People on the Move: New Leadership at Huminah Huminah, DNEG, Aardman & More

Canada’s Huminah Huminah Animation has hired animation veteran Steve Cooke as its new Head of Production. He will manage a growing slate of new shows and overseeing all of HHA’s operations out of Halifax. Cooke’s hire follows the addition of Lynn Chadwick (VP Content & Sales) and Claudina Rowe (Financial Controller); a new CCO is […]

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Baboon Animation Adds Israeli Co-Pro ‘Cheez N Nugget’ to Plate

Multi-Emmy-winning company Baboon Animation (Angry Birds, Gigantosaurus) has joined forces with Fonda Snyder and Israeli creators Neta Holzer and Allon Zaslansky to produce Cheez N Nugget: Gone Bad, an animated slapstick buddy comedy about the unlikely and undying friendship between two fun foods. The series is executive produced by industry veteran...

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Exec Producer Bradley Zweig Introduces Us to ‘Rubble & Crew’

On Friday, fans of the popular worldwide animated hit PAW Patrol can check out Rubble & Crew, a brand-new spinoff show featuring the fan-fave character Rubble. Produced by Spin Master Entertainment, the 26-episodes series follows Rubble and his pup family as they use their awesome construction vehicles to build and repair whatever the town of […]

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Meet the Heroic Girl Genius and Jurassic Sidekick of ‘Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur’

***This article originally appeared in the March ’23 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 328)*** When it comes to Marvel, you never know what’s next. How else to describe Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, the new animated series based on the hit comic-book series featuring the adventures of 13-year-old New Yorker Lunella Lafayette and her giant […]

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Luchador Web3 Series ‘House of Chico’ Knocks Out Season 3 Finale

Today (Friday, February 3), adult animated series House of Chico throws its Season 3 finale into the ring, marking a new milestone for the pioneering Web3 toon with an all-Latino cast. The second installment in Toonstar’s The Gimmicks project, you can watch the epic conclusion and catch up on all seven S3 episodes at therealgimmicks.com/episodes. Executive...

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Snipple Tunes Up Musical Pre-K Show ‘The Singalings’

London-based Snipple Originals, the original content arm of global prodco Snipple Animation, has announced a brand-new 2D animated preschool show The Singalings. An edutainment title featuring music, comedy and original earworms, the project comprises 26 x 1’45” songs, 26 x 5′ episodes, two song compilations and five episode compilations. The series...

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Trailer: ‘The Son of the Stars’ 4K Restoration Available for Pre-Order

Deaf Crocodile Films has opened pre-orders for its release of the rarely-seen 1987 Romanian animated sci-fi film The Son of the Stars (Fiul Stelelor / Ultima Misiune) for the first time ever on Blu-ray. The film will be released in the original Romanian audio with English subtitles. Described as a wild mid-eighties mash-up of The […]

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Adventures in the Retro Future World of ‘Legion of Super-Heroes’

***This article originally appeared in the March ’23 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 328)*** Back in the waning years of the 1950s when the Soviet Union’s Sputnik satellite ominously orbited Earth, a colorful team of teen superheroes emerged from the fertile minds of DC Comics’ Otto Binder and Al Plastino. Set in the limitless landscape […]

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Sneak Peek: ‘Pinecone & Pony’ S2 Gallops to Apple TV+ Friday

Apple TV+ will welcome back its ferocious warrior-kid and her noble steed tomorrow (Friday, February 3) for a second season of Common Sense Selection and GLAAD Award-nominated animated kids and family comedy, Pinecone & Pony! Fans can enjoy an animated appetizer with the sneak peek clip from S2 episode “Harvest Spirit Quest” below! Based on the...

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Grom’s Curiosity Ink Teams with Toon2Tango to Deliver Holiday Pic ‘Santa.com’

Grom Social Enterprises, Inc. today announced that  its original content division Curiosity Ink Media and international animation producer/distributor Toon2Tango GmbH & Co. KG will begin production later this  year on their previously announced animated holiday special, Santa.com (working title). This feature film gift will be unwrapped in theaters...

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