Sander Joon Drops Wonderfully Manic Trailer for Animated Short Film “Sierra”
Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2022 Production: BOP! Animation, AAA CreativeDirector: Sander JoonAnimators: Henri Veermäe, Valya Paneva, Teresa Baroet, Sander JoonBackground artist: Hleb KuftserynProducers: Aurelia Aasa, Erik HeinsaluStop motion…
Amazon Studios Orders Animated Sci-Fi Comedy ‘The Hospital’ from Cirocco Dunlap
“Cirocco is a total original. Brilliant and wildly talented, with an utterly singular voice and boundless imagination,” added Rudolph, Lyonne, and Danielle Renfrew Behrens of Animal Pictures. “She’s also ridiculously funny and…
Sarofsky Opens the “The Staircase” for HBO Max
Series creator Antonio Campos: “It was always our hope that the main title sequence would help establish the complicated family dynamics at play while capturing the show’s themes. “Like many of our title sequences, the concepts all…
RIP Velma Dinkley 1969-2022
Why? I mean, Kaling is not short on talent but she couldn’t have created something original instead? She’s already remaking the character, how much additional effort would be needed to make one truly her own? Not much! one wonders whether…
Verizon Fios Refresh by Panoply
Panoply creative director Mark Lindner: “Verizon approached us to create a package of interstitials to accompany promotions for nine different programing genres on their Fios on Demand service.” “This allowed a subtle approach to…
Seed Animation Helps Yelp “Turn the Tables” for Restaurants
Music/Sound Design: Ana RomanVoice-over: Laura Vandiver “A big shout out to the team at Yelp for giving us the opportunity to visually develop this from scratch. It’s a rare treat to have such an enthusiastic client willing to creatively…
Former Disney Boss Michael Eisner Lists Malibu Estate With Record-Setting $225M Price Tag
The compound was designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects, the firm that also designed Disney’s feature animation “hat” building in Burbank. Eisner’s relationship with Stern dates back to the early 1970s, when Stern designed a…
KABOOM ANIMATION FESTIVAL 28 March – 3 April 2022 Utrecht and Amsterdam, The Netherlands
At the Kaboom festival I have the honor to present The Nancy Award to any film in competition of my choice. The winner receives a Kaboom trophy and a wine tasting trip with me during next year’s festival. This year my award went to Jantiene and…
Magical Mash-Ups: A History Of Live-Action/Animation Hybrids
With the wave of “creature features” in the 1950s, sci-fi and fantasy films increasingly started employing stop motion — and sometimes hand-drawn animation — to create aliens, monsters, and even giant chickens. A sampling of these…
1st Edition of CAFÉ Coming to Montreal June 7-8
“Québec has world-renowned expertise in animation and visual effects,” said Jean Boulet, Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Solidarity, Minister of Immigration, Francization and Integration and Minister responsible for the…
Matt Corman and Chris Ord to Write and Produce ‘Daredevil’ Series for Disney+
A new Daredevil series will add to the growing slate of MCU shows under the Disney+ banner, which also includes the Oscar Isaac-starring Moon Knight and the comedic Hulk spinoff, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. The news comes amidst fans’ ongoing…
‘Goodbye, Don Glees!’ Will Get U.S. Theatrical Run After GKIDS Pickup
Details: GKIDS has picked up North American rights to Atsuko Ishizuka’s Goodbye, Don Glees! ahead of the film’s competition screening at next month’s Annecy Festival. Goodbye, Don Glees! is produced by Studio Madhouse and directed by…
‘Chip ’N Dale: Rescue Rangers’ Reviews Roundup: Does Disney’s Latest Hybrid Feature Measure Up To ‘Roger Rabbit’?
Here’s how Disney describes the film: [embedded content] The Guardian’s Benjamin Lee was surprised by how much he enjoyed the film: Inside the Trojan horse of a lazily inevitable kids adventure is a surprisingly sharp and detailed comedy.…
Nicolas Lhomme Packages TDA (Talents d’Afrique) for Canal+ International
This short blast of code-driven typography captures the edgy tone and intensity of the design and animation work created by Paris director Nicolas Lhomme for the Canal+ International sports program TDA (Talents d’Afrique).…
Dress Code “Power a Brighter World” for Inspire Clean Energy
Combining a storybook illustration style with the VO of a precocious seven-year-old, Dress Code director Qian Shi and agency Madwell keep this spot for Inspire Clean Energy optimistic while delivering a serious environmental message. Production: Dress…
Crunchyroll Reveals ‘Chainsaw Man’ Trailer and Images
The animation is produced by MAPPA (Maruyama Animation Produce Project Association), the Japanese anime studio known for Attack on Titan Final Season; Jujutsu Kaisen; Yuri!!! on Ice, takt op.Destiny, and the upcoming Hell’s Paradise. MAPPA also…
Netflix Drops Surprise ‘Love, Death + Robots’ Episode Premiere
Don’t forget to tune in this Friday to check out all nine new stories of the Emmy Award-winning animated anthology’s third set of shorts. Get ready for terror, imagination, and beauty in the gripping series’ latest set of films, which…
Netflix Animation Eliminates 70 Jobs, Drops Three Projects
Sorry, Marmaduke? Yeah. Netflix acquired the low-profile adaptation with an A-list voice cast earlier this year and debuted the film on May 6. It has not yet garnered a single positive review from any major media outlet that we could find, and sits at a…
Rawtape and AI Artists Rewrite “SCRIPTVRE” for Kasabian
“Y7 was responsible for the most complex of the AI-generated imagery found in the latter part of the video. We created a dataset from the body rig footage but then utilized a projection model to train StyleGAN2-ADA to attempt to imitate a target…
Adult Swim Greenlights Two New Series: ‘Rick and Morty: The Anime’ And ‘Ninja Kamui’
Here’s what we know so far. Adult Swim has bolstered its anime lineup, giving the greenlight to a Rick and Morty anime series, as well as Ninja Kamui, a new series from Jujutsu Kaisen 0’s Sunghoo Park. Both series are currently in production…
Marvel Studios Shares ‘Echo’ First Look as Filming Begins in Atlanta
Production on Marvel Studios’ Echo has begun in Atlanta, and Disney has shared a first-look image from the upcoming MCU series. Episodes of Echo are directed by Sydney Freeland (Navajo) and Catriona McKenzie (Gunaikurnai). Kevin Feige;…