By Animation Magazine | February 10, 2019 Ron Miller, husband of Diane Disney Miller, son-in-law of Walt Disney, President of the Board of Directors at The Walt Disney Family Museum, and owner of Silverado Vineyards, has died in Napa, California at the age of 85. “Everyone at The Walt Disney Company is deeply saddened by[…..] […]
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I Have a Question – Yan Kai, Chief Cartoonist of Mainland China
Yan Kai, China’s most famous cartoonist. One of the “Three Swordsmen” of Chinese Comic in the age of “Comic’s King”; author of the first new comic separate in China, “Snow Coconut”. Yan Kai entered the comic industry in 1994. Today, he is still committed to domestic original animation & comic business, establishing a company and[…..] […]
Trailer: LAIKA Lets a Gentle Giant Loose in ‘Missing Link’
By Mercedes Milligan | February 5, 2019 In the new trailer for Missing Link, the latest feature project from Oscar-nominated stop-motion powerhouse LAIKA, audiences will get to know a kindly creature of myth and legend — and two intrepid humans dedicated to helping him find his place in the world. The spot also promises more of the innovative[…..] […]
LAIKA Releases Trailer, Poster & New Image from ‘Missing Link’
Meet Mr. Link in the first official trailer for LAIKA Animation Studio’s fifth feature film arriving April 12, 2019. By Jennifer Wolfe | Thursday, November 8, 2018 at 12:26pm A new trailer, poster and image have arrived from Missing Link, LAIKA’s fifth animated film, introducing Mr. Link, the slightly silly, surprisingly smart and soulful beast,[…..] […]
Good Deed Entertainment Acquires ‘Loving Vincent’ Documentary
‘Loving Vincent: The Impossible Dream’ opens in U.S. theaters March 2019 with double billings of the documentary and Academy Award and BAFTA-nominated independent animated feature. By Jennifer Wolfe | Friday, February 1, 2019 at 6:52pm LOS ANGELES — Good Deed Entertainment has acquired North American rights to the documentary about the making of the groundbreaking, Academy Award-nominated feature film, Loving[…..] […]
Merging Hand-Drawn Tradition with CG Artistry for Mamoru Hosoda’s ‘Mirai’
The acclaimed director of ‘Wolf Children’ and ‘The Boy and the Beast’ paints an intimate portrait of a young boy’s vivid imagination and how it helps him accept the arrival of his baby sister in one of the last Japanese animated features to employ hand-drawn animation. By Jennifer Wolfe | Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 3:47pm Since[…..] […]
Netflix Heats up with ‘Big Mouth’ Valentine’s Special Feb. 8ByMercedes MilliganPublished on February 1, 2019
By Mercedes Milligan | February 1, 2019 Nick Kroll , Andrew Goldberg’s edgy half-hour adult toon about the tribulations of puberty is returning February 8 with a brand new holiday themed episode, “My Furry Valentine.” Awkwardness, anxiety, crushes and confusion await in this raunchy romp celebrating “romance”! Big Mouth is a Netflix original series created and executive[…..] […]
Trailer: ‘The Dragon Prince’ Season 2 Debuts Feb. 15
By Mercedes Milligan | February 1, 2019 Netflix Original animated series The Dragon Prince returns with a second, nine-episode season on February 15. The fan-favorite show from Wonderstorm, created by Aaron Ehasz (head writer, Avatar: The Last Airbender) and Justin Richmond (game director, Uncharted 3), is returning with smoother animation after reviewing viewer feedback from S1, which premiered in September. Lauded for its[…..] […]
Pact announces 2019 UK China Creative Exchange
Eleven leading Chinese executives to visit production companies across the UK as part of a co creation week between March 11th–15th (31st January 2019 – London) Pact, the UK leading producers trade association, today announces the third edition of its UK China Creative Exchange programme – a collaborative project that aims to foster deeper engagement between[…..] […]
Meet the AIs
Chinese TV hosts introduce their virtual replacements. By Kevin Geiger | Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 2:35pm Hot on the unveiling of the world’s first AI news anchor last November by China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency, the world’s first AI TV hosts will preside over the 2019 China Central Television (CCTV) New Year’s Gala. On February 5th, an audience of more[…..] […]