…Disney president Bob Iger has announced a return to hand-drawn feature animation from the company. The catch? Apparently, “another animation company will be brought into Disney” to complete these productions……

Karen Raugust at Animation World Network examines the current rise of high-quality, faith-based animation in today’s market, which has been spurred on by Mel Gibson’s blockbuster The Passion of the…

One may want to check out the Seward Street animation blog. As Clay Kaytis writes in an e-mail, “This one has a very positive vibe and most of the guys…

…hand-drawn animation department. The film will be screened this Thursday in Minneapolis, a day before the annual Disney shareholder meeting. “Lund said he hopes Disney shareholders see his nostalgic look…

…whether Pixar would ever enter the field of traditional animation, Bird answered, “It’s a wild place; it does not exist to put technology on the screen, it exists for character…

The Newport Beach Film Festival, which runs April 21-30, has recently released its full schedule. There are a number of animation events (some can be previewed on the website) as…

DreamWorks Animation SKG announced yesterday that Bob Feldman will join the company as head of corporate communications, as shown by Yahoo! Finance. For nearly eight years, Feldman has held the…

Margaret C. Whitman, president and CEO of eBay, has been elected into DreamWorks Animation’s board of directors. “Meg is someone that both Roger Enrico and I have been courting to…

…Italy; Heather Kenyon, director of original animation development, Cartoon Network, USA; Meredith Metz, senior vice president of creative affairs, Walt Disney TV Animation, USA; Raoul Servais, author, Belgium; and Iréne…

Bishop Animation recently announced the opening of their full service {{link http://www.bishopanimation.com animation studio}}. Their own in-house project Paul And His Bananas continues in production….

Wired Magazine has a very enlightening three-page article describing the aspects and history of DreamWorks Animation and its CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, while also comparing and contrasting the studio to Pixar….

Wish we’d known about this sooner. Tonight at the ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood Walt Disney Feature Animation will be hosting a retrospective of its seventy-five years in the business as…

Spaff Animation director Dave Spafford speaks with vfxblog‘s Ian Failes regarding the opening titles and flip book sequence used in the film House of D. In addition, Spafford shares his…

Jim Hill Media offers more speculation concerning the name and future of Disney Circle 7 Animation, the computer animation division created to develop sequels to Pixar’s films….

Included with a group of journalists recently invited to visit DreamWorks Animation, Paul Fischer from Moviehole writes of the experience, in which sneak peeks from the studio’s future lineup were…

The Producers Guild of America added a category for animation to their annual PGA Awards, according to {{link http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=15473 AWN}}. PGA Awards co-chair, Bruce Cohen said, “The recent renaissance in…

‘Inkan’ at Animation Nation links to a “Silence is Golden” trailer currently playing in AMC theaters, which mixes traditional animation with humor thrown toward such films as The Lion King…

AWN points to Variety, where news comes that Jared Stern has signed a two-year deal to pen both original and existing projects at Walt Disney Feature Animation. Stern made headlines…

The Associated Press, through Yahoo! Finance, indicates that for around $9.4 million in cash and debt, online content provider Jupitermedia Corp. has bought Animation Factory Inc. from VA Software Corp….

Terry Press has joined DreamWorks Animation, as its worldwide head of marketing, reports Reuters through Yahoo! News. Press, who served 10 years as the marketing chief for DreamWorks SKG, will…

…20-60 seconds Individual Categories: 1 – ANI-TMS-MI Animation for teams of Middle School 2 – ANI-TMS-HI Animation for teams of High School 3 – ANI-TMS-Coll Animation for teams in college…

…the animation industry. Adding to this suggestion is the fact that a recent survey by Anderson Consultancy stated that the Indian animation industry could earn near $15 billion by 2008….

…the animation medium. The top winners of the night were The Incredibles with four wins including Overall DVD, New Movie and Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story and…

Frederator Studios has announced the third season of the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival, a collaborative production between the two companies. This year, the festival has been expanded to include live…

Hoping to promote Japan’s animation past, present, and future, Tokyo has opened the Tokyo Anime Center in Akihabara, which is being billed as the first global animation center. The center…

From Bishop Animation comes a new signal film, ready to be screened at the Omaha Film Festival. Though the work is 100% computer animation, the studio endeavored greatly to give…

“Animation is art, but bringing it to life is magic,” remarks Kompin Kemgumnird, the creative director of Kantana Animation. The ‘Business’ section of the Bangkok Post examines the animated career…

…Feature Animation, following the release of Bob Bacon. Furthermore, the site informs that 147 staff members of Circle 7 Animation have been reassigned, with 37 employees to be layed off….

The Mac Observer observes that Toon Boom Animation, Inc. has released a Universal Binary version of its animation software Toon Boom Studio V3. The application can be downloaded for free…

…direction the art of animation may be heading. Specifically, the animator believes the future will see more of the unique type animation that blends both traditional and computer generated styles….