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“Simpsons” Producer Offers Tips For Manipulating Creative People
Controlling creative people appears to be a popular topic in the mainstream media nowadays. Following on the heels of Harvard Business …
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DreamWorks Buys Trolls from Dam Things
Ogres are so yesterday. DreamWorks Animation just announced that they have acquired the IP for the Trolls franchise from the Dam Family …
Disney Will Lay Off People in the Animation Division
More workforce cuts are coming to Disney. Following the closure of LucasArts, Reuters news service reported yesterday that Disney will …
BREAKING: Disney Shuts Down LucasArts; 150 Staffers Laid Off
The shake-out from Disney’s $4 billion acquisition of Lucasfilm continues. This morning, Disney shut down LucasArts, the 31-year-old …
Tippett Studios Lays Off 40 Percent of Its Staff [UPDATED]
The Hollywood Reporter confirmed today that the Berkeley-based VFX studio Tippett Studio has laid off 40% of its workforce, or …
Indian Animation Studio Prana Acquires Bankrupt Rhythm & Hues
Variety is reporting that bankrupt American animation/visual effects studio Rhythm & Hues has been acquired at auction by Indian company …
Vimeo On Demand Lets Filmmakers Sell Their Videos Direct to Audiences
Last week at SXSW, Vimeo announced that Don Hertzfeldt will be among the introductory group of filmmakers to use their new Vimeo On …
Rhythm & Hues is Hiring Hundreds of People—In Taiwan
A little over a month after Life of Pi VFX studio Rhythm & Hues declared bankruptcy and laid off hundreds of employees at its Los Angeles …
“Cyanide and Happiness” Shatters Kickstarter Animation Record
The Kickstarter campaign to produce an animated series based on the online comic Cyanide and Happiness concluded a few minutes ago with a …
How Disney Bought Lucasfilm
Good long-read in Businessweek about how Disney bought the Star Wars franchise and Lucasfilm. The article is short on major revelations, …
The Big Question: How To Make Money From Short Films
New perspectives and ideas on the age-old question.
DreamWorks Will Layoff 350 Employees
DreamWorks Animation announced yesterday that they will layoff 350 employees by the end of 2013. The news of the layoffs become public in …
What is the Biggest Animation Project on Kickstarter Right Now?
The answer may surprise you.
Reel FX To Rhythm & Hues Artists: We Want You!
If there’s any silver lining to yesterday’s awful news about Rhythm & Hues, it’s that other companies hunger for the services of Rhythm & …
Rhythm & Hues To File For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Today [UPDATED]
Animation studio Rhythm & Hues began informing its employees tonight that they will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday morning.
BREAKING: Big Layoffs Looming at DreamWorks
Developing story…Some unfortunate news this morning. An anonymous source at TheLayoff.com wrote about an all-hands meeting at …
Reel FX Hires “Shrek” Producer Aron Warner As President of Animation
Dallas-based ReelFX is getting serious about feature animation. Last week, they named Aron Warner as the studio’s President of Animation. …
Stephen Silver: “Stop Working For Free!”
Character designer Stephen Silver is mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it anymore.
Technicolor Options Rights to Graphic Novel Series “The Deep”
This press release was interesting to me because I wasn’t aware that Technicolor is making a push into original content development.
YouTube-Funded Channels Are Under Fire For Mistreatment of Content Producers
Well, that didn’t take long. The entertainment companies that took millions of dollars from YouTube to operate content channels are coming under fire for their mistreatment of content producers
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