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Luma Pictures Percy Jackson Round-Table
February 26, 2010 – Vincent Cirelli (vfx supervisor), John Cassella (senior fx TD), Richard Sutherland (CG supervisor), Raphael Pimentel (animation supervisor) and Steve Griffith (vfx producer) give us their insigh...
Start the Year Off on a Good Note!
February 05, 2010 – May we recommend new DVDs featuring The Simpsons, The Fraggles and Johnny Bravo to wipe away the memories of uncomfortable holiday get-togethers?
The Earthling Invasion
December 04, 2009 – Spain’s Ilion Animation Studios and Sony Pictures deliver a flip on the classic alien flick with Planet 51.
Whether it’s Will Smith sucker punching an extraterrestrial pilot or Elliott fe...
Sesame Street's 40th Season Offers CG-Animated Muppets
November 11, 2009 – Today marks the launch of Sesame Street's 40th anniversary season, and the next stage in the long-running program's edutainment domination will include a brand new segment series, Abby's ...
Fitz Roy, Magic Lantern Partner for Daktari Park
October 06, 2009 – Fitz Roy Media and Magic Lantern Entertainment are teaming up to create a slate of new entertainment projects inspired by African animal stories and wildlife veterinarian Dr. Sue Hart's adventures ...
Dave Anderson, Co-Creator of Dog Judo
October 05, 2009 – London-based toon shop 12foot6, founded by Dave Anderson and Tom Mortimer, is gearing up to bring more howling entertainment to fans who were won over by their viral Virgin Mobile campaign, Dog ...
SC Animator Launches Sendak Tribute Site
September 28, 2009 – With the October 16 release of Spike Jonze’s much anticipated Where the Wild Things Are rapidly approaching, one intrepid artists has launched an online project packed with artwork made in t...
Lasseter Talks Toys on YouTube
August 27, 2009 – Disney’s chief creative officer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker John Lasseter goes web2.0 today to introduce the new Toy Story Definitive toy line of hyper-accurate film replicas—just in time f...
SJSU’s Bye-Bye Bin Laden Comes to DVD
August 27, 2009 – The feature-length animated musical satire, Bye-Bye Bin Laden, which pokes fun at war, TV and religious fanaticism in the U.S. and Middle East, will debut on DVD September 22 thanks to Cineq...
Gnomon Presents Making of 9
August 26, 2009 – On Saturday, September 5, the Gnomon School of Visual Effects will present an evening of events related to Focus Features’ upcoming film, 9, about a group of stitchpunk ragdolls fighting for...
Modo Locks-n-Loads Embassy's District 9 FX
August 20, 2009 – In Neill Blomkamp's alien apartheid summer hit, District 9, effects artists were called upon to create a whole new reality—one with a convincing extra-terrestrial culture that extended beyon...
Animag Announces 5th Pitch Event Panelist
August 20, 2009 – Animation Magazine is delighted to announce the latest addition to our upcoming How to Create a Winning Animation Pitch panel: Cartoon Network’s director of original comedy animation, Curtis...
Petersen Spices Up Live Action Paprika
August 18, 2009 – Director Wolfgang Petersen, the man behind action blockbusters Poseidon and Troy, is reportedly hard at work on a live action adaptation of Yasutaka Tsutsui’s acclaimed novel, Papr...
Plympton Offers Toon Course
August 17, 2009 – Famed indie animator/director Bill Plympton, who has twice earned Oscar nods (for Guard Dog in 2004 and Your Face in 1987) as well as tons of top animation awards across the globe, is...
A Curious Fairy Tale on a Cliff by the Sea
August 11, 2009 – Ponyo, anime legend Hayao Miyazaki’s latest fantasy, arrives Stateside thanks to the efforts of John Lasseter and producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall.
In the West, the wo...
Too Cool for School
August 11, 2009 – Who needs book learnin’ when Bart, Batman, Pete’s dragon and some anime pirates are packing DVD shelves this month?
The Simpsons: The Complete Twelfth Season
[Fox, $49.98]
As the...
20 Cool Upcoming Comic-Book Movies
July 24, 2009 – The onslaught of comic-book properties hitting the big screen shows no sign of slowing down over the next few years, giving geeks everywhere an excuse to leave their parents’ basements! We know ...
Hallmark’s Furry Flash Friends
July 24, 2009 – How Hoops & Yoyo evolved from e-card characters to a web sensation.
