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Your Next Lara Croft: Megan Fox?

3. July 2009

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Your Next Lara Croft: Megan Fox?

Tomb Raider, the popular video game from the 3D animation studio Eidos, is reportedly primed for a movie reawakening and murmurs around the grapevine are indicating that Angelina Jolie may not even come back to reprise her role. So who could be our new Lara Croft? Bets are high that it is Megan Fox. Understandably, these rumors [...]

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3. July 2009

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Your Next Lara Croft: Megan Fox?

Your Next Lara Croft: Megan Fox?

Tomb Raider, the popular video game from the 3D animation studio Eidos, is reportedly primed for a movie reawakening and murmurs around the grapevine are indicating that Angelina Jolie may not even come back to reprise her role. So who could be our new Lara Croft? Bets are high that it is Megan Fox. Understandably, these rumors [...]

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3. July 2009

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The Spine Wins Best of Fest at Melbourne

The Spine Wins Best of Fest at Melbourne

Chris Landreth’s stop motion animation short THE SPINE, produced by the National Film Board of Canada in association with 3D animation studio Copperheart Animation and C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures, was honoured with the Best of the Festival award — the top prize — at the 2009 Melbourne International Animated Festival on Sunday, June 28. Landreth received [...]

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3. July 2009

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Disney Studios active at Comic Con

Disney Studios active at Comic Con

Don Hahn of The Walt Disney Studios announced an inspiring panel discussion at Comic-Con International with acclaimed animators about the life and influence of Disney mentor, teacher, and artist Walt Stanchfield. Open to animators and animation enthusiasts alike, the panel discussion celebrates the launch of the new book, DRAWN TO LIFE: 20 GOLDEN YEARS OF [...]

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3. July 2009

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Toon Boom Releases Studio 5

Toon Boom Releases Studio 5

Toon Boom Animation Inc. today announced the release of Toon Boom Studio 5, completely rebranded and now positioned as the multi-technique animation software for learning and creating animation. With its new stop-motion animation capability, Studio 5 is the best tool for 3D animation studios. Become familiar with the main styles of animation, including stop-motion, traditional, [...]

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2. July 2009

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Nickelodeon Animation Festival Extends Its Global Search for Animators

Nickelodeon Animation Festival Extends Its Global Search for Animators

The Nickelodeon Animation Festival extends its global search for the animators of the future with a call for entries Wednesday, July 1, through Tuesday, Sept. 8. Formerly titled the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival, the Nickelodeon Animation Festival is the first and only multiplatform festival in North America and this year will feature six awards, including [...]

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2. July 2009

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Seth Green, Robot Chicken goes Roller Skating

Seth Green, Robot Chicken goes Roller Skating

Adult Swim and ROBOT CHICKEN creators and executive producers Seth Green and Matt Senreich are celebrating the release of the stop motion cartoon animation ROBOT CHICKEN: STAR WARS EPISODE II DVD this summer by strapping on a pair of roller skates and living on a tour bus for two weeks just to bring ROBOT CHICKEN-style [...]

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2. July 2009

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World Premiere of Green Lantern: First Flight at Comic-Con

World Premiere of Green Lantern: First Flight at Comic-Con

GREEN LANTERN: FIRST FLIGHT, the highly-anticipated fifth entry in the popular DVD series of DC Universe cartoon animation original PG-13 movies, will have its world premiere at Comic-Con in San Diego on Thursday, July 23, 2009. More than 4,000 fans will have the opportunity to see GREEN LANTERN: FIRST FLIGHT on the big screen five days [...]

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1. July 2009

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Top Three Cartoon Shock Troopers of the 1990s

Top Three Cartoon Shock Troopers of the 1990s

Since we are now in the year 2009 and well on our way to another decade, hindsight is now becoming clearer and clearer regarding the decade of the 1990s. Today we’ll look at my top three cartoon animation series in the 90s which was most notable for its shock and awe approach in telling jokes [...]

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1. July 2009

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Twitter’s Role in NBA Free Agency

Twitter’s Role in NBA Free Agency

When the Los Angeles Lakers were crowned the NBA champions of the 2008-2009 basketball season, it only means all the other 29 teams of the popular basketball league are primed to make roster changes in the offseason. Contracts expire in June 30 and this means free agency is once again active. This season is different [...]

