Source: Business of Cinema
Whistling Woods International (WWI), founded by Subhash Ghai, has announced that DreamWorks Animation head of international outreach Shelley Page is now a part of the International Advisory board of Whistling Woods International.
Whistling Woods International president Meghna Ghai Puri said, “We are honored with Shelley Page’s acceptance of our offer to join the [...]

Source: Press release
Chennai based KEN Group has launched its production arm in the US for developing films and television series. KEN Creative Studio CEO V S Sundararajan said, “Our goal is to develop Ken Creative Studio into a major force in motion picture and television animation worldwide and we are confident that Olesker is the [...]

Source: Times of India
Students appearing for Class X exams in March 2009 now have an option to study their course in an animated form. On 27th August, Navneet Publications launched self-practice software called ‘Navneet Top Scorer Digest Plus’ for students of Class X of Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB). They also launched [...]

Source: Guardian UK
Channel 4 has created what it hopes will be an online home for the UK’s animation community, rolling out an advertising-supported, YouTube-style site that will pay animators for their work. 4mations.tv has been in development for two years and launched in a trial form this week with 200 animations from Channel 4’s extensive [...]

Source: MIDDS Press Release
Meteor Studios of Digital Design Studies (MIDDS) is currently organizing corporate training in animation for a group of Japanese professionals and students. It all started in the year 2007 when they trained the first batch of Japanese students from Tokyo University.

The training is focused on Web Designing, 2D and 3D animation and [...]

Source: Televisionpoint.com
Magic Box Animation Studio of Chennai released CDs and DVDs of the 2D and 3D animation film called Sri Ganesha recently, with Vinayaka Chaturthi (September 3) just around the corner. For the first time, we have a Tamil-speaking animated Ganesha in this 45 minute long film.
R. Satish Gupta, proprietor, Magic Box Animation Studio, says, [...]

Source: Economic Times
Computer animation students in Sydney have designed an online game to help children understand ways they can reduce their impact on climate change. Programme coordinator of multimedia at Swinburne University of Technology, Peter Ciszewski, said the University’s student designers have incorporated educative elements into animation and game play techniques to produce the game.

“The [...]

How do some creative Indian film producers combat the slew of animated mythological movies? By making animated versions of old Hindi classics! Why bother with writing an original story when you can just buy the rights to a successful movie from another era and package it as per the flavour of the season - Animation!
Don’t [...]

Source: IndiaTelevision.com
Professionals from both the film and animation industry are set to have their first joint interaction at the Animation Xpress Animated Feature Forum (AFF), which has its big ticket premiere on 23 August in Mumbai. The focus of this conference will lie on the future of animation feature films in India.
The AFF is [...]

Although Oscar-nominated animated film - Persepolis is about an Iranian girl growing up in Iran, it was not really ‘Iranian’ animation. Yet, Iran has a thriving culture of animation with some very good work being done. Iran incidentally also holds the distinction of having the oldest animation known to mankind.
A 5,200-year-old bowl found in Iran’s [...]