Animal Logic Integrating into Netflix Animation, Karen Toliver to Lead
The streamer's VP of Animation Film will head the completely integrated global studio; former Animal Logic CEO Sharon Taylor has resigned.
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‘The Last of Us’ Scores Big at The Creative Arts Emmys
This past Saturday and Sunday, the Television Academy honored artistic and technical achievements in TV, with the hit HBO series picking up 8 awards, including Outstanding Special Visual Effects in A Season or A Movie; watch highlights from the awards shows January 13 on FXX.
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Netflix Drops ‘Arcane’ Season 2 Teaser Trailer
New episodes of the multi-Emmy Award-winning animated series, based on the world behind the hugely popular ‘League of Legends’ MOBA, are coming this November.
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Rising Sun Sets Sail with ‘One Piece’ VFX
The visual effects studio delivered 170+ shots for Netflix’s adventure series based on Eiichiro Oda’s popular manga, creating an array of CG naval and pirate ships, adding water and wind to fill the sails and set extensions to seamlessly integrate with the live-action.
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Teaser Drops for Zack Snyder’s ‘Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver’
Watch the trailer for the second installment of the epic two-part science-fantasy that explores an original universe and lore; streams April 19 only on Netflix.
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FMX 2024 Shares First Program News
The 4-day event kicks off in Stuttgart on April 23, 2024 with a focus on ‘Connecting Ideas’ and the return of the ‘Lighting & Rendering” track; annual Animation Production Days is now accepting projects through February 6.
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‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 Set to Begin Production in January
After facing numerous delays due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, work resumes in the new year; the series' final season will now premiere sometime in 2025.
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DreamWorks and Netflix Share ‘Not Quite Narwhal’ Season 2 Trailer
Based on the New York Times bestseller by Jessie Sima, the animated preschool series about curious and fun-loving Kelp, who always believed he was a narwhal until he finds out he’s not, returns January 22 with all-new episodes.
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WildBrain Announces ‘Strawberry Shortcake’ Holiday Content
‘Strawberry Shortcake’s Perfect Holiday’ animated special is now streaming on Netflix, ‘Strawberry Shortcake’ original micro-form content launches next month on the brand’s YouTube channel, and ‘Girls Tales’ podcast new episode, ‘Strawberry Shortcake and the Winterswirl Storm’ just released December 18.
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‘One Piece’ Anime Remake Coming to Netflix
After the success of the live-action adaptation, the streamer has teamed with franchise creator Eiichiro Oda, Shueisha, Fuji Television Network, Toei Animation Co., and WIT Studio to reboot the pirate tale following Monkey D. Luffy and his misfit crew.
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‘Wednesday’ Spinoff Featuring Uncle Fester in Development at Netflix
Fred Armisen is set to star in a spinoff of the fan favorite supernatural mystery series chronicling Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy, which has been greenlit for a second season.
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Scanline VFX Creates the Perfect Storm in Netflix’s ‘NYAD’
VFX Supervisor Dann Tarmy breaks down his team’s extensive use of water sims, including how they tackled the huge, new challenge of replacing water in plates where the actor was shot in the water, on Netflix’s biographical sports drama of marathon swimmer Diana Nyad’s attempts to swim from Cuba to Florida.
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Sony Pictures Imageworks Expands Creative Leadership
The award-winning VFX and animation company ups two VFX Supervisors, naming Michael Lasker Creative Director, CG Features and Nicola Lavender Director, CG Supervision.
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The Quiet, Uncomfortable, and Darkly Funny ‘Carol & The End of The World’
Debuting December 15 on Netflix, Dan Guterman’s new adult animated limited series, which he calls ‘a meditative, character-driven dramedy,’ follows a woman who can’t shake her meek, depressed existence, though surrounded by hedonistic excess, in the face of humanity’s impending extinction from a mysterious planet hurtling towards earth.
Netflix Drops Trailer for Live-Action ‘Yu Yu Hakusho’ Series
The five-part adaptation of the legendary smash-hit manga from Weekly Shonen Jump takes place across three worlds and follows a dead teen detective tasked with investigating demonic and spiritual cases in the Human World; the series begins streaming December 14.
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Netflix Announces ‘Blue Eye Samurai’ Season 2 Pickup
Streamer greenlights another season for the beautifully stylized animated series, created by Amber Noizumi and Michael Green, which follows a mixed-race sword master living a life in disguise and shame while seeking vengeance in Edo-period Japan.
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God’s Gang Ltd. Adds Animation Veteran Bruce Daitch
Ex-DreamWorks COO and CFO joins advisory board of company behind ‘God’s Gang’ animated series, led by former Disney exec Nimrod Avraham May; the group’s multinational team is committed to projects free of AI-generated content.
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Official Clip Drops for Zack Snyder’s ‘Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire’
The first installment of the epic two-part science-fantasy that explores an original universe and lore streams December 22 only on Netflix.
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DreamWorks’ ‘Dew Drop Diaries’ Returns for Season 2
Creator Rick Suvalle shares exclusive concept art and talks about the new season of his 3DCG preschool series about a tiny fairy family of ‘Dew Drops’ turning everyday challenges into extraordinary adventures; 12 all-new episodes debut today, December 4, on Netflix.
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David Wachtenheim and Robert Marianetti Talk ‘Leo’
The long-time creative partners, who with co-director Robert Smigel brought us ‘SNL’s iconic ‘Saturday TV Funhouse,’ discuss working alongside Adam Sandler on his quest to create an animated musical comedy for kids about kids, and the ‘huge’ chance they got, in their 50s, to helm a major animated comedy for Netflix, their feature film directorial debut.
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Netflix Shares ‘Carol & The End of The World’ Trailer
The new adult animated series follows Carol, a quiet and uncomfortable woman who, faced with the demise of humanity, stands alone lost among the hedonistic masses, streaming globally December 15.
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Pairing Natural History and VFX Together in ‘Life on Our Planet’
Produced in partnership with ILM and narrated by Morgan Freeman, Netflix’s new documentary series uses the latest technology and science to resurrect creatures long extinct as it follows life’s epic battle to conquer and survive on planet earth.
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Netflix Drops ‘Scott Pilgrim Takes Off’ BTS Featurette
Meet Science SARU, the animation house behind the anime series based on the graphic novel by Bryan Lee O'Malley, which features the original voice cast from the 2010 live-action film, now streaming.
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‘Tis the Thieving Season with DreamWorks’ ‘The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday’
Wolf, Snake, Webs, Shark, and Piranha must save Christmas in order to save their annual holiday heist – giving to the city so they can take from it later – in the all-new special debuting November 30 on Netflix.
Netflix Drops ‘Pokémon Concierge’ Trailer, Release Date
Following the daily life of Pokémon resort concierge Haru, the stop-motion series marks the first collaboration between the two entertainment giants and streams December 28.
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