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News about Christian-themed animation projects and animation-related needs by Christians
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Production Begins on New Superbook Series
Animation work will begin this week in China on the new Superbook series. 12 new episodes are being produced in Beijing while 13 more scripts are currently in development. Season 1 is expected to be completed by June 2011 for a fall 2011 series launch. The next 13 episodes of the new series will go into production around that time. The first 13 episodes of the original anime-style Superbook series are being re-mastered currently and will be released on DVD eventually. In the meantime the original cartoons can be viewed everyday from 12:30pm-1:30pm (East coast time in the USA) on CBN Live.
Posted 25 Feb 2010 - Source: Superbook's Facebook Fan Page |
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Pray for People in Visual Media
Mumbai, India based Galilean International has announced that Sunday 14 March 2010 will be Visual Media Communications Sunday to emphasize the "importance and power of visual media products such as films, videos and television/satellite programs for the communication of the Gospel in this information age." Visual Media Communications Sunday has been observed on the second Sunday of March every year since 1992 according to the organizers. The day is similar in concept to Internet Evangelism Day.
Posted 25 Feb 2010 - Source: The Internet Evangelism Day team |
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Asian Animation School Offers Update
There is a new extended promo video online for the School of Cartooning and Animation for Missions. The school will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, from 5 July to 18 December 2010. The class schedule includes traditional 2D and 3D digital animation as well as sessions on cartooning, manga, comics, cross cultural communication, and media strategy issues.
Posted 16 Jan 2010 - Sources: CITSCAM's Twitter updates and website |
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Francisco's First Fido Film is a Favorite
Artist/writer/musician Wendy Francisco, wife of singer/songwriter Don Francisco, has created her first animation entitled "GoD and DoG". She posted the video in early August 2009 after recording the song and doing the animation about a week before. The video received a million views in its first 40 days. "I had never tried to animate other than making flip books when I was a kid...now I am addicted," says Francisco. "I can hardly wait to start the next one." Currently she is working on a book version of "GoD and DoG" for a gift/childrens book publisher.
Posted 16 Jan 2010 - Sources: Wendy Francisco, GoD and DoG website |
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More Veggies on DVD
Another new VeggieTales cartoon will be released by Big Idea through Christian stores in February and the general market in March. Pistachio - The Little Boy That Woodn't is "an all-new family adventure featuring a helpful lesson in listening to your parents." A parody of the story of Pinocchio, Pistachio features the lonely toymaker Gelato in the small town of Bologna-Salami. "Everyone knows the story of Pinocchio ... but Pistachio has a clever VeggieTales twist ... emphasizing the father-son relationship and the strength of family," says Big Idea.
Posted 13 Jan 2010 - Sources: Christian Retailing, Big Idea website |
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Reaching Japan Through Anime
The mission of Virginia, USA-based Let's Love Japan is to share God's love with the people of Japan through high quality animation and video productions. The non-profit ministry's chairman, Timothy Ingle, is a professional animator. He studied animation and children's literature in his undergrad studies and received his master's degree in Media, Faith and Culture from Regent University in Virginia. "We are reaching out to the Japanese through anime," Ingle reports. "Actually, what we're calling [it is] 'Animanga'." To do this the ministry has launched a Mobile Site Initiative.
Posted 01 Dec 2009 - Source: Timothy Ingle (through Roald Lidal of NEXT) |
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TV Programs Needed to be Dubbed into Arabic
Looking for different kinds of TV programs and shows, kids programs or cartoons, documentaries and drama, short films. Any type of TV programs. Will be dubbed into classical or colloquial Egyptian Arabic and transmitted on the Arabic satellite stations.
E-mail: Michael Guirguis at
Executive Producer / Arascope
Posted 6 Nov 2009 - Source: Visual Story Network
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Animated Series is "UnReal"
888-NeedHim has produced 10 video shorts "using innovative rotoscope animation techniques to present God's commandments in a compelling, relevant and authentic way." Each short in the series focuses obliquely on one of the 10 Commandments through personal, true stories of someone who has broken that commandment. Their search for peace leads each of them to the place where they can say, "Through Jesus, I'm real again."
