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Digital Domain to open new studio in UAE
Digital Domain (Transformers, Tron: Legacy) has announced they plan to open a 150,000-square-foot production studio and media school in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, in 2015…. |
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Restoring Laugh-O-Gram Studio
A group called Thank You Walt Disney Inc. are in the final stages of fundraising in an attempt to revitalize Laugh-O-Gram, Disney’s first professional animation studio, according to the Kansas… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
DisneyToon Studios (February 27 2001), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (August 21 2012), Blu-ray and DVD discs, 69 mins plus supplements, 1080p high definition 1.78:1 widescreen, DTS-Master Audio 5.1, Rated G,… |
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2012 Annie Award nominations announced
…Empire Strikes Out’ — Threshold Animation Studios Penguins of Madagascar ‘Action Reaction’ — Nickelodeon Animation Studios SpongeBob SquarePants ‘It’s a SpongeBob Christmas!’ — Nickelodeon Animation Studios The Amazing World of… |
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Frankenweenie
…and, after a phenomenal career that has seen Burton making a healthy amount of movie money for both Disney and his other most usually associated studio home of Warner Bros,… |
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Rise of the Guardians director Peter Ramsey assembles the Guardians of Childhood
…Animation in 2008, after the studio promised to keep his vision and involvement with the picture. Joyce was excited at the thought of his passion project finally reaching theaters. Then… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: 25th Anniversary Edition
…Rabbit places the animated cartoon stars of yesteryear in the real-life world that we inhabit. Bought to the Disney Studio by then-Studio head Ron Miller, the film was put into… |
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Animator/Director Nassos Vakalis invites us to his Dinner for Few
…I could achieve that with any other medium. AV: What do you think about that tendency now for animators to take their distances from pure entertainment and studio system to… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Three – We Have…Dragons!
…up on Part One here and Part Two here. Ten years after being founded as a division of the DreamWorks SKG studio, DreamWorks Animation would split off as an independent… |
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Beauty And The Beast: 25th Anniversary Walt Disney Signature Collection
…DTS-HD Master Audio, Rated G, Retail: $39.99 Storyboard: Just before one of the Studio’s new-fangled live-action remakes comes along, celebrate the 25th anniversary of Disney’s only animated film to be… |
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Finding Dory
…into production before they have a great concept, and there’s certainly a sometimes fair argument that the studio’s lesser outings often beat, or at least equal, most other studios’ attempts,… |
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2017 D23 Expo Exclusive
…Studios booth would certainly contain among the more popular of the convention. As animation had remained the centerpiece of the studio, the creators would be seen as the biggest attraction…. |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez reveals the hidden art of Disney’s late golden age
The late Golden Age ushered in an era of great productivity at the Walt Disney Studios. At a time when animation was becoming increasingly popular, it was also becoming more… |
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Interview with Ghibli background artist Oga Kazuo
GhibliWorld has an exclusive interview with Oga Kazuo, Ghibli background artist known for his work in films such as My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Only Yesterday, Pom Poko and Whisper… |
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\\Howl's Moving Castle\\ storyboarding complete
According to the {{link http://www.ntv.co.jp/ghibli/diary_g/index.html Studio Ghibli Production Diary}} (English translation available from {{link http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/howl/diary.html Naussica.net}}), storyboarding for \\Howl’s Moving Castle\\ has been completed. {{link http://www.animenewsnetwork.com Anime News Network}} reports… |
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Only Yesterday amongst top movies not available in US
Turner Classic Movies have come up with their list of “Top movies not currently available on dvd in the United States”, wherein Studio Ghibli’s film Only Yesterday features at no… |
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Interview with Hayao Miyazaki, Ponyo wows Japan
…his childhood life during wartime, Studio Ghibli, and more. In addition, the site also reports that the Japanese box-office collections for Hayao Miyazaki’s latest feature Ponyo on the Cliff has… |
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Three new DVD reviews at Ultimate Disney
Ultimate Disney has recently put out three great new reviews. Two of these are looks at the new Region 1 DVD releases of Studio Ghibli – Miyazaki’s 1984 classic, Nausicaä… |
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Thundercats Revived in 2011
…1985 to 1990) was produced by Rankin/Bass Productions in conjunction with Pacific Animation Corporation (a collective of Japanese studios including Topcraft, which would later become Studio Ghibli) for Telepictures Productions… |
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Anime movies up for the Japanese Academy Prize
…of feature length animated film: Sunrise Studio’s Colorful, The Borrower Arrietty from Studio Ghibli, Doraemon The Movie: Nobita’s Great Battle of the Mermaid King made by Fujiko Productions, Detective Conan:… |
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Isao Takahata’s Kaguya-hime no Monogatari delayed
Isao Takahata’s newest animated film based off a popular Japanese folktale has been delayed. Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki’s studio, is animating the film, but when the distribution company TOHO asked… |
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Annie’s award best of 2013 animation
…Lewis Morton – Futurama – 20th Century Fox Television Writing in an Animated Feature Production Hayao Miyazaki – The Wind Rises – Studio Ghibli/Touchstone Pictures/The Walt Disney Studios Editorial in… |
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Another new studio to go after former WDFA-Florida animators
…California. Raven Animation Inc., formed by {{link http://www.ravenmoon.net/ Raven Moon Entertainment}}, plans to run a studio in the Orlando area. Raven Moon CEO Joey DiFrancesco said, “Because of the new… |
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Animated News takes a look at Dreamer…
…in Paris, Tokyo and Florida, eliminating nearly 1300 jobs in the process. To this day, the only traditional animation studio left is DisneyToon Studios in Australia – and they are… |
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Lucasfilm's Singapore animation studio opens
Thursday marked the opening of Lucasfilm Animation Singapore, the 40,000 square feet animation facility located in the Changi area of Singapore. Employing over 35 people from 19 countries, the studio… |
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UPDATED: Disney acquires Pixar
…100% success to Disney’s hit-and-miss animation unit and may even reinstate hand-drawn animation at the Disney studio (perhaps through re-opening the Orlando studio, keeping the DisneyToon Studio down under from… |
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Harry Gregson-Williams: Scoring the Return to Narnia!
…Caspian, Andrew Adamson was doing post-production in London. So, that required me to pack up my studio here in Los Angeles, freight it over to London, find a studio space,… |
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Studio survey offers Disney, Sony, Network news
…that Sony Pictures Animation will include an animated short with Surf’s Up, while the studio is also planning sequels to some of its features. In Cartoon Network news, the network… |
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Perfect Nightmare: Mike Cachuela on storyboarding Christmas
…old and disused studio of the San Francisco Bay area, and an artist’s impressive career went from Skellington Productions to Pixar Animation Studios… Animated Views: We’re talking today about your… |
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The Flintstones: The Complete Series
…Hoyt Curtin, speaking to HB’s former president Fred Siebert, film music historian Jon Burlingame, conductor and music supervisor Richard Kaufman, studio historian Kress, studio performer Steve Carnelli and chief arranger… |
