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Tron Legacy director on the movie’s score written by Daft Punk

io9.com posted a video interview with Joseph Kosinski, the director of Tron Legacy. Kosinski discusses the movie’s score composed by the French techno duo Daft Punk, how the music enhances the plot, and how the sound effects ad music work together. Daft Punk is famously known for their animated musical film Interstella 5555 supervised by […]

Animated shorts up for an Oscar

The Wrap has announced the contenders for Best Animated Short film at the 83rd Academy Awards. Pixar’s “Day and Night” is nominated, but the studio has not won an Oscar in this category since their 2002 win “For The Birds.” Another short “The Cow Who Wanted to be a Hamburger” animated by Bill Plympton and […]

Cartoons helping kids as a medical tool

It’s a simple fact that kids the world over like cartoons and medical professionals are using animation as a tool to connect with them. In India, the non-profit TeachAIDS organization created an animated tutorial to teach AIDS/HIV awareness to children, detailed in this article from The Hindu. In Mexico City, Dr. Julia Borbolla invented an […]

Young Justice and Firebreather premiere on Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network had two premieres on Black Friday. The pilot for Young Justice, a new series, follows the adventures of Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad, and other sidekicks in the DC universe as they team up to fight crime. The second premiere is for the CGI TV movie Firebreather, directed by Peter Chung of Aeon Flux […]

The Toy Story 3 that might have been…

Jim Hill Media gives us a look at the Toy Story 3 Disney Circle 7 Animation was working on before Pixar Studios was bought. This version’s plot had all the Buzz Lightyear action figures recalled to Taiwan to fix a defect. Woody and the gang would have traveled to Taiwan to save Buzz. The article […]