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1. July 2009

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Nickelodeon’s AddictingGames Showdown Announces Top Online Games

Nickelodeon’s AddictingGames Showdown Announces Top Online Games

The “envelopes” were opened and the best games named during Nickelodeon’s “AddictingGames Showdown” (Saturday, June 27, 8-10 p.m. ET/PT), the first-of-its-kind convergent, prime-time TV event honoring the coolest, funniest and most addicting online cartoon animation games. More than 5 million votes were cast for the cream of the crop from AddictingGames’ library of 3,500 games. [...]

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1. July 2009

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Disney Interactive Pioneers 3-D Video Games for G-Force and Toy Story Mania

Disney Interactive Pioneers 3-D Video Games for G-Force and Toy Story Mania

Three-dimensional experiences are taking over the 3D cartoon animation full-length feature experience at movie theaters in 2009 and Disney Interactive Studios is leading the way in video games by introducing innovative stereoscopic 3-D features in two of its premier video games this summer. G-FORCE and TOY STORY MANIA! both feature revolutionary innovative experiences using 3-D [...]

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1. July 2009

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Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D enters Germany

Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D enters Germany

4Kids Entertainment International Ltd. has appointed Munich-based CTM Concept-TV & Merchandising GmbH as licensing agent in Germany for 4Kids’ hit cartoon animation property YU-GI-OH! 5D’S. YU-GI-OH! 5D’S is the latest series in the hugely successful YU-GI-OH! kids’ franchise. Over 18.1 billion Yu-Gi-Oh! trading cards have been sold. The cards have been translated into seven languages and [...]

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30. June 2009

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Hello Kitty the Philanthropist

Hello Kitty the Philanthropist

More or less, we have an idea how popular the cartoon character Hello Kitty is. Since we can’t really gauge this popularity quantitatively without delving into much boring statistics and table graphs, maybe the fairer question to ask is: “How useful is this popularity of Hello Kitty is to people and in popular culture?” For the few [...]

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30. June 2009

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The Virtual World of Metaplace: Bring Your Blogs with You

The Virtual World of Metaplace: Bring Your Blogs with You

We know the heavy players in the realm of commercial and free virtual worlds. There is the immovable giant that is Second Life. There is the popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft. Even the free virtual world for kids that is Poptropica has entered the top 300 sites. So if you [...]

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30. June 2009

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WALL-E Wins for Animation in Saturn Awards

WALL-E Wins for Animation in Saturn Awards

Wall-E, the full-length animated film from 3D animation studio Pixar and Disney, took home the recognition as the best animated film in the recently concluded Saturn Awards. On the other hand, DreamWorks Animation studio head, Jeffrey Katzenberg, was awarded the inaugural Visionary Award for his efforts in advancing 3D film presentation. Top filmmaker Jerry Bruckheimer [...]

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30. June 2009

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Superman, Batman Team Up for New Animated Film Public Enemies

Superman, Batman Team Up for New Animated Film Public Enemies

The World’s Greatest Super Heroes become America’s most wanted criminals — and are hunted by friends and foes alike — in SUPERMAN/BATMAN: PUBLIC ENEMIES, the sixth entry in the popular DVD series of DC Universe Animated Original PG-13 Movies. A co-production of Warner Premiere, DC Comics and Warner Bros. Animation, the full-length cartoon animation film [...]

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30. June 2009

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Lassie Cartoon Animation Series Underway

Lassie Cartoon Animation Series Underway

It’s hard not to love the dog icon Lassie. Now, DQE with its affiliates announced today the co-development for a multi-million Euro proposed cartoon animation TV series based on the legendary Lassie. Lassie, a brave and loyal collie dog, first appeared in Eric Knight’s 1940 novel, LASSIE COME-HOME. She was so well received that, in [...]

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27. June 2009

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MJ’s Affair with Animation

MJ’s Affair with Animation

We’ve seen the moonwalk, the one-handed glove, the anti-gravity lean, and that’s just to mention a few of the innovations introduced by the late Michael Jackson. Sometimes people even forget how MJ reinvented himself from a child prodigy into a global pop sensation. But he has this sense of creativity and showmanship that is hard [...]

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27. June 2009

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Virtual Communities Unite for King of Pop

Virtual Communities Unite for King of Pop

The headline from CNN looked a bit of a joke at first but it is true “Michael Jackson Dies, Almost Takes Internet with Him.” No, there is nothing funny about the first part because the entire world is mourning with the loss of the King of Pop, rather, the dangling phrase which followed about the [...]

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