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Toronto and L.A.-based children’s entertainment producer and distributor DHX Media has signed a major new VOD deal with Midwest Tape-owned digital platform HOOPLA. This is the first time DHX has sold to HOOPLA and underscores the company’s aim of exploiting digital opportunities for its library of programming on emerging platforms.
The three-year deal will see HOOPLA airing over 1300 episodes of DHX Media content including popular animated shows such as Inspector Gadget, The Busy World of Richard Scarry, Caillou and Madeline.
HOOPLA was launched in 2012 and offers a full array of digital movies, television shows, music, and audiobooks. With a focus on public libraries, the content will be available throughout the US and Canada though VOD streaming.
Josh Scherba, DHX Media’s senior VP of distribution said, “We are firmly committed to seeking opportunities with new platforms, and this is a significant deal for us as HOOPLA has a key audience across North America.”
Autodesk is calling on artists/aspiring travel agents to design the ultimate animated getaway for Gwen and Dave–stars of the new short from Autodesk and Hatch Studios–for a chance to win great hardware and software prizes.
Contest entries can be in the form of an imaginative short film and/or postcard created using a combination of assets from the film and one or more products from the Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite Ultimate, including 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage, MotionBuilder, Mudbox or Sketchbook Designer. The contest is open now and will run through May 15, open to residents of U.S. and Canada (exc. Puerto Rico and Quebec). Grand Prizes will be awarded to the best submissions; prize items include Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite Ultimate license, Lenovo ThinkPad W530 Mobile Workstation, Mudbox license and NVIDIA Quadro card.
For complete guidelines and more information on the submission process, visit area.autodesk.com/contest.
Laguna College of Art & Design has announced the Animation Master Class for Summer 2013 will feature stop-motion maestro Stephen Chiodo (Vincent, Team America, Elf, The Simpsons, Killer Klowns from Outer Space). The workshop will be held for 12 consecutive Saturdays at LCAD’s Animation Department in Laguna Beach, California, May 18-August 3. The class of 16 students will work through all phases of a stop-motion animated short, mentored by award-winning director/animator Chiodo.
The workshop is designed for advanced college level animators and recent graduates (students and grads of all animation schools are eligible); acceptance into the class is portfolio-based. The College notes students should expect to devote 40-50 hours per week to the project. Tuition is $2,500 and the application deadline is April 15, 2013–applicants should mail a portfolio (on CD-ROM, must include 30 second reel in QuickTime MPG4) and cover letter to LCAD, to the attention of the Animation Department.
It was another big weekend of awards for animated titles. Fox-TV’s long-running animated series The Simpsons received a Writers Guild honor for the episode “Ned and Edna’s Blend Agenda” written by Jeff Westbrook. The episode was competing against three other episodes of the show and the “Forget-Me-Not” episode of Family Guy in the category!
Spanish blockbuster Tad, the Lost Explorer (Tadeo Jones) which grossed $24.3 million in Spain, won first-time director, adapted screenplay and animation film at the Goya Awards (Spanish equivalent of the Oscars). Directed by Enrique Gato, the CG-animated feature will also unspool at the Cartoon Movie event in France next month. Also winning a slew of Goyas were Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves, the black-and-white silent reboot of Snow White set in bullfighting milieu of Seville and the tsunami epic The Impossible. The Goya for Best Animated Short Film went to Jaime Maestro for The Smoke Seller.
Let’s not forget that this past weekend also saw another edition of the Streamy Awards, which honor the best of entertainment that is streamed on the Web. Among the winners were Halo 3: Forward Undo Dawn (Best Drama Series), H+ The Digital Series (Best Action/Sci Fi Series), The Walking Dead (Best Derivative Series), Tom Hanks’ Electric City (Best Animated Series) and DRONE (Best Visual Effects).
In other animation news, The Weinstein Co.’ animated release Escape from Planet Earth managed to rake in over $16.1 million at the U.S. box office, ending at the No. 4 spot at the weekend box office. Directed by first-time helmer Cal Brunker, the sci-fi comedy adventure features the voice of Brendan Fraser, Jessica Alba, William Shatner, Rob Corddry and Sarah Jessica Parker. The pic rated only a 32% on the review-compilation site Rottentomatoes.com, but audiences seemed to enjoy its zippy sense of humor and take on blue, alien life forms. Bruce Willis’ A Good Day to Die Hard was the number-one film at the box office with a $33.2 million weekend.
