According to Contact Music, Dick Van Dyke is fascinated by animation – and has the studio to prove it. “It started out as a hobby about 15 years ago when…

…Stars featurette, a Swept Away scene deconstruction, an Inside the Animals Studio feature, an “I Wanna Lose Control” music video, interactive games, and more.” Open Season will hit stores on…

Variety spotlights digital effects company Animal Logic, which is looking to move further into animated features after its success with Happy Feet. Transitioning into a studio similar to Pixar and…

…the HFPA said, “Animated features have become an important component of the studio lineup so there was an overwhelming consensus that this new category be created”. The nominees for the…

…6-11 years. However, similar success was not introduced to NBC’s live-action remake of The Year Without a Santa Claus. According to the IMDB’s Studio Briefing, the movie’s Monday night premiere…

…that decade came from his studio, including Josie and the Pussycats, Super Friends, Jabberjaw, and Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels. The Smurfs became a huge hit for the company…

The Los Angeles Times spotlights Dick Van Dyke’s enthusiasm for visual effects. For approximately four decades, the actor has practiced crafting special effects within his home studio. In fact, Van…

FilmStew.com via Yahoo! Movies writes that a deal providing Universal Studios theme parks the exclusive use of DreamWorks Animation characters is no longer in service. Supposedly, the studio had numerous…

…a two-part report, describing the trip to Imagi that it enjoyed. During the studio tour, the site was treated to an enlightening conversation with TMNT director Kevin Munroe and producer…

The IMDB Studio Briefing indicates that the day Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone fired CEO Tom Freston, DreamWorks cofounder David Geffen called Redstone to recommend fellow cofounder Jeffrey Katzenberg as Freston’s…

…CDs and DVDs. About Mondo Media Mondo Media is an award-winning production studio with an established 15-year track record. Mondo Media’s expertise is animated entertainment targeted at teens and young…

…American Dog, which Lilo & Stitch creator Chris Sanders had been developing. As for Feature Animation, Catmull denied that the studio will release only traditionally animated projects, although he admitted…

Variety indicates that French studio MK 2 will release its own computer animated Puss in Boots movie in 2009 – two years before DreamWorks Animation’s Puss picture. “We aren’t jumping…

Cartoon Brew highlights PandaPanther, a new design/animation studio located in New York. The company is the brainchild of animation producer Lydia Holness, as well as directors Jonathan Garin and Naomi…

…It’s one of these things, though, where me and Jerry [Seinfeld] were [in the recording studio] together. It got funnier than it probably would have been if we weren’t together.”…

…founded animation studio Spümcø International. For more information, and to see updates on the development of the Raketu family, visit John K.’s blog at: http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/. About Raketu Communications Inc. Raketu…

…again on another exciting project. We are so happy to have him on board at DreamWorks.” Sanders joins the studio with a long list of family film and television credits,…

…together at DreamWorks working on the epic film, The Prince of Egypt. Hood and Jefferson continued at the studio, contributing to a variety of animated films such as: The Road…

…about the studio’s upcoming feature, Ratatouille. For more details and ticket info, be sure to check out RiverRun’s official website, and thanks to “JV PIXAR” at the Animated News &…

…Ian Falconer. The new CGI series will be animated by Academy Award-nominated Irish animation studio Brown Bag Films. Nick Jr. will present 26 half-hour episodes in the U.S. and sales…

…shot where the princesses light a bra on fire, the effects team actually brought a few bras to the studio and ignited them outside their building (just for reference, understand)….

…respected for its creative and technical excellence, as well as maintaining the studio’s rich cartoon heritage. Warner Bros. Animation also oversees the creative use of, and production of animated programming…

…Touchstone Television becoming ABC Television Studio and Buena Vista Games becoming Disney Interactive Studios. Apparently, the name changes are an effort to help strengthen the worldwide recognition of the Disney,…

Israeli animation studio Animation Lab is developing The Wild Bunch, which focuses on “a group of genetically modified cornstalks who attack a group of common wildflowers.” Written by Philip LaZebnik,…

…Regarding the cast sheet that surfaced last November, a studio source explains, “When we do casting calls we frequently use substitute information as we don’t want details out about the…

…its 10th anniversary year, VES is the entertainment industry’s only official trade organization representing the extended community of visual effects practitioners including supervisors, artists, producers, technology developers, educators and studio…