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Virtual Events This Week: Lightbox Expo, Festival Stop Motion Montréal
For less than $50, you can attend a Californian convention and a Canadian animation festival from your couch this week.
Previously on Cartoon Brew
A TV Writer Claimed Young Writers Are ‘Ignorant Of TV History’ — The Animation Industry Responded
TV writer Jeff Lowell tweeted that his young colleagues know too few classic shows. His comments caused quite a stir.
No AI, Perpetual License, Developed By Artists: Moho’s Free Side Quest Update Now Exports 2D Characters To Unity, Unreal, Godot, And Blender
Moho’s free 14.4 Side Quest update lets animators export full 2D rigs and animations to Unity, Unreal, Godot, and Blender using the glTF format.
Don Bluth Launches New Studio To Usher In ‘Renaissance Of Hand-Drawn Animation’
Don Bluth Studios will create “new characters, new ideas, and new cartoons.”
Short Pick Of The Day: ‘Wandaland’ by Richard Noble
A mixed-media biography of a fictional animation tycoon.
Haruki Murakami Meets Animation In ‘Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman’ (Exclusive Trailer Premiere)
The feature adapts several short stories by the bestselling Japanese author.
Exports Of French Animation Hit Record High In 2019, With U.S. As Top Buyer
Last year, exports of French animation reached a record €77.4 (US$91.3) million.
European Feature ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ Finds New Partners, Enters Production
The film, about a shipwrecked boy and his dog, is based on a novel by “War Horse” scribe Michael Morpurgo.
Apple TV+ Releases First Trailer For Cartoon Saloon’s ‘Wolfwalkers’
The film premieres this Saturday in Toronto.
Adult Swim Cancels ‘The Venture Bros. [UPDATED]
The stylish action-adventure series ran for seven season on Adult Swim.
Weta Signs Deal With Amazon Web Services To Create Cloud-Based VFX Workflow
The tech setup will extend Weta’s remote collaborative workflow to its crew all over the world.
Six Point Harness Appoints Musa Brooker As Creative Director
The veteran animator and filmmaker joined the studio last year to work on an as-yet-undisclosed series.
Nick Pulls ‘Made By Maddie’ Premiere After ‘Hair Love’ Controversy
Angry reactions on Twitter have caused Nick Jr. to pull the premiere of an upcoming animated series.
Anatoly Prokhorov, ‘Kikoriki’ Creator And Pioneer Of Russian Independent Animation, Dies At 72
Prokhorov co-founded the Soviet Union’s first private animation studio and created the hugely successful series “Kikoriki.”
Aniventure Reveals First Slate Of Films As It Explores ‘New Economic Model’ For Animated Features
The U.K. company has also signed with L.A.’s Creative Artists Agency “to help identify and develop global partners for its business.”
Adult Swim’s ‘Primal’ Is Renewed For A Second Season
Meanwhile, the second half of the first season will premiere on October 4.
Short Pick Of The Day: ‘What You Gonna Do???’ by Reza Dolatabadi
Music video for Bastille’s “What You Gonna Do???” featuring Graham Coxon.
Ramsey Naito Upped To President Of Nickelodeon Animation
Naito has overseen the running of Nickelodeon’s animation business since 2018.
After Broadcasters Pull Out Of In-Person Event, Cartoon Forum Pivots To Online
Hundreds of would-be attendees cancelled their participation in the past week leading the event to move online.
Sue Nichols Maciorowski, Veteran Artist Of Modern Disney Films, Dies At 55
She worked as a visual development artist, character designer, and story artist on most of Disney’s 2d features of the 1990s.
Ayo Edebiri Cast As Missy In Netflix’s ‘Big Mouth,’ Replacing Jenny Slate
Edebiri’s casting will enable the show to “tell more nuanced stories about Missy’s identity,” says co-creator Nick Kroll.
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