’Animation Throwdown’ Is Available to All After Geo-Limited Beta
The collectible card game app featuring a mashup of Fox animation characters is live in the Play Store, packed with characters from Family Guy, Bob’s Burgers, Futurama, American Dad and King of the Hill — and plenty of in-app purchases.
Xsens Prepares Students for Future of Motion Capture with New Educations Program
Xsens is rolling out a new program in the US that puts the same mobile mo-cap technology used by Hollywood and game studios into the hands of educators.
Neal Adams Hired As Spokesperson for Animation App Swipe
The comic-book writer and artist will be repping the upcoming open-source animation platform for mobile devices, and will debut the app with company founder Satoshi Nakajima at Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo next month.
’Indiana Jones’ Fan Animation Short May Be the Franchise’s Future
Audiences may be gunshy (whipshy?) after the maladroit fourth film, but Dutch animator Patrick Schoenmaker was inspired to spend five years on his labor-of-love short, The Adventures of Indiana Jones.
’The Happos Family’ to Debut on Boomerang
The first Boomerang original from Turner EMEA is a series of 2-minute, non-dialog shorts set to rollout worldwide on-air and digitally starting in October.