Hip-hop star Kanye West and Academy Award nominee Taraji P. Henson get animated when they lend their voices to THE CLEVELAND SHOW, the FAMILY GUY spin-off set to debut this fall on FOX. West will appear as Kenny West, an all-around cool kid and the archenemy of Cleveland Jr. (Kevin Michael Richardson), and the two will engage in a "rap battle" for the affection of high school hottie Chanel (Henson).
e-on software is seeking submissions for its upcoming 2009 show reel. This year, e-on software would like to invite all Vue artists to submit recent commercial projects that involved Vue or Ozone for inclusion in the 2009 show reel (list all third party applications used alongside Vue or Ozone), whether film, commercial, TV show, broadcast, music video, game cinematic, architectural walkthrough, or any other form of commercial animation project.
PBS children's series WordGirl isn't your average ponderous educational show: its heroine uses plucky charm in a retro setting to defeat villains with her word power.
The emcee for the third annual ELAN Awards will be the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants, Tom Kenny.
The show will be held March 21 in Vancouver, and will be a intimate dinner show this year.
Henry Selick, director of the recently released 3-D, stop-motion animated film CORALINE, will be a featured keynote speaker during the 2009 NAB Show in Las Vegas. Speaking in an afternoon keynote on Monday, April 20, Selick will offer NAB Show attendees his thoughts on how digital technology has helped to revitalize the handcrafted approach of stop-motion animation.
Selick, a director, producer and stop-motion animation pioneer, is also well-known for other directorial works including THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS and JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH.
L.A.-based directing collective and design/animation group Syndrome just rolled out the show open for Rob Dyrdek's new MTV show FANTASY FACTORY. The graphically explosive sequence shows renowned street skater Rob Dyrdek bouncing rapidly through a colorful fantasyland of pipes, ramps, and funnels leading from city streets to twisting pipeworks to the mouth of a lion, among other incredible scenes.
Mechanism Digital accepted the design challenge to develop a memorable show open and graphics package for Animal Planet's new series BEHIND THE CLIP. The show is produced by CBS Eye Too, who in turn came to rely on Mechanism's design team to create a quirky and fresh concept for a new show featuring animals skateboarding, driving a car and other surprising activities found on YouTube clips.
WALTZ WITH BASHIR won the Writers Guild Award for Documentary Screenplay. Ari Folman's film is also up for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, not qualifying for the Oscar for best doc.
The winners were announced at the 2009 Writers Guild Awards held on Saturday, February 7, 2009, at simultaneous ceremonies in New York and Los Angeles.
MILK won for Original Screenplay (Dustin Lance Black, Focus Features) and SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE won for Adapted Screenplay (Simon Beaufoy, Based on the Novel Q & A by Vikas Swarup, Fox Searchlight Pictures).
Last purchased by Rede Record in Brazil, Mediatoon's THE GARFIELD SHOW is due for broadcast in 2009 in the U.K., Scandinavia, Spain, Germany, Italy, Australia/Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.
Produced by Dargaud Media, THE GARFIELD SHOW is 52 episodes of 11 minutes shot in HD, about Garfield's day-to-day life, blending the modern look of CGI animation and familiar humor of the orange tabby cat.
After proving a massive hit on the small screen, pesky porkers Pinky and Perky are set to transfer their unique brand of anarchic fun to the theatre in a brand new live action extravaganza.
PPC Enterprises, which holds M&L rights in the brand, has revealed that Pinky and Perky will be brought to the stage in 2010/2011 courtesy of leading West End theatre production company Fiery Light.
Deadlines: February 16 and March 4, 2009
The Autodesk 2009 Best of the Best Show Reel is seeking submissions. Enter your latest film, commercial, broadcast, music video, and episodic projects created using Autodesk software, including Softimage|XSI and Softimage|Face Robot.
