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Pixar Animation Studios Holds Sixth Annual Cartoon Art Museum Benefit
The Cartoon Art Museum, the only museum in the western United States dedicated to all forms of cartoons and comics, is delighted to host its sixth annual benefit on Saturday, November 14, 2009 at Pixar 3D Animation Studios. From Pixar’s inception in 1986 with the premiere of its iconic short film, Luxo Jr., to the studio’s [...]
Continue reading...The Final Destination Done in Stereoscopic 3D
Friday, September 4, 2009
Visual effects and 3D animation for the final sequence of the motion picture THE FINAL DESTINATION feature the latest technology from Entity FX. Directed by David R. Ellis and distributed in the U.S. by New Line Cinema, the film is the fourth movie in the popular horror-thriller franchise, which deals with the chance of cheating [...]
Continue reading...Disney Acquires Marvel!
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Fairy tales meet comic books. Building on its strategy of delivering quality branded content to people around the world, The Walt Disney Company has agreed to acquire the comic book/3D animation powerhouse Marvel Entertainment, Inc. in a stock and cash transaction. Based on the closing price of Disney stock on Friday, August 28, the transaction [...]
Continue reading...Delgo Creators Looking to Sue Over Avatar
Monday, August 31, 2009
In a landscape of sequels and remakes, one of the most expensive films in history, AVATAR, is being compared to a low-budget, independent, 3D animation feature, DELGO. The much anticipated AVATAR trailer was released online last week and viewer traffic overwhelmed Apple.com’s trailer site. Almost immediately, reactions were posted on the internet with comments like “AVATAR [...]
Continue reading...A Christmas Carol: A Movie of the Past, Present and Future
Monday, August 3, 2009
Ebenezer Scrooge isn’t exactly the type to give away fruitcakes during the Christmas season. But come November this year, he would be so nice as to go back to the silver screen to retell his story in a film that’s sure to be a real eye candy. We all know that Charles Dickens’ story, “A Christmas [...]
Continue reading...Mediafreaks Picks: Our Five Favorite Animes
Monday, August 3, 2009
If you’re living in the same generation, then you most probably have your own top picks. In our five favorite anime series of all time, however, we based the results from other top name-a-number lists in the blogosphere and other online communities. It’s not quite scientifically sampled, but in the number of sites that we’ve [...]
Continue reading...SDCC Updates: Batman 3, Toy Story 3, Tron: Legacy, Train Your Dragon
Monday, July 27, 2009
A day after the Disney 3-D panel, which prominently featured a glimpse into TRON: LEGACY, we have the official online debut of the Grid VFX Concept Test that was shown last year at SDCC. “Flynn Lives”. The sequel to the groundbreaking TRON opens holiday 2010 season, is directed by Joseph Kosinski and stars Garrett Hedlund, Jeff Bridges, [...]
Continue reading...The Eagle Has Landed – Insights from Apollo 11 for Animation
Monday, July 20, 2009
July 16, 1969 – it has been forty years ago when man first landed on the moon and it was really a special moment for human history. Perhaps nothing can better capture this moment than the line one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. This important scientific milestone is a testament to [...]
Continue reading...UFC Warriors in Cartoon Animation
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
While everyone is still in the middle of the euphoria of UFC 100 last July 11 after the heavyweight clash of Brock Lesnar and Frank Mir, we here in our 3D animation studio Mediafreaks would like to think how some of the icons of cartoon animation will do here. After all, one of the other [...]
Continue reading...Kamen Rider Heads to Comic-Con
Friday, July 10, 2009
The hit live action series KAMEN RIDER DRAGON KNIGHT will hold a special panel presentation and screening at San Diego Comic-Con International set for Sunday, July 26 from 2:45 to 3:45pm at Room 6DE. There will also be an autograph session on the same day from 1-2pm in the autograph area of the convention center. [...]
Continue reading...Head Gear Animation Works on Canada’s First 3-D Ad
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
The 3D animation studio Head Gear Animation, Due North Communications and Dairy Farmers of Canada, have recently worked together to launch Canada’s first 3D advertising campaign for the cinema. They will play with the trailers before the feature 3D movies. The 3D commercials are a continuation of the award-winning five-second “Milk Dots” campaign, for which [...]
Continue reading...Real Life Wall-E
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
When the 3D animation studio Pixar and Disney released the full length feature Wall-E, it touched many people’s hearts. After all, what’s not to love with a robot which was designed to clean a waste-filled Earth but ultimately decides to follow his own heart to pursue his loved robot EVE? Apparently, it didn’t only touched [...]
Continue reading...The People Speak gets Animation Infusions with Matt Damon, Marisa Tomei, Morgan Freeman
Monday, July 6, 2009
Aniboom, the world’s first virtual 3D animation studio, to infuse animation into narrative performances by A-List talent including Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Marisa Tomei, Bruce Springsteen, and Morgan Freeman, Among Others HISTORY and Aniboom announced today a collaboration that will enable talented animators to create unique interpretations of 10 readings and musical performances by A-list talent [...]
Continue reading...Toon Boom Releases Studio 5
Friday, July 3, 2009
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, [...]
Continue reading...Hello Kitty the Philanthropist
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Buy the Katakune DVD!
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Monday, October 26, 2009
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