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Shane Acker Joins Reel FX To Direct “Beasts of Burden” Film

Santa Monica and Dallas-based Reel FX has no plans to slow down. Already producing two features—Jimmy Hayward’s Turkeys and Jorge …

This gives new meaning to the question, “Scooby-Doo, where are you?”

Coming soon: the iPad app version of Richard Williams’ indispensable The Animator’s Survival Kit. The publisher, Faber and Faber, …

This is a fat farm of a different kind.

The human zoo that is a British pub.

Minkyu Lee conceived his Oscar-nominated short Adam and Dog while attending the Film Directing program at CalArts. Lee, 27, spent nearly …

Happy birthday to animation legend Borge Ring, who is 92 years young today! Borge began animating in the 1930s. Here’s a commercial …

A visual development artist who had contributed to films like Mulan, Tarzan, Brother Bear, and Treasure Planet, has passed away at age 50.

After Pixarifying (is that a word?) the universes of Marvel/DC comics, Doctor Who and Star Wars, cartoonist Phil Postma has directed his …

How the film’s co-director Aaron Blaise is keeping the memory of Digital Domain’s unproduced “Legend of Tembo” alive.

Today marks the American release of the Weinstein Company’s Escape from Planet Earth, a film that is best known for the nasty legal fight …

How does a traditional animation studio promote itself in a CG-obsessed world? Austin, Texas-based Powerhouse Animation Studios, which …

Petro Vlahos, a visual effects pioneer and inventor of camera hardware, died last Sunday at age 96. His invention of the sodium vapor …

What constitutes a “lost” film? The traditional definition is a film whose existence is confirmed but of which no prints can be found. …

Last week the Delaware Art Museum debuted an exhibition called “State of the Art: Illustration 100 Years After Howard Pyle.” It will be …

JibJab has completed the series of ABC videos that is part of their new children’s learning project StoryBots. The last video in the …

The world of television animation is changing drastically, mainly by the fact that new animated shows won’t appear on TV. Netflix …

Dice Tsutsumi and Robert Kondo show that there’s more than one way to raise money for an animated short.

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 & …

For a short period of time during the mid-1950s, the Disney company allowed corporations to use its characters to sell products. There’s …