The legacy and creativity of Chuck Jones, one of animation’s pioneering director-producers, will be brought to life with the opening of The Chuck Jones Experience, an interactive exhibit at Circus Circus Las Vegas designed to “Educate, Inspire & Entertain” people of all ages.
I recently was introduced to Action On Film International Film Festival located in Pasadena by my friend, Alex Ballar.
Robert Breer, the experimental animator, has died.
Special Guest: Sean Kenin
Welcome to the most current content-ed and contented episode of the FFAF oeuvre. Alan and Joel sit down with the very Sean Kenin, voice-actor to the stars, to discuss his unique and defining role in the hit smash cinema-kapow, The Smurfs. Sean Kenin - made of pure magic.
PLUS, stick around for a very special bonus montage audio fantasy spectacle at the end of the end of the end music.
Are you feeling like a robot after watching too many digital films? Want to see some animation that was actually created by a HAND?
Nokia and Aardman Animations have set another Guinness World Record for the ‘World’s Largest Stop-motion Animation Set’ with their follow up short film: 'Gulp', shot entirely on the Nokia N8, after having set a record for the ‘Smallest Stop-motion Animated Character’ last summer with Dot.
The winners of the 2011 Animation Block Party have been announced.
CelAction is pleased to announce the completion of “The Itch Of The Golden Nit” by Aardman Animations and Tate.
Rushes Soho Shorts are delighted to announce the winners and runners up for this year’s festival.
The animated anthology feature NINE NATION ANIMATION will open in Beverly Hills and Pasadena this weekend.
A short animated film entitled “The Decision” became available online this week as a pay-per-download option at www.sunswingmedia.com.
Apple Inc. is considering an acquisition of online streaming site Hulu, reports Bloomberg.
In the latest excerpt, Ken A. Priebe delves deeper into effects, including an in-depth look at the eye compositing for the Oscar-nominated short Madame Tutli-Putli.
Learn more about Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest, a collaboration between the actress Ingrid Pitt, animation legend Bill Plympton and 11-year-old artist Perry Chen.
Six short films from Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland and United Kingdom will compete for the Cartoon d'Or 2011, the award for the best European animation short film.
Wassaic Project Festival is hosting an animation program curated by animator Joshua Frankel.
The animated short, INGRID PITT: BEYOND THE FOREST, chronicling the experiences of the actress when she was a child during the Holocaust, will be playing at Comic-Con.
Final Call For Entries for all of its categories and genres including features, documentaries, shorts, animation, drama, and comedy.
Disney's latest hand-drawn short is a blast from the past.
This origin story of the Loch Ness monster is a sweet ode to Disney’s Silly Symphonies shorts of the 1940s and ‘50s. Narrated by Billy Connolly, the tale follows Nessie as she is forced out of her cozy pond by a loud mini-golf course developer named MacFroogle. She heads out with her best friend, the rubber duck MacQuack, to find a new home, but it’s not that easy. The whole incident makes her just want to cry, but she’s Scottish and she is supposed to keep a stiff upper lip.
Gnomon Studios, the creative destination for visual effects and animation students to work with some of the world's most respected industry talents, today announced that its latest project, the animated short film "Plus Minus," will be released in late 2011.
CINANIMA has issued its final deadline for its 2011 festival.
The Holocaust has been treated by almost every medium, but rarely animation – and never by a child animator, until now. Animation short “INGRID PITT: BEYOND THE FOREST” is truly a labor of love, and a cross-generational collaboration between a world-class animation master Bill Plympton, actress Ingrid Pitt, who narrated her last film about the horror of war as she experienced as a child during the Holocaust, and a first-time 10-yr-old animator & artist Perry Chen, who is also an award-winning child film critic.
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has named Roddy McManus as the new Executive Producer of its Oscar-winning English-language Animation Studio.
A grand show of early animation and current work by South African artist William Kentridge.
