Aaron H. Bynum-Animation Insider Canada Animation's New "eclectic mix" Animation network TELETOON is the next media group that seems to have agreed with the general awareness among children's entertainment executives that part of the next phase of kid TV evolution will invariably involve live-action/animation hybrid programming. TELETOON, a Canadian network that sports a clever mix of original, domestic productions and popular imports, recently announced their greenlight of the new... Read Full Story

ONE of the companies that did the much acclaimed computer graphic for Dasavathaaram, Land Marvel Animation Studios is currently working on a full length 3 D Hollywood animation movie, titled X Mas Files. �It�s not that we Indians lack creativity, yet, our weakness lies in the pre production stage. We are great executors, yet, we loose out in making good CG from our country,� explains Veerashekar, CEO, Chairman and CEO, Land Marvel Animation Studios. He and his team of 300 people had begun... Read Full Story

Digicel Inc. and Larry Lauria's Toon Institute have partnered to present Animation FUNdamentals -- affordable online animation lessons for aspiring artists and animators. The lessons are geared to meet the level of the participants. Animator/director and instructor Lauria, said,"When Kent Braun and I brainstormed on this project -- our goal was to make animation lessons available to folks in junior high and high school. Then, as we developed our curriculum, we found that any age or ability... Read Full Story

Bhavana Puljal-Televisionpoint From mythological sagas to kid's movies, TV serials and advertisements, visual effects today are ubiquitous. And animation experts from India are making a mark in the international and domestic industry back home. Mandeep Singh, Mitul Patel and Deepak Ganguly, give an insight into the industry. About a decade ago when Mitul Patel, chief technical officer, BR Films Studio, began his career in graphics and animation, there was little information on its prospects... Read Full Story

GRIMES, IA, July 16, 2008 – Anime producer and distributor Right Stuf, Inc. and Nozomi Entertainment are pleased to unveil the trailer for ARIA The ANIMATION, now playing at aria.rightstuf.com ( http://aria.rightstuf.com ). The ARIA THE ANIMATION DVD Collection – which includes the franchise’s entire 13-episode first season – is scheduled for release on September 30, 2008. ARIA The ANIMATION is the first of three television seasons, plus an OVA (original video animation), that comprise the... Read Full Story

LOS ANGELES, Jul 16, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Eric Goldberg, the pioneering, award-winning animator-director whose cartoon magic has graced such classics as Disney's "Aladdin," "Pocahontas," "Fantasia/2000" and "Hercules," has harnessed the essence of cinema's most beloved form in a new book, Character Animation Crash Course! (Silman-James Press, Los Angeles; publication date September 2008). EDITORS NOTE: Eric Goldberg will hold his first book... Read Full Story

Ryan Gilbey-Newstatesman Our great-grandchildren will be so envious of us. "What was it like to live in the golden age of Pixar?" they will ask, as they huddle around the iFire on a freezing summer's night, after paddling home from school on an ice floe and downloading that evening's viewing directly into their frontal lobes. WALL·E is the computer animation studio's latest work of genius. Yes, another one. Boring, isn't it? This film is a love story between two robots. If that précis came... Read Full Story

David Hinckley-Daily News Los Angeles-Matt Groening, creator of "The Simpsons," says one thing drives him crazy about the computer-generated imagery (CGI) used in hi-tech animated movies these days. "It's the eyes," he told a Television Critics Association panel here. "The characters in CGI have human eyes. That's why I like the 2-D animation we use. Our illustrators draw a circle and put a dot in the middle. Now that is an animated eye." Groening also said there will be a second... Read Full Story

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Obama is making a big deal out of the "satiric" cartoon in the LEFTIST New Yorker magazine (a cartoon MENAT to be INSULTING to Obama opponents). I have said before, correctly, that leftists do NOT believe in free speech. NO one has really challenged me on any of those entries, because the examples have been inarguable. If YOU doubt me, consider what would have happened if RUSH LIMBAUGH had put the New Yorker cartoon on the cover of his newsletter (maybe he will do something similar yet... Read Full Story