1st
August
2012
Emmy® Award-winning Toon Boom Animation Inc. is honoured to announce that the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has nominated four animated programs, in what is a category of five nominees, powered by Toon Boom. These animated programs include: Read the rest of this entry »
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28th
June
2012
Rainmaker Entertainment Inc. announced earlier today that it has entered into an asset purchase agreement dated June 27, 2012 pursuant to which Rainmaker Studios Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Xing Xing Digital Corporation, has agreed to acquire certain assets comprising substantially all of Rainmaker’s animation studio assets. Read the rest of this entry »
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19th
June
2012
Toronto Animation Arts Festival International (TAAFI) has announced an animation-focused pitch event, Pitch-a-Palooza, and two supporting events, Pitch Lab and The Monkeyworks. TAAFI, widely supported by Canada’s animation community, is the inaugural three-day festival celebrating the best of animation arts from around the world from July 6 – 8 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. Read the rest of this entry »
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12th
June
2012
The Canadian animation world is about to gain one pair of cosmic power pants and a trio of insane animals. TELETOON Canada Inc. has announced its latest original production slate featuring kids comedies Dr. Dimensionpants and Endangered Species as well as fresh seasons of Johnny Test, Detentionaire and Fugget About It. Read the rest of this entry »
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8th
June
2012
Emmy® Award-winning Toon Boom Animation Inc. announced today the release of Toon Boom Studio 7, an amplified version offering advanced bone animation tools and new nature effects. Delivering an even more rewarding experience at home and in the classroom, Studio 7 is the ultimate animation software for exploring all animation techniques. Read the rest of this entry »
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30th
May
2012
Tickets for the Toronto Animation Arts Festival International (TAAFI), celebrating the best of animation arts from around the world, go on sale June 1, 2012. Widely supported by the Toronto animation industry, the three-day festival features screenings of shorts and full-length features, plus intimate and exclusive workshops and master classes. The exciting new festival that showcases the local and international animation industry comes to the TIFF Bell Lightbox, July 6-8, 2012. Read the rest of this entry »
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14th
May
2012
Cineplex Entertainment, via its Front Row Centre Events and EMI Music have announced that Yellow Submarine, the animated feature released in 1968 starring The Beatles, returns to the big screen for one night only on Thursday, May 24, 2012, show times vary by location. Currently out of print, this landmark movie has been restored by hand, frame-by-frame in 4K digital resolution for the first time by Paul Rutan Jr. and his team of specialists at L.A.’s Triage Motion Pictures and Eque Inc. Read the rest of this entry »
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9th
May
2012
The Vancouver ACM SIGGRAPH chapter invites you to attend a presentation on Tuesday May 15th, at the Vancity Theatre featuring Danielle Feinberg, Director of Photography at Pixar Animation Studios. The evening’s presentation will focus on Pixar’s lighting design process for Brave, which opens in theatres on June 22nd. Read the rest of this entry »
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2nd
May
2012
DHX Media Ltd. has announced that it has signed new international broadcast licenses with BBC Worldwide Channels for its Rastamouse hit pre-school TV series for its feeds in Hispanic US, Latin America and Africa. Also, distribution agent White Fox has licensed the series for Greece and Cyprus, where it will air on ERT3. Read the rest of this entry »
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24th
April
2012
American technology expert Scott Steinberg recently spoke with NewsWatch about some of the must-have technology products of 2012. One product that really caught his eye came from a Canadian company that’s been in the professional world for quite some time now. The company is called Toon Boom Animation Inc., and although consumers might have never heard their name, they’ve been behind the scenes with some of America’s top entertainment companies such as Disney, Warner Brothers, Cartoon Network, Fox and Dreamworks pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
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