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VFX

DAZ|Mimic 2 Pro for LightWave Hits the Market

Ramin Zahed - March 25, 2004

Top digital content creator DAZ Productions has released a new lip-sync application for use in Newtek's LightWave 3D software package. DAZ|Mimic for LightWave provides...

Festivals & Events

Academy of Entertainment & Technology Hosts Digifest ’04

Ramin Zahed - March 25, 2004

Digifest 2004, a half-day animation-digital-video-interactive festival of student work will take place on April 9 at the Santa Monica College Academy of Entertainment &...

Television

Family Guy Gets a New Lease on Life

Ramin Zahed - March 25, 2004

Two years after being axed by Fox, Seth McFarlane's popular series Family Guy is now officially back in production. According to a story in...

Television

Seth Green to Make Stop-Motion Magic

Ramin Zahed - March 25, 2004

Cartoon Network has greenlit a new stop-motion series exec produced by actor Seth Green, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The cabler has ordered 20...

Television

Four Point to Merge with NewScreen

Ramin Zahed - March 25, 2004

Los Angeles-based Four Point Entertainment announced plans to merge with U.K. children's rights company, NewScreen Media Group. The yet-to-be-named new company will have an...

Features

Dimension to Deliver New Chomet Toon

Ramin Zahed - March 25, 2004

Is quirky French director Sylvain Chomet ready for life with the Weinstein brothers? It was announced today that The Triplets of Belleville director will...

Video Games

Stargate: SG-1, Predator Inspire New Games

Ramin Zahed - March 24, 2004

MGM's popular Stargate: SG-1 series, which airs on the Sci Fi Channel and in syndication will be the basis of a new game published...

Television

Inspector Gadget Fights Obesity

Ramin Zahed - March 24, 2004

Finally, someone is doing something about the alarming rate of obesity among American kids. DIC Entertainment recently announced that it will launch a series...

Television

MicroTainment’s Frost Family Thaws at MIP

Ramin Zahed - March 24, 2004

Toronto-based film and TV shop MicroTainment will bring a new half-hour primetime animated series to this years MIPTV market in Cannes. Titled The Frost...

Television

HIT Weighs Development of Kids Network

Ramin Zahed - March 24, 2004

HIT Entertainment, the owner of TV hits such as Barney the Dinosaur, Thomas the Tank Engine and Bob the Builder is reported to be...

Features

More Toon Pics Are Drawn to Nick Movies

Ramin Zahed - March 24, 2004

A new sci-fi live-action feature starring Will Smith will serve as a launching pad for an animated series on Spike TV, according to a...

Schools

USC, Electronic Arts Launch Video Game Program

Ramin Zahed - March 23, 2004

University of Southern California students will have more reasons to spend their time playing video games. The university's School of Cinema-Television will partner with...

Television

Siegfried & Roy Play with Donkey

Ramin Zahed - March 23, 2004

Eddie Murphy will reprise his role as Shrek's wise-cracking sidekick in a sweeps episode of the new DreamWorks Television's CG-animated series, Father of the...

Features

Pension Funds Demand Face Time with Disney’s Directors

Ramin Zahed - March 23, 2004

Variety reports that six of the largest U.S. state pension funds –including the California Public Employees' Retirement System CalPERS and the New York State...

Television

Corsham, Madhouse to Deliver Natural Born Kittens

Ramin Zahed - March 22, 2004

In what could be called a purrrrfect partnership, Japanese anime production company Madhouse is in talks to co-produce Corsham Entertainment's hot new 26-part teen...

Television

Antonucci’s Dim Kids Get Picked Up

Ramin Zahed - February 26, 2004

It looks like Danny Antonucci's superzeroes of suburbia will be continuing their zany reign on Cartoon Network. Antonucci's Ed, Edd n Eddy series, which...

Features

Euro-Rich Days for French Ani House Carrere

Ramin Zahed - February 3, 2004

Top French animation shop Carrere Group has reported 80.4 million euros ($100 million) in consolidated revenues for 2003, according to Daily Variety. This marks...

Features

Kirikou Ready for His Animated Prequel

Ramin Zahed - January 29, 2004

Fresh from nabbing two Oscar-nomination for its acclaimed animated feature The Triplets of Belleville (Best Animated Feature, Best Song), French production company Les Armateurs...

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