SIGGRAPH 2021 announces the award winners of the Computer Animation Festival
SIGGRAPH 2021 announces the award winners and lineup of 37 short films, cinematics, scientific visualizations, breakdowns and more set to appear in the second virtual Computer Animation Festival Electronic Theater this August. Showcasing the best of computer graphics storytelling, the Electronic Theater will premiere to ticketholders on...
SIGGRAPH Asia 2021 opens submissions for Computer Animation Festival
The SIGGRAPH Asia 2021 Computer Animation Festival (SACAF 2021) is now open for submissions. The festival invites creators from around the world to submit their projects and help showcase the world’s most innovative and exciting computer animation. This coming December, SACAF 2021 will convene in Tokyo, Japan,...
Ottawa International Animation Festival to be held online this year
The Ottawa International Animation Festival, one of the world’s biggest and best-known animation events, will be held online for an extended run from September 22 to October 3. Organizers were hoping that an in-person event might be possible in 2021, but the current forecast for the pandemic...
Kwalee to host its first-ever event ‘Kickstart with Kwalee’ this April
Kwalee will be hosting its first-ever ‘Kickstart with Kwalee’ event in Bengaluru on 16 April 2021 to share specialist knowledge and mentorship to independent mobile game developers. Kwalee’s hypercasual mobile games have been downloaded well over 600 million times in total, with the firm ranked by App...
San Diego Comic-Con announces dates for the in-person event
Following confirmation earlier this month that its usual summer mega-gathering was once again off the table, San Diego Comic Convention announced dates for their November convention. Comic-Con Special Edition will be held as a three-day event over Thanksgiving weekend — Friday, Saturday and Sunday, November 26-28 —...
Unreal Engine announces a new training program for women professionals
Epic Games’ Unreal Engine, an advanced real-time 3D tool has announced, ‘The Women Creators Program’, which will select India’s talented women producers and VFX professionals to participate in a four weeks-long virtual training and mentoring program. The program, starting 19 April 2021, will select 15 women to...
Famous VFX industry festival VFXRIO Live 2021 kicks off
VFXRIO Live 2021 launched its second free digital edition on March 21. The event brings leading national and international specialists in the production of visual effects for cinema and TV, games, and new technologies to Brazil. The program includes lectures and workshops with supervisors, directors and artists...
Cardiff Animation Festival announces collaboration with CTIAF for virtual festival
Cardiff Animation Festival (CAF) and Cape Town International Animation Festival (CTIAF) have announced a collaboration celebrating animation in both Wales and South Africa with a week-long online festival including curated shorts screenings, workshops, and live Q+As, supported by the British Council Digital Collaboration Fund. Animator and illustrator...
TAAFI to host a screening for the new animated film ‘The Croods: New Age’
The Toronto Animation Arts Festival International (TAAFI) will host a virtual screening of the DreamWorks Animation feature, The Croods: A New Age, followed by a Q&A with director Joel Crawford, on Saturday, March 27 at 11:00 AM ET. Crawford previously directed the Trolls Holiday Special. He joined DreamWorks Animation...
Children’s Media Conference to go virtual again this year
The 18th Children’s Media Conference (CMC), will be held virtually again in 2021, owing to the pandemic, from 5 to 9 July. With the theme ‘Together’, the conference will focus on the urgent issues being faced by the children’s media industry and the young audience. Following the...