Readers who find themselves in the Japanese city of Kanazawa this week may want to swing by the Shiinoki Cultural Complex, where an exhibition about a remarkable artist has just opened. “The World of Yoichi Kotabe: An Animator of Genius” explores the work of Kotabe, 84, an eminent animator and character designer who has made[…..] […]
Just Dance 2021 is joining forces with the virtual pop group K/DA from Riot Games’ League of Legends. The group’s new single, “DRUM GO DUM” featuring Aluna, Wolftyla, and Bekuh BOOM, is coming to Just Dance 2021 for free for three months before moving over to Just Dance Unlimited, the dance subscription service featuring more[…..] […]
Veteran visual effects maven Raymond McIntyre Jr. charts his journey from the earliest days of the industry to managing 12 global vendors on Ridley Scott’s Raised by Wolves. Read on to discover how Raymond used cineSync to source, organise, and collaborate with each vendor, and how they united to build the operatic effects of Scott’s[…..] […]
Multi-award-winning animation and visual effects company – reveals the collaborative workflow behind the in-game cinematics for Sony Interactive Entertainment & Sumo Digital’s new Playstation 5 launch title game Sackboy: A Big Adventure. Working in close partnership with publishers Sony and developers Sumo, Axis delivered 23 minutes of the seamless in-game cinematics in 4K. Headed up[…..] […]
The LA SKINS FEST, in partnership with Comcast NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures Animation, Crunchyroll, Cartoon Network, the Cherokee Nation Film Office and Women In Animation, has selected the fellows for the 2nd Annual Native American Animation Lab. The 2nd Annual Native American Animation Lab is an intensive workshop for Native Americans with a current animation project.[…..] […]
Red Giant has released Magic Bullet Suite 14.0, the first major update to its suite of colour grading tools for After Effects and Premiere Pro in over four years. The Looks plugin gets a new LUT browser, Channel Mixer and interesting Color Remap and Huenity tools; while the Colorista plugin gets new LUT and presets[…..] […]
Cartoon Movie is neither a fair nor a festival, but rather a pitching & co-pro forum for animated feature films. Tuesday 9 – Thursday 11 March 2021, Bordeaux (France) Created in 1999, Cartoon Movie is an intense and efficient pitching event intended to create a synergy between producers, investors and distributors of feature-length animation films.[…..] […]
The 33rd International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) was officially opened in Pathé Tuschinski and online. The first hybrid edition of IDFA runs in over 40 theaters throughout the Netherlands and online until December 6. The opening night ceremony took place in Tuschinski in addition to being livestreamed online, where Artistic Director Orwa Nyrabia welcomed[…..] […]
RED CARPET STUDIO reveals details of the global premiere of THE BUGABOOZ, their flagship new animation project. The Bugabooz is an animated show following the descendants of several mythical villains adapted from The Extraordinary Adventures of The Bugabooz, a book series by the studio’s general producer Anton Kalinkin. The next generation was destined for big[…..] […]
Maxon has released the first public beta builds of both the new Blender integration plugin for Redshift, its GPU production renderer, and for the new Metal-native version of Redshift for current Macs. Both open betas are available with Redshift 3.0.33, the latest version of the software. New Blender integration plugin makes it possible to[…..] […]