Meet the Laurel and Hardy of web 2.0: A joccular pink cat with a giant cranium and his bestest pal, a loveable green bu...
Marvelous Midsummer DVDs
July 24, 2009 – Coraline, Robot Chicken, Marvel heros and xxxHOLiC’s anime magic pack the shelves this month.
Coraline
[Universal, $29.98]
CINEMA 4D Prescribed for Medical Illustrators
July 23, 2009 – MAXON will be making a big splash next week at the Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI) annual conference, to be held July 29 – August 1 in Richmond, Virginia. The software gurus will act as E...
Rising Stars of Animation: Class of 2009
June 26, 2009 – Throughout the year, we learn about numerous talented animators who are revitalizing the industry with their bold, original visions and inspiring projects. Although we could devote an entire issue ...
It’s Not Easy Being Goode
June 26, 2009 – John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky discuss The Goode Family’s eco-drama with a Mike Judge spin.
We’ve all been there: Paper or plastic? Organic or local? Hybrid or diesel? In these c...
Summer DVD BBQ: What’s Cookin’?
June 26, 2009 – Toast some s’mores and settle in with CG fantasies, classic toons and an Oscar nom.
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete
[Blu-ray, Sony, ...
Thomas Hauls £1 Million for Autism
June 26, 2009 – The U.K.’s National Autistic Society has announced that its partnership with HIT Entertainment’s Thomas & Friends brand has helped raise over a million pounds (approx. 1.65 million USD)¬. The colla...
Goode Family Debuts on ABC
May 26, 2009 – We’ve all been there: Paper or plastic? Organic or local? Hybrid or diesel? In these confusing times, Joe Everyman is caught in the crosshairs of consumer responsibility. It’s not enough to be good...
Annecy Line-Up Announced
April 30, 2009 – The jury is out on the feature-length animated films to be screened at this year’s Annecy festival in France. Nearly every continent is represented in the fest’s global sampler, as are all genres o...
NAB '09: An Informal Report
April 21, 2009 – To all of you who decided to stay home from NAB this year, I thank you. But I also say, you're missing out! It's a refreshing luxury to come to this massive broadcasting show, where tens of thousan...
Shut Up Creator Hurwitz Sits Down and Talks
April 16, 2009 – Editor’s Note: We covered the upcoming Fox animated series Sit Down, Shut Up in our most recent issue (on sale now!), but had so much good stuff left over we’ve decided to run the ...
EXCLUSIVE: Henry Winkler Talks Sit Down, Shut Up
April 13, 2009 – Editor’s Note: We covered the upcoming Fox animated series Sit Down, Shut Up in our most recent issue (on sale now!), but had so much good stuff left over we’ve decided to run the ...
Q&A with Josh Weinstein of Sit Down, Shut Up
April 09, 2009 – Editor’s Note: We covered the upcoming Fox animated series Sit Down, Shut Up in our most recent issue (on sale now!), but had so much good stuff left over we’ve decided to run the ...
Q&A with Will Arnett of Sit Down, Shut Up
April 07, 2009 – Editor’s Note: We covered the upcoming Fox animated series Sit Down, Shut Up in our most recent issue (on sale now!), but had so much good stuff left over we’ve decided to run the ...
Sit Down, Shut Up, Be Entertained!
April 01, 2009 – Fox’s hilarious new primetime toon from Mitch Hurwitz and Josh Weinstein follows a group of teachers who’d rather do anything but teach.
Mitch Hurwitz, the quotable creator of dysfunction...
The Penguins Have Landed
March 11, 2009 – Nickelodeon and DreamWorks bring The Penguins of Madagascar to the small screen.
Now that they have won the hearts of audiences around the world with their slap-stick cameos in DreamWorks...
DVD Review: Indie Flash Feature The Chosen One
September 09, 2008 – Having “one of those days” takes on a whole new meaning in The Chosen One , a manic, hilarious Flash-animated romp by director Chris Lackey ( The Investigators —winner of the Atom Fil...
Holly Hobbie Makes High-Fashion Splash on DVD
June 06, 2008 – Sony Pictures Home Entertainment rolls out Holly Hobbie and Friends: Fabulous Fashion Show, its fifth release based on the recently re-imagined 1967 brand, on August 12. The two-part DVD wil...
