The recent news that Playhouse Disney has joined with Britain’s Tiger Aspect Productions is co-producing a new animated TV series, Tinga Tinga Tales for preschoolers with Kenya’s Homeboyz Entertainment. The show, which revolves around African animals and is just starting animation, is based on the Tinga Tinga art of Tanzania and was commissioned last year [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Animation studios'
Kenyan Animation Outpost
June 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Africa, Animation studios, Television animation
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20th Society for Animation Studies Conference at the Art Institute at Bournemouth, July 18-20, 2008
June 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Animation conferences, Animation studios
Animation Unlimited 2008 is the name of this year’s Society for Animation Studies conference at the Art Institute at Bournemouth, which is in the English seaside resort town. The Society is very close to my heart, having founded the international membership organization in 1987 and served as its first president. SAS, I am happy to [...]
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Blue Sky Tax Credits
April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Animation studios
In January, I commented on Blue Sky Studios’ announced move from one New York suburb to another, i.e., from White Plains, New York, to Greenwich, Connecticut. The main reason for the move was because of Connecticut’s lucrative tax credit program. It seemed to give Connecticut a successful animation house, proved again by the subsequent release [...]
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An Aardman Chronology/Filmography
January 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Animation studios
Film historian Kristin Thompson is trying to compile a rather extensive chronology/filmography for Aardman Animations. The results so far have been posted on her and David Bordwell’s blog in hopes of filling in the blanks, so to speak. The project arose as a byproduct of Thompson and Bordwell’s work on revising their Film History: An [...]
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Blue Sky Moves to Connecticut
January 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Animation studios
News broke on Thursday, January 10th, that Blue Sky Studios, producers of Ice Age, Robots and Ice Age: The Meltdown, as well as the forthcoming Horton Hears a Who! (pictured above), is moving some 12 miles from White Plains, New York, just north of New York City, to Greenwich, Connecticut. While the move from one [...]
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Of Christmas Cards Past
December 25th, 2007 · No Comments · Animation Christmas cards, Animation studios
While in the midst of unpacking files left over from my last big move, I came across a batch of Christmas cards I got in the 1990s and thought this would be a good time to share them. I was then a freelance animation journalist and these cards were among the perks. Christmas cards can, [...]
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