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Toon Boom Offers Summer Specials

The price of a gallon of gas keeps going up this summer, but at least animation is getting cheaper for some. Emmy award-winning software company Toon Boom Animation Inc. today announced that it has reduced prices on several of its most popular animation software solutions just for the summer. Valid until July 17, the promotions offer savings of as much as $100 on Toon B... more

Anthem Finds Sanctuary at SCI FI Channel

Vancouver-based Anthem Visual Effects is single-handedly producing all the visual effects for 13 hour-long episodes of a new SCI FI Channel television series titled Sanctuary. Slated to air this fall, the fully Canadian show is being shot almost entirely on green screen with virtual sets, and is one of the first series in North America to exclusively employ the R... more

DreamWorks Ani, Intel Team for 3-D

DreamWorks Animation and Intel Corp. have formed a strategic alliance to advance the art of stereoscopic filmmaking. Starting with next year's Monsters Vs. Aliens (March 27), the partnership will leverage Intel's visual computing products and tools with DreamWorks’ content creation expertise to give moviegoers an eye-popping experience. DreamWorks Animation has m... more