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Studio confirms the job losses to AWN as part of Disney’s staff cuts earlier this week that include ESPN and National Geographic.

Premiering at SIGGRAPH 2026, the new 15-minute animated short, a historical drama rooted in Central Asian folklore, was created by a team of 12 in 2 weeks on the Higgsfield platform powered by NVIDIA.

The tech company has launched a rolling beta of its interactive previs tool, with new features including a 3D asset library, real-time compositing, Spark Atlas and direct USD file loading.

The German studio boards project as a co-production partner, joining current co-production partners Vivi Film and VRT Ketnet; pre-sales secured in France, Canada, Denmark and Iceland.

Available for Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio and Nuke Indie, the tool acts as a specialized roto assistant that moves and deforms splines from initial input frames; artists can refine generated shapes, lock splines and keep workflows inside Nuke’s existing Roto node.

Janus Films is releasing a newly restored uncut French version of the animated science-fiction feature, the final film from the famed ‘Fantastic Planet’ and ‘Time Masters’ director.

The leading entertainment content distributor will be setup in booth #4118 at San Diego Comic-Con 2026, and plans numerous giveaways, physical media releases, collector offers and a photobooth featuring backgrounds from its film and TV catalog.

New tier adds studio-controlled licensing, project management and governance tools for high-end media production, giving pipeline supervisors control over which AI models artists use; studios can run workflows on-premises or in private cloud infrastructure to keep sensitive IP, prompts and training data inside the facility.

Adult Swim on the Green returns July 23-26 outside the San Diego Convention Center with series-themed activations, attractions, and free nighttime events; Friday panels will spotlight ‘Common Side Effects,’ ‘President Curtis,’ ‘My Adventures with Superman’ and ‘Rick and Morty.’

Eloi Champagne will lead the July 22 Birds of a Feather session with Jimmy Fournier, covering Gaussian-based animation workflows, hybrid pipelines and production uses from acquisition through delivery, with examples from NFB works in progress and technical explorations involving the NVIDIA Spatial Intelligence Lab and the Dynamic Graphics Project lab at the University of Toronto.

Actors to voice The Prince, Roderick, and Gef, respectively, in the upcoming original animated film that reimagines the roles of Cinderella’s supposedly ‘evil’ stepsisters in the classic fairytale; streams November 20.

The animation studio is using Flix with Adobe Photoshop to support storyboarding on the Sycamore Studios animated feature set for a 2027 release.