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We’ve just published a spanking hot lens for Katakune on Squidoo. Please check it out at  http://www.squidoo.com/katakune.
For a cartoon property coming out of Singapore - which is a country relatively new in the world of animation - we are humbled that Katakune is making some headway and gaining recognition across the world. Currently already sold […]

Katakune DVDs will be released in USA in October 2008!
Through the efforts of our distributor, Katakune has secured a DVD release deal with PorchLight Home Entertainment. Already broadcasted on the Voom Kid’s Channel Animania HD in 2007, this is Katakune’s second entrance into the North American market and a testimony of Katakune’s cute appeal.
“PorchLight Home […]

Monkey, Pigsy and Sandy head on a “Journey to the East” for BBC Sport this summer.
This animation based on the classical Chinese novel, “Journey to the West”, was produced by the men behind virtual band Gorillaz - Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett.
The animation is great to say the least. I would say that Damon and […]

What could be greater than a lightsaber duel between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs? A lightsaber duel where YOU get to control one. And what could be the next best thing to seeing the two big men squabble ‘live’? An animation of them bringing it onto each other!
Mr. Jobs is depicted more like a gruff […]

CityEngine Generates Rome in One Day
Procedural Inc. Ships New Urban Modeling Solution, CityEngine, Allowing Mass Creation of City Models 10 Times Faster for Film & TV Production, Game Development, Architecture and City Planning; Free Trial Version Available For Download.
9Zurich, Switzerland, July 21, 2008) At this year’s SIGGRAPH, a spectacular 3D recreation of ancient Rome (A.D. […]

By Lucy O’Loughlin
The movie tells the tale of Po the Panda - voiced by Jack Black - an overweight waiter working in his father’s noodle restaurant. Po is a Kung Fu fanatic but his bulky frame limits his ability to perform the intricate moves.
Black seems to be the perfect choice for the role - having […]

Reuters - Saturday, July 5By Simon Rabinovitch
BEIJING - More than just a box-office hit in China, animated Hollywood comedy “Kung Fu Panda” has led Chinese artists to find fault with their own film industry and call for fewer government controls on culture.
The movie, which tells the story of a fat panda who dreams of martial […]

MAXON BodyPaint 3D Helps Rhythm & Hues Unleash its Creative Power on the Feature Film, “The Incredible Hulk”

Award-winning Visual Effects and Character Animation Studio Adopts BodyPaint 3D into State-of-the-Art Production Pipeline to Meet Rising Demand for Realism and Complexity in 3D Paint and Textures
MAXON Computer, a leading developer of professional 3D modeling, painting, […]

Here is a list of upcoming animated movies worth watching out for:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQUsPNpxCJ8

Igor - Written by Chris McKenna, the comedy tells the story of a hunchbacked lab assistant who has big dreams of becoming a mad scientist and winning the first place prize at the annual Evil Science Fair.
Release date - 19th September 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb2PuI8-GiQ

Star Wars | […]

Ratatouille? Naw…it’s Ratatoing!
An ‘interesting’ company from Brazil allegedly producing rip-offs of Pixar’s animated features have appeared. The ‘victims’ are Cars and Ratatouille.
Rip-offs or not? You decide.
Wikipedia Entry on the Company
The ‘Official’ Website of Ratatoing
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Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation have secured the rights to The Smurfs and plan to make a feature film version of the popular blue villagers that mixes live action and animation.
Variety reports the film will be produced by Jordan Kerner, who helped the studio secure the rights from Lafig Belgium, with Shrek 2 and […]

Check out this interesting software called the Pepakura Designer.
Basically it allows you to create paper craft models from 3D data. If you have a 3D software and you have some 3D models, Pepakura Designer can take the data from the 3D models and intelligently map it out on a paper with the vertices arranged in […]

 
Poser has come a long long way. I remember using it for architectural visualization projects and storyboards for their quick-to-generate and easy-to-customize humans. That was Poser when it was in versions 3 and 4.
Even at the time there was a group of Poser enthusiasts who used Poser to create interesting characters and projects. I remember […]

Two of Japan’s oldest animation films have been discovered in an antique shop in Osaka, Japan! Pretty phenomenal find if you ask me … wonder how much they were bought for?