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Netflix plans to acquire the animation studio Animal Logic, which is known for making hits like Happy Feet and The Lego Movie, the streaming company announced on Tuesday alongside its Q2 2022 earnings. “Today, we announced that we will be acquiring leading animation studio Animal Logic, with ~800 amazing people mostly in Sydney and Vancouver, which will help us accelerate the development of our animation production capabilities and reinforces our commitment to build a world-class animation studio,” Netflix wrote in…

Nintendo has acquired the Japanese CG production company Dynamo Pictures and plans to rebrand it as "Nintendo Pictures," the company announced. Its aim with the new subsidiary is to develop visual content using Nintendo IP and focus on "the planning and production of visual content including CG animation." Dynamo worked with Nintendo before on the Metroid: Other M game also has credits on anime TV series like Evangelion: 2.0.  Nintendo is gearing up for its Super Mario Bros. movie starring Chris Pratt, which was recently…

Nintendo has acquired CG production company Dynamo Pictures, and will rename it to “Nintendo Pictures,” the company has announced. The new subsidiary will “focus on development of visual content utilizing Nintendo IP” and the “planning and production of visual content including CG animation.” The company’s IMDB page lists credits on dozens of titles, including motion capture work on Death Stranding and Persona 5, and post-production work on Metroid: Other M. The acquisition comes as Nintendo is gearing up for the most…

Imagine entering a house with an endless series of doors and corridors. Behind some of those doors are the most delightful things imaginable: feasts straight out of Redwall, unicorns, an endless supply of scenic vistas, and unionized workplaces. Behind other doors, however, are grotesque and terrifying jack-in-the-boxes that pop up the minute you crack the door open, blasting up to fill the entire frame, dangling lasciviously on rusty springs as a creaky, vaguely circus-themed song plays. That’s what navigating the…

Highlights Android 13-based One UI 5.0 skin beta update UI changes have surfaced online.The update changes the notifications panel, keyboard, permission pop-up, and security and privacy.It also has an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) feature that detects text from images and can be copy-pasted.Android 13-based One UI 5.0 skin beta update leak reveals UI changes, new features, and animations. The update brings changes to the notifications panel, keyboard, permission pop-up, security, and privacy. 9to5Google has…

There’s not a whole lot that is new in the latest instalment of the Despicable Me franchise, the second in the series to foreground the adventures of the Minions. But that familiar silliness, the madcap, looney-tunes energy, the big, wet raspberry blown in the face of sophistication, has always been what the Minions do best. And here, in Minions: The Rise of Gru, the bean-shaped evil-groupies deliver a concentrated hit of irrepressible goofball nonsense.The film, which loosely follows the 2010 first Minions movie as an…

This movie is basically catering to its existing fan base. The narrative is studded with fairly memorable characters and there’s a strong thread of unbridled humour running through it A still from the film Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The MovieDir: Seong-Hu ParkCast(voice): Chinatsu Akasaki, Aya Endô, Kana HanazawaRating:3/5This movie is based on a popular anime TV series, which in turn was inspired by best-selling Volume 0 of the Jujutsu…

2021’s Injustice should have been a smash-hit. The DC animated movie was adapted from Mortal Kombat developer NetherRealm Studios’ hit fighting games, set in a dystopian universe in which a tyrannical Superman transforms Earth into a police state and Batman leads a resistance against him. In the game this leads to all manner of strange alliances between heroes and villains and – given that this is a fighting game – a lot of kickass battles. The animated movie loosely adapts it, taking inspiration from both the…

Big Hero 6 director Chris Williams jumps ship – literally – from Disney to Netflix for this immensely enjoyable animated maritime adventure. Aiming its harpoon at everything from Moby-Dick to Master and Commander, the film unfolds in a distant past in which generations of brave hunters have battled with a variety of fearsome monsters of the deep. But what, the film asks, if the real enemy is not the giant fish that is just going about its business, but a power that is rather closer to home? A few slightly pantomime-voice…

Alexander played Eric Tiberius 'Duckman', a self-obsessed "private dick/family man" who lives with his deceased wife, sister, two children, and mother-in-lawRepresentational images. Pic/iStockEverett Peck, the illustrator and cartoonist of the wacky animated series 'Duckman' starring Jason Alexander, has died. He was 71 years old at the time.According to a post on his Instagram handle, Peck died on Tuesday. "Mr Peck has left the studio," the posts read. There were no more facts about his death available at the time.Peck…