Riva Studios Purchases Insolvent French Animation Studio TeamTO
TeamTO will continue to operate from its studios in Valence and Paris.
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Disney To Release CG ‘Bluey’ Theatrical Feature In 2027
‘Bluey’ creator Joe Brumm, who will write and direct the feature, is also stepping away from the tv series.
‘Spider-Man: Beyond The Spider-Verse’ Names Two Directors: Bob Persichetti And Justin K. Thompson
Each director has helmed one of the previous installments in the series.
She Drew That Releases 2024 U.K. Animation Industry Salary Survey
Nearly one in five animation workers in the U.K. reported a decrease in pay this year.
‘Common Side Effects’ Trailer Offers Satirical Healthcare Jabs
The hotly-anticipated big pharma comedy-thriller is set to premiere February 2, 2025, on Adult Swim.
As Critics Choice Awards Announce Nominees, Consensus Forms In Feature Animation Awards Race
‘The Wild Robot’ and ‘Flow’ are the CCA’s most nominated animated films.
First Teaser Trailer Released For Looney Tunes Film ‘The Day The Earth Blew Up’
The Pete Browngardt-directed film is scheduled for U.S. release on February 28, 2025.
New York’s French Animation Festival Animation First Reveals Exciting 2025 Lineup (EXCLUSIVE)
The event includes the U.S. premiere of Claude Barras’s ‘Savages’ and the East Coast premiere of Michel Hazanavicius’s ‘The Most Precious of Cargoes.’
Animation Showed Major Strength At Last Weekend’s U.S. Box Office
Animated features from three continents drew audiences to the movie theater last weekend.
Framestore Asked Directors Like Spike Jonze And James Gunn To Discuss Their Collaboration With Animators
The new online video series, called ‘Directing The Invisible Art,’ explores how film directors work with animators on hybrid productions.
David Conley Appointed President Of VFX/Animation Powerhouse MPC
Conley was most recently executive producer at Wētā FX, where he worked on projects such as ‘Avatar: The Way of Water,’ ‘The Last of Us’ series, and the Oscar-winning short ‘War is Over!’
You’re Invited To An ‘Ultraman: Rising’ FYC Screening, Q&A, And Reception
The event will feature a discussion with director Shannon Tindle, co-director John Aoshima, producers Tom Knott and Lisa Poole, and production designer Marcos Mateu Mestre.
Gints Zilbalodis On The Improvisational Filmmaking Style Of ‘Flow’
“After finishing the script, I did not read it again,” Zilbalodis told Cartoon Brew. “Even when I was making the animatic, that was based on my memory of the script.”
Behind The Scenes Of ‘Spongebob & Sandy’s Country Christmas’ Stop-Motion Special
‘Spongebob’ executive producers Marc Ceccarelli and Vincent Waller talk about why they love working with Screen Novelties on stop-motion projects.
Fragile Figures: BluBlu Studios On The Haunting Animated Vignettes Of ‘Porcelain War’ Documentary
A new documentary found a unique way to bring life to its ceramic subject matter through a mixed-media animation approach.
Nearly A Half-Century In The Making, David Allen’s Stop-Motion Hybrid ‘The Primevals’ Is Finally Finished
A look at the long, tortured path to finishing a feature film.
How They Made ‘Harold Halibut’: A Handcrafted Stop-Motion-Inspired Video Game
Ole Tillmann, art director of ‘Harold Halibut,’ walks us through the production process of one of 2024’s most distinctive-looking video games.
In The Dome: Mexican Filmmaker Jesús Pérez Irigoyen Discusses His Adventures In Immersive VR And Dome Animation
Pérez Irigoyen’s company Dessignare has found success with unconventional screen formats for animation in planetarium venues and virtual reality.
How Framestore’s VFX And Animation Supervisors Collaborated To Create The Tangible World Of ‘IF’
Director John Krasinski wanted to create a tactile and tangible world for a whole host of diverse characters.
How ‘Ultra-Man: Rising’ Found A Fresh Take On Tokusatsu And Kaiju Genres
Shannon Tindle and John Aoshima discuss their roles as director and co-director of the new Netflix feature ‘Ultraman: Rising.’
‘3 Body Problem’ VFX Supervisor Stefen Fangmeier On Balancing Interplanetary Realities In Netflix’s Ambitious New Sci-Fi Series
Out today, ‘3 Body Problem’ promises to be a spectacle unlike anything the streamer has released so far.
Malignant Creativity: Robert Morgan On His Shocking Debut Feature ‘Stopmotion,’ Coming To Shudder On May 31
‘Stopmotion’ is a live-action horror film, but also contains three stop-motion shorts within its 93-minute runtime.
‘Elemental’ VFX Supervisor Sanjay Bakshi Discusses The Combustible Elements Behind Pixar’s Oscar-Nominated Feature
Bakshi also gave us access to a trove of behind-the-scenes artwork and explained how his team brought life to Element City and its characters.
How Autodesk’s New Asset Management Platform Flow Evolves Cloud-Based Production Pipelines
Autodesk senior engineering director Jeff Bell explains the benefits of the company’s new cloud-based asset management platform, Flow.
Bring On The Night: A Detailed Look At The Stunning Lighting And VFX Work In Dreamwork’s ‘Orion And The Dark’
Visual effects supervisor M. Scott McKee shares insights and artwork from behind the scenes of Netflix’s upcoming feature.
How CG Studio Method & Madness Buried Boris Johnson In Digital Trash
For the Greenpeace campaign video “Wasteminster,” the studio had to drop the equivalent of 67.7 million items of cg trash onto the U.K. prime minister’s residence.
