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,[…..] […]
‘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[…..] […]
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[…..] […]
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[…..] […]
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[…..] […]
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[…..] […]
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[…..] […]
On January 9, 2019, the official website of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television released the information on the approval of domestic online games in December 2018. As the first announcement of the game version number approval since the restart, the total number of games approved this time is 164. Before[…..] […]
By Mercedes Milligan | January 25, 2019 Top young adult cable TV destination Adult Swim announced a second season of sci-fi animated buddy-cop series Hot Streets will be chasing new cases starting Sunday, February 24 at midnight ET/PT. The quarter-hour series is created by Robot Chicken writer and Rick and Morty story editor Brian Wysol, and produced by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios. Season two[…..] […]
“performance-capture” is an advanced version of “motion-capture”, which is often used in both current movie productions. “Motion capture” is basically used for motion capture of actors’ limbs or props, while “performance capture” is for facial expressions, finger movements, etc. that are rich in more details and information. From the well-known “The Lord of the[…..] […]
