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Legends of Tomorrow 'gets the Disney animation style
The "bonkers" sixth season trailer for The CW series set in the DC Comics universe will feature an animated episode inspired by the Disney Renaissance era - with co-showrunner Phil Klemmer revealing it in an interview with EW who went so far as to hire animators of the time to make the ep (directed by Caity Lotz, who plays Waverider leader Sara Lance) as authentic as possible:

“There are some great songs and Astra, played by Olivia Swann, becomes our version of a Disney princess,” explained Klemmer. “The reason we did it originally is that we broke it as live action, and then there's a point in the story where it gets so kinky that I was really having a hard time seeing it in my head as live action. I was like, “Guys, this looks like a Disney movie from the 90s”. It was some kind of joke. 'What if we hire a group of Disney animators from the' 90s who have all retired and done a '90s movie? ""

Aska Animation Studio has been named Pixelatl Fest Creative Partner
The tenth edition of the festival (which will take place online from 7 to 11 September) will feature a referral film of the 2D specialists of Guadalajara, as well as a newly unveiled poster that was designed by the couple / collaborators Sandra Equihua and Jorge Gutiérrez, the multi - award winning talents from Tijuana behind Maya and the Three (2021) Book of life, Son of Jaguar e El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera. The theme of this year's festival is We Need Each Other (www.elfestival.mx).

“Jorge and Sandra explained that the poster was based on diversity and collaboration. You need characters with all colors, shapes, sizes and personalities to be able to play "Loteria", a popular local type of game like Bingo, and they have made the analogy to animation. We need each other! " - José Inesta, CEO, Pixelatl

Aska Animation Studio was founded three years ago and its team of over 40 animators are currently developing several pilot projects for series and features for creators and studios around the world. (askanimation.com).

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Momentum Pictures Brings North America Into "Two by Two: Overboard" 3D Animation
The agreement with the sales co of Munich. Global Screen will bring the sequel (also known as Oops! The adventure continues) in the United States and Canada. The film is directed by Toby Genkel and follows Finny the Nestrian and Leah the Grymp, who are adrift on a raft after accidentally falling off the famous Ark. Produced by Ulysses FIlmproduktion (German), Moetion Films (Ireland) and Fabrique d'Images (Luxembourg), At sea it was also sold by Global Screen in Australia and New Zealand (Rialto), the Middle East (Selim Ramio & Co), Scandinavia (Selmer Media), Belgium / The Netherlands (Just4Kids) and Taiwan (Benchmark).

Spire Animation Studios kick off Epic Games' new Unreal Shorts animated film program
The studio founded by animation producer Brad Lewis (Ratatouille, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World) and PJ Gunsagar last year was one of 45 grant recipients so far. Spire is looking to integrate Unreal's real-time capabilities into a more intuitive pipeline. The studio is currently working on a feature film, Goddess of the century, with many other projects in development.

2021 BAFTA TV Awards nominees announced
The Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards will be held on June 6 and May 34, respectively. The nominees for this year's special, visual and graphic effects are The crown, the war of the worlds, the curse e Its dark materials. I'm in the running for the Titles & Graphic Identity award devs, Fear City: New York against the mafia, Dracula e Roald & Beatrix: The curious rat's tail.

Christopher Ho appointed Senior Director of Kids Networks, WarnerMedia APAC
The new manager is responsible for cross-platform programming and operations, directing content for Cartoon Network and Boomerang channels in Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Korea, as well as digital and interactive initiatives. Based in Singapore, Ho will work closely with Abhishek Dutta in South Asia - with whom he reports to Leslie Lee, Head of Kids APAC - as well as Shinji Suetsugu in Japan, and with the HBO GO team who will work to grow Kids of the regional streaming service. & Family section.

Omens Studio appoints Adam Redfern as Consultant Executive Producer
The award-winning writer and showrunner will work on the animation company's preschool roster, including new CG animated series 123 team number. The varied 11-minute series for ages 4-6 (in production) follows Paula, Tim and Billy, three best friends with a shared love of numbers, fun and games, who spend time together in their arcade. If a citizen of Numberville has a problem, call Paula and her friends for help and become… 123 Number Squad! Redfern's credits include Go Jetters, The Adventures of Paddington, Oddbods e Team of deer. He will continue his work with existing clients.

