Andrea Miloro, the veteran animation executive who, along with fellow co-president Robert Baird, oversaw Fox Animation, one of the new divisions Disney acquired as part of its $71.3 billion 21st Century Fox purchase earlier this year, has stepped down. Baird reportedly will remain at the company. Miloro provided no reason for her departure.[…..] […]
It’s been a big week for Nike campaigns, with celebrations popping up online of a new Air Max range and the swoosh of its classic logo. While the swoosh isn’t celebrating any anniversaries this year, shoewear brand Footlocker decided to team up with agency One Hundred – and a whole host of cult animators – for a series of short[…..] […]
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Every Summer, there is an animation feature. Starting from Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away”, there were also “The Secret Life of Pets 2”, “GG BOND, Incredible World”, “Mobile Suit Gundam NT”, ” Fate/stay night: Heaven’s Feel III. spring song 2” and a couple others. But except for “Spirited Away”, most of them did not get hot. But[…..] […]
InnoGames’ global hit continues to gather momentum with more than EUR 250m earned in last two years of its seven-year lifetime On June 25, 2019, InnoGames announced that its leading strategy game Forge of Empires reached the EUR 500m lifetime revenue mark. The highly successful title has experienced steady growth since its creation in 2012[…..] […]
On 1 June, the International Day for Protection of Children, the standard-bearer of modern-day Russian animation, Kikoriki, will turn 16 years old. The history of the Kikoriki brand dates back to 2003. Since then, more than 150 different specialists have laboured to produce the high-quality animation at Petersburg Animation Studio, one of the leading studios[…..] […]
Bigpoint GmbH announced that Jeff Lu (Jun Lu) has been appointed as new Managing Director effective immediately, succeeding Brian Morrisroe, who held this position since 2017. Jeff Lu is the President of Yoozoo Holding Group and the CFO of Yoozoo Games. Before joining Yoozoo, Jeff worked at PwC China and PwC UK for more than[…..] […]
Kolibri Games Expands Its Team to 100 and Hits 100 Million Global Downloads With Its Idle Titles Following a successful start to the year, mobile games developer Kolibri Games is continuing their success streak by achieving yet another double milestone: The team, which relocated from Karlsruhe to Berlin in January 2018 with only 32 colleagues,[…..] […]
More than 18 million Germans play games on smartphones Games consoles gain 700,000 new gamers German games market grows to 4.4 billion euros Smartphones are the most popular games platform among German gamers, as reported today by game – the German Games Industry Association, based on data collected by the market research company GfK. A[…..] […]
Featuring a keynote address from Marvel Studios production chief Victoria Alonso and 11 different production sessions delving into the making of blockbuster hits, this year’s 42nd annual SIGGRAPH Conference and Expo places visual effects firmly in the spotlight. VFX supervisors are arguably the unsung heroes behind most, if not all, of the biggest successes at[…..] […]
