Animation

SIGGRAPH 2009 announces computer animation fest award nominees

SIGGRAPH recently announced the selection of award nominees for the SIGGRAPH 2009 Computer Animation Festival to be held in New Orleans this August. Nominees were chosen from 770 submissions from around the globe, presented by both professional studios and students alike. In all, more than 140 films will be shown during the Computer Animation Festival. ….

Ice Age creator announces date for newest animated feature, to be set in Rio de Janeiro

Twentieth Century Fox Animation president Vanessa Morrison recently announced that Rio, the latest animated feature film from Blue Sky Studios, will be released by Fox on April 8, 2011. Rio is a story of a nerdy macaw who leaves the comforts of his cage in small town Minnesota and heads to Rio de Janeiro. He ….

Review: Get ready for Fred Flintstone taking a dump and Optimus Prime having sex in Seth MacFarlane’s latest Uncensored Blu-ray

Seth MacFarlane – creator of the cult hit animated show Family Guy – has taken some of his original animated vignettes that first appeared online at MacFarlane’s Youtube channel that shares the show’s name and SethComedy.com – runs them completely unedited and uncensored – and has added some previously unseen footage, and created the almost ….

Here’s the first image of Jim Carrey as a miserly animated Ebenezer Scrooge

Disney has released the first image of Jim Carrey in the upcoming Disney’s A Christmas Carol. Carrey stars as the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge in the upcoming film, a multi-sensory film re-envisioned by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis. Capturing the essence of the classic Dickens tale in a groundbreaking 3D motion picture event, Disney’s A Christmas ….

Win concert tickets, manga books, collectible figures and more during Super Para Natural Manga Day

Organizers of the upcoming New York Anime Festival are sponsoring an event called Super Para Natural Manga Day at New York City’s Kinokuniya Bookstore. This Sunday, May 17th at Kinokuniya Bookstore – located at 1073 Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan – the New York Anime Festival will present a day of events celebrating the ….

Clip from the post-apocalyptic animated epic 9 hits the net

A new scene from director Shane Acker’s animated epic 9, has premiered on MTV. The film, which is a feature-length expansion of Acker’s own award-winning short of the same name, is produced by Tim Burton (Corpse Bride, upcoming Alice in Wonderland), Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) and Jim Lemley, who produced Red Eye and We Were Soldiers. ….

Win one of two complete sets of Marvel X-Men: The DVD Comic Book Collection

On April 28th, 2009 Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment will release Marvel X-Men: Volumes 1 & 2 on DVD. For the first time, all 32 episodes of the cult favorite animated TV series will be available on disc. Discover the origins of your favorite X-Men characters with stories adapted directly from the original comic books. ….

Win a copy of the 4 Disc DVD Collection of the animated cult classic Gigantor

On May 5, 2009, E1 Entertainment will release the cult classic series Gigantor, including 26 episodes of the classic animated series, in their original air-date order, plus fascinating bonus features, issues 1-6 of the Gigantor Comic, and a 16 page collectible booklet, all in a Deluxe 4-DVD Set. To celebrate the release, FilmFetish is getting ….

Get A free set of limited edition Monsters vs. Aliens Trading Cards this weekend at IMAX theaters

IMAX and Paramount, DreamWorks Animation, are teaming up to offer moviegoers visiting participating IMAX theatres to see Monsters vs. Aliens: An IMAX 3D Experience the opportunity to receive a free set of character trading cards. The film opens in IMAX theatres worldwide this Friday, March 27th. To receive the cards, individuals should visit the official ….