APC Kids, the children’s entertainment division of leading co-production and distribution company APC Studios, has appointed a trio of new local licensing agents for CTC Media’s hit animated preschool series KID-E-CATS. The new partnerships will see the property represented by El Ocho in Spain and Portugal, Lisans A.Ş in Turkey, and WP Brands in Australia[…..] […]
The first season of Angry Birds Bubble Trouble, a 3D short series starring the Angry Birds flock will be released on their YouTube channel. The first episode Jumping In is already live, with a new installment rolling out every week for free worldwide. Angry Birds Bubble Trouble was produced in partnership between the game’s studio[…..] […]
Back in June, it was reported that David Levine, then Disney’s vice president of kids programming for the U.K., Europe, and Africa, was to leave the company after a 16-year stint. The executive has found a new job: he is now head of studio at the fast-growing start-up Moonbug Entertainment. The company, which is based[…..] […]
Acclaimed Latin American animation studio 3DAR, leading interactive animation house Baobab Studios, and Facebook’s Oculus, are pleased to announce the wide release of the original virtual reality production, Paper Birds: Part 1, exclusively on the Oculus Quest on December 10th. The animated VR film, which had a successful world premiere run at Venice Film Festival[…..] […]
Spider-Man 3 has finally swung into production and we’re not exaggerating when we say it could even rival Avengers: Endgame in terms of scale. Fans have been getting very excited over reports that Tom Holland’s third solo outing as Peter Parker could bring a live-action Spider-Verse into the MCU, with several unexpected returns from across[…..] […]
Walkabout Games, Draw Distance, and Choice of Games have announced the World of Darkness bundle, encompassing 4 PC games based on legendary tabletop RPGs Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse. The bundle will be available on Steam from December 11th at 10:00 AM Pacific to December 13th, 10:00 AM Pacific, with individual discounts from[…..] […]
the German games industry looks confidently to the new year. 7 in 10 games companies in Germany expect positive economic development for their own business operations over the next 12 months 45 per cent of games companies surveyed plan additional hires in the coming year Every third company has postponed projects or publications due to[…..] […]
As part of its Market Watch and Add-in-Board report subscription services, Jon Peddie Research has continuously tracked GPU shipments. As a follow-on to its recent Market Watch Report, JPR is releasing the latest Add-in-Board quarterly report. The add-in board market increased in Q3’20 from last quarter, and AMD gained market share. Over $4.2 billion of[…..] […]
CITIA reveals the 3 projects that will inaugurate the 2021 artists’ residency dedicated to animation feature film. Last June, CITIA, the organisers of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, announced the creation of the arts residency “Graphic development for animation feature film” with backing from the Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Département de la Haute-Savoie, the CNC and[…..] […]
Autodesk previewed what it pitched as “the future of production management” at its Autodesk University user event recently, in the shape of three new technologies due in future releases of Shotgun. The three features – Story-in-Context, Generative Scheduling and Asset Lifecycle Management – link the production-tracking system with the timelines of editorial software, introduce machine-learning-based[…..] […]
