Cartoon Saloon, an award-winning animation and illustration design studio, has successfully entered the U.S. entertainment market with its animated television series SKUNK FU!, now airing across the world. The Kids WB and Cartoon Network purchased 52 episodes, with the Cartoon Network now airing the series in every region of the country. In addition, N Circle purchased DVD and digital rights in the U.S.
CARTOON, the European Association of Animation Film, has announced the five director finalists for the 18th edition of the Cartoon d'Or, the only European prize specific to animated short films.
The candidates will have the opportunity to attend the Cartoon Forum Ludwigsburg in Germany and present their films to more than 700 professionals. The screening will take place on Thursday, September 18, during the official Cartoon d'Or Award ceremony, where the name of the winner will be unveiled.
Building on its long-standing relationship with the National Basketball Association (NBA), Turner Broadcasting's Cartoon Network Enterprises (CNE) has partnered with the professional sports league to create a joint consumer products and promotional campaign based on the hit television series, BEN 10: ALIEN FORCE.
The 2008 MoCCA (Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art) Art Festival will take place the weekend of June 7-8 at the historic Puck Building (293 Lafayette Street at Houston) in downtown Manhattan's famed SoHo arts district. The festival will be open to the public from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm both days. Admission starts at $10/day or $15/weekend but is only $10/weekend for MoCCA members.
Joe Strike talks to executive producer Paul Young about Cartoon Saloon's international hit series.
Cartoon Network is getting the Hollywood scoop with the network's newest characters Jib and Crash, two oddball puppets hunting for information on the latest movie releases.
Serving as a custom promotional opportunity for movie studio marketing partners and airing as interstitial content, Jib and Crash will do everything from interview celebrities at the set of their films to feature exclusive sneak peeks of upcoming movies.
Digital-Tutors has released ANIMATING CARTOON CHARACTERS IN MAYA -- the newest release for aspiring artists using Maya, the award-winning 3D modeling, animation, effects, and rendering solution.
ANIMATING CARTOON CHARACTERS IN MAYA offers six hours of project-based training for experienced artists learning to create stylized toon animations and provides animators with a workflow to creating toon character animations, time-saving squash and stretch techniques, and the principles of story-telling through movements.
New York-based Augenblick Studios has launched a new Web site with high-quality video of almost every cartoon they have created.
Video includes the WONDER SHOWZEN shorts, SUPERJAIL, GOLDEN AGE and DRUNKY, as well as a new DRUNKY cartoon called "Fish House Punch."
Check them out at www.augenblickstudios.com.
Cartoon Network announced its programming line-up for 2008 at the New York upfronts, held Thursday.
On the heels of February's announcement that STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS will come to Cartoon Network as a series in the fall, George Lucas, the creator and steward of the STAR WARS brand, attended the Upfront event to provide additional details on this highly anticipated offering.
Ron Diamond reports from the 10th edition of the annual event dedicated to presenting and promoting European animated features.
The BAKUGAN craze continues as the hit anime series is now ready to air on a number of Cartoon Network channels internationally, Nelvana Enterprises announced today in advance of MIPTV.
The action-adventure series aimed at boys aged 6 to 11 is already a broadcast and consumer products phenomenon in Japan and Canada, and premiered on Cartoon Network in the U.S. on February 24.
Sci-Fi Channel executive Robert Swartz has been named vice president of original series for Cartoon Network, it was announced Friday by Robert Sorcher, chief content officer for the network.
Swartz's hiring marks the consolidation of the network's development andcurrent series departments under one roof at Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank.
Swartz will start on March 17, and be based at the studio in Burbank, reporting directly to Sorcher.
Following their recent U.S. announcement, Cartoon Network and Nelvana Enterprises have entered into a relationship to support their new anime property, BAKUGAN, the companies announced Friday.
Through the agreement, Cartoon Network will serve as the brand's licensing agent for the non-toy related categories across Europe and Africa.
Cartoon Network Germany has acquired all TV rights to CHOP SOCKY CHOOKS, a DECODE Entertainment co-production with Aardman Animations, the companies announced today.
The Chooks are a crack team of Kung Fu chickens: Chuckie Chan, Chick P and KO Joe.
The three plucky heroes work undercover at Wasabi World, a towering shopping mall run by their archenemy Dr. Wasabi, a mutated piranha and the head of an evil retain empire.