Tad, the Lost Explorer / The Simpsons / Escape from Planet Earth
Over the weekend, we got word that actor Matthew Modine has signed up to voice the lead character in Ralph Bakshi’s upcoming short The Last Days of Coney Island. The project which has already brought in close to $78,000 in pledges on Kickstarter.com, aims to raise about $165,000 in the next 12 days. Modine will voice the lead character, a four-foot-tall mafia collector who thinks he’s Elvis Presley and sings like Chet Baker. Set in the the famous New York seaside resort, the short will be crowded with “crooked cops, broken hearts, jaded strippers, and singers.”
Modine is a big Bakshi supporter discovered the project by accident while looking around on Kickstarter. He is also hoping to get support from his friends Jack Nicholson, Abel Ferrara and Quentin Tarantino. Toon fans who fell in love with Bakshi’s amazing indie animated features such as Fritz the Cat, Coonskin, Heavy Traffic and Wizards can visit www.kickstarter.com/projects/ralphbakshi/last-days-of-coney-island-0 to support the next chapter in the talented American artist’s career.
Canal+ France has picked up the series I’m a Dinosaur (52 x 2) which was produced by Canadian based Huminah Huminah Animation. The series has also recently been picked up by Discovery Networks for broadcast across Asian territories. The 2D animated series presents the world of the giant creatures as they lived in, more than 65 million years ago. Each dinosaur brings their world to life in their own inimitable style, confiding their quirks, strengths and weaknesses. The series is available in over 40 countries worldwide.
I’m a Dinosaur is based on Brown Bag Film’s ‘I’m a…’ format, with other series including I’m A Creepy Crawly (52 x 2), produced by Monster Entertainment and recently sold to Estonian Public Television, Norwegian Airlines & Irish airline AerLingus, with ABC Australia taking DVD rights. The HD series, which features creepy crawlies introducing themselves and their worlds, launched at MIP Junior last October and was pre-sold to broadcasters in 60 countries including; Discovery Asia, DR Denmark, RTE Ireland, YLE Finland, HRT Croatia, TVO, Knowledge Network, BBC Canada, Noga Israel and Educ.ar – Argentina.
Monster is also developing a game app based on the series with Dublin’s Pixel Wolf Studios with a mid-2013 release date.
Canada’s Bejuba! Entertainment has picked up the TV and home entertainment rights (worldwide excluding Australia and Asia) for the award winning 6-9 CGI animated series, Jack. A third season of 26 x 11 minutes has just been greenlit for a 2014 delivery. Jack is a comedy/adventure series about a curious explorer from another world who wants to learn about Earth and why things are the way they are. Together with his two Earth buddies, and his alien pet, Jack finds out why our tummies rumble or what happens to the rain.
Created and produced by Sparky Animation in Singapore and Groupe PVP in Canada, the series has also received attention from SRC, TVO and Knowledge Network in Canada. Jack has just been nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Animation Series. Last year, it won a Gemeaux, the French Canadian television award for best kids’ website, and was nominated for Best Animation Series.
“The series is perfect bridge programming for kids who aren’t pre-schoolers anymore and who want fun and entertainment that’s just for them,” says Tatiana Kober, president of Bejuba! Entertainent. “The show weaves facts about the world in a way kids love…the greenlighting of the third series proves that. We’re delighted to add it to our catalogue.”
Small Screen Distribution handles the show’s Asian and Australian TV and DVD rights.
Bejuba!’s animation catalogue also includes shows such as The Hive, Zooville, Fizzy’s Lunch Lab, Stella and Sam, Big Block SingSong, Jibber Jabber and Ricky Sprocket. The company celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. For more info, visit www.bejuba.com.
Iginio Straffi’s much-anticipated CG-animated 3-D feature Gladiators of Rome is set to open the Los Angeles-Italia Film, Fashion and Art Festival this Sunday (February 17). The Rainbow Media founder and the man behind the popular Winx Club franchise will also be honored with the event’s Italia Excellence Award. The fest will also screen the Winx Club 3D: Magical Adventure feature film on February 20th at 6:30 p.m.
