As the Platige names gets out there, and its work becomes more familiar with US-based agencies and producers, Liddiard feels the industry will embrace them as an attractive alternative – smaller and more attuned to working collaboratively, whether that’s from …
Month: June 2022
“The Long Game” Short Film by Abraham E.
UK Motion designer Abraham E.: “With a greater focus on visual storytelling, I revisited one of my favorite videos on the realities of the creative journey, narrated by creative director Matthew Encina and produced by online education platform The Futur. …
‘Angry Birds: Summer Madness’ Season 2 Now Streaming on Netflix
[embedded content] After the first season of Angry Birds Summer Madness ended, people pondered, is this really a thing? Is it over? Will it return? And will they still be angry? Well, to all those anxious, yearning fans, the wait …
A History Of Queer Representation In American Animation (Video Essay)
“We have a long way to go, but we’re miles from where we’ve been,” the video finishes optimistically. Posted on the Tongal Youtube channel, The History of Queer Animation is an expansive, if not exhaustive, look at queer representation in …
69 People Invited To Join Academy’s Animation And VFX Branches
But one group that’s conspicuously absent from the invitees to this year’s animation branch: Asian filmmakers and animation artists. Below is the complete list of invitees to the Short Films & Feature Animation and Visual Effects branches. We have also …
Apple TV+ Shares ‘Duck & Goose’ Trailer
Debbie Diamond Sarto is assistant news editor at Animation World Network. Apple TV+ has released a trailer for its upcoming 2D animated preschool series Duck & Goose, inspired by Tad Hills’ New York Times bestselling “Duck & Goose” books. The …
Effe “Floating Girl” Music Video by Mozuya
Director/animator: Mozuya Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 Label: Bunkai-KeiArtist: effeVocals: peЯoco Mozuya, the Japanese illustrator/animator who brought us this wholly unique video for Chroma, continues their singular interpretations of classic manga and anime with this dreamy 3D music video …
Ken Knowlton, A Founding Father Of Computer Art And Animation, Dies at 91
Knowlton was an engineer, computer scientist, and artist who’s groundbreaking work helped define the nascent art of computer animation and graphic design. Spending over two decades of his career in the Computing Techniques Research Department at Bell Labs, he was …
GKIDS Drops Trailer for Masaaki Yuasa’s ‘Inu-Oh’
Featuring character creation by Taiyo Matsumoto (Tekkonkinkreet) and awe-inspiring vocals by Avu-chan (Queen Bee) and Mirai Moriyama, Inu-Oh is a glam-rock ode to the power of music and a forceful statement on artistic freedom from one of animation’s singular talents.” Watch …