Today was DreamWorks Animation day. Jeffrey was out in the courtyard, intent on his Blackberry. I was on an upper floor of the Lakeside Building, doing my cubicle-to-cubicle dance.
Puss N Boots is still in work, but nearing the end of animation and production. (I don't know how Humpty Dumpty takes so may long falls and yet never cracks.) Madagascar 3 is well into work, with most of the production up at PDI but 20-30 artists working on it in Glendale. And a chunk of The Croods is still in story ...
Over the city line in beautiful Burbank, Nickelodeon Cartoon Studios has ten series going on at the present time, among them: Nick, if you haven't noticed, has moved heavily into C.G.I. for its animated series. (Whether this pays off is any executive's guess. A decade ago, C.G. shows didn't set the world on fire.) Kung Fu Panda with lots of completed episodes waiting for roll-out, premieres in the fall after the second feature has run its course. And How to Train Your Dragon, the most recent DreamWorks Animation project to receive the episodic tv treatment, is being prepped by APU, a subsidiary of Wildbrain. Why Nickelodeon isn't doing it I have no idea; perhaps it has something to do with DWA's Viacom contract nearing its end. (You think?)
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how much of it is happening in India ?
Yeah, Jeffrey and his Blackberry are inseparable.
I wonder what would happen if he dropped it.......he'd be crippled. Cut-off from the rest of the world.
Nick passed on Dragon over a year ago.
Cartoon Network picked up HTTYD the series around the time the movie was released on DVD. The short that came with the DVD was aired on CN and an announcement was made that the network picked it up.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/10/how-to-train-your-dragon-to-become-cartoon-network-series-.html
will dreamworks have an original film in the next year?
Nick's still producing Fairly Oddparents? That show needs a stake driven through its heart.
"production up at PDI but 20-30 artists working on it in Glendale"
Is PDI Union? I honestly have no idea. If not, are they allowed to do this kind of work sharing?
PDI isn't union.
Yes, they're allowed this type of work sharing, since they are outside L.A. County.
I noticed Blue Sky Disney was out with their periodic update of animated films and it list Snow Queen by Chris Buck as tentatively penciled in for 2014. Right after Chris Williams King of the Elves in 2013. But the real interesting notes are for future projects directed by Dean Wellins and another project by Don Hall. Hmmmm. Sounds like WDAS has finally started to build up their slate.
Know anything about these, Steve?
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