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Adding movement to photographs is a very common technique nowadays, but Bennie Melwin's "Putin Depardieu Love Story" pushes the technique one step further than most, resulting in some fantastically creepy and funny animation.
While there may be some truth to the old adage that in Hollywood, no one knows anything, people in Hollywood do know a few things, namely that the animated feature "Foodfight!" is an epic work of genius and the film's director Larry Kasanoff is a hot commodity.
Animation historian John Canemaker talks about the process and challenges of creating the monumental new biography "The Lost Notebook: Herman Schultheis & the Secrets of Walt Disney's Movie Magic."
The average child or adult animation fan with an untrained eye might look at the animated feature "Foodfight!" and think to themself, "That's not the greatest animated film I've ever seen in my entire life." That's precisely why the average child or adult animation fan with an untrained eye doesn't work in a movie studio.
The Sundance Film Festival announced that they will launch a touring animation short program next month.
Disney's "Feast" debuted yesterday to a raucous packed house at the Annecy International Animation Festival, alongside some never-before-seen clips from the studio's next feature "Big Hero 6."
Marc James Roels and Emma De Swaef are an animation duo from Ghent, Belgium. Their work has gained extensive notoriety in the past few years, after their 17-minute wool-animated short "Oh Willy…" swept the festival circuit, racking up countless awards and charming the hearts of audiences across the globe.
The NFB StopMo Studio app for the iPad provides essentially everything you need to jump into creating an animated film. You won't have any issues getting comfortable with the user interface if you've worked with animation programs before, and it seems more than approachable for newcomers young and old. Once you open up the program, you're welcomed with a short and succinct tutorial that covers the basic tools, and then opens up to allow you to explore the rest of the options available.
Besides today's bonanza of Genndy Tartakovsky projects, Sony Pictures Animation also made it official that Kelly Asbury ("Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron," "Shrek 2," "Gnomeo & Juliet") will direct the upcoming, as-yet-untitled "Smurfs" movie.
While working on his short film "Mutt" in 1999, television writer/animation director Kirby Atkins ("3-2-1 Penguins," "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius") conceived of a new idea about anthropomorphized cartoon animals. Over time, that idea evolved into the concept for his new feature "Beast of Burden," which is currently in development at Huhu Studios in New Zealand.
Animator and filmmaker Michael Sporn, a man who represented the spirit and vitality of New York's animation scene as much as any other single individual, passed away from pancreatic cancer on January 19. He was 67.
Hal Sutherland, the co-founder of the low-budget American TV animation studio Filmation, has died at age 85.
Possibly the only thing more charming than the Oscar-nominated Franco-Belgian animated feature "Ernest and Celestine" is the film's new making-of Tumblr by one of its directors,Benjamin Renner.
To acknowledge the crucial role of animators in the evolving world of filmmaking, the Visual Effects Society today nominated Ryan Stone, Bullock's character in "Gravity," for Outstanding Animated Character in a Live-Action Feature Motion Picture.
Veteran animator Michel Gagné's graphic novel "Saga of Rex" has been optiond by Belgian animation/vfx shop Grid Animation for development as an animated feature.
Chris Renaud (above, left) and Pierre Coffin are the directorial duo responsible for one of the biggest animated phenomenons of recent …
In a survey of festival programmers and critics, Theodore Ushev's "Gloria Victoria" was the most well liked animated short of the year.
There has been noticeable grumbling and griping within the animation community over the past few years about the Animated Short category …
When the server enters the drawing room of the Crosby Hotel, Kirk DeMicco’s eyes begin to dance, “Mini desserts are coming! Many, many mini desserts!” Both DeMicco ("Racing Stripes," "Space Chimps") and Chris Sanders ("Lilo & Stitch," "How to Train Your Dragon") are in New York to take part in a presentation on the making of "The Croods," the animated film that they directed for Dreamworks earlier this year, which went on to gross nearly $600 million worldwide.
Animation plays such a seamless role in live-action production nowadays that some films which are identified as live-action are mostly …