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DreamWorks and the Philippines Stage Animation Games Despite Warning from Disney
500 DreamWorks and Filipino artists waded ashore Saturday in a mock assault to seize an animation production studio, a drill Disney claimed would have dire consequences on the future of peaceful animated feature distribution.
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SoCal VFX Firms Add 190 Jobs in August, All in Mumbai
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today that in the month of August, visual effects studios in Southern California combined to create 190 new jobs, though all the new positions were located in Mumbai.
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Digital Domain Vows to Go Green, Build Sustainable VFX Business
Saying it will try to move away from ecologically unfriendly practices such as building 115,000 square foot studios without the business base to support it, Digital Domain yesterday vowed to “Go Green” by 2014.
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InfoGraphic: What’s Next for Ousted Digital Domain CEO John Textor?
With the sudden resignation of CEO John Textor, closure of their brand new Port St. Lucie production studio, layoff of 280 employees and the complete collapse of their stock price, venerable visual effects studio
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Computer Workstation Self-Destructs in Protest Over Use on Carrie Remake
A fully configured HP Z820 workstation tragically self-destructed Wednesday by short circuiting and bursting into flames in a desperate act of protest against being forced to work on a remake of the film Carrie.
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President Hollande Presses India to Stop Bringing Shitty Animated Content to MIPCOM
French President François Hollande earlier today urged the Indian government to save everyone valuable time, energy and money by putting an end to the ridiculous practice of bringing really shitty animated content to MIPCOM.
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InfoGraphic: Issues That Most Concern California Visual Effects Artists
California now finds itself sitting center stage in a global battle over visual effects production work. The ancestral home of the industry is struggling against global VFX studio expansion fueled by film production cost-cutting
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Awesome Tsunami-Swept Anime Porn Stash Washes Ashore in Alaska
A 14 year-old Japanese boy whose home was destroyed in last year’s tsunami was overjoyed to learn his prized possession survived: an unbelievably awesome anime porn collection, which washed ashore last week in Alaska.
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Red Cross Reports Over 1 Million Syrians Lack Access to Disney Channel
As civil unrest spreads across Syria, the Red Cross reported Wednesday that more than 1/3 of the country is without reliable cable, and over 1 million Syrians still lack access to the Disney Channel.
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North Korea Cuts Minimum Height for Animator-Conscripts After Famine
A Seoul news outlet reported Friday that North Korea is filling the military’s cartoon studios with shorter workers because the current generation of animation producing conscripts was severely stunted by a deadly 1990s famine.
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