“Top quality animation is not the exclusive property of Pixar and Dreamworks and Fox,” Straffi recently told The Hollywood Reporter. “We think we have a top-quality product here, and we’re pleased it’s making its way to the important U.S. market.”
Festival founder Pascal Vicedomini, called Straffi “a visionary” and said he is “a perfect example of how contemporary Italian artists combine creativity with entrepreneurial skill.”
Gladiators of Rome (which was formerly called Not Born to be Gladiators), has an estimated $45 million price tag and is billed as one of the most expensive Italian films ever made. It opened in Italy last October. The plot follows the adventures of a young orphan named Timo, who is saved by the founder of the most famous Gladiators’ Academy of Rome. The young boy shows no interest in becoming a fighter, but everything changes when the beautiful daughter of the academy founder comes back to Rome. The script is by Michael J. Wilson (Ice Age, Shark Tale).
Sunday’s premiere at the festival will be in Italian with English-language subtitles. The official Paramount launch for the film will likely come in April or May, with the film dubbed into English. The festival will also pay homage to actor Al Pacino by awarding him the Jack Valenti L.A. Italia Legend Award. The L.A.-Italia Fest runs Feb. 17-23 at Hollywood Chinese Theatre.
William Watts Biggers, the co-creator of the popular animated series Underdog died at 85 of undisclosed causes last Sunday. Biggers, who was also a novelist, was part of the influential team that created the popular toon while working for New York City advertising firm Dancer Fitzgerald Sample. The team came up with the toon while on an assignment for General Mills to come up with vehicles to promote breakfast cereals.
Underdog originally debuted on NBC in 1964 and ran in syndication until 1973. It featured Shoeshine Boy, who turned into the heroic Underdog whenever his love interest, Sweet Polly Purebred, was being attacked by villains like Riff Raff and Simon Bar Sinister. When Underdog became a success, Biggers and his partners left Dancer Fitzgerald Sample to form their own company, Total Television, with animation produced at Gamma Studios in Mexico. In 2007, the show inspired a live-action/CG hybrid Disney feature, which was directed by Frederik du Chau and starring Peter Dinklage, Jason Lee and Amy Adams.
A native of Avondale Estates, Ga., Biggers attended Emory University Law School before moving to New York City when he was 20. He started in the mailroom at DFS and eventually became the VP in charge of handling the account for General Mills, DFS’s biggest client. In addition to Underdog, he contributed to scripts and theme songs for lesser-known cartoons like Tooter Turtle and Go Go Gophers.
Biggers also wrote the successful 1968 book The Man Inside and worked into his 70s with the novel Hold Back the Tide, which was published in 2001. He was also the VP and- and co-founder of the Boston-based Victory over Violence, which was dedicated to creating a positive force in the media. The org used Underdog to raise awareness for its cause.
Scrat is looking for a few good interns. That’s right, Greenwich, Connecticut-based Blue Sky Studios, the company behind the durable Ice Age movies and this summer’s upcoming Epic feature has announced its 2013 summer internship program. Billed as a fun, exciting and educationally packed 10 weeks, the Blue Sky Studios internship program offers aspiring animators a chance to work in a real-world environment. Each intern is specially selected and placed in a department that best fits their skills and interests. Throughout this period, they will be mentored and supervised by a Blue Sky pro in that field.
The studio encourages computer science, animation or production management students to apply for this internship program. Blue Sky will be posting more details in the weeks to come, but applicants can get a head start by gathering two letters of recommendation from either professors, or professionals in the business. For artistic positions, applicants will need to create an on-line portfolio and/or reel to show off their best work. The application process opens on Feb. 25 and closes on April 12, 2013. The internship program runs from June 3 until August 9, 2013.
Internship is open to all college students currently in their senior or junior years. Applications from those who have graduated within the three months prior to the internship start date will be accepted as well.
French company Studiocanal has joined forces with Les Armateurs to produce the upcoming animated feature French Riviera, reports Variety. Based on a story by graphic artist Richard Zielenkiewicz (aka Monsieur Z), the film also showcases a script by Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow (Toy Story). The action-adventure pic, which mixes CG characters with 2D backgrounds, will also be directed by Zielenkiewicz.
