AN ANNECY SUCCESS STORY WITH A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT BEHIND IT With Annecy 2022 well and truly behind us now, it’s time to review, reflect and optimistically look ahead to next year’s festival.\ After a break of two years, Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2022 took place between the 13th and the 18th of June. This[…..] […]
Disney’s board of directors unanimously voted to extend Chapek’s contract as CEO for another three years. His new contract begins July 1 and runs until 2025. Chapek was controversially promoted to replace outgoing CEO Bob Iger in February of 2020. Prior to becoming CEO, Chapek put in time as head of Disney Parks, Experiences and[…..] […]
The company United Media has teamed up with the production company Cobra Film, owned by Dragan Bjelogrlić, a notorious Serbian actor, director and producer, for the production of the series “Me, Pink Panther”. The series is based on the novel of the same name by Olivera Ćirković, a former member of the Yugoslav national basketball[…..] […]
Ranking of Kings’ Director Yosuke Hatta, and Animation Producer Maiko Okada as Guests of Honor for AX 2022! Join Crunchyroll and the Director and Animation Producer of Ranking of Kings from WIT STUDIO for a Q&A session. About Yosuke Hatta He has debuted as a Director in Ranking of Kings. He has previously worked as[…..] […]
Helen Bullough, head of BBC Studios (BBCS) Kids & Family Productions, is leaving the fledgling unit after over a decade at the BBC’s children’s department. Bullough will leave the recently launched department later this year. It was formed by a merger between BBC Children’s in-house productions, overseen by Bullough since 2018, and BBCS Productions, as[…..] […]
SIGGRAPH 2022 Featured Speaker Ime Archibong, Head of New Product Experimentation (NPE) for Meta. In his fireside chat, “Who Is Going to Design the Next Wave of Innovation? You Are.”, Ime will discuss experimentation as an approach to innovation, share examples of innovative ways people are empowered to build, and why it’s necessary for designers[…..] […]
Create highly accurate, customized, and production-ready AI models to power your speech and computer vision AI applications. What Is the NVIDIA TAO Toolkit? Creating an AI/machine learning model from scratch requires mountains of data and an army of data scientists. Now, you can speed up the model development process with transfer learning —a popular technique[…..] […]
Our friends at GatherRound Studios is proud to announce the launch of the Kickstarter campaign for their otherworldly open-world and RPG masterpiece, The White Raven. Set against the backdrop of dark and spiritual hellscapes, The White Raven is teeming with intrigue, conspiracy, and mystery. Become Jin, a young spirit whisperer destined to uncover the harrowing[…..] […]
MGA Entertainment (MGA), one of the fastest growing and largest privately held toy and entertainment company in the US, has announced it has named Mehran Ravanpay Executive Vice President, Global Manufacturing and Supply Chain. In this role, he will lead the company in implementing continuous improvements and efficiencies, prepare the company for future diversification of[…..] […]
Submissions for the BIG Festival 2022 Game Jam by DANGEN Entertainment have come to a close! Our team is super excited to see all of the fantastic entries! The announcement of the winners will take place live, during the BIG Festival 2022 awards ceremony. All games submitted to Game Jam will be available on the[…..] […]
