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‘I Lost My Body’ Studio Xilam Animation Tapped To Animate Zack Snyder’s Netflix Series ‘Twilight of the Gods’
Xilam will oversee the layout, color BG, animation, and compositing of the Norse Mythology show.
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Genndy Tartakovsky’s ‘Fixed,’ Kenji Kamiyama’s ‘LOTR: The War of the Rohirrim’ Get Annecy First Looks
Other Annecy highlights include debuts for ‘Nimona’ and ‘Ruby Gillman’ plus tons of high-profile first looks.
‘Spellbound,’ ‘Batman Azteca,’ ‘Captain Laserhawk’ Headline Annecy’s Work In Progress Sidebar
In total, 17 films, series, and interactive works will host WIP presentations at this year’s Annecy.
Annecy Unveils 2023 Official Competition And Contrechamp Lineups
This year, 23 features will compete at Annecy, 11 in the official competition and 12 in Contrechamp.
Report: NFT-Funded Project ‘Plush’ Appears Dead With Investors Set To Lose $1.66M
Illuminart, the company behind the French project, hasn’t made any public posts since September and its NFTs are no longer for sale.
Netflix Will Debut ‘Nimona’ At Annecy This June
Other titles Netflix will tease at Annecy include ‘Leo,’ ‘Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget,’ and ‘The Monkey King.’
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Jérémy Clapin
Clapin’s thought-provoking off-beat short works often deal with identity, mental health, childhood, and body parts.
Watch The First Teaser For ‘Mum Is Pouring Rain’ Sequel ‘Round And Round The Wishing Well’ – Exclusive
Director Hugo de Faucompret spoke with us about his goals for the sequel, including shining a light on natural burials.
Annecy Reveals The 71 Short Films That Will Screen In This Year’s Official Sections
The festival will unveil other competition sections later this month, before kicking of in June.
Go Behind The Scenes Of Mascha Halberstad’s Upcoming Feature ‘Fox And Hare Save The Forest’ In This Exclusive First-Look Video
Halberstad talks us through the film’s origins and key themes while sharing some lively clips from the cg feature.
Watch The First Trailer For ‘NINN,’ An Urban Fantasy Set In The Paris Metro – Exclusive
Director Salomé Chatelain and the film’s producers from TeamTO are in Bordeaux to pitch their project at Cartoon Movie
‘My Sunny Maad,’ ‘Granny’s Sexual Life’ Score French Academy César Awards
Visual effects supervisor Laurens Ehrmann also won a César for his work on ‘Notre Dame on Fire.’
Former Annecy Animation Festival Artistic Director Serge Bromberg Gets One-Year Sentence For Involuntary Manslaughter
Nitrate reels that Bromberg was storing in a residential basement caught fire in August 2020, killing two people who lived in the building.
‘Ernest & Celestine,’ ‘My Sunny Maad,’ ‘Little Nicholas’ Score French Academy César Nominations
Animated short films ‘Câline,’ ‘Black Sun,’ and ‘Granny’s Sexual Life’ also earned nominations.
France’s Superprod Launches ‘Flow’ Pipeline, Based On Pixar’s Open-Source USD Technology
Superprod is the first French studio to deploy a pipeline based on the Pixar tech.
Looking To Join The Ranks Of Emile Cohl Atelier Alumni? Spring 2023 Admissions Are Open Now
The schools’ Career Accelerator tracks include hundreds of hours of live instruction from acclaimed industry professionals.
Cartoon Forum Predicts A Bright Future For European TV Animation
Animation tv spend-per-minute in Europe had been down for two years during Covid, but that number is now ahead of pre-pandemic levels.
Despite A Steep Decline, Animation Once Again Topped French TV Exports In 2021
French foreign animation tv sales were down in 2021, but exporters are confident that trend will reverse in 2022.
Aztec History Gets Reimagined In Hand-Drawn Feature ‘The Mark Of The Jaguar’ (Exclusive)
Paris-based vfx-animation company Hecat has joined Mexican’s Ocelotl Co and Brazil’s Origem on the feature.
Latin America Shines At Annecy: ‘Perlimps,’ ‘They Shot The Piano Player,’ ‘Arbor,’ ‘Petra and the Sun’
Titles from Brazil, Peru, Mexico, and Chile were just a few from the increasingly prominent Latin American contingent at this year’s Annecy.
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