By Ramin Zahed | September 14, 2018 The last week of September might mean a lot of different things to different people, but for die-hard animation fans, it means you have to pack your bags and fly to Canada for the terrific Ottawa International Animation Festival. The event, which takes place September 26-30 this year, promises[…..] […]
Wonderstorm’s creative team of Aaron Ehasz, Justin Richmond and Giancarlo Volpe delve into the making of the first season of their epic series centered around three unlikely heroes and their quest to stop an all-out war. By Dan Sarto | Friday, September 14, 2018 at 3:01pm For entertainment startup Wonderstorm, the art of storytelling, the[…..] […]
Animated swashbuckler from Magic Light Pictures premiered on BBC One on Christmas Day 2017. By AWN Staff Editor | Friday, September 14, 2018 at 4:15pm Magic Light Pictures‘ The Highway Rat has scooped the Rose D’or in the Children and Youth category at the 57th Rose D’Or Awards held last night in Berlin. Based in[…..] […]
The Void and Lucas Pictures’ ILM has reached a new agreement to develop five brand new experiences based on the IP of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Marvel Studios. The Void also announced news of the first experience, which is based on “Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2” of Disney animation. The second experience is based on an undisclosed Marvel[…..] […]
Dolphin Image, a film studio based in Orlando, USA, has completed a seed round of $2 million and will further invest in the development of ARwall’s film effects tools. Although green-backdrop technology plays an important role in the production of big films, it is still far from perfection. The high costs, the large amount of[…..] […]
By Mercedes Milligan | September 13, 2018 Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all rights in North America and Latin America to Hungarian animated art-heist film Ruben Brandt, Collector, directed by Milorad Krstic. The English-language film screened for enthusiastic audiences at the Locarno and Sarajevo Film Festivals. SPC is planning to release the film in 2019,[…..] […]
Netflix has won the screening right of the new comedy Yes Day starring Jennifer Ghana, directed by Miguel Arteta(“Beatriz at Dinner”, ” The Carrie Diaries”), produced by Entertainment 360 and Grey Matter Productions. Based on Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenhelp’s best-selling children’s books of the same name, the film tells about the best[…..] […]
Tencent Technology News Tencent Games announced today that it would cooperate with LEGO to launch a game that will be officially released on September 19. This January, Tencent and Lego Group reached an agreement of strategic cooperation, which decided that the two sides will jointly develop smart toys. […]
BAT, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Huawei, Nobel Prize winners – All the “smartest brains” You can think of that affect the global AI field will gather on the West Bund of Shanghai on September 17.The 2018 World Artificial Intelligence Conference(WAIC) was officially launched here. The most influential scientists and entrepreneurs in the field of AI worldwide[…..] […]
Cartoon Forum wraps 29th edition in Toulouse, France with annual awards ceremony recognizing companies with a positive impact on the television animation industry. By AWN Staff Editor | Thursday, September 13, 2018 at 3:04pm Cartoon Forum wrapped its 29th edition today in Toulouse, France, but not before handing out Cartoon Tribute trophies to Finland’s YLE[…..] […]
