Tag: 2D
‘Numtums’ Count Down to CBeebies Premiere
A cuddly new educational children’s series is set to launch on the U.K.’s CBeebies channel this month. Starting Monday February 27 Numtums will broadcast...
YooHoo & Friends Toys to Arrive This Fall
L.A-based animation producer Toonzone Studios has announced that it will release a new line of YooHoo & Friends plush toys, light-up dolls and playsets...
Cookie Jar and Fremantle Stomp with ‘Ella the Elephant’
Cookie Jar Entertainment and FremantleMedia Enterprises have joined forces to launch the 26 X half-hour animated preschool show Ella the Elephant. The series is...
New Daffy Short to Debut with ‘Journey 2’
The new Looney Tunes 3-D toon Daffy's Rhapsody will premiere before screenings of Warner Bros.' Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. Directed by Matthew O'Callaghan...
‘Fullmetal Alchemist’ Comes to NY, LA
Eleven Arts and FUNimation Entertainment are bringing the feature film sequel to the popular Fullmetal Alchemist anime franchise, Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of...
Boomerang Adopts Mondo TV’s ‘Puppy in My Pocket’
MEG Toys and Mondo TV’s Puppy In My Pocket: Adventures in Pocketville has found a good home on Boomerang. The 2D-animated series, which is...
Film Independent Offers Miyazaki Program at LACMA
Film Independent has planned a special night of programing devoted to the films of Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki on Saturday, Nov. 26 at the...
BAAs Seek Favorite Brit Toon of All Time
The British Animation Awards (or BAAs) today launched its final call for entries for the U.K.’s top toon production awards and announced the search...
‘Nos Amis’ Across the Sea
How the French government is bolstering international animated co-productions, plus a whirlwind tour of top toon houses.
As a country renowned for its artistic temperament,...
GKIDS Dances With ‘Chico and Rita’
New York-based indie distributor GKIDS has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to Fernadno Trueba and Javier Mariscal’s acclaimed 2D animated feature Chico & Rita.
The...
Three 2D Toons Up for Euro Film Awards
Three artistic and beautifully drawn 2D animated features will be competing for the Best Animated European Film Awards this December. The nominees are Antoine...
Thinware Media Partners with TVPaint
Thinware Media Ltd., developers of StudioCAP workflow automation and asset management for animation studios, and TVPaint Développement, France, makers of 2D bitmap-based animation software,...
How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love CG
Veteran animator and supervising director of Star Wars: The Clone Wars discusses the digital evolution of his job.
In the eight years I had worked...
‘Lion King’ Is Top Cat at the Box Office
The 3-D re-release of Disney’s The Lion King ruled the weekend box office, 17 years after the original pic hit the big screens. Directed...
Roaming Deeper into ‘The Lion King’
Disney’s beloved classic gets a stereoscopic 3-D makeover and theatrical release in advance of its October Blu-ray release.
Although movie audiences have grown accustomed to...
Fox Strives for Flippin’ Good TV
Fox TV’s new animation lineup sees the awkward teens of Napoleon Dynamite get a toon makeover, and Jonah Hill as a sophisticated schoolboy in...
Tales from the Toon Trenches: Jobs in Animation
Not since Richard Nixon was seen leaving on a jet plane in 1974 has one man’s resignation created the kind of hoopla that Steve...
Smith Micro 2D Climbs Mac App Store Chart
Smith Micro 2D animation software, Anime Studio, has been added to the Mac App Store. The software application has become one of the top...
‘Lucky Fred’ Brings New Jobs to Oasis
Quebec-based Oasis Animation has announced that it will be doubling its workforce and space thanks to the fact that will be working on the...
‘Rio’ and ‘My Dog Tulip’ Take Flight on DVD
Two well-received but very different animated features make their DVD debut today (Tuesday, August 2). Fans of Rio, director Carlos Saldanha’s 3-D ode to...
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