Set on the French Riviera in the 1950s, the design-heavy animated feature follows a cat burglar who steals a stash of diamonds. According to Les Armateurs president and acclaimed producer Didier Brunner (Kirikou, The Triplets of Belleville, The Secret of Kells, Ernest and Celestine), the look of the film will be reminiscent of those snazzy airline ads from the ’50s and early ’60s.
Les Armateurs and Studiocanal co-produced Michel Ocelot’s third Kirikou feature Kirikou and the Men and the Women as well as the recent Ernest and Celestine, which both performed well at the French box office. Studiocanal’s rich animated slate also includes Arte Cinema’s steam-punk adventure thriller Le monde truque (A Fake World), which will be directed by Jacques Tardi and Belgian helmer Ben Stassen’s The House of Magic.
Pixar’s latest animated short The Blue Umbrella, which debuted this month at the Berlin Festival, will make its U.S. premiere at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival (March 8-16) in Austin. Directed by Saschka Unseld, the short is slated to play in theaters with Monsters University beginning June 21, 2013.
The official synopsis is as follows:
“It is just another evening commute until the rain starts to fall, and the city comes alive to the sound of dripping rain pipes, whistling awnings and gurgling gutters. And in the midst, two umbrellas—one blue, one not—fall eternally in love.”
Here is the list of the other animated projects that will unspool at South by Southwest in March:
Cicada Princess
Director: Mauricio Baiocchi
Cicadas spend a long time planning…
The Event (USA/UK)
Director: Julia Pott
Love and a severed foot, at the end of the world.
The Gold Sparrow
Director: Daniel Stessen
In a black and white world artists must defend their color.
In Hanford
Director: Chris Mars
In Hanford is artist Chris Mars’s fantastic exploration of real incidents in Hanford, Washington, where the local environment was poisoned as a result of cold war era nuclear arms manufacture.
Kishi Bashi – “I Am The Antichrist To You”
Director: Kishi Bashi
A surreal stop motion collaboration between avante-pop/violinist Kishi Bashi and acclaimed animator Anthony Scott (Coraline, Paranorman). An abandoned puppy awakes in a post-apocalyptic world with vivid memories of his love and all that he lost.
Marcel, King of Tervuren
Director: Tom Schroeder
Greek tragedy enacted by Belgian roosters.
Oh Willy… (Belgium/France/ Netherlands/Luxembourg)
Directors: Emma De Swaef, Marc James Roels
Forced to return to his naturist roots, Willy bungles his way into noble savagery.
Old Man
Director: Leah Shore
For more than 20 years Charles Manson has refused to communicate directly with the outside world. Until Now.
The Places Where We Lived
Director: Bernardo Britto
A man wakes up with a weird feeling. His parents are selling his childhood home.
Shelved (New Zealand)
Director: James Cunningham
Two loser robots discover they are being replaced… by humans
Last week’s announcement DreamWorks Animation that it was shutting off the lights on its CG/2D mix Me and My Shadow might have surprised some. But it was hardly the first time a major production suddenly found itself back on the shelf. DreamWorks technically announced that it was putting the picture “back into development,” but as memory serves, that is what it also said about Tusker.
Don’t remember Tusker? You’re probably not alone.
Back in 1998 Tusker, a story about the adventures of an Indian elephant and featuring the voices of Morgan Freeman and Jodie Foster, was being hyped as the studio’s third animated feature, after Antz and The Prince of Egypt, and the second collaboration between DreamWorks Animation and digital shop PDI. Jeffrey Katzenberg had this to say about it:
“Tim [Johnson], Brad [Lewis], and the entire PDI team brought an enormous amount of creativity and energy to Antz. It will be fun to see what they can do with bigger things––like elephants. We think Tusker has all the right ingredients to make a great movie, and PDI is just the team to make it happen.”
Tusker artworkTusker artwork
That last part wasn’t quite accurate, though; Tusker never did happen. It looked like it might rise from the dead a decade later when the indie studio Imagi International took over the project; unfortunately, Imagi went out of business the next year, in 2009. Tusker went to the elephant’s graveyard for good.
