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Disney's Nigerian Series 'Iwájú' To Be Produced By Cinesite In London And Montreal
Search: CGISeriesStreaming By Amid Amidi | 09/07/2021 5:29 pm | Cinesite has been appointed as the cg animation studio handling production on Disney’s upcoming Nigeria-set series Iwájú. Here are details from their announcement: Iwájú was first announced last December at Disney’s Investor Day presentation. The project is a co-production with the young pan-African entertainment company Kugali, which was founded by Ziki Nelson, Hamid Ibrahim, and Tolu Olowofoyeku.
Watch Whimsical CG Creatures Parade Across Your Screen Forever In 'Infinity'
Are you tiring of the endless parade of tried-and-tested IP coming out of the major animation studios? Then try Infinity, an endless parade of cg characters you’re guaranteed never to have seen before. The shaggy creatures in this video work are generated from code, each given a unique form, color, texture, and gait (though we could have sworn we saw Elmo stroll past). They walk from left to right, and that’s it. The live stream is set up to go on forever — or, more specifically, for two weeks.
Watch The English Trailer For The Austrian Feature 'Snotty Boy'
Search: CGIFeature Film By Amid Amidi | 06/10/2021 3:50 pm | Sometimes you don’t realize how much everything looks the same until you see something that looks truly different. That’s the feeling I get from watching the trailer for Snotty Boy, a new co-production from Austria and Germany that will premiere in competition next week at Annecy: The designs verge on the grotesque, but so do real people.
'Soul,' 'If Anything Happens I Love You' Win Oscars
AwardsFeature FilmShortsVFX By Amid Amidi | 04/25/2021 10:50 pm | After an extended and jumbled film awards season that took up nearly half a year, awards for films released in 2020 concluded tonight with a very subdued 93rd Academy Awards ceremony, held in downtown Los Angeles. In the animated feature category, the Pete Docter-directed Disney-Pixar film Soul won the award Soul’s win marks the 12th time that the Walt Disney Company has won the Oscar in the last 14 years.
Academy Members Don't Care Who Wins The Animated Feature Oscar, So Why Should We?
AwardsIdeas/Commentary By Amid Amidi | 04/25/2021 6:27 pm | The Oscars start in a few hours, but don’t expect much of a surprise in the animation categories. The vast majority of Oscar pundits have predicted that Netflix’s If Anything Happens I Love You will win the best animated short, while Disney-Pixar’s Soul will take home the prize for best animated feature.
'Demon Slayer' Tops 'Raya And The Last Dragon' As Top U.S. Animation Debut Of 2021
AnimeBox Office ReportFeature Film By Amid Amidi | 04/25/2021 4:10 pm | The pandemic-battered U.S. box office received a shot in the arm this weekend from an animated feature, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train, the smash-hit from Japan that was the highest-grossing animated feature globally in 2020. Released by Funimation/Aniplex in the U.S. and Canada, the Haruo Sotozaki-directed Demon Slayer picked up a fantastic $19.5 million (estimated) in its debut weekend.
Nick Park on 'Pogles' Wood'
SeriesStop MotionThe Animation That Changed Me By Alex Dudok de Wit | 04/23/2021 3:03 pm | In a new installment of The Animation that Changed Me, a series in which leading artists discuss one work of animation that deeply influenced them, we’re taking a trip into the British countryside of yesteryear. Our guest is stop-motion filmmaker Nick Park, whose works of plasticine-puppet animation at Aardman have earned him global renown.
Big West To Distribute Post-1987 'Macross' Titles Globally
Search: AnimeLaw By Alex Dudok de Wit | 04/23/2021 2:20 pm | Much of the Macross catalogue is due to be legally released around the world, courtesy of Big West. The Japanese advertising agency, which was involved in the production of many Macross works, has been announced as the worldwide distributor of franchise titles made after 1987. Two weeks ago, news came of a major breakthrough in the legal disputes that had long frustrated the overseas distribution of Macross works.
Charles Addams: Chasing the Addams Family Tree
On April 9, Heritage Auctions opened online bidding for its April 30 illustration art auction. The sale features an original published Addams Family cartoon by Charles Addams that purportedly has a New Yorker stamp on the verso and was published in Addams and Evil (1947) as well as in The World of Charles Addams (1991).
'Freedom' By Joe Bluhm And Michael McDonald
Cartoon Brew PickMusic Videos By Amid Amidi | 04/22/2021 11:45 pm | “A music video for Jordan Hart’s ‘Freedom’ is a coming-of-age story of a boy with Down Syndrome who learns to navigate the world with a loving mother, an absent father, a classroom bully, and a life-long crush.” Directed by Joe Bluhm and Michael McDonald, Canada, 2021. Produced by the non-profit organization L’Arche and Tonic DNA (Montreal, Canada).
Don't Worry About Style, Find Your Voice
Sponsored by Cat Animation By Cartoon Brew Connect | 04/22/2021 4:58 pm | Pixote Hunt’s career in animation spans over 40 years. He has had the opportunity be a director and art director on both feature films and shorts, yet he retains the same enthusiasm for the possibilities of the medium as when he first started. Pixote Hunt He is now sharing his knowledge with a new generation of artists at CAT Animation, an online school founded by Dave Kuhn and Dave Pruiksma.
Apocalyptic Family Road Trip Loses Its Way
Feature FilmReviewsStreaming By Alex Dudok de Wit | 04/22/2021 2:45 pm | Did anyone at Sony Pictures Animation raise an eyebrow when their latest feature, in which Silicon Valley is painted as a neon-hued Mordor, was picked up by Netflix? The streamer’s pandemic-induced acquisition of The Mitchells vs. the Machines feels apt: it adds a layer of meta significance to an already very self-reflexive film.
Charles Cartwright: Starving Artist?
Dick Buchanan, the curatorial whiz behind the eponymous Cartoon Clip Files, is a man for all seasons—and that includes tax season. Here he provides us with a scan of a 1941 Collier's cartoon by Charles Cartwright, a cartoonist who has not previously appeared on this blog. The gag is set in an artist's garret where the artist's wife has learned of a new reason to possibly distrust him. "Income tax?
'Altomare' By Davide Prati
Cartoon Brew PickCGIExperimental By Amid Amidi | 04/21/2021 7:32 pm | “To find oneself in ‘alto mare’ (at high seas) is an Italian expression often used to indicate the condition of being still far away from a goal, for example, to be late for an upcoming deadline. To be in ‘alto mare’ implies that a lot of work still needs to be done. More steps need to be taken before something is complete.
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