Walt Disney Family Museum Announces “Women in Animation” Panel and Brittney Lee Workshop
The Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco will host a “Women in Animation” panel discussion that will occur alongside their upcoming …
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PGA Nominates Five Animation Producers, Will Honor Bob Iger and Chris Meledandri
With the 25th Annual PGA Awards right around the corner on Jan. 19, the Producers Guild of America has chosen five films to compete in …
Directors Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin on Creative Choices and Challenges in “Despicable Me” Films
Chris Renaud (above, left) and Pierre Coffin are the directorial duo responsible for one of the biggest animated phenomenons of recent …
2014 Animated Feature Preview
From mainstream releases to independent foreign productions, we’ve got a guide to the animated feature releases that you can look forward to in 2014.
Apple Names Disney Animated as Best iPad App of 2013
After reviewing the 100,000 iPads apps that launched in its Mac App Store this year, Apple has chosen Disney Animated as the Best iPad …
Help Kickstart The Preschool Series “Kit ^n^ Kate”
The subject of today’s Crowdfund Friday is Kit ^n^ Kate, a new animated series concept from Toonbox Animation Studios and written by …
“Frozen” Story Head Paul Briggs Talks About Truth in Storytelling
The Disney studio has famously attempted to adapt Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen as far back as the 1940s. However, it …
WWE Throws Itself Into The Cartoon Ring with Scooby-Doo and Fred Flintstone
Get ready to rumble, because beginning in 2014, WWE Studios will be body slamming you with a tag team of cartoon collaborations and an …
Help Fund the “Most Beautiful Erotic Animation Film Ever Made” (NSFW)
Copenhagen-based Naked Love Film specializes in hand drawn erotic animation, and after producing two short films in the same amount of …
Director Luiz Bolognesi on “Rio 2096,” An Animated Feature About Love and Revolution
Produced in Brazil for just $2.5 million by first-time animation director Luiz Bolognesi, Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury is among the …
Sundance 2014 Selects “Ernest and Celestine” and 13 Animated Shorts
The Sundance Film Festival has announced the film selections for their upcoming edition, which will take place in Park City, Utah between …
GKIDS Celebrates 5-Year Anniversary with NYC Retrospective
GKIDS, the New York-based distributor of independent and foreign animation for children and families has announced a fifth anniversary …
Help Brett Foxwell Complete “Fabricated,” A Stop Motion Film 10 Years in the Making
Brett Foxwell is a mechanical engineer and stop motion animator who has dedicated the last ten years to completing his stop motion film …
“Niko and the Sword of Light” Walks the Line Between Comic Book and Animation
Is “Niko and the Sword of Light” an animated comic book or an animated film inside of an app? This was the question that I continued to ask myself as I read/watched the story unfold before me on my iPad.
Listen to Lotte Reiniger and Rebecca Sugar Discuss Animation
For those of you still feeling sedentary after the holidays or just looking for some weekend inspiration, listen to these two interviews with Lotte Reiniger and Rebecca Sugar. They each have accomplished an important first in animation: Lotte Reiniger was the first woman to direct an animated feature, and Rebecca Sugar was the first solo woman creator of a TV series at Cartoon Network. These milestones are separated by 87 years, which says a lot about both how far animation has come and how far it still has to go.
“Croods” Directors Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders on Making An Ensemble Film
When the server enters the drawing room of the Crosby Hotel, Kirk DeMicco’s eyes begin to dance, “Mini desserts are coming! Many, many mini desserts!” Both DeMicco (“Racing Stripes,” “Space Chimps”) and Chris Sanders (“Lilo & Stitch,” “How to Train Your Dragon”) are in New York to take part in a presentation on the making of “The Croods,” the animated film that they directed for Dreamworks earlier this year, which went on to gross nearly $600 million worldwide.
Comedian Liz Miele Talks About Creating Animated Webseries “Damaged”
When life handed Liz Miele some lemons, she decided to make lemonade. It’s what pushed her into stand-up comedy 11 years ago and what …
Disney Releases “Maleficent” Teaser
Love it or loathe it, the live-action Maleficent movie is coming. And Disney has released a teaser trailer and a handful of new images to …
6 Women Disney Artists Collaborate On “Lovely,” An Anthology Of Personal Work
When six women from Disney Feature’s visual development department wanted to create a companion book for an upcoming exhibition of …
Rob Letterman Will Direct “Captain Underpants” for DreamWorks
Tie on that cape and pull up those tightie-whities, because word is out that DreamWorks Animation has completed a script for the …
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