Mondo TV partners with Genius Brands International to bring ‘Invention Story’ to the US

Mondo TV, European producers and distributors of animated content, has announced that it has joined hands with Genius Brands International to support the arrival of Mondo’s animated kids’ comedy Invention Story in the US in the autumn this year. Genius Brands, a global brand management company that creates and licenses multimedia entertainment content for children,[…..] […]

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Much has changed over the past year and so has Sweden Game Conference. Europe’s leading conference for students, startups and indie developers will go online this year on October 21-23. “It’s been an interesting and challenging year so far as we work a lot internationally to position our cluster as well as our yearly conference[…..] […]

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International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk Launched Officially in Venice

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[…..] […]

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Vampires, Wraiths and Werewolves – go behind the scenes of 3 WoD video games at PAX & EGX

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[…..] […]

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Blender 2.90 Release

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[…..] […]

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Harry Gregson-Williams on Scoring ‘Mulan’ And Why He Temporarily Banned the Disney Original In His Home

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[…..] […]

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3ds Max Indie and Maya Indie now available in 46 countries

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[…..] […]

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APC Kids signs new international broadcast deals for CTC Media’s ‘KID-E-CATS’

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[…..] […]

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Blender to get official RenderMan plugin

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[…..] […]

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Ramsey Naito Upped To President Of Nickelodeon Animation

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,[…..] […]

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