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Zareh Nalbandian Talks Animal Logic’s Sale to Netflix
ZN: I think the former. I’ve still got great ambitions about what we can do with our studios. We’re committed to a new headquarters in Vancouver that we’ll move into in two years’ time, which will be a state-of-the-art facility…
Disney TV Vets Douglas Bensimon And Edward Mejia Promoted To VP Roles
Details: Disney has promoted Douglas Bensimon and Edward Mejia to VPs of Current Series, Disney Television Animation. Both will report to Khaki Jones, senior vice president of Current Series, Disney Television Animation. Disney Television Animation is…
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Andreas Hykade
In a sentence: Like an old blues musician (think Blind Willie McTell), Hykade’s films often use deceptively simple visuals and narratives in order to unearth the dark underbelly and complexities of everyday existence. Other key works: Aside from…
Hyundai “Ocean” Video Installation by Universal Everything
Videographer: Paul Choi (Imagebakery) ECD/founder Matt Pyke at Universal Everything: “‘Ocean’ is an artful representation of recycling ocean plastic into the fabric used in the interiors of the all-electric Hyundai IONIQ 5 car.…
Scholar Signs Director Gerald Ding
So how do you connect with and surprise audiences when expectations are set so high? For Ding, it’s not always about bigger and better. Instead, it’s about not shying away from the cultural climate and listening more. Whether it’s…
Apple TV+ Sets ‘Central Park’ Season 3 Release Date
Bouchard, Gad, and Smith are the show’s writers and executive producers. Steven Davis and Kelvin Yu serve as showrunners and executive producers. Central Park is produced for Apple by 20th Television Animation, a part of Disney Television Studios.…
Talking Editing With ‘Making The Cut At Pixar’ Authors Bill Kinder And Bobbie O’Steen (Video Interview)
Kinder concurs, “A lot of it looks rough. You’d be amazed at how crude some of this stuff looks before it gets polished. And that’s an important lesson about what the editor is doing. They’re taking this raw material that’s…
Cinesite Acquires ‘Leap!’ Studio L’Atelier Animation
Cinesite has acquired Montreal’s L’Atelier Animation, the studio behind Leap! and the newly-completed Fireheart (pictured at top). Details: Cinesite, which has offices in London, Montreal, and Vancouver as well as vfx partner studios in…
Bang & Olufsen x Balenciaga “Speaker Bag” by ManvsMachine
Music: Zelig Sound Client: Bang & Olufsen, Balenciaga Production: ManvsMachineDirector: ManvsMachine Posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2022 Limited to an edition of 20, each Speaker Bag is milled from a single block of aluminum to resemble the…
How Six Point Harness Used 2D to Tackle Black Noir’s Trauma in ‘The Boys’
Brooker also believes that nostalgia and trauma are linked more often than we realize. All episodes of Season 3 of The Boys are now available on Prime Video. “Eric wanted them to be very cute, with the idea that what they did became creepy…
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko Review
The only shortcoming is to be found in the writing; it’s serviceable but doesn’t do the story or the characters the justice they deserve. Based on the novel of the same name, Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko is another indie feather in the cap of…
Denis Villeneuve Begins Filming ‘Dune: Part Two’
Villeneuve is directing Dune: Part Two from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jon Spaihts. Villeneuve further serves as producer, alongside Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Tanya Lapointe, and Patrick McCormick. Josh Grode, Herbert W. Gains, Brian Herbert,…
MPC London Scraps 2022 Raises, Introduces Color-Coded Alert System For Troubled Projects
A thread dedicated to the MPC announcements in the r/vfx subreddit was the sub’s most-upvoted post of the day on Sunday and has received more than 175 comments slamming the company and its policies. Been at MPC a year or so, ready to move on so…
Craig McCracken Is Rebooting ‘The Powerpuff Girls,’ ‘Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends’
Details: Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe has started development on reboots of classic Cartoon Network series The Powerpuff Girls and Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends with creator, producer, and director Craig McCracken attached to develop both.…
Guinness Gets Back to the Land with “Goodness”
“Even though this story would be impossible to capture in live action, it was important for the film to look realistic. We designed an aesthetic that appears natural, organic, and highly detailed, but more stylized than what would be observed in…
Xeros “The Power of Change” Product Films by Found Studio
“We worked with agency Made Thought to tell the story of Xeros’ core technologies, Care and Filtration in two films that open with the environmental problem before showcasing the solutions in an understandable, engaging and beautiful…
‘Paws of Fury’ Review Roundup: An Outmoded And Out-Of-Touch Animated Feature
Paws of Fury is an efficient yet underimagined animated fable that barely musters the flavor of a cliché Western comedy. Mel Brooks, who is one of the film’s executive producers, has a voice role — he’s the Shogun, who says…
Nintendo Buys Dynamo Pictures
The move follows a growing trend across the gaming industry: Both Sega and Sony, for instance, have invested heavily in producing features and series based on their respective gaming properties, from Sonic the Hedgehog, to The Last of Us, to Uncharted.…
25 Years Of ‘Cow & Chicken’: A Conversation With Creator David Feiss
Feiss: I did the pilot of Cow and Chicken, we tested it, and they said, ‘We want to do a series.’ But then they said, “We want do a half -hour format with two seven-minute Cow and Chickens and we want a new middle cartoon that’s…
Netflix Drops ‘DOTA: Dragon’s Blood’ Book 3 Official Trailer
The hugely popular DOTA: Dragon’s Blood returns to NETFLIX with Book 3 on August 11. The fantasy anime series is based on Valve’s popular DOTA 2 video-game franchise. The multiplayer online battle arena, or ‘MOBA’ game, is one of…
disguise Buys Immersive Entertainment Company Meptik
“We have always prided ourselves on our ability to service both sides of the xR equation – the creative and the technical – and we love creating dynamic virtual worlds that blow audiences away,” noted Rivero. “Joining forces…
