Cartoon Forum 2023: A Look At 5 Pitches For New European Shows
Creators and producers from across Europe brought their top projects to Toulouse this week, pitching to potential partners.
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VFX Giant DNEG Puts Forth New Salary Reduction Proposal After Worker Backlash To Initial Proposal
The company says that the salary reductions will allow it to keep people employed instead of laying off workers.
Academy Unveils 2023 Student Academy Award Winners
Two French films and one from the U.K. won awards and earned qualification to the next edition of the Oscars.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Paul Bush
Bush, who passed away earlier this month, never shied away from trying a new filmmaking technique.
Paul Bush, British Filmmaker Who Experimented With Animation Techniques, Dies At 67
Bush excelled at trying out new techniques and experimental methods of creating moving pictures.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Stephen Irwin
Irwin’s work rests on the borders of narrative and non-narrative, reality, fantasy, and horror.
Producers Of The Popular Gaming Youtube Channel Mashed Have Launched Spud Gun Studios, A New Short-Form Animation House
In addition to its commissioned work, Spud Gun Studios has ambitions to produce its own original animated properties.
Ian Emes, Celebrated British Animator And Long-Time Pink Floyd Collaborator, Dies At 73
An artist who worked across many mediums, his animation work with Pink Floyd and Linda McCartney still has the power to dazzle.
U.K.’s 39% Audio-Visual Expenditure Credit Extended To Animated Features
The move is aimed at attracting and keeping more theatrical animation production in the U.K.
Three Projects From BBC’s Ignite Development Program Are Moving Forward
The Ignite program was launched in July 2021 to identify “fresh, bold, innovative” children’s animation projects.
Amuse Animation Opens Chinese Office With Distribution Vet Entin Liu At The Helm
The company is looking to scale up and better exploit its kids and family IPs on more and larger platforms.
Go Way Behind The Scenes Of ‘Star Wars: Visions’ Volume 2 With Some Never-Before-Seen Artwork
Filmmakers from five of the shorts explain how their stories are particularly local, despite being set in a galaxy far, far away.
Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Run Wrake
Run Wrake’s multi-layered works connect an onslaught of imagery from diverse media and loop them with a brilliant sense of rhythm.
U.K. Blocks Microsoft’s $68.7B Acquisition Of Activision Blizzard
The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority believes the acquisition could harm the cloud gaming marketplace.
Indian VFX Outfit Basilic Fly Studios Launches Lightrunner Studios In The U.K.
CEO Balakrishnan said, “Lightrunner Studio will explore and embrace the latest approaches of vfx workflows and processes laser-focused on AI and machine learning.”
Bomper Studio Makes Four-Day Work Week Permanent After Successful Six-Month Trial
The studio reported no drop in its output, no missed deadlines, and an increase in productivity, creativity, and worker happiness.
GFM Animation Has Acquired Global Rights To Uli Meyer’s Debut Feature ‘Molesworth’
Adapted from the popular books of the same name, Meyer was hand-picked by illustrator Ronald Searle to bring the franchise to the big screen.
‘Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio,’ ‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ Score Animation, VFX BAFTA Award Wins
Apple TV’s ‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse’ was selected as the best British animated short over the weekend.
Aardman Boss Warns U.K. Animation Will ‘Go Off The Edge Of A Cliff’ Without Government Aid
Aardman managing director Sean Clarke also lamented poor animation education standards in the U.K. and said graduates who enter the workforce are not “production-ready.”
‘Puss In Boots’ Debut Tops U.K. Box Office As Dreamworks’ Latest Approaches $400M Globally
U.K. export ‘The Amazing Maurice’ failed to make much of an impact with its North American debut.
