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An adventure fable sourced from the vast collection of stories from popular children’s magazine Chandamama would be seen on the big screen soon. The monthly has tied up with Thiruvanthapuram-based Toonz Animation Ltd to produce a full length animated feature film based on a story from the vast library of Chandamama on an [...]

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Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd has announced the launch of their first gaming portal for the international markets - Zapakworld.com at Casual Connect held at Kyiv, Ukraine. This initiative marks the company’s entry in the international market.
Over 50 international developers have already signed on with Zapakworld.com to provide games. Zapakworld.com is the world’s first [...]

Sunil Doshi, the producer of successful films such as Bheja Fry and Mixed Doubles, and CEO of Alliance Media & Entertainment has acquired distribution rights for 11 Miyazaki films worth $10 million (around Rs 48 crore), through an agreement with Studio Ghibli of Japan.
The films, including titles such as Nausicaa – The Valley of the [...]

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HotMuggs, a stylised drinkware concept, has entered into an alliance with Yash Raj Films for producing licensed merchandise on Roadside Romeo. With about a dozen characters in Roadside Romeo, this is the first animated film - an India-U.S. co-production of Yash Raj Films and the Walt Disney Company, and is scheduled for [...]

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Graphiti School of Animation has opened admissions for it’s 6-month specialisation course in animation called G CAT Expert for which it is conducting counselling sessions and opens admissions. The 6-month specialisation is targeted primarily at people who have some knowledge of animation and are looking to hone their skills or to further their [...]

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ANTS (ANimation Training School) headquartered in Bangalore, has expanded its operations from just animation training to animation and gaming production by launching its production arm Antroid Productions. The studio aims to take up outsourced as well as original IP projects and already has a few projects in the pipeline.
“We always aimed at setting [...]

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The National Film Board of Canada is celebrating World Animation Day, October 28th, with a 13-city tour of Get Animated!, a series of free public screenings from the NFB’s Oscar-winning animation studios. The NFB is also offering free streaming of two acclaimed NFB shorts on its website through to November 9, 2008.
Get Animated! [...]

Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology, Toronto, Canada, and Frameboxx Animation and Visual Effects Mumbai India, have announced an agreement to jointly offer Post Graduate Certificate Programs in Animation, Visual effects and Gaming in India. The formal signing of the agreement took place on October 7th 2008 in Mumbai, with H.E. the Consul General [...]

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Orissa’s capital city, Bhubaneswar, has lately become a favoured location for many leading names in Animation Education for opening up branches, owing to the interest shown by students here towards visual effects courses. MIDDS, Mumbai which has already had success in placements and in getting animation projects for both Bollywood and the TV [...]

Panel Animation has signed a deal with Turner Asia for airing its 60-minute animation movie – Little Pandavas. The movie will be ready in about six months and telecast on Cartoon Network in 24 countries including India, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Japan.
“Little Pandavas is the first project of Panel E. With this, we are entering [...]