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Echo Bridge Studios Announces New Animated Short Film 'Ambition'
By Nikolai Fomich Earlier this month, the award-winning animation studio Echo Bridge Pictures (Axe Cop, Major Lazer, Hustlers Convention) announced plans to release a new animated short film titled "Ambition." The film will be a hand drawn, 17-minute experimental short, and will tell the story of a young entrepreneur who finds that the closer he[...]
The Wild World Of Wizard World Chicago 2015
He eventually started his own animation company for making ads, and he runs it with his wife They occasionally branch out into doing regular shows, such as producing the early seasons of Bevis And Butthead But they really don't want to be a big house and invariably scale back after a while He did the[...]
SDCC '15: Scooby Doo! And KISS: Rock And Roll Mystery Premiere Impressions
 I don't know what KISS's price tag is, but the animation somehow feels 'crisper'  Maybe my best ingrained memories of Scooby Doo are from the 60's and 70's syndication packages of my youth, but the colors and lines of this movie seem fresher and more vibrant. The plot is classic Scooby Doo and I would consider[...]
SDCC '15: We Will See More Summer In Rick And Morty Season 2
Season 2 however will see a branching out of characters into the sci-fi situation. Co-creator on the animation, Dan Harmon told us: We can definitely expect more adventures with Summer She calls him [Rick] out on being a dick. Producer and writer, Ryan Ridley added: Multiple episodes with Summer Beth also goes on adventures. We also get more of a[...]
SDCC '15: Scooby Doo! And KISS: An Interview With Kevin Shinick
Shinick to learn more about how he came to write probably one of the most hotly anticipated team ups in animation history since that time the one cat in Heathcliff dressed as Inspector Gadget. WILL ROMINE: What was the genesis for this idea?  KISS and Scooby Doo are like peanut butter and bananas; seemingly great together,[...]
Something Big To Chew Over Today
The comic book Chew, by John Layman and Rob Guillory, which has an abandoned Showtime production and an in progress animation production to its name, is approaching its fiftieth issue. A comic ostensibly about a world with chcken prohibition after an apocalyptic avian flu, quickly segued into a population with people developing food-derived superpowers, and lead[...]