By Mercedes Milligan | Published on September 24, 2018 Producer Gary Kurtz, who helped shepherd George Lucas’s now iconic Star Wars to smash hit status, died of cancer on Sunday at age 78. The news was shared by his family in a statement, in which he is remembered thusly: “Gary was a beloved husband, father, grandfather, friend, colleague, and mentor,[…..] […]
By Mercedes Milligan | Published on September 24, 2018 Original Link: http://www.animationmagazine.net/events/biggest-ever-vr-ar-mr-art-show-coming-to-space-gallery/ Pasadena, California’s sp[a]ce gallery at Ayzenberg has announced its fifth exhibition will be “Spatial Reality: Artists Explore the Future of XR,” curated by VRScout editor-at-large Jesse Damiani. Sponsored by RYOT, Meow Wolf, VRScout, Raptor House Effects, Magik Gallery, and Hit+Run, with LACMA curator Britt Salvesen serving as[…..] […]
By Mercedes Milligan | September 24, 2018 Chinese Editor: Turing Original Link: http://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/marvista-sets-yo-kai-watch-s3-up-with-disney-xd-latam/ MarVista Entertainment has sold the broadcast licensing rights to season three of the popular animated series Yo-Kai Watch to Disney XD Latin America, continuing the momentum generated by the first two seasons on the channel. MarVista is the Latin American distributor for the global hit game[…..] […]
Alpha Animation and Culture Co., Ltd. is one of the most powerful and promising animation and entertainment cultural industry group companies in China. After three transformations and upgradings, it has successfully created a pan-entertainment industry chain system that integrates animation, toys, baby, authorization, media, film and television, and games with IP as the core, realizing[…..] […]
“X-Men” returns to the Marvel movie universe, and the outside world hopes that the dead waiter will also enter the “Avengers” series of movies. According to Taiwan media, after the combination of Disney and 20th Century Fox, Disney CEO Bob Iger has confirmed that X-Men series will be directly produced by Kevin Feige, President of[…..] […]
Blake Shelton joined the new animation “UglyDolls” by STX, participated in the voicing and dubbed the soundtrack. Before him, singers Kelly Clarkson, Pitbull (Armando Christian Perez) and Nick Jonas had joined. Shelton dubbed Ox, who was the unofficial village chief of the uglydolls village, and Clarkson dubbed Moxy. Inspired by the hit toy of the[…..] […]
The animation “Invincible Destruction King 2” released a new official announcement (official Chinese characters), with Disney’s big IP – a dozen Disney princesses gathering with fun, the racing girl voiced by “Wonder Woman” Gal Gadot also appearing, and the theme song “Zero” sung by Menglong exposed at the same time. With abundant imagination, “freaks” can[…..] […]
The veteran animation director, along with DFX supervisor Aharon Bourland, will detail DNEG’s work on Marvel and Sony’s upcoming superhero-adventure film at next month’s Turin event. By Dan Sarto | Friday, September 21, 2018 at 11:04am Original Link: The VIEW Conference 2018 has confirmed that DNEG animation director and VFX industry veteran Troy Saliba, together[…..] […]
By Mercedes Milligan | September 21, 2018 Original Link: http://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/earth-to-luna-rockets-round-the-world-s4-set-for-mipjunior/ Monster Entertainment has secured a raft of sales for science-based animated preschool series Earth to Luna!, prior to season 4 blasting off at MIPJunior next month. The show has recently sold to Discovery (MENA), TG4 (Ireland), CJ ENM(South Korea; previously CJ E&M) for their English-language channel English Gem, and ČESKÁ (Czech Republic)., as well as[…..] […]
By Mercedes Milligan | Published on September 24, 2018 Original Link: http://www.animationmagazine.net/north-america/watch-cns-stop-bullying-speak-up-psas-by-kids-for-kids/ As part of its pro-social initiative “Stop Bullying: Speak Up,” Cartoon Network has unveiled six new animated PSAs starring fan-favorite characters modeling behaviors that could make a huge difference for youngsters in their daily lives. Airing across Cartoon Network and other Turner channels just in time for National Bullying[…..] […]
