George Lucas’ legendary visual effects shop, Industrial Light & Magic, is entering the feature animation business for the first time with Paramount’s “Rango” and thus joins a select number of companies doing high-end motion-capture animated features, including Sony Pictures Imageworks (”Beowulf,” “Monster House”) and Animal Logic (”Happy Feet”).
ILM’s “Rango” team is headed by Oscar [...]

Guess who joins Ganesh, Krishna and Ram in the Indian animation party? Lord Ayyappa! And that too in not one or two but eight different styles of animation including 2D animation, 3D animation, clay animation, toy animation, oil painting and Kerala murals.
India Tales, a year-and-a-half old company started by Nalin Singh, is coming out with [...]