Tag: animation

May 2, 2016 · 2 comments

By Chris Perkins. The world of streaming anime is a fast-moving one. So much so, that rather a lot has changed since we published our original Anime Streaming Guide last summer. We’ve seen whole new seasons of anime launch, and a new player enter the UK arena with the launch of Funimation Now. So it’s […]

April 30, 2016 · 0 comments

By Hugh David. Chairman Drek is hell-bent on destroying every planet in the Solana Galaxy. Nobody can stop him… except maybe two incredibly unlikely heroes: a cat-like Lombax and Clank, a robot assembled by mistake. Luckily them, or possibly unluckily for everybody else, they’ve somehow acquired a planet-destroying weapon of their own, joining forces with […]

April 27, 2016 · 0 comments

Jasper Sharp investigates the hype over “free” animation software. Last month, a press release went out under the heading ‘TOONZ goes Open Source!’ The revolutionary 2-D animation software, developed for the professional market by the Rome-based company Digital Video in 1993 and originally distributed by Softimage as Creative Toonz, has now been placed freely within […]

April 15, 2016 · 3 comments

Andrew Osmond on what’s chopped and changed in international animation. Recently on this blog, we reported on how DreamWorks’ new film Kung Fu Panda 3 had been re-animated for China, lip-synching the characters to the Mandarin-speaking actors. It’s a reminder that animation isn’t an unchanging, iconic medium; it’s malleable and fluid. Of course, the same […]

April 10, 2016 · 0 comments

Andy Hanley on the director of Letter to Momo. When it comes to well-known anime film directors, it’s easy to pigeon-hole them in the expectation that their works will adhere to a particular genre or style – mention Hayao Miyazaki, Mamoru Hosoda or Makoto Shinkai, and most fans of the medium will instantly be able […]