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Funimation launches its all-in-one anime destination site

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Engadget is posting that Funimation Entertainment announced today that its FunimationNow platform is now live.

The site, which we first saw back at CES, will make the studio’s expansive archive of shows — including DBZ, Attack on Titan and Assassination Classroom — available to subscribers without ads or viewing restrictions. The new service will initially be available on iOS, Android, Kindle and Windows 10 devices while support for PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and Roku devices is expected by May.

Pricing for the service will be tiered. Free accounts will have to deal with ads and have access to a limited portion of the archives. For $5 a month, viewers will get full access to the entire HD library of shows but they’ll all be subtitled (which is how they’re best viewed anyway). The $8/month tier gives you everything from the lower tiers plus access to dubbed versions of shows and bonus content.

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“Coda” by And Maps and Plans

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A lost soul stumbles drunken through the city. In a park, Death finds him and shows him many things.

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Director: Alan Holly – qlqn.ie
Producer: Ciaran Deeney – elzorrerofilms.ie
Writers: Alan Holly and Rory Byrne – rorybyrne.ie
Art direction & backgrounds: Ronan McMeel – ronanmcmeel.blogspot.ie
Music: Shane Holly – shaneholly.ie
Animation: Alan Holly, Rory Byrne and Eoghan Dalton – studiopowwow.com
Colouring and shadows: Eimhin McNamara – paperpanther.ie
Backrgounds: Áine McGuinness – ainemcguinness.ie
Starring: Brian Gleeson, Orla Fitgerald, Donie Ryan and Joseph Dermody
Music recording: Paul Finan
Voice recording: Tony Kiernan
Sound design: Michelle Fingleton
Sound editing: Andy Kirwan
Sound mixing: Garret Farrell – screenscene.ie
Musicians: Shane Holly, Aoife Dowdall, Katie O’Connor, Larissa O’Grady, Jenny Dowdall
Emma Scott: Production Executive for the Irish Film Board
Pauline McNamara: Executive Producer – RTE
Fionnuala Sweeney: Film Specialist – Arts Council
Jill McGregor: Schemes & Applications Co-ordinator for the Irish Film Board
Thanks to Sean McCarron & Jennifer Evans

Funded under the Irish FIlm Board’s Frameworks scheme
irishfilmboard.ie/funding_programmes/Frameworks/65

AWARDS

Shortlisted for the 87th Academy Awards
Nominated for the 42nd Annual Annie Awards

Great Animation Award – Mecal 17th Festival International of Short Film & Animation of Barcelona, Spain, Mar 2015
Bronze Statue for the third animation – 9th Tehran International Animation Festival, Iran, Mar 2015
Jury special mention Р6th Roanne animation film festival Cin̩ Court Anim̩, France, Mar 2015
Best Animated Film – Fargo Film Festival, Fargo, USA, Dec 2014
Young Peoples Jury – Marcin Prize for best short film for young people, at Inernational Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino! PoznaÅ„, Poland, Dec 2014
International Special Jury Prize at Animpact Animation Festival 2014, Seoul, South Korea, Nov 2014
KuanDog Prize: International Short Film Special Mention at KDIAF, Taipei, Taiwan 2014
Jury’s Special Award at Cinanima 2014
Best Animation & Best of Fest at Aesthetica Short Film Fest 2014
Silver Hugo for Best Animated Short at 50th Chicago International Film Festival 2014
2nd Place for the Audience Choice Award at the 3rd Annual Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Invitational, Baltimore 2014
Joint Best Irish Short Film prize with ‘The Ledge End of Phil’ at the Dublin Animation Film Festival 2014
Winner Best Short Animation at SXSW – Austin, USA 2014
Best Animation at Kino Fest – Bucharest, Romania 2014
Audience Choice SICAF – Seoul, South Korea 2014
Best in Show at Animation Block Party – New York 2014
Joint Best Animated Film Award with ‘Pandas’ at Kratkofil Plus – Banja Luka, Bosnia & Herzegovina 2014
Winner of the Anča Award, Fest Anča – Zilina, Slovakia 2014
Most Creative Short Award, Edinburgh Short Film Festival – Edinburgh, Scotland 2014
FICC Don Quijote Prize +Special Mention Best Animation, Galway Film Fleadh – Galway, Ireland 2013

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Show off you Workspace!

