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Ancient Animation
…News site about the recent discovery of the world’s oldest animation. The animated bit was found on some 5,000-year old pottery and shows a goat eating leaves off of a… |
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Bambi fun facts
…story men were not assigned to the picture until the Autumn of 1938, when three distinct story groups were put on the project. First animation January 1940 First animation clean-up… |
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Fox Animation's John Cohen promoted to vp of production
John Cohen has been promoted from director of development to vp of production at Twentieth Century Fox Animation, AWN reports. Cohen, who joined the division in 2000, is currently involved… |
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Voice actor Bob Bergen sets sails for animation voice-over seminar and cruise
Bob Bergen, the voice of Porky Pig, is launching an animation voice-over seminar and cruise to Ensenada, Mexico. The cruise will last three nights aboard the Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines… |
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DreamWorks previews upcoming slate at 2005's Comic-Con International
…learns that Ratropolis is in danger from the world above. From DreamWorks Animation and Aardman, Flushed Away is scheduled for release in Fall 2006. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- DreamWorks Animation SKG (NYSE-DWA) is… |
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Chicken Little's 3D release and new images
…and art, and we are proud to be a part of filmmaking history. Our proprietary, state-of-the-art CG animation process used to make Chicken Little and future animation projects will finally… |
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DreamWorks Animation at SIGGRAPH 2005
Jim Hill Media takes a look at DreamWorks Animation’s presence at SIGGRAPH 2005, in which the studio submitted four courses, two panels and seven sketches. At the event, info was… |
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Fall brings rise of stop-motion animation
…in the article are brief tidbits regarding the different methods that each production team incorporated to bring their visions to life, plus some thoughts on stop-motion animation’s absence from theaters…. |
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DreamWorks Animation's future slate
Coming Soon has the lowdown on future projects from DreamWorks Animation, including notes on Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon, Rex Havoc, It Came From Earth! and Route… |
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The science of animation
Skwigly Animation Magazine reports on a scientific study investigating subjects’ emotional response to various styles of robots that obtained some interesting results. These results are then applied to the reactions… |
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Variety's "icons of the century" list honors animation
…Brando, Charlie Chaplin, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, and Elvis Presley in the top ten is none other than Mickey Mouse. Classic representatives of animation who made the cut in the… |
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\\Chicken Little\\ in Disney Digital 3-D
…selected theatres. This joint effort will create the next leap forward in the evolution of motion picture entertainment, bringing animation to life. This historic debut of an entirely new release… |
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Brad Bird to receive first ever Texas Avery Animation Award
Brad Bird, director of animated films The Incredibles and Iron Giant has been selected to receive the first Texas Avery Animation Award. AWN reports that the Oscar-winner will be honored… |
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Meet John Aquino, animator for Walt Disney Feature Animation
MQ7.net brings an Inquirer News Service brief biography of John Aquino. The inspirational read recounts how a visit from a Disney animator to Animaction, the Santa Monica-based animation school, changed… |
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Predicting the animation Oscars
Rick DeMott, managing editor of {{link http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=2705&page=2 Animation World Network}}, takes a look at the upcoming Academy Award races for Animated Feature and Animated Short films and tries to predict… |
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Animation in the Grammy Award nominations
…getting half of those nods. The awards ceremony will be held Wednesday, February 8, 2006, in Los Angeles, and be broadcast on CBS. The six animation related Grammy Award nominees… |
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DreamWorks Animation promotes Hartwell, hires Batter and Bernstein
In an effort to support the company’s plans to release two CGI films a year, along with a number of DTV films, DreamWorks Animation has announced the hiring of John… |
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DreamWorks Animation, Hewlett-Packard wear Halo
Jeffrey Katzenberg has revealed a new venture between DreamWorks Animation and Hewlett-Packard: the Halo room, indicates StarTribune.com. Costing $550,000 to create, each Halo room includes four high-definition plasma screens, along… |
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Interview: Sony Pictures Imageworks animation supervisor David Schaub
Narnia Fans points to vfxblog, where an interview with David Schaub, animation supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks, awaits. Within the discussion, Schaub reflects on his work for The Chronicles of… |
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Review of MoMA’s ''Pixar: 20 Years of Animation”
“Ace the Bathound” from Toon Zone takes a positive, detailed look at ”Pixar: 20 Years of Animation,” a splendid exhibition currently available to view at the Museum of Modern Art…. |
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Wall Street perspective of DreamWorks Animation
CNN Money analyzes the future of DreamWorks Animation, whose shares fell 35% in 2005. Special interest is especially shown in how Paramount’s acquisition of DreamWorks will affect the company, along… |
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Mike Young targeting new animation studio for Wales
According to icWales, Mike Young of Mike Young Productions has revealed that he is in discussions with the Welsh Assembly Government, concerning the creation of an animation studio in his… |
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Audio tour of Pixar: 20 Years of Animation
Luxo focuses on the Museum of Modern Art’s website, where an audio tour of Pixar: 20 Years of Animation awaits, along with a Flash arrangement of images from the exhibit…. |
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Little writers keeping busy with family, animation projects
…Bencich are likewise working on a number of projects for Sony Animation. It is worth noting that Bencich has also earned a writing credit for Cinderella III, coming in 2007…. |
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Pixar: 20 Years of Animation heading to San Francisco?
The blog Luxo gathers from Cartoon Art that after the exhibition’s successful run at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Pixar: 20 Years of Animation may move… |
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Season's greetings from Sony Pictures Animation
JoBlo writer Jason Coleman submits a detailed account of his visit to Sony Pictures Animation, where he received a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the studio’s fall film Open… |
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Golden Globes to add animation category
The Associated Press via Yahoo! News reveals the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s plans to add a new animation category for the Golden Globes. The addition will be first recognized at… |
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DreamWorks Animation drawing Circle?
As the animators currently employed at Disney’s Circle 7 wait to hear the future of their division, CGCHAR writes that DreamWorks Animation recently invited the animators for a campus tour,… |
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Disney's upcoming animation lineup being evaluated
…and president of the combined Disney and Pixar animation studios. That project lineup includes such films as American Dog, Rapunzel, and Gnomeo & Juliet. However, Meet the Robinsons, which the… |
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Don Hahn named temporary Head of Walt Disney Feature Animation
Earlier today, Dick Cook, chairman of The Walt Disney Studios, sent studio employees an e-mail notice that producer Don Hahn will act as interim Head of Walt Disney Feature Animation… |

