Mamoru Oshii Will Serve As Jury President Of New Feature Animation Festival In Japan
Here are the early details: The first Niigata International Animation Film Festival (NIAFF) will unspool March 17-22, 2023 in the Japanese port city of Niigata, about 200 miles north of Tokyo. NIAFF will take place annually, and is dedicated to elevating…
Technicolor Games Reveals Big Hiring Push
Technicolor Games joins Technicolor Creative Studio brands, MPC, The Mill and Mikros Animation, in developing top-tier visual graphics in addition to multiple other creative services to video games publishers and developers. Technicolor Games will offer…
‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ Trailer Sees Thor Laid Bare in Cheeky Zeus Encounter
Max Weinstein is a writer and editor based in Los Angeles. He is the Editor-at-Large of ‘Dread Central’ and former Editorial Director of ‘MovieMaker.’ His work has been featured in ‘Cineaste,’ ‘Fangoria,’…
Brazil’s Hype Animation Aims To Finance Animated Feature With An NFT Crowdfunding Campaign
What is Meet Ed? Meet Ed is a fundraising campaign for which Hype Animation has created a collection of 10,000 NFT pieces of Ed impersonating classic figures from movie history. Each will have a different value and come with a reward for the backer who…
WATCH: Mo Willems’ ‘Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Underground Rock Experience’ Trailer
Willems and Tom Warburton co-wrote the script with original tunes by Willems (lyrics) and Deborah Wicks La Puma (music). Willems and Warburton executive produce alongside Stampede Ventures’ Greg Silverman and Jay Judah, with OddBot Animation…
Straight To The ‘Hearth’: How SCAD Students Created The Game ‘Home Is Where the Hearth Is’
“This was a really advanced project,” added Mamais, who has overseen hundreds of student projects since he began teaching at SCAD in 2009. Before that, Mamais worked as lead designer at Midway Games and Crytek. During the “making…
The Panics x Adidas x MUFC x Peter Saville = Pulsebeat
Client: Adidas Football Director/designer Kim Taylor and the team at The Panics in Amsterdam merge megabrands Adidas and Manchester United with the talents of venerable UK designer Peter Saville into a “celebration of Manchester’s two…
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).…