Mickey Mouse is an cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.
The Secret Life of Pets opens nationwide this weekend, going head-to-head with the box office juggernaut Finding Dory. The buzz about this latest feature from Ilumination Entertainment has garnered great buzz, and if it’s as well-received as hoped, maybe it will prove there is room for multiple animation features to find an audience and succeed […]
The Japanese pop music industry is famous–or infamous–for manufacturing pop groups that become the flavor of the month, then quickly fade from view. Shonen Hollywood: Holly Stage for 49 (2014) offers a mildly upbeat look at the phenomenon.
Scrat is back – and based on international grosses it looks like the rest of the Ice Age gang will never face extinction. Directed by Mike Thurmeier and Galen Chu, Blue Sky’s Ice Age: Collision Course will be released July 22nd by 20th Century Fox. Here’s the latest trailer:
Many who frequent Animation Scoop are aware of the great work that Women in Animation is doing. Apart from the initiative at the cornerstone of their work to create gender equality in the animation industry, reaching “50-50 by 2025”, they strive to educate women all stages of their careers. To that end, they host a […]
Sony Pictures Animation formerly announced today its 2017/2018 slate – which includes five theatrical features, three television series and one direct-to-video movie – moves signaling an expansion of its output and increased year-round production across multiple platforms. Among the news in today’s announcement: Genndy Tartavakosky will be returning to direct 2018’s Hotel Transylvania 3; Bob […]
This classic cartoon showcase will feature a selection of Pink Panther shorts spanning two decades of feline animation from Friz Freleng and Hawley Pratt. Featured cartoons include Dial “P” for Pink, Super Pink and a tribute to the Panther theme music, Pink, Plunk, Plink, which features a cameo by composer Henry Mancino. The screening is […]
Screening today in Annecy is the latest short from Disney Animation Studios – Inner Workings (aka on screen as Inner Workings Of The Human Body). First-time director Leo Matsuda (story artist for Big Hero 6, Wreck-It Ralph) vividly illustrates of the internal struggle between a man’s pragmatic, logical side and his free-spirited, adventurous half – […]
Attendees at Annecy this week got a sneak preview of Google Spotlight Stories and Nexus Animation Studios’ collaboration, Rain or Shine, directed by London based animator and children’s book author Felix Massie. Due to launch officially on YouTube and the GSS App later this summer, we have a new trailer that dropped online today to […]
Here’s our latest, and best, look at the first film from the new Warner Bros. Feature Animation brain trust (or as they call it, “think tank”). Storks is directed by Nicholas Stoller and Doug Sweetland, and written by Stoller, based on his own idea and developed by Warner Bros. Animation under the Warner Animation Group […]
On The Manufactured Rivalry Between Disney And Pixar
Ever since both animation studios were joined under the same corporate umbrella, there has been a fair degree of rampant speculation over which studio has been the ‘better’ of the two. The existence of a rivalry between the two may be real, but the extent to which it is pedaled borders on the obscene. In […]