taking place April 30 to May 3 in Stuttgart, Germany — has confirmed new additions to this year’s program. Doug Chiang, the Academy Award-winning Vice President and Executive Creative Director of Lucasfilm, has joined the Concept Art track. Chiang has made[…..] […]
“Green Book” won best picture while Rami Malek took home best actor. By Michael Rothman | Feb 25, 2019 The 2019 Academy Awards were one for the books, with stars like Lady Gaga, Rami Malek and Spike Lee taking home an Oscar. Regina King won the Oscar for actress in a supporting role for “If Beale Street Could Talk” and Mahershala Ali[…..] […]
by Maxwell Planck | Feb 13th, 2019 We are still in a high-fashion stage of VR where the experimentation and far-out art being presented at festivals like Sundance have yet to inspire the “ready to wear” market we are all waiting for. Since 2013, Sundance has been the first annual “runway” that sets the tone for[…..] […]
“SparkShorts is indie filmmaking inside of Pixar.” There came a newly unveiled initiative from Pixar: SparkShorts. Though first revealed to SIGGRAPH attendees in 2017 via a Talk on “Smash and Grab,” the program offers artists from all areas of the studio a chance to create their own, independent short film. Lester was one of six filmmakers[…..] […]
