Sony Reportedly Enters Final Talks To Buy Crunchyroll For Almost $1 Billion
Consolidation ahoy! Sony is already home to several anime units, including Crunchyroll's main competitor Funimation.
Consolidation ahoy! Sony is already home to several anime units, including Crunchyroll's main competitor Funimation.
We speak to four studios about what it takes — and what it costs — to make cg visuals for theme park rides.
"Demon Slayer" has grossed more than $100 million in ten days. "Over the Moon" managed only $582,000 in its first weekend.
The streamer is partnering with Naz, Science Saru, and Mappa in Japan, as well as Studio Mir in South Korea.
Matt Maloney, associate chair of Savannah College of Art and Design’s animation department, describes how the pandemic could change the industry for the better.
Please don't show this to the Walt Disney Company.
The first trailer for Raya and the Last Dragon, Walt Disney Animation Studios’ first original animated feature since 2016’s Moana, …
The new studio is creatively led by Brad Lewis, a veteran of Pixar and Dreamworks.
"I just don't think we'll ever get something that game-changing in animation again," says Louis of Katsuhiro Otomo's cyberpunk classic.
"Tut" is described as "an afro-futuristic, coming-of-age story of the boy king Tutankhamun."
We dive into the feature projects presented at this year's pitching forum.
"Covid accelerated the rate at which we made this transition," said CEO Bob Chapek, "but [it] was going to happen anyway."
"The animation industry is still a boys' club," says Hannah Lau-Walker, founder of She Drew That.
A loving elegy to a friend lost to suicide.
The legendary animator's feature directorial debut is produced by Netflix and Shanghai's Pearl Studio.
Dozens of current and former staff have alleged bullying, sexism, and harassment at the vfx titan.
Commercial networks have been calling for this change for years. Australian producers are aghast.
"[It's] kind of like the designs you remember them looking like, not so much what they actually look like," says "Animaniacs" co-executive producer Gabe Swarr.
Watch the crew discuss their ambitions for the film — and for Chinese animation in general.
Other prizewinners include Soetkin Verstegen's "Freeze Frame" and Nadja Andrasev's "Symbiosis."