Billboard art gallery

It has the shape of a billboard but the contents of an art gallery. It’s paid for by corporate sponsors but operates like a nonprofit. The object, roughly the screen size of the Pacers digital scoreboard in Bankers Life Fieldhouse but vertical, would face the...

Expanding animation

Channel Frederator announced today the signing of over 90 new channels, expanding its digital network of animation with content from 11 countries. Founded by animation vet Fred Seibert in 1998, Frederator operates both Frederator Studios, a traditional animation...

Wage fix suit on

A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that the Walt Disney Co., DreamWorks Animation, Sony ImageWorks and other companies violated antitrust laws by conspiring to set animation wages via non-poaching agreements. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh, in a...

China in L.A.

Chinese digital animation studio Original Force has set up a film division in Los Angeles and is working on its first original feature to feed demand both in the world’s second-biggest movie market and globally. Backed by internet giant Tencent, the company aims...

New open-source tool

Pixar Animation Studios has been entertaining us for years, inspiring audiences and filmmakers alike with its level of creativity and high-quality animation. And now Pixar fans will have help making their own animated shorts and films because Pixar plans to release a...