Free Fire “Vengeance” In-Game Event Trailer by Lobo
“Together with Mauricio Lobel, our 3D lead, and Tiago Calliari, our art director, we worked towards the appearance of a 2D-painted-looking universe. For that, we worked with 3D characters modeled and textured to look 2D and added them on top of 2D…
James Prosser Named Managing Director at Goodbye Kansas Studios
Goodbye Kansas has seen an increase in their sales pipeline as COVID-19 restrictions are relaxing and the U.K. opens. The studio has expressed optimism with respect to business for the second half of the year. The studio’s recent credits…
Netflix Reveals ‘Inside Job,’ First In-House Adult Animation Series
Netflix has announced details for its adult animated series Insie Job created by Shion Takeuchi, a writer on Gravity Falls and Regular Show. Inside Job is the first project from Takeuchi’s overall deal with the streamer, as well as the first adult…
FXX Dave “Anteater” Season 2 Trailer by MPC
MPC creative director Rob Hodgson: “We worked in close collaboration with the production team to design a rig for the talent to hold as we filmed, ensuring that the motion was constrained to the physical size of our 3d character. It also allowed us…
GKIDS Will Release Mamoru Hosoda’s ‘Belle’ In North America This Winter
The acquisition isn’t a big surprise: GKIDS also distributed Hosoda’s previous feature Mirai, which went on to earn an Academy Award nomination. A winter release would position Belle for an Oscar run next year. GKIDS has scored 12 Oscar…
Blossoming at Annecy
Hidden in the Peach Blossom Garden is an 85-minute 3D animated feature film, which is being developed using tellretell’s real-time approach to animation development and production. The video pitches will be available online for Annecy participants…
“Mountain and Sea” Short Film by Seoul’s StudioTDL
Music: Oran Loyfer “Days” Posted on Sunday, June 13, 2021 · Leave a Comment Production: StudioTDLDirector: StudioTDL Se Hyun Hong, designer at StudioTDL in Seoul, South Korea: “Through the video, we explored the shapes of…
Technicolor Is Integrating Its Animation Studios Under The Mikros Animation Brand
Who’s in charge? Andrea Miloro was recently appointed president of Mikros Animation, and heads its feature animation efforts. The newly organized leadership team that will report to Miloro consists of Adrianna Cohen, svp, global head of production;…
‘Middlemost Post’ is all Smiles as Nick’s First Original Series in 5 Years
The teaser short also highlights the show’s hilariously comedically “obsessive” and slightly illogical behavior tendencies when Parker receives his first package. Completely enamored with just the idea of someone caring enough to send…
Chris Appelhans Talks ‘Wish Dragon’
CA: Out of necessity, our story was locked by the time I moved to China because of budget. We couldn’t afford to continue revising. But, after three years living in China, I looked at the story and I’m like, “Oh, it’s so Western…
Battlefield 2042 Official Reveal Trailer
Motion Capture: Goodbye Kansas Post Production: TintMotion Graphics: André Söderlund, Dallas Stockholm Category: Advertising, Animation, CG, Character Animation, Featured, Games · Tags: 2WEI, DICE Media, Electronic Arts, GOODBYE…
Creativity Explained “On Color with Eddie Opara” by Oddfellows
Client: Adobe “Creativity, Explained is an animated series from Adobe that explores the fundamental principles of art and design. Part education, part inspiration, each segment is voiced by a luminary in the field and provides highly relevant…
LFA Launching Women’s Mentorships at Annecy 2021
“In the spirit of Geena Davis’ slogan, ‘If she can see it, she can be it,’ we are convinced that talent is everywhere, and that by working on the ground with female artists, creating real opportunities for new talent, we can guide…
Watch The English Trailer For The Austrian Feature ‘Snotty Boy’
That’s the feeling I get from watching the trailer for Snotty Boy, a new co-production from Austria and Germany that will premiere in competition next week at Annecy: The designs verge on the grotesque, but so do real people. We’re so…
Bronswick “Mes Automatismes” Music Video by Pierre-Nicolas Riou
Telescope Films in Montreal: “In this mesmerizing piece, Pierre-Nicolas Riou explores the themes of redundancy and boredom that marked the pandemic period of isolation and confinement. Montreal director/animator/illustrator Pierre-Nicolas Riou taps…
Kenji Kamiyama To Direct ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Anime Prequel
The film is a prequel to The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and expands “the untold story behind the fortress of Helm’s Deep, delving into the life and bloodsoaked times of one of Middle-earth’s most legendary figures; the mighty King…
Watch the Grishaverse Come Alive in ‘Shadow and Bone’ VFX Reel
Dan Sarto is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network. Source: Netflix Netflix’s Shadow and Bone, their hit magical fantasy series based on Leigh Bardugo’s worldwide bestselling “Grishaverse” novels, was just…
Guardian Labs “The Right Social Worker Changes Everything” by Claire Pinegar
“Voiced from a true-life account, the film is intended to inspire people to train as social workers.” Client: Guardian LabsProducer: Jacqueline Otagburuagu, Nat Fox Music/sound design: Jack Chown @ Mood Gospel Production: Greatcoat…
Crypt TV Launches ‘Woman in the Book’ Animated Horror Series
Previously, Crypt entered a 5-series deal with Facebook Watch in July 2019; it also partnered with Sony Screen Gems to reboot the 1960’s classic, 13 Ghosts. In 2018, Crypt TV completed a Series A fundraising in the amount of .2M, which brought…
Here’s A New Report That Documents The Booming Trend Of Adult Animated Series
Evershed’s research “shows very few international studios actively producing for the adult animation buyers” at the moment. Thanks to the above trends, that could change. Evershed thinks French studios are especially well placed to…
Director Sally Tran Joins Scholar Roster
The idea of diversity in film technique and in life is one that Tran knows well. She is a global citizen, hailing from New Zealand by way of Vietnam, who is currently residing in New York City, where she’ll help champion Scholar’s East Coast…