5:30 pm 16/04/2018 By AnimationXpress Team

Bengaluru GAFX 2018, India’s premier event on animation, visual effects, gaming and comics (AVGC) is taking place at Hotel Lalit Ashok, Bengaluru on the 18, 19 and 20 May, 2018. The event (formerly called ABAI Fest & Summit) is organized by ABAI under the aegis of the Department of Innovation and Technology, Government of Karnataka. The main agenda for the 2018 edition of GAFX is focused on creating more opportunities and to help establish a strong foothold for the community in the AVGC sector. Keeping … Read More

4:00 pm 13/04/2018 By AnimationXpress Team

Framestore has brought Larissa Berringer and Cat Pavitt to its Chicago team as business development manager and senior producer respectively for the Midwest office (Framestore’s third base in the US) as it celebrates its first year in operation in Chicago. With significant credits gained across film, television and advertising, Larissa is an experienced multimedia producer. Before joining Framestore to foster client and creative relationships across the company’s advertising business, she started her career on the sets of the popular series Weeds, working … Read More

3:00 pm 13/04/2018 By AnimationXpress Team

An inspiration from a true-life story of James Bowen and his beloved stray cat, Bob, the hit film A Streetcat Named Bob is being created into webisodes. King Rollo looks after the animation and the shorts are produced by Adam Rolston and Luke Melia at Shooting Script, the company behind the feature film adaption, while Bowen served as the executive producer. Bob was injured when he was rescued by Bowen in 2007. The two have been inseparable since then. Making … Read More

2:00 pm 13/04/2018 By AnimationXpress Team

From the movie of “Avatar” that set an impressive record for CG movie box office in China eight years ago, to the exquisite Chinese CG animation film “Monkey King: Hero is Back”, China’s first full-motion capture movie “L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties” and the Chinese animated movie series “Boonie Bears” that broke the Chinese box office record, the CG technology has gradually matured, and the development of China’s CG industry has gradually entered the fast lane with the screening of … Read More

1:00 pm 13/04/2018 By AnimationXpress Team

Paramount Animation has brought veteran Ramsey Naito on board as the executive vice president. She will report to president Mireille Soria (Paramount Animation) with whom she’ll work to build cross-divisional opportunities with Nickelodeon and parent company Viacom’s other brands. The studio has also signed Emily Nordwind as VP of production and development, Katherine MacDonald as VP of production and marketing and Maya Kambe as the creative executive. Naito will oversee production of the SpongeBob SquarePants (third instalment) movie, as well as new projects for development and animation … Read More

12:00 pm 13/04/2018 By Sachin Bhat

To go by the past precedents, it wouldn’t be wrong to suggest director Brad Peyton is an action junkie. The Canadian film-maker pulls no punches in trying to create something that triggers visceral auscultation without giving even a philia of attention towards story or substance. His Cats & Dogs and Journey 2: The Mysterious Island immediately come to mind. But in his latest offering Rampage, Peyton just takes the biscuit way too far in attempting to take the action genre … Read More

11:00 am 13/04/2018 By Yugandhara Shete

When the cute, fluffy, joyful, affectionate rabbit, Molang and a shy, emotional little chick, Piu Piu set out on their daily explorations, audience have another three and a half minutes of sheer happiness. Molang, the preschool animated series is a joyous treat to watch and is melting hearts all over with the warm relation the two cute characters share. It is the brain-child of director, Marie-Caroline Villand which symbolises tenderness, softness and is the cutest anyone has ever seen. “We … Read More