Kira Lehtomaki, animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios © Mat Fretschel Since she was three years old, Kira Lehtomaki has known that she wanted to be an animator at Walt DisneyDIS Animation Studios....
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The Sandbox forms a partnership with TOEI ANIMATION
The Sandbox is now extremely happy to be teaming with TOEI ANIMATION, an outstanding pioneer in Japanese animation. With this collaboration, they will now work together to create experiences for The S...
The Sandbox Collaborates With Japanese Studio Toei Animation
Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, and One Piece have all been produced by this studio. The Sandbox has stated that 1,000 free NFTs would be distributed to early adopters. On February 16, the gaming and metave...
Amazon, Google and Kering back NFT animation studio making ‘synthetic celebrities’
Amazon and an array of other big-name companies made another play for web3 today, backing creative NFT studio Superplastic in its $20 million Series A. Superplastic will also benefit from what A...
Doodles to Acquire Animation Studio Golden Wolf
Bolstering its drive to revolutionize entertaining and interactive storytelling, leading Web3 brand Doodles plans to expand its portfolio with the acquisition of award-winning animation studio Golden ...
Doodles to Launch TV Show With ‘Rick & Morty’ Animation Studio
Doodles NFT creator will partner with ‘Rick & Morty’ creator Golden Wolf Studios to further drive its expansion into mainstream media. The Web3 firm behind the popular cartoon NFT collection will ...
Doodles to buy animation studio Golden Wolf: Billboard
NFT shop Doodles will acquire animation studio Golden Wolf in the latest example of consolidation in the web3 market. Once complete, the team at Golden Wolf, which worked on smash hit cartoon se...
Hulu’s ‘Koala Man’ Wants To Deliver Laughs That Are ‘Unapologetically Australian’
Koala Man Courtesy of Hulu Pop quiz! How many Australian superheroes can you name off the top of your head? For most audiences in the United States, the list of Aussie comic book characters probably b...
Disney’s ‘Strange World’ Plummets At The Theaters, But Not All Is Lost For Disney Animation
LONDON, ENGLAND – NOVEMBER 17: (L-R) Jake Gyllenhaal, Gabrielle Union and and Jaboukie Young-White … [+] attend the UK Premiere of “Strange World” at Cineworld Leicester Square...
What You Need To Know Before You Watch Disney’s ‘Strange World’
Disney’s ‘Strange World’ is the studio’s 61st animated feature. Disney Animated science-fiction adventure movies are nothing new for Disney. Still, Strange World serves up seve...
Henry Selick Talks Netflix’s ‘Wendell And Wild,’ The Jordan Peele Business And Afropunk
Stop motion animation icon, director Henry Selick. Paul McEvoy/NETFLIX Thanks to a perfect storm of creativity and ambition, we have Wendell and Wild, the latest stop motion animation gem from directo...
Everything we learned at D23 Expo′s Pixar and Walt Disney Animation panel
In this photo illustration a Pixar Animation Studios logo is seen on a smartphone screen. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images The Walt Disney Company revealed new information about its upcoming s...
How Crunchyroll Is Building An Empire Of Anime
Crunchyroll Host Lauren Moore, and Dragon Ball Superhero voice actors Kyle Herbert, Aleks Le, and … [+] Zeno Robinson at Crunchyroll Expo, August 7, 2022. Crunchyroll LLC Last weekend, crowds of...
Netflix’s Super Giant Real Time Animation Allows For Discovery And Play
PARIS, FRANCE – FEBRUARY 13: In this photo iIllustration, the Netflix logo is seen on the screen of … [+] an iPhone in front of a computer screen showing a Netflix logo on February 13, 201...
Toonstar Animation Studio Joins Hot Topic To Launch Animated NFTs
Toonstar, an animation studio for Web3 contents, has successfully partnered with the national retail chain Hot Topic to launch new animated non-fungible tokens (NFTs) collections. Toonstar will now be...
Kevin Hart Extends Media Omnipresence Into Animation, Web3, NFTs With Roku Originals Deal
(NFT images courtesy of Hartbeat) If it seems like Kevin Hart is pretty much everywhere there’s media, it’s because he mostly is everywhere, though until now he hadn’t ventured into the Metaverse or N...
Baymax! Is A Charming, Limited, But Still Enjoyable Set of Vignettes
2014’s Big Hero 6 was a number of things. It was the first Disney animated film to feature Marvel Comics characters. It was an Oscar winner (netting Best Animated Feature at the 87th Academy Awards). ...
Canon, HitRecord Make Animated Short With Smart Camera Collaboration
(Image courtesy of Canon) A charming animated short commissioned by Canon from Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s production company/creative community HitRecord.com is an unlikely but effective demonstration of ...
Celebrities invest in an animation app based on NFTs
As NFT trading grows in popularity, so do its investors. Recently there was talk about the new virtual development supported by producer Steve Aoki, singer Pitbull and businessman Mark Cuban that seek...
Netflix And Japan’s Studio Colorido Inks Multi-Picture Partnership
Yuji Yamano (left), Netflix’s Director of Japan Content, and Koji Yamamoto (right), Studio … [+] Colorido’s President, celebrate their expanded partnership. Netflix Netflix NFLX has inked a mult...
SIMBA Partners With Emmy-Winning Animation Studio Bureau of Magic for Lost in Oz Digital Collectibles Series
April 12, 2022 – South Bend, Indiana In an exciting collaboration between Bureau of Magic (BoM) and SIMBA Chain – showing how blockchain technology is reshaping customer engagement in the entertainmen...
User Loses 3 Bored Ape NFTs on New Animation Phishing Site
Scammers are launching phishing sites impersonating the prominent NFT marketplace – Bored Ape Yach Club (BAYC) after the ApeCoin token launch. A user ended up losing 3 NFTs on a new BAYC animation phi...
An All-New Disability Inclusive DreamWorks Animation
Team Zenko Go is an all-new DreamWorks Animation series produced with Mainframe Studios. The series follows a secret squad of young do-gooders determined to make their town the happiest town in the wo...
How animation brought Critical Role’s ‘Legend of Vox Machina’ to life
Vax, Scanland, Percival, Vex, Grog, Pyke and Keyleth in “The Legend of Vox Machina,” a new animated series based on “Critical Role.” Amazon Studios Within the first minute of C...
For Amazon Prime Video, Africa Is The Next Programming Frontier
Amazon Prime Video signed an exclusive licensing deal with Nigeria’s Anthill Studios, January 7, … [+] 2022 Amazon Prime Video/Anthill Studios Nigeria’s “Nollywood” has long been one of th...