Upcoming festivities bring together some of New York City’s leading animation organizations to present programs and offer a place for animators and animation fans to meet, be inspired and enjoy animation.
New broadcaster sales for the animated preschool series include SVT (Sweden), DRTV (Denmark), YLE (Finland), RTÉ (Ireland), Hop! (Israel), EBS (South Korea), MediaCorp (Singapore), and ETV (South Africa).
Following LAIKA’s successful 15th Anniversary screenings in August, the acclaimed 2009 stop-motion film will be back for the spooky holiday season October 31 - November 1.
‘The Truth rejects you, Cornelius’ by Marc Torices and Khris Cembe won the Movistar Plus+ Short Film Project Award, while The RTVE Interactivo/Fallo de Sistema Awards went to ‘Neon Blood’ (Best Video Game Project), ‘Worldless’ (Most Innovative Video Game), and ‘Barraka’ (Weird Plus Video Game).
The 2D comedy, which follows the hilarious adventures of Chama, a “crazy rich” boy with his outrageous school and family life, premieres at MIPCOM 2024 on October 21.
The latest info for Madrid’s Cartoon Springboard; Vancouver’s Spark Animation; Bordeaux’s Cartoon Movie; South Africa’s Durban FilmMart Institute’s DFM Pitch and Finance Forum, and Greece’s Animasyros 2024 Festival.
Miyake Design Studio’s Yoshiyuki Miyamae, Sony Group’s Hiraoki Kitano, and WIA VP, Oscar-nominated producer Jinko Gotoh will each offer their unique insights into ground-breaking areas in computer graphics and interactive techniques; conference runs December 3-6 in Tokyo, Japan.
The next drop of 1–3-minute shorts, written by series creator Joe Brumm, begins streaming October 7 on Disney+ and will roll out on Disney Jr., Disney Channel, and Disney Jr. On Demand throughout the week.
The programming bonanza continues this week with exciting new premieres and anticipated returns, including the just added series ‘Love Live! Superstar!!’ Season 3 (October 7), and ‘A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School!’ (October 8).
The 3D animated preschool series, from Dutch studio Submarine, which follows Pol the city mouse who moves to the forest, is currently in production and set for delivery in Q2 2025.
Robert C. Ramirez boards as showrunner on the 2D animated project, based on the ‘The World of Gustavo’ series of books from Mexican author-illustrator Flavia Z. Drago.
The upcoming project will be set in the real world, but the iconic toddlers will be 3DCG; ‘SNL’s Mike Day and Streeter Seidell on board as writers, with original series creators Arlene Klasky and Gábor Csupó producing.
Starting Saturday, October 5, the event’s first weekend includes a double feature, The Sven Squad’s special Saturday Morning Cartoons appearance for the House of Svengoolie Cartoon BOO-Nanza, and mini-marathons of Halloween-themed classic TV westerns and comedy TV series.
In the upcoming ‘Maya the Bee’ franchise spin-off, a severe drought causes an ant platoon to set out to save their community… but the inept Arnie and Barney decide to tackle the problem themselves.
‘RADiCAL for Pre-Production’ includes extensive new features that enable teams to create, simulate, and iterate on scenes and set design with real-time 3D visualization.
In the upcoming season, 35 players remain in the competition to become Japan’s next football striker; tune in to the premiere on October 5 at 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET.
‘Lu & The Bally Bunch’ and ‘Let’s Go Bananas!’ premiered this week on Cartoon Network; both series also launch on Max in 2025.
In recognition of National Pancake Day, the hand-numbered, limited edition print of Mike Mignola’s iconic two-page comic is available now for pre-order.
Unreal Engine 5.5 Preview 1 is now out and ready to explore; new Unreal Engine royalty rate savings when shipping eligible titles in the Epic Games Store on supported platforms; and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have burst from the sewers of NYC straight into Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN).
The 2D comedy series, which follows sibling underwater adventurers Lettie and Lemo who lead a quirky submarine crew, is now streaming in the U.S. on the Roku Channel in the ‘Kids & Family’ section.
6 graphic novels (and one box set) are coming next year, with the introduction of the new DC book category ‘Early Reader’ (ages 5-7); Sara Shephard, author of ‘Pretty Little Liars,’ also makes her DC debut.
The studio management platform allows producers and resource managers to visually sort projects, licenses, people, and more without spreadsheets.
The event, which celebrates the convergence of entertainment and technology, will feature speakers such as ‘Shogun’ creators Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo, VFX Legend Robert Legato, leaders from AGBO, NVIDIA, Z By HP, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Intel, and much more; festivities take place November 6-9.
The World Championship is the pinnacle of LoL Esports competition, in which the top teams from nine regions compete for the world champion title; the tournament runs September 23 - November 2.
From the twisted minds of creators Samson Cornette and Daniel Nation, each episode of the 2D animated series serves up a unique blend of horror tropes, pop culture references, and dark humor.
