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Animation World NetworkVFXPBS KIDS Sets Premiere for Gustavo Dudamel's 'Carnival of the Animals' Half-hour 2D special pairs hand-painted watercolor backgrounds with the LA Philharmonic's Hollywood Bowl recording; airs November 16 and streams free on pbskids.org.

Animation World NetworkVFXBefore Hawkins: Netflix Reveals 'Other Worlds' Prequel Series The Duffer Brothers and showrunner Kate Trefry's live-action 'Stranger Things' prequel, set in the 1950s with Joe Wright directing the first 3 episodes, debuts on Netflix in 2028.

Animation World NetworkVFXAWN Studio Jobs Roundup, November 6: 119 Openings Direct from the Studios 119 new job openings, led by Beffio Studios with 17, Ubisoft with 12, and Electronic Arts, Industrial Light & Magic and Omnilojo with seven each.

Animation World NetworkVFXRoxel Creative Shares 'Backrooms' VFX Breakdown Reel Breakdown for Kane Parsons' movie walks through the previs, stuntvis, set extensions and full CG layout behind the film's maze of yellow rooms.

Animation World NetworkVFXHIDIVE Doubles Down on 'I'm Dating a Dark Summoner' with Bonus Omake Shorts 12-episode chibi sketch comedy spinoff of fall simulcast rom-com premieres November 6, with the original cast in new roles from cafe workers to students; Acali Arimiya directs and designs the…

Animation World NetworkVFXLionsgate Greenlights Animated 'John Wick' Prequel With Keanu Reeves The live-action franchise star signs on to voice the famed assassin in 'Ultraman: Rising' director Shannon Tindle's prequel feature, now scripted by Ryan and Kaz Firpo, with Seth Rogen and Evan…

Animation World NetworkVFXFrom 'Ray Gunn' to Team Deakins: VIEW Conference 2026 in Review The Turin event drew 6,897 attendees from 60 countries for 83 sessions, with talks by Brad Bird, Hal Hickel, Jerome Chen, Janet Lewin, Richard Kerris and Cristóbal Valenzuela, to name just a few…

Animation World NetworkVFXWildBrain, EightyEight Pictures Strike CG Production Partnership The long-term deal pairs the 'Strawberry Shortcake' company's creative teams with the Mumbai and Bangalore studio's CG production muscle; the Vancouver studio also moves to a new 47,000-square-foot…

Animation World NetworkVFXWētā FX Shares Its 'Moana' VFX Highlights Reel The leading VFX studio made characters Te Kā and Te Fiti a believable part of a photoreal Pacific Ocean for Disney's live-action retelling while staying respectful to the original animated film.

Animation World NetworkVFXMickey and Pluto Guard Christmas Dinner in 'Mickey's Home Alone' Trailer The holiday special from Disney Jr. and Wild Canary premieres Thanksgiving Day, November 26, on Disney Jr.

Animation World NetworkVFXWatch the Extended 'Made to Make' Look at 'The Cat in the Hat' Writer-directors Erica Rivinoja and Alessandro Carloni and their crew walk through the worlds, animation and tracking behind the Warner Bros. Pictures Animation film, which hits theaters November 6.

Animation World NetworkVFXCoSA VFX Shares 'Lanterns' Season 1 VFX Featurette Overall VFX producer Eddie Bonin and CoSA VFX supervisor Christopher Lance walk through the studio's work on the HBO Max series, from the landscapes of Rushville, Nebraska, to scenes from Green…

Animation World NetworkVFXND Stevenson's 'Scarlet Morning' in Development at Amazon MGM Studios 'Loki' director Kate Herron will helm and co-write the live-action feature adaptation of 'Nimona' creator's middle grade pirate fantasy graphic novel, with Roy Lee and Darlene Caamaño Loquet…

Animation World NetworkVFXAWN Trailer and Clip Roundup, November 4: 'Helluva Boss,' 'Rascal Does Not Dream,' 'Edgerunners 2' 6 new trailers and clips including a CloverWorks feature coming to theaters, Netflix's 'Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2,' and a new 'MASHLE' arc coming to Crunchyroll in January 2027.

Animation World NetworkVFXLes Sommets du cinéma d'animation 2027 Les Sommets du cinéma d'animation, the Cinémathèque québécoise's festival of Canadian animation, holds its 25th edition May 3–8, 2027, in Montreal; entries close February 5, 2027.

Animation World NetworkVFXAWN Jobs Roundup, November 5: 16 Animation and VFX Openings Worldwide Fresh LinkedIn openings from One of Us, Luma Pictures, Spin VFX and WildBrain, with supervisor, producer, previs and compositing roles across Canada, France, Germany, India and Australia.

Animation World NetworkVFXJonathan Garson to Succeed Jim Morris as Pixar President The animation studio's general manager takes over all production and operations on January 4, 2027, while Morris moves to president emeritus and stays on as EP on 'Incredibles 3;' Jonas Rivera is…

Animation World NetworkVFXAnime Round-Up: Cyberpunk, Gundam and Mermaids Columnist Andrew Osmond examines some new and recent anime that are available online, including 'Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2,' 'The Ghost in the Shell,' the two 'Gundam Hathaway' films and 'Goodbye…

Animation World NetworkVFXSnoopy Lands on Santa's Naughty List in '12 Days of Snoopy' Trailer Peanuts and WildBrain's latest holiday special sends the beagle on a 12-day mission to win back Santa's favor; premieres November 13 on Apple TV with new songs from John Legend and Kamasi Washington.

Animation World NetworkVFXHero, Outlaw, Lawman, Machine: BUCK Builds the 'Bass X Machina' Titles The design agency worked with star and executive producer Brian Tyree Henry on the sequence drawing on American history, western mythology and Afrofuturist steampunk, set to Janelle Monáe's theme…

Animation World NetworkVFX'Christian Dior's Night in Color' Gets the Sylvain Chomet Touch In the hand-drawn short, The 'Triplets of Belleville' director imagines a 1949 rush job for Marlene Dietrich, in which the couturier and his seamstress bees race to make a gown, with Robert Pattinson…

Animation World NetworkVFX'Spider-Man: Brand New Day': Sony Pictures Imageworks' Web-Tastic VFX VFX supervisor Chris Waegner, animation director Rich Smith, and VFX producer Chris Elke explain how hagfish slime inspired the hero's new organic webs, which evolve across 449 shots into a…

Animation World NetworkVFXThe Prouds Go Stop-Motion for 'A Proud Family Wizmas' Penny has to rescue Christmas for Emilyville and the world in the holiday musical from HouseSpecial, directed by Bruce W.

Animation World NetworkVFXRemington Scott to Lead Eros Innovation's New AI Creative Unit The Emmy-nominated producer and director, whose credits run from 'Spider-Man 2' to immersive concerts, will lead the new unit's visual effects, digital human and gaming work, with a Mohammed Rafi…

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The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo