For the second consecutive year, Walt Disney Animation Studios will debut an all-new VR short film at the SIGGRAPH conference. Their latest effort, a kite’s tale, was created within the studio’s Short Circuit experimental program, and will be part of the third-annual SIGGRAPH 2019 VR
Snap is looking for content! The mobile messaging and content sharing platform wants to inspire the best and funniest up-and-coming animators and creators to invent new ways to produce animated comedy series for mobile. Based on the success of their Scripter Comedy Creator Initiative launched
Zack Snyder. Netflix has just announced that Zack Snyder, noted director of Watchmen, Man of Steel, 300 and the current Netflix zombie thriller, Army of the Dead, is on board to create and serve as executive producer of a new, unnamed anime series set in
For almost 20 years, SPP, the annual cartoon and animation market known to many as the Seoul Promotion Plan, has been an invaluable and vital international conference and market focused on the buying and selling of animated content produced and distributed in Asia. Growing global
‘Revengeance’ is one of seven Bill Plympton feature films and more than 50 shorts that Shout! Factory will begin distributing across multiple plaforms later this year. Shout! Factory has just announced they’ve acquired the library of prolific indie legend Bill Plympton, the famed cartoonist and
Netflix has joined forces with King Features on The Cuphead Show!, a new kids series based on the Studio MDHR video game. The show will expand upon the characters and world of Cuphead, with an animation style inspired by the classic Fleischer cartoons from the
HALIFAX, NS – DHX Media has announced the promotion of Stephanie Betts to executive vice president, content. She will be responsible for development and production of original animated content, and will report to the company’s president, Josh Scherba Additionally, Todd Brian has joined the team
Our friends at MONDO are teaching extraterrestrial aliens how to succeed on Earth in their new show, The Alien Guide to Earth, a 10-episode series of 90-second satirical animated shorts, launching exclusively on VRV, the fandom- focused video platform. The show was co-created, written and
The New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, the one and only “Airport Festival,” is accepting submissions for animated short and feature films and the deadline is approaching: June 30th for shorts, July 31st for features. Do not forget to send your films via the online
When the news announcement first crossed my desk that Carl Jones and Brian Ash, two producers on the brilliantly written and savagely funny animated series, Black Dynamite and The Boondocks, had a new animated show, Sugar and Toys, I immediately set down my UglyDolls plushy