Homerun Ent., for the first time, is offering The Visual Effects Society's one-hour televised awards special at NATPE, reports C21MEDIA. The awards show, held to highlight the best in visual effects in film, TV, animation, commercials and videogames, is being offered for international broadcast after February 26, 2009.
The show will be held in Hollywood on February 21.
Soup2Nuts and Scholastic Media invite you and your family to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the Emmy Award-winning show, WORDGIRL. Audience members will have an opportunity to meet the creator and Executive Producer Dorothea Gillim, watch clips in various stages of production, and see a full episode. After the screening, children of all ages will be invited on stage to dance like Captain Huggy Face. Worrrrrd Up!
Jeffrey Tambor, Dannah Feinglass and Chris Parnell headline a one-time-only, live onstage reading of the Emmy-winning hit animated series, WORDGIRL. Soup2Nuts animation studio (a division of Scholastic Media) and UCBTLA will spotlight WORDGIRL's cast of top comic actors and stand-up comedians. Series creators, writers and cast members will take audience questions about the show following the reading.
Looking to show off your company's talent? Be part of the Autodesk Games Show Reel 2009!
Submit your recent video-game cinematics, trailers, in-game sequences, or animations created with any or a combination of the following Autodesk animation products: 3ds Max, Maya, MotionBuilder, Mudbox, Kynapse, HumanIK, and Softimage|XSI software.
This will be an evening of new work by local artists and friends from around the globe. Anyone is welcome to bring animated/special effects work unannounced the night of the show (DVD and 16 mm) and it will be shown. Wednesday, January 14, 7:15 p.m. at the Exploratorium's McBean Theatre in San Francisco, free, public invited. The open screening for student films will be in May.
Films include:
Soup2Nuts and Scholastic Media are hosting a behind-the-scenes look at the making of WORDGIRL and a one-time-only, live onstage reading of the Emmy-winning hit animated series at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Hollywood.
RAZZBERRY JAZZBERRY JAM, the new TV show from Trapeze Animation Studios Limited, wholly owned subsidiary of Trapeze Media Ltd., will debut December 23 at 7 a.m. on The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Kids' CBC.
CGI spectacular THE PINKY AND PERKY SHOW is due to screen across the BBC this Christmas with a special festive helping of everyone's favorite pigs.
PPC Enterprises, which holds M&L rights in the brand, has revealed that the show will screen four times on CBBC over the Christmas period, as well as showing at 10 a.m. on BBC One on Christmas Day.
Framestore adds a touch of film-level flair to its CG dinosaurs, as Tara Bennett discovers in her coverage of the popular Primeval TV series.
Opening hours 6-9 p.m. at Erebuni Gallery Space, 158 Roebling Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (off the Bedford L stop, between Metropolitan and Hope). Show closes on December 15, 2008.
HIT Ent. and Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN), the first national aboriginal television network in the world, have partnered to launch THE PINGU SHOW this fall during the APTN Kids programming block. This is the first time that HIT has partnered with the network that reaches approximately 10 million households across Canada.
APTN will air 74 episodes of THE PINGU SHOW in English and French.
Financial information and entertainment company Minyanville Media has won a Business and Financial Reporting Emmy for its animated news show MINYANVILLE'S WORLD IN REVIEW WITH HOOFY AND BOO.
The show was honored by The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, in the New Approaches to Business & Financial Reporting category for its groundbreaking weekly show starring the animated icons of finance, Hoofy the Bull and Boo the Bear.
Contender Entertainment Group has sold children's puppet-and-animation-based show IT'S A BIG BIG WORLD to television channels in four major territories.
Contender, the company behind preschool properties PEPPA PIG and TRACTOR TOM, holds the international rights for the hit PBS Kids show, which has now secured slots on DR Denmark, YLE Finland, Canal+ Cyfrowy Poland and Al Jazeera Kids in the Middle East.
The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the winners of the 36th International Emmy Awards Monday night at a gala event held in the New York Hilton, hosted by award-winning stage and screen actor Roger Bart, currently leading in Mel Brooks' new Broadway musical, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.
