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As sole vendor, the studio delivered 302 shots across 15 sequences in 7 months for Potsy Ponciroli's near-wordless revenge thriller, projecting Visual Effects Supervisor Serkan Selzele's own concept art onto period Detroit environments, tracking gore through a multi-stage elevator fight, and simulating a thermite shower for the climactic firefight; released theatrically by Independent Film Company July 24.

The Canadian producer, director, and author who has led the event’s incredible program growth since taking the role in 2013 leaves after next year's edition; organizer CITIA is taking applications through October 15 for a 3-year term starting July 1, 2027.

New job listings including Blizzard, Sony Pictures Animation, Framestore, Flying Bark, Electronic Arts and Zoic, from Irvine and Burbank to New York and New Orleans, each linked straight to the employer's application page.

France's Bobby Prod, the BBC and Folivari International took Producer, Broadcaster and Investor/Distributor of the Year in a vote of the delegates in Toulouse, while a new Ecoprod-Cartoon Tribute for sustainability went to La Réunion's Gao Shan Pictures.

'Coyote vs. Acme' story artist Andy Brooks also joins Utopai Studios’ creative team on Mike Bender's animated feature that already includes 'Shrek' co-writer Joe Stillman; film set to hit theaters in 2027.

Sylvain Chomet's 'A Magnificent Life,' René Laloux's 'Fantastic Planet,' and Don Hertzfeldt's 'Paper Trail' headline the 19th edition of Greece's largest animation festival, running September 21-27 on Syros.

3-part series from indie animator and Simple Town comedy group member Felipe Di Poi debuts as 'verticals' on the network's social platforms and YouTube; Part 1 now live, 2 and 3 coming September 25 and October 2.

The animated comedy series, made on and off for more than 20 years with characters built in Photoshop from real dogs, is back with a YouTube installment about the absurdity of modern social media, starring young influencer Brooks Rokkit.

Brown Bag Films animates the toy company's new take on the 80-year-old preschool franchise, a 30-minute special narrated by Henry Golding and Karla Souza; now on YouTube, streams September 30 on Netflix.

An inner London Crown Court sentenced the pair on Tuesday for the February 14 break-in at the Surrey house of the Astley Baker Davies co-founder and director; the pair previously took part in the 2012 theft of works by Picasso, Matisse, and Monet from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam.

Deal puts the machine-learning stereoscopic pipeline that turned Disney's 2D 'Lilo & Stitch' into 3D in 8 weeks alongside the company's native 3D capture in a single end-to-end 3D production system.