The Hollywood Reporter

Japan Arson Attack: What Unfolded Inside the Building and Why So Many Died

More details have emerged as to what happened, and why so many died, inside the Kyoto Animation building when a 41-year-old carried out an arson attack on Thursday, the worst mass murder in Japan ...
Cartoon Brew

John Lautner, Architect Of The Greatest Animation Studio Building Ever Built, Was Born On This Day

When Walt Disney built a new animation studio in Burbank in 1940, it cost millions of dollars. Nine years later, when the cash-strapped upstart Modernist animation outfit United Productions of America ...
Columbus Dispatch

Columbus is building a diverse animation industry, but there is still work to be done

Columbus is trying to grow its animation industry and retain local talent from schools like CCAD. Financial incentives like the Ohio Motion Picture Tax Credit and the Columbus Motion Picture Incentive ...
AOL

Laying the Foundation: How Catalonia Is Building a Global Animation Powerhouse

In 2023, Spanish animation stunned the world when “Robot Dreams,” a melancholic tale of friendship and loss directed by Pablo Berger, earned an Oscar nomination. Though Berger hails from Madrid, the ...
Capital Gazette

Golden Globe Award winning Laika film animation is building stop motion animation studio at Bowie State

Laika film animation studio is partnering with Bowie State University to build the nation’s first stop-motion animation studio at a historically Black college and university. Laika is an ...
Cartoon Brew

Gungnir Launches Animation Studio Aimed At Building A ‘Cartoon Network Of The Digital Era’

Los Angeles publisher Gungnir is expanding into animation with the launch of a new studio that will anchor an in-house YouTube channel the company hopes can grow into “the Cartoon Network of the ...