Zag Studios Sets Up Shop In L.A. To Produce Animated Features
Zag Animation Studios is a new feature animation outfit that plans to release two family-oriented films per year—one fully-CGI and one live-action/CGI hybrid—beginning in 2017.
Zag Animation Studios is a new feature animation outfit that plans to release two family-oriented films per year—one fully-CGI and one live-action/CGI hybrid—beginning in 2017.
Don Bluth smiled at me. "I wouldn't worry about being laid off from Disney's, Steve. Nobody gets laid off around here. When somebody messes up, the studio just sends them to WED."
Last night Adult Swim premiered its first exclusively online animated series "King Star King." A punk psychedelic space adventure about a He-Man-esque sci-fi figure who works in a waffle restaurant, the show was created by J.J. Villard, a former DreamWorks story artist ("Shrek the Third," "Monsters Vs. Aliens") who's also known for his CalArts student films "Son of Satan" and "Chestnuts Icelolly."
Last week DreamWorks revealed the first renderings of the Dream Center, a 40-acre, $2.4 billion development in Shanghai, China. Scheduled to open in 2017 (or early-2018), the site will house the Oriental DreamWorks production studio, which is currently working on "Kung Fu Panda 3," as well as the world's largest IMAX screen, eight outdoor plazas, hotels, restaurants, theaters, galleries, and tourist attractions.
Seth MacFarlane can do anything: create animation, make live-action features, sing, act, produce live-action sitcoms and science documentaries, host the Oscars, and add to that list now, write novels. Of course, whether he does any of it well is another question.
Visitors to Disneyland Paris will soon have the opportunity to experience life as a rat scuttling along the baseboards of a charming Parisian restaurant, sniffing out crumbs and bits of discarded food.
When animators in Burbank get hungry, there's Moore’s Deli, which has a back room decorated by animation artists, many from the nearby studios of Cartoon Network, Nick, DreamWorks and Disney. Now say you went to New York City, and you wish for an opportunity to emulate, or at least echo, the doodles which caught hold at Moore’s Deli.
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SHANGHAI, Aug. 6, 2012 — Oriental DreamWorks, one of the largest international investment projects in China, today officially announced …
America’s First DreamWorks Animation Indoor Park to rise in NJ Meadowlands EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., July 11, 2012 — Triple Five® and …
Animator, Director and Designer Involved with Hatsune Miku, Doraemon, Fruits Basket, Mushishi, Pokemon, Revolutionary Girl Utena and …
I haven’t pinpointed what it is exactly about Disney World’s Art of Animation resort that simultaneously fascinates and annoys me. …
New York, NY — Nov. 16, 2011 — Start the New Year with America’s favorite sponge and enjoy wintery fun in this all-new DVD, …
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Signs of an advanced society: a restaurant devoted to a classic comic strip. This is the Charlie Brown Cafe in Hong Kong. More photos …