Congratulations to DreamWorks Animation Television for taking home NINE Daytime Emmys. The studio won a total of nine Emmys – with Trollhunters leading the pack with six. Including a win for Guillermo del Toro for directing (and Rodrigo Blaas). The 44th Annual Creative Arts Daytime Emmys were presented last evening at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. […]
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Dreamworks TV Takes 9 Daytime Emmys
April 29th, 2017 
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NEW TRAILER: Pixar’s “Cars 3”
April 26th, 2017 Jerry Beck Disney-Pixar has released its latest “official trailer” for Cars 3 – its 4th – the sure-to-be hit coming out June 16th. Lightning McQueen is back to prove to a new generation of racers that he’s still the best race car in the world. Helping him to do that is director Brian Fee and a voice […]
INTERVIEW: “Peabody & Sherman” Designer Kevin Dart
April 26th, 2017 Jackson Murphy The Daytime Emmy Awards are this Sunday (4/30), but animator Kevin Dart is already a winner, having been honored for his work in the Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation category for The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show. The popular Netflix/DreamWorks series is also up for Outstanding Children’s Animated Program. Jackson Murphy: How does it feel […]
TEASER POSTER: Wes Anderson’s “Isle Of Dogs”
April 25th, 2017 Jerry Beck Fox Searchlight has announced the release date and teaser poster for the upcoming stop motion film Isle Of Dogs, directed by Wes Anderson. Isle Of Dogs hits theaters everywhere on April 20th, 2018. Here’s the intriguing poster:
ANIME REVIEW: “Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team #1”
April 24th, 2017 Charles Solomon Although there’s plenty of mecha battles, the 13-part OAV Mobil Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (1996) focuses more on the character relationships than other entries in this long-running franchise. Set in 0079 UC (Universal Century), within the main Gundam continuity, 08th MS Team OAV brings Shiro Amada (Steve Cannon) to Earth to lead a […]
ASIFA-Hollywood and the Animation Educators Forum Announce the 2017 Student Scholarship Program
April 19th, 2017 Jerry Beck ASIFA-Hollywood and the Animation Educators Forum (AEF) are proud to announce the 2017 Student Scholarship Program. Applications are currently being accepted for academic year 2017-2018 and are available online at: http://scholarships.animationeducatorsforum.org/ through June 20. Scholarship recipients will be announced after July 15th. Proposals will be accepted for undergraduate students entering their sophomore year and above, […]
FIRST LOOK TRAILER: Dreamworks/Netflix “Spirit Riding Free”
April 18th, 2017 Jerry Beck The Oscar-nominated film Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) introduced the world to a resilient mustang named Spirit, and now it’s inspired a brand new story and setting for Spirit Riding Free, a Netflix original series from DreamWorks Animation Television, debuting exclusively there on May 5th. Spirit Riding Free follows the heartfelt journey of a […]
CROWDFUNDING FOCUS: David Hand’s “Animaland” Restoration
April 18th, 2017 Jerry Beck David Hale Hand, son of famed Disney director David Dodd Hand (Bambi) has begun a Kickstarter project to fully restore the ten animated Musical Paintbox shorts, and to update and enhance 9 previously restored Animaland cartoons. They were created in 1948 – 1949 by his father, at that time Managing Director of Gaumont British Animation […]
Animator Mark Kausler To Present “I Love Cartoons” Screenings At The Animation Guild
April 18th, 2017 Jerry Beck No one (and I mean NO ONE) knows classic cartoons better than Mark Kausler. A veteran animator for Disney, Warner Bros., Cartoon Network, Bakshi, Spumco and others, Kausler has also been collecting animation for decades on 16mm and now plans to open his vault to screen selected examples from his archives on a regular basis […]
USC’s School of Cinematic Arts presents ‘First Frame 2017’ Next Friday
April 17th, 2017 Jerry Beck USC’s School of Cinematic Arts presents First Frame 2017, the annual showcase featuring the latest achievements in animation from students and alumni in the John C. Hench Division of Animation & Digital Arts (Hench-DADA), it was announced by Hench-DADA Chair, Tom Sito. The showcase will feature original student work spanning all forms of animation including […]
ASIFA-Hollywood’s Animation Educators Forum Announces Winners of First Faculty Grants
April 10th, 2017 Jerry Beck The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood’s Animation Educators Forum (AEF) has awarded its first annual Faculty Grants to Owen Klatte (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) and Dave Mauriello (Drexel University). The competition for the Grants, designed to provide support for individuals or groups with reasonable expenditures associated with research, scholarly activity or creative projects in the field […]
New “Ghost in the Shell” Anime Annouced
April 7th, 2017 Jerry Beck Kodansha Ltd. (Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo with CEO/President Yoshinobu Noma) and Production I.G, Inc. (Musashino-shi, Tokyo with CEO/President Mitsuhisa Ishikawa) have announced the production of a new anime feature of Ghost in the Shell The new animation will be co-directed by Kenji Kamiyama (director of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex series) and Shinji Aramaki (director […]
MONDO Acquires English-Language Rights to French Animated Series “LastMan”
April 5th, 2017 Jerry Beck MONDO has acquired exclusive worldwide English-language television rights to the action/sci-fi animated series LastMan, which will debut on MONDO’s SVOD channel on VRV, adding to its growing slate of action and drama animated series geared toward audiences 18 to 34. The traditionally animated LastMan, which recently debuted on France4 in France, is produced by feature-film […]
EXCLUSIVE CLIP: “Dawn of the Croods” Season 3
April 5th, 2017 Jerry Beck Thank you Dreamworks TV Animation and Netflix for this hilarious, exclusive clip from Dawn of the Croods Season 3 – which comes to Netflix this Friday, April 7th. Eep has to act fast as she and her crush get chased by a Big Chikuna! Can she escape in time to finally get her first kiss? […]
What Lessons Have We Learned from Ghost in the Shell Flopping?
Paramount’s Ghost in the Shell film is officially a flop after pulling in $19 million on its opening weekend and on course to lose $60 million overall. Live-action adaptations of anime and manga series’ are always tough, but with this latest disappointment, what, if any, lessons have we learned? There’s no shortage of lessons, that’s […]