All of this got me thinking about the tidal wave of development that occurred during the “Toon Boom” of the mid-1990s, when every studio in town was announcing an ambitious slate of animated feature films. After spending some time mining through my files of that era, I’ve come up with a list of intriguing animated feature projects that were trumpeted at the time, but disappeared like smoke. These include:
Nexus
Nexus, based on a character from Dark Horse Comics, which Hanna-Barbera was developing.
October Moon, announced in 1994 as the first animated werewolf movie.
Noah, a toon treatment of the classic Bill Cosby comedy routine that was in development at MGM until Cosby himself sank the ark.
The Thief of Always, based on the novel by Clive Barker, scripted by Barker and Peter Sauder, which was being developed by Canadian toon shop Nelvana for Kennedy/Marshall Productions through Paramount.
Frankenstein, in development by Universal and Industrial Light & Magic, which was intended to be ILM’s shift from effects work to storytelling (its R&D ultimately informed 2004’s Van Helsing).
Dracula, an animated version of the horror classic developed by Fox Animation…as a musical, no less!
Cats, an adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Weber smash musical, which was in development for years at Turner.
There Goes the Neighborhood, a live action/animated take on Romeo and Juliet, in which a human girl falls in love with an animated boy, that was to star Dustin Hoffman.
What made all these films go kaboom? Any number of reasons could be at fault, though given the varied range of subject matters and willingness to try something different in many of them, it’s a shame they died.
French distributor Mediatoon Distribution has announced a spate of new international broadcasting sales for its 2D animated series Little Spirou (78 x 7). Additionally the Spirou brand is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year with special events and project launches.
Following the show’s presentation at MIPCOM last fall, Little Spirou has been picked up by Noga (Israel), TG4 (Ireland), TV Catalunya and TV Galicia (Spain) and TeleQuebec (French-speaking Canada). Additionally, DVD publication company Kaibou has acquired the rights for the debut season for Canada in order to plump out their kids’ content catalogue. Previously announced sales include M6, Teletoon (France), FTBF (Belfium), RTS (Switzerland) and Nickelodeon Asia.
In honor of the mischievous little Spirou’s 75th anniversary, Mediatoon is organizing a series of events in France, Belgium and Switzerland. These will include the Spirou Tour through 10 cities, exhibitions and the launch of new comic books. In addition to Little Spirou, the brand boasts two other animated series: Spirou (52 x 26) and Spirou & Fantasio (39 x 26), sold in over 120 countries.
Canadian indie toon house DHX Media is moving its Los Angeles-based work for hire production operations to Canada to take advantage of tax credits, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The production company which is based in Halifax is reportedly pursuing cost saving measures after its $112 million acquisition of Cookie Jar Entertainment (holder of popular brands like Care Bears) and has declared it will be “winding down” low-margin LA service studio work.
The plan involves shifting service work operations to high-margin animation studios in Canada over the next year to take advantage of more generous film and digital production tax credits in the country–it is speculated the move will bring this work to the popular studio hub of Vancouver, BC. THR notes that DHX did roughly $20 million in for-hire production work on four shows, including DreamWorks/Nickelodeon’s Dragons: Riders of Berk and HBO’s The Ricky Gervais Show.
The announcement comes after DHX revealed its Q2 2013 results and indicated both its for-hire and proprietary slates were lagging, though distribution revenues climbed after it acquired Cookie Jar.
We couldn’t get enough of Google’s wonderful animated tribute to Valentine’s Day and the 154th birthday of George Ferris, the inventor of the Ferris wheel this year. The Feb. 14th interactive Doodle features two Ferris wheels, packed with different animals. Once you click on the heart button, the wheels spin and pictures of two different animals appear. The two animals make a love connection and then, another click, will show you the two animals out on a date—a bear and an octopus go out for sushi, or a turtle shows up late (of course) for a romantic dinner date with a frustrated rabbit.
“Early in the process we decided on depicting a scene with two, side-by-side Ferris Wheels among a landscape of other amusement park rides,” notes Google’s Doodler Brian Kaas. “Then when two Ferris Wheel carts happened to stop across from each other we thought that was the perfect moment for two characters to have a love at first sight moment. We thought it would be fun to push a big button to generate a whole series of combinations.”
