CG animation

A lot of fans are familiar with the fate of Imagi, the CG animation studio behind TMNT, Astro Boy and would-have-been Gatchaman that shut down in 2010. But did you know the studio also pitched a CG animated The Legend of Zelda movie to Nintendo in 2007? Nintendo ultimately decided not to move forward with the Twilight Princess-era project, but former Imagi employee Adam Holmes, who supervised, sho

You've seen the screen shots, read the interviews and watched its stylized opening, but there's two more videos to watch before Cartoon Network's CG animated Beware the Batman debuts. Posted on the official BtB Facebook page, the final promo vid sees Batman face down Professor Pyg and Toad, cruise around in the show's new Batmobile and narrowly escape rooftop explosions...

Animation: The next animated feature from DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation will be Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, an adaptation of the 2011 Flashpoint DC Comics event. It's slated for a July 30 release on all of the usual formats...

Anime: The English version of the new Iron Man: Rise of Technovore trailer is now online, in all its technovoring glory. Upcoming: Oni Press has revealed a "Death by Cuteness" variant cover for Helheim #2 by Katie Cook and colorist Nick Filardi...

Responding to yesterday's news that Sir Ian "Magneto/Gandalf" McKellen will be officiating Sir Patrick "Professor X/Jean-Luc Picard" Stewart's wedding to his fiancee, singer Sunny Ozell, Taiwanese animation machine NMA has put together a report fit for fans of, well, everything remotely kinda nerdy...

Animation: Director Alex Zamm has posted footage from a canned Marvin the Martian CG/live action short, along with a Hong Kong Phooey CG demo on his Vimeo site. Upcoming: Fantagraphics has posted an online preview of the upcoming Messages in a Bottle, which will collect the best comics by Bernard Krigstein...

The first time I saw a poster for Rise of the Guardians, I rolled my eyes so hard that I actually hurt myself. You probably saw the same one I did if you went to the theater any time last summer. The close-up of the Naughty and Nice tattoos just conjured up images of a Poochie-esque version of Santa Claus, cranked up to x-treme by a team of ad executives and accompanied by "hilarious" an

Masashi Tanaka's Gon will finally make its TV debut in Japan on April 2. Having been in the pipeline from Japan's Kodansha and Korea's Daewon Media since as early as 2010, the series is planned to last 50 episodes. Based on Tanaka's seven-volume manga series which ran in Japan in the early '90s (having since been collected by Paradox Press and DC's defunct CMX imprint, with current volumes from Ko

Do you like stories about lovable losers becoming sorta loathsome losers in capes? Have you ever wandered what you would do if you could transform into Super Saiyan Guy Fieri? If so, Hugo Jackson, Pascal Chandelier, Valentin Michel, Bastien Mortelecque and Elliot Maren's nicely-animated CG short film, Electroshock, may be your kind of deal...

Though Batman: The Brave and The Bold is drawing to a close this year on Cartoon Network, Batfans won't be without an animated incarnation of the Caped Crusader for long. The CG animated Beware the Batman is coming in 2013, as revealed by Warner Bros...