Illumination, the animation powerhouse behind global hit film franchises Despicable Me and The Secret Life of Pets, is bringing back the classic cartoon tradition with Saturday Morning Minions — brand-new animated shorts starring the little yellow troublemakers. Fans can join Illumination on Facebook and Instagram every Saturday for the next 40 weeks (that’s through to[…..] […]
Highlighting deep support from a flourishing roster of GeForce partners, NVIDIA’s Jeff Fisher delivered a virtual keynote at COMPUTEX 2021 in Taipei last Tuesday. Fisher, senior vice president of NVIDIA’s GeForce business, announced a pair of powerful new gaming GPUs — the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti — and detailed the[…..] […]
Coinciding with the release of Disney+’s new Loki series, the God of Mischief is taking over as the Lucky Charms mascot for a limited time. Coinciding with the release of Loki, the title character is taking over as mascot for Lucky Charms cereal. Loki is an upcoming Disney+ series that sees Tom Hiddleston reprise his[…..] […]
Tencent unveiled the mission, vision, and strategy for its newly established Online Video Business Unit (OVB) at the Tencent Video, Television and Film Annual Conference today. The event marks the 10th anniversary of Tencent Video, Tencent’s flagship online entertainment platform. Tencent has recently restructured several of its entertainment properties by moving Tencent Video, Weishi, YingYongBao,[…..] […]
Amazon Kids+ and Moonbug Entertainment are kicking off a new content partnership with their first joint project, an original production of Arpo Robot Babysitter, based on the YouTube show Arpo, and a new Arpo mobile game. Arpo is an animated show based on slapstick humor for children 3-7 years old with a non-dialogue format that[…..] […]
Bristol-based British animation powerhouse Aardman has announced it has greenlit a brand-new pre-school series The Very Small Creatures. Aardman has announced it has greenlit a brand-new series for 1- to 3-year-olds, The Very Small Creatures. Sky Kids has commissioned 20 x 3-minute episodes of the stop-motion and clay model animation, created with the occasional graphic[…..] […]
Mindfulness and meditation company Headspace has created a podcast with Sesame Workshop — the nonprofit behind Sesame Street — launching this month to teach little ones techniques for relaxing during their bedtime routines. Titled Goodnight, World!, the first episode releases June 13, with 11 more to follow, dropping every Sunday through August 29. The “sleepcast”[…..] […]
at Computex 2021, Intel announced two new additions to the lineup of 11th Gen Intel® Core™ processors. These new processors, combined with Intel’s co-engineering work with independent software vendors (ISVs) and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), continue Intel’s leadership in mobile compute — delivering the world’s best processors for thin-and-light Windows-based laptops.1 Intel also introduced its[…..] […]
Bluey, the hit Australian children’s cartoon, is set to go global — but only with Aussie accents intact The producers of Bluey, one of Australia’s most popular children’s cartoons, have refused requests to replace the Australian accents for overseas markets. Bluey is one of the most popular shows ever for ABC TV More than 23[…..] […]
The Blender Foundation has announced the release of Blender 2.93 LTS, the latest version in its Long Term Support initiative. New features include the addition of 22 new nodes to the Geometry Nodes Editor; the ability to create, edit and expand masks in the sculpting toolset; create stylised grease pencil lines around 3d objects; a[…..] […]