TV and streaming offers:

• PBS Kids It was launched Samsung TVPlus, available for free on tens of millions of sets in the United States along with six other free 24/24 children's channels (including The Lego Channel, Moonbug Kids and Kidoodle.tv)
• ViacomCBS Networks International has entered into an extensive long-term agreement with Rakuten which will see the launch of the Nickelodeon streamer Nick + on the Japanese VOD platform Rakuten TV.
• Children first has signed a number of VOD offerings throughout its catalog. Tencent (China) replied Nate is late e The best insects forever. puxin (China IPTV) has also recovered Nate. Amoeba (NorAm) got entangled Nate is late, Rocky Kwaterner, Max and Maestro e Marblegen. Avod Kidoodle e Kidstream they both resumed Nate, with the latter adding Rocky, The best insects forever e Me, Elvis Ribaldi. In Europe, the French SVOD OCS he took Nate, Rocky e Marblegen, while Netflix collected Nate is late for France, United Kingdom, Ireland and Benelux e Marblegen for France and Benelux.
• The Bo & To family, the stop-frame slapstick series for kids without dialogue from Comma Studios (Korea) for KBS, was captured by Sky Kids (UK.), Amazon KidsPlus (Germany), NHK (Japan) e Tencent (China). The deal was secured by Serious lunch, worldwide distributor (excluding Asia).
• Jetpack distribution started more offers for Coolabi GroupBAFTA Winner clangers. ZDF acquired all three seasons for KiKa (Germany) and its online platforms; mediacorp (Singapore) acquired exclusive free TV rights for S3; RTVS (Slovenia) renewed free television rights for S1; is HRT (Croatia) bought the free TV and VOD rights for S1.
• SMF Studio (Soyuzmultfilm) has signed several agreements with international partners for feature films and episodes animated by his Gold collection. Gaumont (France) have again renewed the film and VOD rights of their 441-year partnership for XNUMX films. VOD La Cinetek French and German language rights licensed in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Austria and Germany for Once upon a time there was a dog, the poodle, the heron and the crane, the gray wolf and Little Red Riding Hood. Israel DBS licensed VOD rights to 100 films for two years. And nine films included Hedgehog in the fog, Class Harmonica e The snow queen are now available on the recently launched UK VOD Classics.
• An animation has also signed a number of agreements: in the United States, Oddbods, Insectibles, Antiks e Rob the robot will debut on children's streamers Amoeba TV, BatteryPop and Common Sense Network's Sensual. Global streamers Kidoodle. TV, Roku e Happy children they are also adding oddbods S3 and Antiks abbreviation S2. In EMEA, oddbods is a hit with TFOU Max (France), with S2 of long and special shape Party Monsters, The Festive Menace e Zee Force Five; New TV & voyo (Czech Republic and Slovakia) - S1 long; is Vodafone (Greece) - long form S1 and S2 e Party Monsters, The Festive Menace, Zee Force Five e Oddbeard's curse Special. MENA Mobile took the Arabic version of Insectiles. Netflix renewed oddbods long form S2 (Southeast Asia and Japan); ftp extension (Vietnam) - oddbods abbreviation S1-3; Grindstone TV (Indonesia) - Insectiles S1, Rob the robot S1-2; KinoPoisk (Russia) - oddbods long form / short form S1-3, trio of special e Antiks S1.
• Clan, The best children's channel of RTVE (Spain), has picked up the third season of Gormiti starting from Junior Planet, after the success of S1 and 2. S3 will be launched in June.
• Moonbug Entertainment worked with Super RTL (GSA) to create digital properties for the first time on the leading free-to-air children's linear television network. The deal covers 170 episodes of CoComelon come on Little Baby Bum, go Buster e Play time with Twinkle in German.