Kaas says the team ultimately decided that the cast of characters should all be animals and the result of their initial encounter should be a date.
“We simplified the characters and focused on making the animals as engaging, colorful and personable as possible without worrying about their day jobs,” he explains. “For the resulting dates, we used newspaper comic strips and their three-panel composition as inspiration for style and narrative structure. The comic strip format gave us room to tell a wide variety of stories and the horizontal format worked nicely in our layout. Once we decided on comics, the date scenarios really just starting writing themselves. As always, we had more ideas than time to illustrate and animate.”
Production distribution and rights management company Kid Glove has officially announced its new branch in São Paulo, Brazil. The news was released today by the outfit’s president and founder Brenda Wooding.
Centrally located in the Jardins district of Brazil’s largest city, the new office will serve as an international hub for bringing Brazilian producers and animators together and creating partnerships throughout the global entertainment industry. Wooding, who heads the new operations in São Paulo, has decades of experience in facilitating the production and broadcast of animation around the globe, along with expertise in making the most of the myriad of governmental support available to the entertainment industry through production funding and coproduction treaties. Kid Glove clients include Sprite Animation, Film Roman, Starz Animation (now Arc), Moody Street Kids, Bardel Entertainment, Baby Genius, and the ABPI-TV (Brazilian Association of Independent Television Producers).
“This is an exciting time in the Brazilian animation community as Brazil is becoming a hub of new creative animation and production talent whose fresh ideas are sparking interest from broadcasters around the world,” says Wooding. “Additionally, it’s an industry that receives considerable support from the government through production funds and coproduction treaties with a number of countries including Canada, Germany and now the U.K.
Heather Kenyon, who serves as the lead creative executive at Kid Glove, continues to work out of the company’s U.S. operations in Los Angeles.
Facebook is teaming up with Pixar animator Matt Jones to come up with a new approach to online emoticons. Jones, who has also worked as storyboard artist on the Wallace and Gromit shorts.
“Facebook was canny enough to realize that traditional emoticons are quite bland,” he told Buzzfeed of his role in creating the social network’s future emoticons. “At Pixar we consider emotional states every day with every drawing we make. Our work is informed by the years of study we do, constantly studying people’s gestures and expressions in real life.”
Jones, who is freelancing at Facebook, came to work at the social media org through Dacher Keltner, who was already working to revise emoticons in his role as the co-director of the University of California-Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Program. Keltner provided Jones with a copy of Charles Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, which featured photographs and descriptions of human and animal emotion, with Jones tasked to visualize the abstract feelings.
The new characters may lack some facial features but will have eyebrows:
Jones credits this choice to his animation background, explaining that “as long as you have eyebrows, you are safe.” They may also be multicolored. “You don’t want to offend anyone,” he notes. “Colors will be a racial issue.”
After hitting a home-run with his blockbuster CG-animated feature Tad, the Lost Explorer (Tadeo Jones), Spanish helmer Enrique Gato will direct Capture the Flag, a new 12 million euro ($16 million), produced by Telecinco Cinema, El Toro Pictures, Lightbox and Ikiru.
According to Variety, the family adventure project centers on a greedy Texas millionaire’s desires to claim the moon as his private property. His schemes are challenged by an energetic 12-year-old boy, his girlfriend and a robot chameleon.
The script is written by El Toro founder Jordi Gasull, Javier Barreira and Neil Landau (Melrose Place) from a treatment by Gasull and Patxi Amezcua. Telecinco Cinema’s Barrois and Alvaro Augustin will present the first-draft screenplay at the Berlin Film Market.
Nickelodeon has revealed the nominees for the 2013 Kids’ Choice Awards, taking place March 23, airing live on the channel (and online at nick.com/KCA13) at 8 p.m./7 p.m. CT. The awards, hosted by Fanboy and Chum Chum‘s Josh Duhamel, cover all aspects of the entertainment landscape. Below is an abbreviated list of the animation, vfx and digital media nominations. Kids can view the complete list of contenders and cast their votes in 22 categories at nick.com starting February 14.
