Netflix Sets Dates for ‘Pinocchio,’ Wendell & Wild’ and Other Feature Releases
The streamer has both changed and finalized theatrical and streaming dates for its slate of animated films coming to audiences starting this October.
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LAIKA Reveals ‘One Helluva Cast’ for ‘Wildwood’
Carey Mulligan, Mahershala Ali, Awkwafina, Angela Bassett, and Richard E. Grant lead an all-star voice lineup for the multi-award-winning animation studio’s next feature, which ventures into an ‘unknown’ land filled with strange talking animals, roguish bandits, and powerful figures with the darkest intentions.
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MPC and the 2D/3D/CG Stylings of ‘Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers’
VFX supervisor Axel Bonami talks making, mixing, matching, and maneuvering the many visual styles in Akiva Schaffer’s hybrid live-action/CG animated action-comedy, now streaming on Disney+.
‘Claydream’ Documentary Explores Will Vinton’s Claymation Heyday
Watch the trailer for director Marq Evans’ intimate portrait of the stop-motion animation pioneer’s highs and lows; the film opens in theaters today, August 5.
Paul Coker Jr., Designer of Iconic Rankin/Bass Characters, Dies at 93
The artist, who began his career as an illustrator for ‘Mad Magazine,’ cemented his legacy by creating the heroes and villains of many stop-motion holiday classics.
Netflix Drops Teaser Trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Pinocchio’
It’s every bit as beautiful as we’d imagined – the Oscar-winning director’s reinvention of Carlo Collodi's classic tale of the wooden marionette magically brought to life by the grieving woodcarver Geppetto comes to the streamer this December.
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Zareh Nalbandian Talks Animal Logic’s Sale to Netflix
The animation production company’s CEO and co-founder discusses the ‘Why now?’ and ‘What’s next?’ of the streaming giant’s surprise acquisition earlier this week of the studio he started more than 30 years ago.
Netflix Acquires Animal Logic
Streaming giant continues its aggressive expansion into animation and VFX production with its purchase of one of the industry’s leading independent creative studios.
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Podcast EP 168: ‘Cantastoria’ - How 11 Students Created a StopMo Film Remotely During the Pandemic
Animators Stephen Belford, Anna Harestad, Heather Little, and Tawny Therrien discuss the challenges they overcame creating a stop-motion animated film during the pandemic while working remotely.
Netflix Shares Slew of Sneak Peeks at Annecy 2022
Guillermo del Toro, David Fincher, Henry Selick, and more joined the streamer’s Animation Showcase to rev the crowd, discuss their upcoming animated projects, and champion the power of the medium.
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‘My Love Affair with Marriage’ Plays Matchmaker with Animation and Science
Signe Baumane’s new animated feature, in competition at Annecy 2022, employs her raw, incredibly direct and soul baring storytelling in a film about a woman’s huger for love and acceptance, and how the power of biology is a force she must contend with.
Nickelodeon Shares ‘Kiri and Lou’ Promo Video
The stop-motion preschool series follows the friendship between a feisty dinosaur Kiri and her best friend Lou as they explore the world of feelings; Season 1 lands on Nick Jr. June 13.
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The NFB Goes All In at Annecy 2022
Canada’s famed National Film Board is coming to this year’s festival boasting 3 short films in competition and a ‘NFB: New Spaces for Storytelling’ Studio Focus showcasing its programming vision and women creators; the event runs from June 13 to 18.
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Phil Tippett’s ‘Mad God’ Getting Theatrical Run
Shudder and IFC Midnight are putting the visionary creator’s long-awaited labor of love into cinemas this month prior to its streaming debut.
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Podcast EP 162: How Jace Wertz Quit His Retail Job to Get into Stop-Motion
The stop-motion animator discusses the change in mindset that allowed him to leave his job after 15 years to pursue his dreams of becoming a professional filmmaker.
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Netflix Axes More Animated Projects Amid Company Layoffs
The streamer has cancelled its plans to produce Ava DuVernay’s ‘Wings of Fire,’ as well as two children’s titles based on the works of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, while also laying off 150 staff primarily in its U.S. operations.
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‘Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K.’ Canceled at Hulu
Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum’s stop-motion comedy series – produced by Stoopid Buddy Stoodies - about a megalomaniacal supervillain who gets ousted from his own evil organization, is done after only one season at the streamer.
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Podcast EP 161: How Indie Animator Jeremy Nixon Manufactures Social Media Fame
The London-based 2D animator offers up some tips for using ‘TVPaint’ for 2D animation and discusses his journey to social media fame and how he gets gigs with big clients.
Podcast EP 159: Alba Medinyà's Journey from Spain to Canada in Pursuit of Stop-Motion
The Spanish illustrator and 2D/stop-motion animator discusses the journey she took to Canada to pursue her animation career, how she found work, and her ultimate decision to return to Spain.
LAIKA and ‘Ozark’ Creator Bill Dubuque Teaming Up on ‘The Night Gardener’
Studio CEO and president Travis Knight will direct the stop-motion feature, a gritty neo-noir folktale centered on a young man in rural Missouri fighting to keep his family together in the wake of a tragedy.
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Podcast EP 158: How Christian Haynes is Creating Indie Series ‘Zach in Time’
The artist and animator shares how he got his original series off the ground, thoughts on self-taught learning vs. animation school, and how to improve your own art.
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Bill Nye Joins Coca Cola in Stop-Motion Short Explaining Recycling
Watch Mackinnon & Saunders’ new film, ‘The Coca-Cola Company and Bill Nye Demystify Recycling,’ which illustrates the circular journey of recycled plastic bottles; materials used in the film include trees made from Sprite labels, conveyor belts from recycled cardboard and Mr. Nye, personified by Coca-Cola bottles.
Podcast EP 157: How Chelsea Lee Changed Careers from Professional Dancer to Stop-Motion Animator
The artist and filmmaker discusses tips on impressing new clients, how to show confidence when something goes wrong, and what it’s like animating on a stop-motion TV show while pregnant.
Animation Helps ‘The Principles of Pleasure’ Demystify the Complex World of Sex
Women and queer-owned animation studio Mighty Oak deftly integrates stop-motion, collage, motion-graphics and different 2D styles on Netflix’s docuseries that tackles the myths of sex education and how pleasure occurs in the mind.
Steven Shapiro Joins Aardman as CTO
The former Walt Disney Studios exec joins the company March 28 in the newly created role; studio also announces Harry Linden came on board as head of Stop Frame Production earlier this month.
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