To activate the film community’s collective response to cases of filmmakers facing severe risk, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, International Film Festival Rotterdam and the European Film Academy have joined forces in establishing the International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk. With civil society in danger around the world, filmmakers are increasingly struggling to make[…..] […]
Join the EGX panel “Vampires, Wraiths and Werewolves – the next generation of World of Darkness indie videogames” for developer discussion & game giveaway 7 September 2020 — On Tuesday, 15 September, join the PAX EGX panel with three indie developers working on different video games set in the World of Darkness universe (Werewolf: The[…..] […]
The first release of the 2.9 series is here! Building on the success of the 2.8 series, Blender 2.90 continues to polish the user experience, introducing improvements to EEVEE, Cycles, sculpt, VR, animation, modeling, UV editing and so much more. Blender integrates industry standard libraries such as Intel Embree, Intel OpenImageDenoise and NVidia Optix to[…..] […]
Harry Gregson-Williams attended the Hollywood premiere of Mulan on March 7 and, as the composer candidly says, “it all went to crap from there.” Within days, as the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the globe, the live-action version of the Disney 1998 animated blockbuster was pulled from its original March 27 theatrical release date. Now, nearly[…..] […]
Autodesk is to roll out 3ds Max Indie, its reduced-price subscription to the 3D animation software for artists earning under $100,000/year, to a wider range of countries on 7 August 2020. The change – announced in emails to existing subscribers reposted on social media – will make 3ds Max Indie subscriptions available in countries throughout[…..] […]
APC Kids, the children’s entertainment division of APC Studios, has inked a number of deals across all three seasons of CTC Media’s hit preschool animation KID-E-CATS. New partners include Minika (Turkey) taking seasons one and two free TV rights, Chilean SVOD VTR and Nordic platform SF (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland) taking seasons one and[…..] […]
Blender users will soon get their own official RenderMan plugin, Pixar has announced. The integration, which will be released alongside RenderMan 24, will support all of the heavyweight VFX and animation renderer’s latest features, including new CPU/GPU rendering system RenderMan XPU. New official Pixar plugin supersedes previous community-developed tools Blender has had RenderMan integrations in[…..] […]
Less than two years after joining the company, Ramsey Naito has been appointed president of Nickelodeon Animation. Here are the details of her promotion: In her new role, Naito will oversee the network’s animation content across all formats and platforms: linear, digital, tv movies, theatrical motion pictures, and SVOD. She will report to Brian Robbins,[…..] […]
Leading kids’ entertainment specialist CAKE has announced a number of deals in Asia with key partners for its animated series. Mush-Mush and the Mushables – Image courtesy of CAKE. Leading kids’ entertainment specialist CAKE has announced a number of deals in Asia with key partners for its animated series. Deals finalised by CAKE’s Sales Manager[…..] […]
Digital Television Russia and the major European premium television and content group, Canal+ Group, have entered into an agreement to sell to its preschool channel Piwi+ the broadcasting rights for Leo&Tig series’ second season produced by Parovoz animation studio. The second season of the show starts on Piwi+ this autumn. The launch is to be[…..] […]
