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Shuffling around: Where will Disney animators animate?
…the “hat building” (so named for the big Sorcerer’s Apprentice hat out front) to either the old animation building on the studio lot or to the newer Circle 7 facility…. |
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New DreamWorks Animation website
…southern California campuses; * a careers section featuring current openings, and details on DreamWorks’ School Outreach program; * a company overview including a timeline tracking the history of the studio…. |
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Gnomeo no more?
…The Animation Guild Blog, where word arrives that Disney’s Gnomeo and Juliet has been cancelled once more. The move was revealed by a Pixar executive at a recent studio meeting…. |
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Watch Gopher Broke and In the Rough legally online
Discovered by CGCHAR is the addition of the animated shorts In the Rough and Gopher Broke to Blur Studio’s official website. The projects are located in the “Animation” section of… |
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Bee Movie humming along smoothly
…feature he developed and wrote as the project moves into production. Staffers say he looks at models and designs giving input, and that he’s in the studio every few weeks… |
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"Golden Age of animation" currently taking place?
…will look back at this period as the Golden Age of animation,” states Yair Landau, vice chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment. “There used to be one studio putting out animated… |
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Kong a King DVD for Universal
Video Business magazine notes that King Kong has “aped its way to become the top-selling DVD in Universal Studios’ history, surpassing sales of $100 million in its first six days… |
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Update on Disney's DTV slate; American audiences ignoring British humor?
…Hill also speculates that the box office performances of Doogal, Valiant, and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit may have inspired studio executives to make certain humor changes… |
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DreamWorks buys a farm, a Punk Farm
…are thrilled that the project has landed at DreamWorks — and my five-year-old son couldn’t be more excited that his dad is working with the studio behind ‘Shrek.’” Jim Hecht… |
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Barbie goes Universal
Reuters reports that Universal Studios and Mattel Inc. are teaming to bring consumers more adventures from the world of Barbie. Previously, Lionsgate served distributor duties for the popular Barbie DTV… |
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Fox to launch Space Chimps
Variety, via Coming Soon, indicates that Twentieth Century Fox is set to introduce Space Chimps in 2008. Created by Vanguard Animation, the studio behind Valiant, Chimps is the second picture… |
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Disney CEO says company's controversies are "behind us"
…of our business. It’s incredible. We have to continue to do that. I want to do more of that.” The news comes courtesy of the Internet Movie Database’s Studio Briefing…. |
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Pencils to Pixels to Prominence
…for Fox. KAREN MALACH 3D Development Producer, DisneyToon Studios / Walt Disney Company Ms. Malach has been a forerunner in implementing 3D animation at DisneyToon Studios, where she now oversees… |
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Mundos Digitales 2006
…the Mundos Digitales animation and special effects conference has featured presentations on the most relevant and up-to-date projects from major studios and pioneering individuals, at both national and international level.The… |
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Become an animated judge in the Animex Student Animation Awards
…fortunate to call upon the expertise of a finalist judging panel that consisted of representatives from established studios such as Aardman Animation, Dreamworks, Sony ImageWorks and Studio AKA. The aim… |
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Boomerang readies Captain Planet unseen episodes
…Planet and the Planeteers was developed in collaboration with Burbank, CA-based animation studio, DIC Enterprises, which produced the three-time Emmy-nominated series until 1993. Production was then taken over by Hanna-Barbera… |
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Interview: Pixar's Jan Pinkava
Computer Arts speaks with Pixar’s Jan Pinkava. In addition to animating, Pinkava has likewise directed for the studio, with his work seen in the short film Geri’s Game. In this… |
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Interview: Pixar's Ralph Eggleston
…Modern Art provides an interview with Ralph Eggleston (For the Birds) from Pixar, as noticed by Upcoming Pixar. The conversation has been placed at the MoMA’s teen site, Red Studio…. |
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Overview of Over the Hedge's transition to the big screen
…get from its comic strip incarnation to its DreamWorks Animation film form. Interestingly, the article notes that the project once belonged to Twentieth Century Fox, before the studio lost interest…. |
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Pixar culture blending into Disney animation
…The article likewise hints of traditional animation surfacing once more at the studio, with Disney Chief Financial Officer Tom Staggs commenting it “is definitely not something we would rule out.”… |
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Four new projects enter CORE of CGI
CGCHAR reports that CORE Digital Pictures, the studio behind Walt Disney Pictures’ The Wild, is on a quest for box office success as it develops four in-house computer animated projects…. |
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IDT Entertainment finds Liberty
IDT Entertainment, the studio behind the upcoming Everyone’s Hero and Space Chimps, has been bought by Liberty Media Corp, whose assets include the OVC home shopping network and Expedia.com. According… |
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Interview: Pixar's Ralph Eggleston
Luxo notices that the Museum of Modern Art’s Red Studio interviews Ralph Eggleston from Pixar. The site writes that topics in the conversation include “the role artists play at Pixar,… |
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El Capitan Dumbo Report
…from the event and some bonus photos of the Cars decorations next door at the Disney Soda Fountain and Studio Store. El Capitan organist Rob Richards greets the crowd with… |
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Preview The Little Matchgirl
…life by the Disney Studio) Platinum Edition DVD due out in October. Clicking on the first image will also lead you to a QuickTime movie clip of the beginning of… |
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Pixar documentary airing tonight on ABC
…how the studio arose from humble beginnigs, becoming the entertainment powerhouse it is today. Meanwhile, George Lucas, Steve Jobs, Roy Disney, John Lasseter, Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Billy Crystal… |
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CARS multimedia onslaught
…roll out of the studio and onto the track to test their driving skills at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, CA. Windows Media Player 56K Windows Media (176×132) 300K Windows Media… |
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TV DVD news: Quick Draw McGraw, Wally Gator, Smurfs
…explained, “They were pulled because significant remastering work needed to be researched. We are exploring adding them back to the schedule next year.” That same chat led the studio to… |
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Aladdin most controversial animated ever?
…off your ear if they don’t like your face.’ Result? The studio dubbed out the lyric for subsequent releases.” Interestingly, in an Internet Movie Database Daily Poll of “…which of… |
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Hayao Miyazaki wins Oscar invitation
The Internet Movie Database’s Studio Briefing reveals that Hayao Miyazaki, director of the Oscar-winning Spirited Away and the Oscar-nominated Howl’s Moving Castle, has been invited to join the Academy of… |

