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Aardman Founders Give Employees Majority-Ownership Stake In Studio

To assure Aardman’s future independence, co-founders Peter Lord and David Sproxton are handing control of the studio to employees.

ILM TV will offer vfx and animation services for episodic work on streaming and linear tv platforms.

A new person has arrived in the never-ending game of executive musical chairs at Nickelodeon.

The fast-growing animation/vfx/vr industry in Montréal is getting a boost from the Canadian government.

A 165-room property is opening in central Pennsylvania.

Ed Catmull co-founded Pixar and revolutionized the animation industry.

The loss of Super Deluxe will be especially felt by the independent animation community.

Nickelodeon has a new leader.

Laika has hired former Buzzfeed and FX executive Michael Waghalter to head up business development at the stop-motion studio.

Employees were reportedly given 30 minutes to leave the studio premises.

The studio had been responsible for the Dead Rising franchise.

The company is pivoting from a video platform to a software tools company.

France set an all-time TV programming export record in 2017, driven in large part by the strength of its animation sector.

Among the company’s major projects is a live-action/animated Care Bears movie.

Titmouse plans to employ 300 artists at its Vancouver studio by the end of the year.

With its own distribution channel and a big catalog of original content, Six Point Harness is not your typical service studio.

This deal marks the third major vfx/animation studio that Cinesite has acquired in the last few years.

Netflix has lured a key Nickelodeon exec to its streaming service.

Disney and Fox move one step closer to creating an entertainment monster.

Method Studios and Atomic Fiction are combining forces to become an even larger vfx producer.