It’s time to pull the ‘Trigger’ on April’s action-packed Loot Anime crate. Fans of Studio Trigger titles Darling in the Franxx, Kiznaiver, Trigun: Badlands Rumble! and Space Patrol Luluco! should not miss this specially curated box of officially licensed collectibles …
Month: March 2021

Netflix Goes Big with New Anime Line-Up
Voice cast features LaKeith Stanfield (executive producer). Voice cast features Miyuki Sawashiro; Tomoyo Kurosawa; Tomokazu Seki; Hikaru Midorikawa; and Wataru Takagi. In 2006, there were traces of improper access to secret Presidential files found in the White House’s network. American …

Michael Fukushima Retires After 23 Years At The National Film Board Of Canada
In all, Fukushima has produced or executive-produced more than 200 works at the NFB. His filmography boasts multiple Oscar nominees: Torill Kove’s Me and My Moulton, Patrick Doyon’s Sunday, and Animal Behaviour by David Fine and Alison Snowden. Other notable …

Glassworks Ups Belen Palos to Head of Production and Chris Kiser to COO
Palos brings a wealth of experience and insight to her new role having previously served as Senior VFX Producer in both Glassworks Barcelona and Amsterdam branches dating back to 2015. She has produced large advertising campaigns, animated sequences for feature …

Women Comprise Nearly One-Third Of L.A.’s Unionized Animation Industry, A Modern-Era High
According to The Animation Guild (TAG), which represents a large portion of the Los Angeles industry, the proportion of women working at union studios has risen from 28% in 2019 to 30.4% in 2020, and again to 31.6% as of …

‘The Last Unicorn’ Author Peter S. Beagle Reclaims Rights To Work After Long Legal Battle
With the newly formed company SHP, Beagle will now work to develop projects based on his library under the “Beagleverse” brand, while continuing to write new material. He is also planning to set up a non-profit to raise awareness about …

Lil Nas X “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” Music Video by Tanu Muino and Mathematic
“Second, this happened: Tanu, Underwonder, and the label all understood the issues involved in making a CGI film in such a short amount of time and kept being supportive and constructive while the clock was ticking. There was a strong …
Inside The Production Of ‘City Of Ghosts’ With French Animation Studio TeamTO
How much footage were your animators expected to do weekly? In terms of security, we also had to have our “work-from-home” procedure approved by Netflix. Luckily, the methodology implemented by our IT team (remote access over VPN) on day one …

Architects “Meteor” Music Video by Jeb Hardwick and Umbrella
Brighton film director, animator, and VFX artist Jeb Hardwick teams with Budapest animation studio Umbrella for a gritty and apocalyptic take on “Meteor” by British metalcore band Architects. “Whilst it was a necessity of the time restraints that the piece …