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My last post about Japanese artists showing off their workspaces got me to thinking it would be cool for animators around the world to do the same. So, if you’re interested in doing so, snap a pic of your workstation either at work or at home (or both) and email it to mike@animationinsider.com or link to it in the comments and I’ll gather them together and make one big post. Animators represent! As a start here’s mine:

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#showoffyourworkspace

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Japanese Artists Show Off their Workspaces

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I don’t know about you but I’m always interested to see other artist’s work spaces. Well Kokatu has compiled a whole slew of Japanese artist’s workspaces> Most seem to be manga setups but there’s a few animators in there as well.

From the site:

For well over a year, professional and amateur artists alike have been uploading photos of their workstations under the tag #絵描きさんの作業環境が見たい (“I want to see artists’ work environments.”) Amateurs and professionals alike have been uploading images, offering a fascinating peek at the different spaces in which people draw. Some work in an analog way, while others work digitally. The workspaces ran from chic to comfy, and from clean to dirty.

Anyway, check it out via the link below.

http://kotaku.com/japanese-artists-show-off-their-workspaces-1762345155

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Batz, a Shortfilm by Max Maleo & Aurelien Prédal

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A truly GORGEOUS animated and designed short funded entirely by Kickstarter! I would MUCH rather see a full length feature in this style than yet another fully rendered realistic one.

Batz, a Shortfilm by Max Maleo & Aurelien Prédal

Website : batz-themovie.com
Facebook : facebook.com/KawaBATZ

Production : Kawanimation Paris

Written by Max Maleo, Aurélien Predal, Pierre Razetto & Dimitri Cohen Tanugi

FR: Vamp et Rouss sont deux chauve-souris que tout semble opposer. Leur rencontre explosive va les propulser dans une aventure déjantée qui va mettre leur vie sens dessus dessous !

UK: Vamp and Rouss are two bats that everything seems to oppose. Their explosive meeting will propel them into a crazy adventure that will put their lives upside down!

All rights reserved – Kawanimation Paris – June 2013

Created by
Max Maleo & Aurélien Predal

Director
Max Maleo

Art director
Aurélien Predal

Producerz
Pierre Razetto & Dimitri Cohen Tanugi

Written by
Max Maleo
Aurélien Predal
Pierre Razetto
Dimitri Cohen Tanugi

Head of Production
Alexis Laffaille

Production Assistant
Eugény Couture
Morgane Souris
Marion Vermogen
Anne De Valors

Voice of Batz
Martial Le Minoux (ROUSS)
Antoine Schoumsky (VAMP)

Technical director
Thomas Liebert

Character Modeling
Martin Coustenoble

Character Rigging
Damien Gautron

Light & Rendering
Jean Marc Lepretre

Assistant Director
Guillaume Bonnaire

FX
Pascal Gaubertier
Thibaud Petitpas

Sound Design & Mixed by
Gautier de Faultrier
Clément Maleo

Music By
Jerome Bessout
Ghislain Fracapane
Florian Jamelot
Matthieu Fisson

Score
Victor Belin

Animatorz
Emmanuel Asquier-Brassart
Eve Guastella
Yoann Bomal
Jeanne Irzenski Gueye
Guillaume Bonnaire
Helene Leroux
Julien Bouquet
Max Maleo
Daniel Callaby
Gael Matchabelli
Marie Celaya
Bart Maunoury
Julie Cervantès
David Nasser
Augustin Clermont
Gwenolé Oul’chen
Paolo Cogliati
Thibaud Petitpas
Jean philipe Descoins
Jean Michel Ponthieux
Moze Essame
Sylvain Rohart
Karina Gazizova
Marion Roussel
Jean-Charles Gonin
Pierre Rutz
Romain Vacher
Manu Vergne

CG Internship
Charles Lemor
Rebecca Joly