On July 21st, “Nazha ” held a premiere with thousands of audience in Chengdu. The director Jiaozi(Dumpling) shared the 17-year behind-the-scenes story engaged in animation production and his intension: “There is no fear that the film will not satisfy the audience.” Since the opening of the ” Nazha “, the Douban score has risen from[…..] […]
DreamWorks has released the official trailer for its animated yeti adventure, Abominable. it’s here to teach us a very important lesson about family. Written and directed by Jill Culton (Open Season), Abominable features Chloe Bennet (Agents of SHIELD) as the voice of Yi, a teenager who encounters a lost Yeti on the roof of her Shanghai apartment building,[…..] […]
Disney Channel has ordered original animated series The Curse of Molly McGee, a buddy comedy about tween optimist Molly McGee and grumpy ghost Scratch, from Emmy Award-winning duo Bill Motz and Bob Roth (LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures) who serve as executive producers with Emmy Award winner Steve Loter (Kim Possible). The series,[…..] […]
Indie entertainment company Stampede — founded by former Warner Bros. Pictures President Greg Silverman — will produce renowned Spanish animator Alberto Mielgo’s full length animated feature film. Mielgo will write and direct the film, which is based on an original concept. Title and story details are yet to be revealed. Mielgo most recently wrote and[…..] […]
Today Ubisoft announced that they will join the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund as a corporate Gold member. Not only will Ubisoft help funding online support for Blender developers, Ubisoft Animation Studio – a department of Ubisoft Film and Television – will also use Blender for their productions and assign developers to contribute to Blender’s open[…..] […]
Walt Disney Animation is working with the Sámi Parliamentary Council and The Saami Council to create a Sámi language version of Frozen 2. The filmmakers consulted with a Sámi working group on elements within the film — to be detailed later in the year — making this translation even more pertinent. “For all of our[…..] […]
Nickelodeon has named Emmy Award-winning producer Eryk Casemiro to the position of Senior Vice President of Nickelodeon Preschool. In this role, he will lead the network’s preschool production and development across all formats and platforms spanning digital, TV and film, and have oversight of the preschool Executives In Charge (EICs). The announcement was made today[…..] […]
According to a thread on CGTalk, MagicPictures Software will soon release two new commercial plugins – a Mesher called AQ Mesher, and a Bullet Physics based multibody simulator called AQ Bullet. AqMesher is an OpenVDB based meshing plugin that’s compatible with particles, objects, and of course VDB objects. According to the developers it provides optimised[…..] […]
‘Undersea’ Uses Room-scale Spatial Computing to Bring the Sea to Life CHICAGO—Magic Leap will premiere an all-new Spatial Computing experience for Magic Leap One, “Undersea,” at SIGGRAPH 2019 in Los Angeles. The Magic Leap One is a lightweight, wearable spatial computer that enriches your experience in the real world with digital content, in everything from[…..] […]
Season 2 of the Emmy Award-winning Netflix original series, DreamWorks’ 3Below: Tales of Arcadia is now streaming. The 13-episode second season of Guillermo del Toro’s second chapter in the Tales of Arcadia trilogy finds Royal aliens, Aja (Tatiana Maslany) and Krel (Diego Luna), cleaning up the mess that was left behind after their epic victory[…..] […]
