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Max Lang and Daniel Snaddon have made some of the most beloved animated short films and specials of the last 15 years, including The Gruffalo, Revolting Rhymes, Stick Man, Room on the Broom, Zog and Albert. Now they’re co-directors of a new short that’s vying for Oscar and Annie Awards consideration, The Snail and the […]
ASIFA-Hollywood announced its ‘Call for Entries’ today for the 48th Annual Annie Awards. For submission rules and information, please visit submissions.annieawards.org. The deadline to submit projects is Monday, February 1st, 2021 at 5 p.m. PST. Honoring excellence in the field of animation, the 48th Annual Annie Awards will be presented in 10 Production categories (Best […]
Seven years following the 2013 DreamWorks movie The Croods, the sequel finally found its way to theaters and home streaming. The good news: not only is C2 a better movie than its predecessor, but it’s also a damn sight funnier, warmer, and fun to watch. While superior in its visual effects, the original film was […]
Olivier Lelardoux, Senior VP of Cyber Group Studios, is the series director of the Disney Junior animated series Gigantosaurus. Season 2 premieres today and new episodes air Mondays at 8:55am. Lelardoux talks about what goes into making the dino show in France, America… and over modern technology. Jackson Murphy: What initially attracted you to Jonny […]
If you think about, New Year’s Day is the perfect holiday for Charlie Brown. With the holidays behind us for another year and nothing ahead of us but the grey days of January and our blank tax returns, it’s easy to feel as defeated as everyone’s favorite “lovable loser” does all year long. It’s a […]
Traci Paige Johnson and Jennifer Twomey are the creators of the new DreamWorks Animation series Gabby’s Dollhouse. It debuts this Tuesday January 5th on Netflix. Johnson and Twomey (of Blue’s Clues fame) usher in 2021 with a fun, positive show about learning, adventure and… cats. What’s not to love? (This interview was conducted as an […]
I had my arms and heart open. I wanted to unashamedly love this film, smother it in chocolate valentine hearts, and set my keyboard aflame in effusive praise until I wore out my supply of similes. I wanted to compare it to some of the most outstanding achievements produced under Disney/Pixar’s aegis. What I saw […]
From a movie production filled with drama came a film filled with laughs. Disney’s 40th animated feature, The Emperor’s New Groove, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this month, started life as a completely different movie that became mired in problems, but emerged as one of the funniest films ever to come out of the Studio. […]
This Monday December 28th, Netflix is debuting one of the most important and impactful pieces of filmmaking this year. The animated short Cops and Robbers comes from directors Arnon Manor (filmmaker and Sony Pictures visual effects producer), Timothy Ware-Hill (an actor) and animators from around the globe. They’ve created a work of art for the […]
Charles Solomon’s Animation Year End Review 2020
Although he wrote them in 1859, Charles Dickens might have been thinking of animation in 2020 when he penned the celebrated lines, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the […]