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Geneon Animation

gumbear — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:06:59 +0000

This company releases a lot of Japanese animations known as anime. There are many upcoming releases of various DVDs.

Click here to see new anime releases

Windsor McCay

gumbear — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:30:45 +0000

This article is about Winsor McCay who made some of the earliest animations in 1914 with Gertie the Dinosaur. Every cartoon he made was his own work and was hand drawn.

Animated clip

Article on Windsor McCay

Dreamworks Hires New Animation Board of Directors

gumbear — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:43:31 +0000

Tom Freston, former CEO and President of Viacom just joined Dreamworks on the Board of Directors for Animation. He was also the former CEO of MTV and helped to create 400 million viewers around the world from his leadership.

Click here for more information on yahoo.com news

Billy’s Balloon

gumbear — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:22:00 +0000

This animation was entered in the competition in 1999 Cannes Film Festival. It is based on a dream and incorporates some dark humor with the character Billy and his balloon.

Here is a link on You Tube for the animation.

For more information about Billy’s Balloon click here

Beowolf

gumbear — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:08:46 +0000

A film by Robert Zemeckis about the epic story of Beowolf is going to be released on November 16th.

Here is a link to see the Beowolf trailer on Apple Trailers

New CGI Star Wars animation

gumbear — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:52:27 +0000

TV Guide interviews George Lucas about his upcoming new Star Wars CGI animation.

Click here to read more about the TV Guide Interview