What’s behind the deal of South Park creators sign $900m deal to make seasons and movies In early August，The creators of the South Park cartoons have signed a $900m (£646m) deal with US media giant ViacomCBS. The agreement, which runs to the end of 2027, includes six seasons of the South Park TV show and[…..] […]
Ex-Nick Exec Russell Hicks take over Top Draw Animation International animation veteran Wayne Dearing, who is best known as the founder of Manila-based Top Draw Animation, will step down in 2022. He has named former Russell Hicks as successor to lead the studio. The former Nickelodeon executive will lead its Philippines-based studio Top Draw Animation,[…..] […]
Blackmagic Design today announced DaVinci Resolve 17.3 which adds support for a completely new processing engine that transforms the speed of DaVinci Resolve to work up to 3 times faster on Apple Mac models with the M1 chip. With this massive speed increase, customers can now play back, edit and grade 4K projects faster, and[…..] […]
‘Love, Death + Robots’, ‘Primal’, ‘The Simpsons’ Are Juried Emmy Awards The Television Academy announced the award winners for the 73rd Emmy Awards in juried categories. This year’s juried award categories included prizes for Individual Achievement in Animation, Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program, Innovation in Interactive Programming, and Motion Design last Wednesday.[…..] […]
Entry Period2021.7.1-9.3 The 25th Japan Media Arts Festival is seeking diverse works that carve out a path for a new era. Award-winning works selected from among the entries will be widely exhibited both within Japan and abroad through various projects and events organized by the Agency for Cultural Affairs in the aim of developing and[…..] […]
Leading kids’ entertainment specialist CAKE has announced a UK deal for 2D animated pre-school series Tish Tash. The 52 x 5’ series aimed at 3-5 year-olds is set to premiere on CBeebies in September 2021. Tish Tash follows the adventures of a young bear called Tish, her bear family and her larger-than-life imaginary friend Tash,[…..] […]
Sales revenue of German companies outpaced by market growth Domestic-market share of German-developed games sinks to around 4.2 per cent ‘Overall, however, we as the German games industry have unfortunately not yet been able to profit enough from the historic leap in growth on our home market.’ Total German games market grows to 8.5 billion[…..] […]
New GDC Masterclass Is All About Getting Your Studio Funded You’ve built an amazing game studio with an even more amazing team: How do you get investors to sign up? Funding advisor Jason Della Rocca is here to help his fellow game industry entrepreneurs build their pitch and get it sold, in this brand-new, virtual[…..] […]
Blender by the Numbers – 2020 Welcome to the yearly recap of Blender’s numbers. Some of the figures in this article were presented as part of the Blender Annual Report 2020, and some are brand new. Overall, the growing trend for the Blender project continues The blender.org Website More popular than ever, the blender.org website[…..] […]
Former Pixar, Disney and DreamWorks Creatives Join Spire Animation Team to Drive Storytelling Newly formed Spire Animation Studio has tapped former creatives from Pixar, Disney, DreamWorks, Blue Sky, and Warner Animation to join its team. According to Variety, the studio formed by Oscar-nominated producer Brad Lewis (Ratatouille, How to Train Your Dragon) and entrepreneur P.J.[…..] […]
