Jellish:an experienced producers of high end animation content

Forbes recently featured Jellyfish Pictures’s hybrid workflow in an article about remote workflows in the media and entertainment industries. The piece highlights how Jellyfish Pictures’ hybrid workflow has increased remote productivity by sharing the advantages of operating as a virtual VFX and animation studio–with the help of the technology provided by Hammerspace, Microsoft Azure and HP[…..] […]

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Garfield gets a 2024 release date

Sony Pictures have given Garfield, the world’s most famous fat cat, a date on which he can crawl from his bed onto the big-screen with the studio setting a February 16th, 2024 release for Jim Davis’ iconic feline. This animation feature is directed by Mark Dindal (Cats Don’t Dance, Emperor’s New Groove), who re-teams with writer David Reynolds[…..] […]

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How Sony Pictures Imageworks created a real-time thriller for Netflix’s Love, Death + Robots

What would you do if you came face to face with Cthulhu? For the heroes in one of the goriest shorts of Love, Death + Robots yet, the answer is simple: Anything to survive. Called In Vaulted Halls Entombed, volume three’s eighth episode centers on a squad of soldiers that has the dangerous job of[…..] […]

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The first Beijing Animation Week has come to an end and Chinese animation is about to open a new century

The first Beijing Animation Week has come to an end and Chinese animation is about to open a new century The Activities of 100-Year Chinese Animation in Beijing to pay tribute to the classic dream of the future 2022 marks the centenary of the birth of Chinese animation. After a hundred years of wind and[…..] […]

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FUNKO Hires Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Far East

Funko has announced that Michael Hyde is joining the company as senior vice president and managing director, Funko Far East. Hyde will report to Andrew Perlmutter, chief executive officer, Funko. Hyde was previously at The Character Group managing operations in the Far East. He started in the toy business at Mattel in brand management, marketing[…..] […]

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Amazon Prime Video to localise in key SE Asia markets

Amazon has commissioned its first slate of Southeast Asian originals for its Prime Video streaming service, as Amazon Prime localises in SE Asia markets Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines today. Three new versions of situational improvisation comedy challenge format Comedy Island have been ordered, one for each country, with Comedy Island: Indonesia, Comedy Island: Thailand[…..] […]

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Dongbuzhou Incubation Project

The original intention of Dongbuzhou international animation incubator creation base is to encourage and support the outstanding animation people who are in original creation and development, especially young new animation people, to power “the first one kilometer”, support the creation of the commercial animation and hatch, and at the same time pay more attention to the development of the original independent[…..] […]

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GDC 2023 Welcomes New Members To Advisory Board

The Game Developers Conference will be returning to San Francisco, March 20-24, 2023, and organizers are excited to announce the dates when prospective speakers can send in their submissions—along with a group of new advisors who will be appraising some of those entries. GDC 2023 has been accepting submissions to present lectures, roundtables, and panels[…..] […]

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