Two months after new 20th Century Fox owner Disney called a halt just ahead of production, the motion-capture movie adaptation of David Petersen’s award-winning comics epic Mouse Guard has officially been scrapped. The project was being produced by Matt Reeves with a screenplay by Gary Whitta (After Earth, Star Wars Rebels), and had signed on[…..] […]
Africa’s largest toon shop, Cape Town-based Triggerfish Animation, has launched a free online education destination for aspiring animators: Triggerfish Academy. Accessible via the website and YouTube channel, the course is comprised of a series of short videos which cover different career options, principles of animation, intro to storytelling — and even the personal experiences of[…..] […]
Coming to select cinemas nationwide this August, fans have a chance to experience the gorgeous new restoration of Millennium Actress — often cited as legendary director Satoshi Kon’s (Perfect Blue, Paprika) greatest work — on the big screen in new English dub and Japanese-language remasters. The time-slipping film was originally released in 2001. The cast[…..] […]
Award-winning French studio Xilam Animation has appointed Charles Courcier to Head of Digital Production. In this newly created position, Courcier is responsible for sourcing, developing, financing and producing original web series to expand Xilam’s presence on YouTube, in addition to growing the studio’s presence across AVOD platforms. As well as building up the company’s hit[…..] […]
Unity Technologies (https://unity.com), creator of the world’s most widely-used real-time 3D development platform, today announced Unity Learn Premium, the most comprehensive source of learning content to date for professionals and hobbyists looking to advance their Unity knowledge and skills within their industry. Unity Learn Premium builds upon the launch of the free Unity Learn platform,[…..] […]
Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame, the climactic conclusion to an unprecedented, 11-year, 22-chapter cinematic journey in which the Avengers take one final stand against Thanos, delivered the biggest opening weekend in history and is currently one of the highest-grossing films of all time. Now the adventure comes home on July 30 on Digital in HD, 4K[…..] […]
The 2019 Brazil Independent Games (BIG) Festival, Latin America’s largest indie expo for video game professionals, kicks off on June 26 with its 7th edition at the Homs Club in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This year, BIG will feature a roster of about 300 international and local esteemed speakers across a week of master classes, keynotes,[…..] […]
For co-founder and chief scientist Simon Robinson, Roper Technologies’ company purchase better enables the patient, long-term management perspective needed to successfully innovate and support a rapidly changing digital content creation industry. With the $544 million acquisition by Roper Technologies this past March now complete, leading CG content creation software developer Foundry enters the next phase[…..] […]
The 7th edition of the Brazil Independent Games festival proudly presents this year’s awards winners São Paulo, Brazil, June 28, 2019 – The award ceremony of the 7th edition of BIG Festival, Latin America’s largest independent games event, took place on the night of June 28th, at club Homs, in São Paulo Capital city, Brazil. General public,[…..] […]
Duke Caboom, Gabby Gabby and Ducky & Bunny are the latest examples of the studio’s unparalleled ability to create memorable and emotionally satisfying characters.What’s always made Pixar’s Toy Story films so special, their true superpower, has been their characters. And their characters’ character. Sometimes funny. Sometimes sad. But always uniquely and poignantly human. Audiences have been introduced[…..] […]
