Mickey Mouse is an cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.
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:
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 (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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]