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.
Creators and producers from across Europe brought their top projects to Toulouse this week, pitching to potential partners.
The company says that the salary reductions will allow it to keep people employed instead of laying off workers.
Two French films and one from the U.K. won awards and earned qualification to the next edition of the Oscars.
Bush, who passed away earlier this month, never shied away from trying a new filmmaking technique.
Bush excelled at trying out new techniques and experimental methods of creating moving pictures.
Irwin’s work rests on the borders of narrative and non-narrative, reality, fantasy, and horror.
In addition to its commissioned work, Spud Gun Studios has ambitions to produce its own original animated properties.
An artist who worked across many mediums, his animation work with Pink Floyd and Linda McCartney still has the power to dazzle.
The move is aimed at attracting and keeping more theatrical animation production in the U.K.
The Ignite program was launched in July 2021 to identify “fresh, bold, innovative” children’s animation projects.
The company is looking to scale up and better exploit its kids and family IPs on more and larger platforms.
Filmmakers from five of the shorts explain how their stories are particularly local, despite being set in a galaxy far, far away.
Run Wrake’s multi-layered works connect an onslaught of imagery from diverse media and loop them with a brilliant sense of rhythm.
The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority believes the acquisition could harm the cloud gaming marketplace.
CEO Balakrishnan said, “Lightrunner Studio will explore and embrace the latest approaches of vfx workflows and processes laser-focused on AI and machine learning.”
The studio reported no drop in its output, no missed deadlines, and an increase in productivity, creativity, and worker happiness.
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.
Apple TV’s ‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse’ was selected as the best British animated short over the weekend.
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.”
U.K. export ‘The Amazing Maurice’ failed to make much of an impact with its North American debut.