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Astérix returns!
…hired the animators from Disney Studios Montreuil who were fired after Disney decided to shut down the 2D studio”. A French-language trailer can be found at {{link http://www.allocine.fr/film/video_gen_cfilm=54220.html Allociné’s website}}…. |
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Latest happenings at Dark Prince
…state of Dark Prince Productions, the intentionally small Parisian studio with two ‘hats’: producer and service studio. It is worth noting that GenerActor, the company’s proprietary 2D animation software, finished… |
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More on Robots' DVD
The print edition of Video Business indicates that Fox’s release of the $126 million-grossing CG-animated Robots on September 12 will mark the studio’s first simultaneous release for the Sony PlayStation… |
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Disney recruits; reveals footage from upcoming slate
…computer graphics artists – to join the animation studio”, making it the first public recruiting pitch in four years. Disney also showed off the animation tools they are using as… |
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Electronic Things chosen to appear at Comic-Con
…The film, Electronic Things of the Future, is a five-minute glimpse at electronic devices everyone must own in order to survive today. Click the “More” button to read the studio’s… |
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Norm Prescott dies aged 78
{{link http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117925521?categoryId=25&cs=1 Variety notes}} that Filmation Studios co-founder and former disc jockey (one of the original “Live Five”) Norm Prescott has died in Los Angeles. After producing the animated feature… |
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Nike's Knight moving into feature animation
Studio Briefing for July 20 reports that Phil Knight, founder of athletic footware company Nike, is gearing up to create a stop-motion/computer-animation hybrid animated feature to be released in 2007…. |
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Latest on Trace Pictures
Trace Pictures has been keeping busy lately, whether the studio is taking in awards or working on their next projects. For a list of the latest happenings at Trace Pictures,… |
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DreamWorks Animation SKG announces changes in key personnel
…the studio’s highest-grossing original animated film; and the upcoming Over the Hedge. Damaschke joined DreamWorks in 1995 as the production manager on the studio’s first traditionally animated production, The Prince… |
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Eisner era at Disney ends
…two decades he transformed a struggling animation studio and its pair of amusement parks into a global entertainment powerhouse with 11 theme parks, a dozen television channels, a top-rated broadcast… |
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Irving Ludwig, RIP
…recalled him as “an important part of the Disney Studio family ever since I can remember. . . . He was a caring and dynamic man who was passionately devoted… |
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Toonacious™ Family Entertainment news release
…FUND ANIMATED FEATURE FILM PROJECTS Feature animation studio led by award-winning Walt Disney animator/director andveteran entertainment industry team is ready for production! Burbank, Calif. – Toonacious™ Family Entertainment has engaged… |
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Toon Boom Animation releases latest version of software
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… |
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Winnie the Pooh gets star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
…in front of the Disney Soda Fountain and Studio Store adjacent to Disney’s El Capitan Theatre and was attended by, among others, Disney CEO Bob Iger and Hollywood’s honorary mayor,… |
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ReFrederator presents classic cartoons
…viewers each week. For further information on ReFrederator, please click: Frederator Studios launches ReFrederator vintage cartoon podcast New daily vintage video podcast features classic cartoons and cultural icons Frederator Studios… |
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Bay enters new Domain
Director Michael Bay, along with private investment firm Wyndcrest Holdings, in which Bay is a principal, is acquiring the 13-year-old visual effects studio Digital Domain. Past work for the studio… |
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TAIS presents \\Dream On Silly Dreamer\\
…studio, Andrew Hickson from Disney Florida, Rob Bekuhrs from the California and Florida studios, and Shawn Seles from the Toronto studio will discuss their own experiences, take questions and offer… |
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Commanding animators made Commanders
British citizens Peter Lord and David Sproxton of the nation’s largest animation studio, Aardman, were named CBEs by the Queen in her 80th birthday honors list reports C21 Media. The… |
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Convention proceeds without Cook
The Summer 2006 Convention of the National Fantasy Fan Club experienced a setback earlier today when head of the Disney Studio, Dick Cook, was unable to give his expected presentation,… |
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Animated Comic-Con coverage!
…of animated undertakings – from feature films to television series to DVD releases. Separating the revelations and speculations by studios, Animated News provides a handy summarization of the animation-related festivities… |
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More Mattinson
…full-fledged animator to a story artist and then to director. He also tells about the transition the studio made from Walt to the twilight of the careers of the Nine… |
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RIP, Ed Benedict (1912-2006)
…with which he was involved. It was not until the late 1950s that Benedict joined the Hanna-Barbera TV animation studio. There, he helped design the characters for the studio’s first… |
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Superman Doomsday coming September 18
…a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, commands the largest distribution infrastructure in the global video marketplace. Warner Home Video’s film library is the largest of any studio, offering top quality new… |
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First works of Lucasfilm Singapore to be out soon
Channel News Asia reports that the very first works of Lucasfilm’s Singapore studio will be seen in many upcoming American films soon. These films will have segments created by the… |
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Announcing Walt's People – Volume 5
…Stanchfield, Erwin Verity, and Bill Walsh. These interviews discuss, among many other subjects, the Disney Studio during World War II, Disney’s live-action productions, Disney’s background department, and the new golden… |
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Animated 2007 Primetime Emmy Awards nominees
…•Hellboy Animated: Sword Of Storms (Starz Media with Revolution Studios) •Secrets Of The Deep (Impossible Pictures with Discovery Channel) •Camp Lazlo – “Where’s Lazlo?” (Cartoon Network Studios) Outstanding Original Music… |
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Disney bans smoking
The Financial Times reports that on Wednesday, Walt Disney became the first major Hollywood studio to completely phase out cigarette smoking in its films, saying smoking scenes in future Disney-branded… |
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Bravestarr: Volume Two
…its contemporary Galaxy Rangers). While some may find the series to be a little too “after school special” in its moralizing, one has to admire a studio that stood for… |
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Pandamonium over Kung Fu Panda on DVD!
…adventure rather than a true continuation, and is probably more of a way for the Studio to promote the bunnies, who may well play more of a role in one… |
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Aniboom Partners With Joost
…original high-quality animated shorts created by animators who have teamed up with the Aniboom Creators Studio to pitch and produce content for revenue share opportunities. “We are thrilled to include… |


