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Epic Games is leading a Round20 million funding round for Spire Animation Studios

Epic Games is leading a Round20 million funding round for Spire Animation Studios

Spire Animation Studios has closed a $20 million funding round which includes an investment from Epic Games.The studio will use Epic's Unreal Engine t...

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Titmouse New York will be the first studio to join the animation guild outside LA

Titmouse New York will be the first studio to join the animation guild outside LA

The Animation Guild (TAG) has unionized a studio outside Los Angeles County for the first time in its 70-year history.More than 90% of animation worke...

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Auditors claim Disney took millions in extra tax credits right before exiting Blue Sky Studios

Auditors claim Disney took millions in extra tax credits right before exiting Blue Sky Studios

Last year, as Blue Sky was preparing to shut for good, Connecticut auditors accused it of receiving almost $50 million in excess state tax credits bet...

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Tangent animation ordered to pay workers who were suddenly fired

Tangent animation ordered to pay workers who were suddenly fired

One of the most surprising stories of the year happened back in August when the Canadian animation studio Tangent Animation, which produced the animat...

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Singapore's Tiny Island Productions Partners with Huawei to Build Metabase Theme Park

Singapore's Tiny Island Productions Partners with Huawei to Build Metabase Theme Park

In 2017, Tiny Island Productions (TIP) was set on creating an Asian equivalent of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now it has gone one further: it wants...

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The profit of the cartoon saloon rises sharply during the production of "My Father's Dragon

The profit of the cartoon saloon rises sharply during the production of "My Father's Dragon

As Ireland's animation industry booms, its most famous studio is doing a roaring business. Cartoon Saloon has posted a net profit of €1.18 million (...

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