Posted 28 Oct 2009 - Source: Dave Hackett of visionSynergy |
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Another Serving of Veggies for Christmas
A new VeggieTales cartoon, Saint Nicholas: A Story of Joyful Giving, has been released this month by Big Idea. The story introduces Nick the Pepper, the first new VeggieTales character in 5 years, playing the role of Nicholas. The DVD has both Spanish and English Subtitles.
Posted 28 Oct 2009 - Source: Christian Retailing Magazine |
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New Superbook Ready for Release
The premier of the new Superbook episode, "A Giant Adventure," was screened for CBN Partners in Dallas, Texas USA recently. The new series is directed by Tom Bancroft and Rob Corley of Funnypages Productions. CBN hopes to have the cartoon "translated in more languages than the original with new opportunities in countries that were not exposed to the original series back in the eighties." Also, the new Superbook Kid's website is being "beta tested" currently and will officially launch in November.
Posted 17 Oct 2009 - Source: Superbook's Facebook Fan Page |
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IE Day Encourages Animated Evangelism
Digital Evangelism Issues, the blog for Internet Evangelism Day (IE Day), has posted an item on how to Make Your Own Cartoon Stories. IE Day exists to equip Christians to use digital media for evangelism, including video, animations and cartooning. Their annual worldwide focus day for digital outreach is held every April.
Posted 10 Oct 2009 - Source: IE Day team |
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Friends & Heroes Now Available on Sky Angel
The first 2 seasons of the award-winning animated series Friends & Heroes are now part of Sky Angel's Video-on-Demand children's programming. Each season features 13 episodes with stories from both the Old and New Testaments. Friends & Heroes was produced by an international team in the UK, USA, Canada, Korea, and Wales. Sky Angel is a Christian-owned multi-channel provider of faith-based and family-friendly television and radio programming.
Posted 03 Oct 2009 - Source: Christian News Wire |
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VeggieTales Creator Signs with Tyndale
Tyndale House Publishers has announced that Phil Vischer will produce a new DVD series entitled What's in the Bible? for kids and families. The first 2 DVDs in the 13 DVD series are scheduled for a March 2010 release. Each DVD will be filled with original music, animation, and puppet characters. Content will be exclusive to the DVDs, but the characters will also appear on Vischer's faith-based Jelly Telly in partnership with Focus on the Family. Tyndale pioneered the Christian children's video market almost 20 years ago with McGee and Me.
Posted 28 Sept 2009 - Source: ECPA Rush to Press |
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Christian Character Designer at Up-Coming Conference
Cedric Hohnstadt will be giving two lectures on character design next month at the Motion '09 conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico USA. Hohnstadt has designed animated characters for film and television including twelve episodes of the 3-2-1 Penguins! animated series on NBC.
Posted 15 Sept 2009 - Source: Cedric Hohnstadt on Twitter |
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Flash Animation Converter Needed
We are looking for help finding a Flash animation converter. To make a long story short we'd like to licence or purchase the converter to bundle with our retail product. Specifically, we need a component that converts Flash ANIMATION or SWF to MPEG2 video. Any guidance will be very appreciated.
E-mail: Rick Hammond at
President/Slingshot Records, LLC
"It's Yahweh or the Highway"
Posted 15 Sept 2009
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New Animation from Vertical Hold
Animator Lon Waitman of Vertical Hold in Atlanta, Georgia USA, has a new video up on SermonSpice entitled Who Cares? based on a famous message by William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army. Waitman was the winner in the "Web Animation" category of the Animations for Web & Mobile Devices Competition in 2006.
Posted 15 Sept 2009 - Source: Lon Waitman |
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TV Station in Philippines Needs Cartoons and Content
We are currently putting together a family-friendly, kid-friendly, clean and wholesome TV station with Christian value-programming for most of the week, with Saturdays and Sundays as our teaching and preaching times. Right now we need content, programming, stuff to put on the air. Would you know anyone who has Christian cartoons or other good Christian content that we can put on the air? We're just starting this new venture so there is no advertising money to be had as yet, but if any does come in, we will definitely make sure the content providers get their share of any revenue we might be able to attract.
E-mail: Mari Kaimo in Metro Manila, the Philippines, at
Posted 15 Sept 2009
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