Cake Distribution announced today their latest comedy action series ELIOT KID was licensed to Cartoon Network for its EMEA Channels.
The deal brings ELIOT KID further into Europe, after securing sales to TF1, BBC, ABC Australia, Disney Channel France, Italy, Spain and Germany, RTBF, TSR, TV2 Denmark and RUV Iceland.
ELIOT KID, a Safari de Ville/Samka Productions co-production, is a comedy-action-adventure animated cartoon for children ages 6-9.
Cartoon Network Enterprises (CNE) and Future Kid & Real Estate Company have announced an agreement to create a fully branded Cartoon Network indoor theme park in Kuwait City that will open in 2008. The deal represents the first CNE venture into branded theme parks within the EMEA region.
The 3500-square-meter park will include CN-branded games and rides, character costume events, merchandise areas and fun promotions with onsite food and beverage outlets.
The next chapter in the continuing BEN 10 saga, BEN 10: ALIEN FORCE, will begin with a special one-hour episode on Cartoon Network in Spring 2008. The new series begins five years later when 15-year-old Ben Tennyson chooses to once again put on the Omnitrix and discovers that it has reconfigured his DNA and can now transform him into 10 brand new aliens. Joined by his super-powered cousin Gwen Tennyson and his equally powerful former enemy Kevin Levin, Ben is on a mission to find his missing Grandpa Max.
Cartoon Network's CODENAME: KIDS NEXT DOOR, about an undercover international alliance of top-secret 10-year-olds, is gearing up for its final mission Jan. 21, when the network will honor the operatives with a special tribute. The day begins at 6:00 am (ET/PT) with a marathon of the best episodes and a countdown of creator Tom Warburton's top five favorites, all leading up to the premiere of the one-hour series finale at 7:00 pm (ET/PT).
Industry trade group Cartoon Italia has announced the appointment of Francesco Manfio, General Manager of Gruppo Alcuni, as its new president. Manfio was elected unanimously by the members of the executive board during the association's recent assembly.
Digital-Tutors has released CREATING CARTOON CHARACTERS IN MODO, the first title in a new library of interactive training for emerging digital artists learning modo.
CREATING CARTOON CHARACTERS IN MODO provides more than six hours of project-based training that guides artists through a time-saving approach to character creation, art direction, look development and the processes of modeling, texturing and rendering cartoon characters using modo 301. CREATING CARTOON CHARACTERS IN MODO training is available as a download and also ships on disc.
Molly Chase has been named VP and exec producer for Cartoon Network New Media. In her new role, Chase will oversee several Cartoon Network New Media departments including the design studio, technology group, game studio and the production team, and will be responsible for directing all aspects of production for CartoonNetwork.com, Awesomehouseparty.com and ToonamiJetstream.com.
9 Story Ent. has sold the first 26x3 episodes of its comedy-action adventure series FUTZ!to ABC (Australia), Luk Internacional (Spain), HBO (Asia), YLE (Finland), Teleview s.a.r.l (Middle East) and Cartoon Network (Latin America). The TELETOON Original Production is a throwback, nonverbal cartoon based on the whacked-out, comedic adventures of one odd-looking yet strangely appealing character. Futz is ready for anything, prepared for nothing, and always able to severely mess things up in just 180 seconds.
BKN has announced tthat its Spanish subsidiary BKN New Media SL has signed an agreement worth 1.3 million euros with Cartoon One S.r.l. in Italy for the co-production of STONE AGE (52x11). In return for the rights to the Italian market and a profit participation in the property, Cartoon has agreed to the non-refundable payment, which represents 25% of the production budget. The property will be co-produced with BKN's all-digital and high definition studios in London and Barcelona and Cartoon's studio in Rome.
Cartoon Network SVP of Programming and Scheduling, Jennifer Davidson, unexpectedly died early Saturday morning, Dec. 1, 2007. The 38-year-old wife and mother died of a sudden illness. She is survived by her husband, John Davidson, and three young children, Mitchell (7), Oliver (5) and Harper (2).
Veteran animation executive Sam Register (BEN 10, TEEN TITANS, HI HI PUFFY AMIYUMI) has entered into a multi-property development and production deal with Warner Bros. Animation. Register will also continue to work with sister company Cartoon Network through a first-look development deal that was announced last fall.
