The 67th annual Golden Globe nominations for best animated film have been announced in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. shot past analyst estimates in releasing third-quarter earnings Tuesday, saying its only release this year, "Monsters vs. Aliens," is off to a strong start in the home video market.
DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., whose only 2009 theatrical release, "Monsters vs Aliens," hit retail stores late last month, reports its third-quarter earnings Tuesday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the three months through September:
An analyst downgraded the shares of DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. on Wednesday, saying speculation it would be bought by a media giant was unfounded.
It seems like a million years ago, sometimes, but it was really fewer than 20: In 1991, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made “Beauty and the Beast” the very first animated feature in the history of the Academy Awards to be nominated for best picture.
DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., maker of the "Shrek" movies and "Kung Fu Panda," announced Tuesday it will switch from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. computer chips to Intel Corp.'s as it moves toward making all 3-D movies.
Entertainment giant Walt Disney Co. will team up with several Japanese companies to produce animation for television in Japan, a leading market, a Disney official said Thursday.
A gourmet rat was the big cheese Friday, winning 10 Annie Awards, which recognize achievements in feature film and television animation.
The tagline for Disney's upcoming "Enchanted" could well be the motto for the latest push in animation: "The real world and the animated world collide."
The animated sequel "Shrek The Third" helped DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. quadruple its third-quarter profit, as the film neared $800 million in worldwide revenue, the company said Tuesday.
Hunks of hand-crafted clay trounced modern computer-animated images Saturday to take top honors at the 33rd annual Annie Awards, honoring achievements in feature film and television animation.
ORLANDO, Fla. -- With most of the animated filmmaking these days being of the computerized variety, Disney has gone back to the drawing board -- literally.
Time Magazine wrote this report on the coming confrontation between the Disney version of a classic tale and a modern Chinese interpretation of the same.
Technology designed to blast aliens in computer games is part of a new GPU (Graphics Processing Units) computer cluster that will process CSIRO research data thousands of times faster and more efficiently than a desktop PC.
3-D computer graphics (CG) art is capable of generating the most eye-catching and incredible effects, and that's why we love it.
I've been a cartoon/animation fan for decades. When I was a kid, my favorite cartoons were "Johnny Quest" or any of the "Bugs Bunny/Road Runner".
Playboy magazine is appealing to the younger generation with its first-ever newsstand cover and centerfold of a cartoon character -- Marge Simpson of "The Simpsons" -- in its November issue. The magazine, which appears on newsstands Oct.
Thus far in 2009, I've seen the following 3D movies: *My Bloody Valentine*, *Monsters vs. Aliens*, *Up*, and *Ice Age 3*. *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs* is the best of the lot thus far, while *Up* was the most disappointing because it's mostly 2D depth animation.
Dream on, Technicolor.
This week we look at two more online videos that make us smile. The first is a stop motion music video that is fantastic and the other is the online classic Troops.
Health care reformers are up to no good. Phenomenal political cartoon about health care reform today.
Post-"Waltz with Bashir", there has been an increase in Israeli companies being created and demand for Israeli animation artists.
This is wrong on *so many* levels. I can't think of a better way to guarantee that Futurama goes down in flames, and I can't see Matt Groening even agreeing to go forward with the show with a new cast.
JOHN DAVIS has produced films such as "I, Robot" and "Norbit", and is working on an adaptation of "Gulliver's Travels". He also invests in businesses as diverse as restaurants and scaffolding.
This link is to the animation of a new sunspot with solar flares -- "Sunspot 1024 has at least a dozen individual dark cores and it is crackling with B-class solar flares.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becomes the latest doosh to land in a blender.
"Wood Smoke" is a 2 ½ min. animated short by Fredo Viola, which uses colorful point and shoot footage shot in Woodstock, New York. The animated short is a crazy twirly, swirly circular video, accompanied by cool, ambient music.
"Choices" is an inspiring and very creative animated short film by Anton Groves. The animation used thousands of cardboard cuts, which were combined using both stop-motion footage and digital animation.
Valve Software's fans have long had a basic demand: make great games.
With "Up," the studio once again shows how little things can make a very big movie.
Comedy Central is upping its animation slate with new shows that include a series from former "Simpsons" writer David Stern.
Kelly Peña, or "the kid whisperer," as some Hollywood producers call her, was digging through a 12-year-old boy's dresser drawer here on a recent afternoon.
If Andy Richter's voice work for the littlest lemur, Mort, in Nickelodeon's new CG-animated comedy "The Penguins of Madagascar" sounds familiar, it should. He borrowed some affectations from a well-known, decidedly un-kid-friendly character: Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.
Animation bigwig Jeffrey Katzenberg is talking about a revolution.
