Sophie Koko Gate receives the FXX Elevation Award – which includes a $25,000 all-in development and production deal with FX Networks – for her short film ‘Slug Life.’ By Jennifer Wolfe | Wednesday, March 27, 2019 at 11:46am The GLAS Animation Festival has wrapped up its fourth edition, which was held March 21-24 in Berkeley, CA, handing out awards[…..] […]
By Mercedes Milligan | March 27, 2019 The new official domestic trailer for Rovio and Sony’s summer release The Angry Birds Movie 2 might give fans a “What the flock?” moment. Yes, in order to face the icy threat of Zeta’s island, Red, Chuck and Bomber will have to team up with … the pigs! We also meet new characters[…..] […]
By Mercedes Milligan | March 27, 2019 World Panorama is a diverse non-competitive program that will present 28 films from 24 countries at this year’s edition of World Festival of Animated Film – Animafest Zagreb. It’s a collection of original, innovative and daring titles that will offer a broad insight into the recent global production of specifically narrated[…..] […]
Produced by Disney Television Animation, new frog-out-of-water animated comedy series starring Brenda Song premieres this summer. By Jennifer Wolfe | Wednesday, March 27, 2019 at 4:25pm Disney Channel star Brenda Song (The Social Network) will return to the channel to play the lead voice role in Amphibia, an animated comedy series premiering this summer on Disney Channel and[…..] […]
First in a series of three installments of the highly anticipated Modo 13 series pushes further into design workflows, delivering native support for GPU-rendering with AMD Radeon ProRender. By Jennifer Wolfe | Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at 4:04pm LONDON — Leading CG software developer Foundry has launched Modo 13.0, the first in a series of three installments of the highly anticipated[…..] […]
Announcements include $100,000,000 Epic MegaGrants, features in Unreal Engine 4.22 and beyond, SDK availability for free Epic Online Services, Epic Games store news and more. By Jennifer Wolfe | Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 4:50pm SAN FRANCISCO — Today’s “State of Unreal” GDC opening session from Epic Games Founder and CEO Tim Sweeney and CTO Kim Libreri revealed[…..] […]
By Mercedes Milligan | March 22, 2019 During a press preview at its Hollywood headquarters recently, Netflix announced that it is planning an Oscar-qualifying theatrical release for its first original animated feature film, Klaus. Attendees got to check out early footage from the film, which is directed by Despicable Me creator Sergio Pablos and produced by his Madrid-based The Spa[…..] […]
By Mercedes Milligan | March 20, 2019 Sony Pictures Animation has signed on to help bring an endearing animated story about family, self-acceptance and the African-American experience to screens with Hair Love, from BlackKklansman exec producer Matthew A. Cherry. The filmmaker’s first foray into animation set a new Kickstarter campaign record for a short film project back in 2017, raising[…..] […]
by SIGGRAPH Conferences | Mar. 5th, 2019 Original Link：https://blog.siggraph.org/2019/03/bao-down-to-the-female-filmmakers-changing-animation.html/ In honor of Women’s History Month (a U.S. observation in March), we are shining a spotlight on the female faces of animated filmmaking who are making waves in the industry. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 2019 Academy Award nominations marked a true sign that the animation world is[…..] […]
Rome, March 22sd, 2019 Rai Com, which is the sales arm of Italian pubcaster RAI, has the pleasure to introduce its MIPDOC and MIPTV 2019 line-up, consisting in the best products available for international distribution. Rai Com focuses on foreign countries taking advantage of a favorable international trend that is characterizing the areas in which it is[…..] […]
