Now playing Next no comment Anime fans flock to streets of downtown LA The four-day Anime Expo, an anime, manga and Japanese pop culture convention, kicks off in Los Angeles, with many attendees choosing to wear a 04/07/2015
Now playing Next Cinema "Ted 2" set to knock the stuffing out of the summer cinema market Ted the talking teddy bear is back on the big screen, but this time along with the big laughs creator Seth McFarlane is adding a big message about 25/06/2015
Now playing Next Cinema Animation industry and festival fans flock to Annecy Annecy International Animated Film Festival - where the backdrop of the French Alps mixes with much more than cartoons... 17/06/2015
Now playing Next Cinema 'Minions' met Scarlet Overkill and Herb in 'Despicable Me' prequel The Minions, co-stars of Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2 take centre stage in their very own movie. The film traces the development of the cute 12/06/2015
Now playing Next Cinema Inside Out gets warm reviews Inside out is the latest release from Disney-Pixar, and was shown out of competition at Cannes this year. It is about a girl called Riley, whose 01/06/2015
Now playing Next Cinema Cartoon Movie: a springboard for European animation films Which European animation films could come next to our cinemas? The answer may lie in Cartoon Movie, a business event for European animation 13/04/2015
Now playing Next Cinema "Home" is where the heart is for new Dreamworks comedy Rihanna, Steve Martin, Jim Parsons and Jennifer Lopez are the voices behind a new Dreamworks animated alien-invasion comedy. “Home” is the tale of 18/03/2015
Now playing Next futuris Tainted love: software transforms the painstaking art of colouring old cartoons Art and computer science combine in a European project revolutionising the labour- intensive skills of hand-painting animation 09/03/2015
Now playing Next futuris Do you know: is there a future for 2D animation? Can good old hand-drawn animation movies survive in a World overwhelmed by 3D computer tools? A computer scientist from Czech Technical University 09/03/2015
Now playing Next Cinema Squeezing the franchise all the way: SpongeBob is back with new movie SpongeBob fans around the world can rejoice. More than a decade after the original movie adaptation of the SpongeBob Squarepants series, the sequel 05/02/2015
Now playing Next Cinema Vincent Van Gogh to come back to life thanks to Oscar-winning animation studio A team of Oscar-winning producers is working on a film about the life and death of Vincent Van Gogh. Entitled ‘Loving Vincent’, it’s a 30/01/2015
Now playing Next Cinema 'Shaun The Sheep' explores the esoteric and focuses on appreciating what you have 'Shaun the Sheep', the latest animation from Aardman Studios, is more than just a search for a lost shepherd 28/01/2015
Now playing Next Cinema Strange Magic: George Lucas takes animation to whole new realistic level Strange Magic is the latest offering from George Lucas. He says that the film is aimed saving youngsters a lot of heartache 26/01/2015
Now playing Next Cinema What's on in 2015? In ‘Tomorrowland’, a gifted teenager and a former boy-genius set out on a dangerous mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic location caught 05/01/2015
Now playing Next Cinema Penguins of Madagascar return in their own movie You may recall they stole a few scenes in three “Madagascar” now they’re back stars in their own right in “Penguins of Madagascar”. Actor Tom McGrath 28/11/2014
Now playing Next Cinema Animating the Velvet Revolution The story of the Velvet Revolution is being reproduced for children in animated form in the new 2014 film ‘What To Tell The Kids?’ The Revolution 21/11/2014
Now playing Next Culture news A career in animation: Gen Y visits a European hothouse How does a character from an animated film come to life? And how are the visual effects created? Generation Y went to one of Europe’s leading 09/01/2014
Now playing Next China Controversy surrounds Bruce Lee - Johnnie Walker collaboration Almost 40 years to the day after his death, iconic martial arts actor Bruce Lee is being featured in an extremely controversial TV advert, which was 15/07/2013
Now playing Next Unreported Europe The funding battle behind European cartoons Behind every cartoon are hours and hours of hard work. And it is not just creating the animation, there is also the issue of funding. Numerous forums 06/01/2011