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2022 In Animation
This is a list of events in animation in 2022. Events January * January 1: ** '' We Baby Bears'', a prequel/spin-off series to '' We Bare Bears'', premiered on Cartoon Network. ** A new anime series based on ''Urusei Yatsura'' was announced. * January 10: '' Smiling Friends'' premiered on Adult Swim to critical acclaim. * January 14: ** Dark anthology stop-motion film '' The House'' premiered on Netflix. **'' Hotel Transylvania: Transformania'', the final ''Hotel Transylvania'' film, premiered on Amazon Prime Video after numerous delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic. * January 23: '' Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness'' made its world premiere at the Gaumont Champs-Élysées theater in Paris, followed by its Netflix debut on June 10. * January 28: ** Mitsuo Iso's '' The Orbital Children'' was released simultaneously as a theatrical film in Japan and as a 6-episode miniseries on Netflix internationally, with the last 3 episodes being released on February 11. ** '' The Leg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We Baby Bears
''We Baby Bears'' is an American animated television series developed by Manny Hernandez for Cartoon Network. It is a Spin-off (media), spin-off prequel of the animated series ''We Bare Bears'', which was created by Daniel Chong. Produced by Cartoon Network Studios, it premiered on January 1, 2022. On January 31, 2022, the series was renewed for a second season. Premise ''We Baby Bears'' follows Grizz, Panda, and Ice Bear as babies searching for a new home in a magical teleporting box. Voice cast * Connor Andrade as Baby Grizz * Amari McCoy as Baby Panda * Max Mitchell as Baby Ice Bear * Damian O'Hare as Carrot / Castle Guard *Demetri Martin as the Narrator Celebrity guest stars include: Anjali Bhimani, Rhys Darby, Janeane Garofalo, Young M.A., Jason Mantzoukas, Stephen Oyoung, Willow Smith, and Bernardo Velasco. Production The series was first announced on May 30, 2019, which was slated to premiere on Cartoon Network in spring 2021 but was delayed to January 2022. A tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitsuo Iso
is a Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter. He began his career as an animator in the mid-1980s and worked as a freelance artist through Neomedia, Studio Zaendo, and Studio Ghibli. Iso is known for his offbeat key animation in the prologue of ''Gundam 0080'', large portions of Asuka's battle in '' The End of Evangelion'' and the first half of the tank battle in '' Ghost in the Shell''. Career Iso has worked on '' Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam'' and '' Gundam ZZ'' since 1985 as a key animator and in-betweener. This led him to secretly work in the 1988 film '' Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack'' under the pseudonym Mikio Odagawa without telling Zaendo, where he was at the time. He was then asked by Sunrise, an animation studio, to act as an intermediary for job offers to the company, and worked under his real name as a job through the company. Sunrise also hired him as an animation director, so he worked under that pseudonym. The battle scene at the beginning of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disenchantment (TV Series)
''Disenchantment'' is an American animation satirical fantasy sitcom created by Matt Groening for Netflix. The series is Groening's first production to appear exclusively on a streaming service; he previously created ''The Simpsons'' and ''Futurama'' for the Fox Broadcasting Company. Set in the medieval fantasy kingdom of Dreamland, the series follows the story of Bean, a rebellious and alcoholic princess, her naïve elf companion Elfo, and her destructive "personal demon" Luci. ''Disenchantment'' stars the voices of Abbi Jacobson, Eric André, Nat Faxon, John DiMaggio, Tress MacNeille, Matt Berry, David Herman, Maurice LaMarche, Lucy Montgomery (actress), Lucy Montgomery, and Billy West. Four batches of 10 episodes have been released for a total of 40 episodes. The first part debuted in August 2018, the second in September 2019, the third in January 2021, and the fourth in February 2022. The series has received fairly positive reviews. Premise Set in the fictional, Middle Ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animation World Network
Animation World Network (often just "AWN") is an online publishing group that specializes in resources for animators, with an extensive website offering news, articles and links for professional animators and animation fans. Specifically, AWN covers animator profiles, independent film distribution, major animation studio activities, licensing, CGI and other animation technologies, as well as current events in all fields of animation. AWN also publishes print magazines. The magazines are ''Animation World'', dedicated to animation in general, and ''VFX World'', which focuses on special effects and computer-generated imagery Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is the use of computer graphics to create or contribute to images in art, printed media, video games, simulators, and visual effects in films, television programs, shorts, commercials, and videos. The images may .... History In 1995, Ron Diamond partnered with Dan Sarto and founded the Animation World Network. A year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disney Junior
Disney Junior is an American pay television network owned by the Walt Disney Television (part of Disney General Entertainment Content) unit of The Walt Disney Company through Disney Branded Television. Aimed mainly at children two to seven years old, its programming consists of original first-run television series, films, and select other third-party programming. As of January 2016, the channel is available to 74 million households in the U.S. History Origins The Walt Disney Company first attempted to launch a 24-hour subscription channel for preschoolers in the United States, when the company announced plans to launch Playhouse Disney, a television offshoot of Disney Channel's daytime programming block of the same name, which launched on the channel on May 8, 1997 (airing during the morning hours seven days a week, with the weekday blocks lasting until the early afternoon). Plans for the United States network were ultimately shelved. However, channels using the Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice In Wonderland (1951 Film)
''Alice in Wonderland'' is a 1951 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the ''Alice'' books by Lewis Carroll. The thirteenth release of Disney's animated features, the film premiered in London on July 26, 1951, and in New York City on July 28, 1951. It features the voices of Kathryn Beaumont as Alice, Sterling Holloway as the Cheshire Cat, Verna Felton as the Queen of Hearts, and Ed Wynn as the Mad Hatter. Walt Disney first tried to adapt ''Alice'' into a feature-length animated film in the 1930s and revived the idea in the 1940s. The film was originally intended to be a live-action/animated film, but Disney decided it would be a fully animated film. ''Alice in Wonderland'' was considered a disappointment on its initial release, therefore was shown on television as one of the first episodes of '' Disneyland''. Its 1974 re-release in theaters proved to be much more successful, leading to subsequent re-releases, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walt Disney Animation Studios
Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS), sometimes shortened to Disney Animation, is an American animation studio that creates animated features and short films for The Walt Disney Company. The studio's current production logo features a scene from its first synchronized sound cartoon, ''Steamboat Willie'' (1928). Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney, it is List of animation studios, the oldest-running animation studio in the world. It is currently organized as a division of Walt Disney Studios (division), Walt Disney Studios and is headquartered at the Roy E. Disney Animation Building at the Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Disney Studios lot in Burbank, California. Since its foundation, the studio has produced List of Walt Disney Animation Studios films, 61 feature films, from ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' (1937) to ''Strange World (film), Strange World'' (2022), and List of Walt Disney Animati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice's Wonderland Bakery
''Alice's Wonderland Bakery'' is an American computer-animated television series based on the 1951 Disney animated feature film ''Alice in Wonderland'' which is produced by Disney Television Animation and premiered on Disney Junior on February 9, 2022. On the same day of the premiere, the first 6 episodes were released early on Disney+ in selected countries. In April 2022, the series was renewed for a second season. Plot The series revolves around Alice, the great-granddaughter of the original Alice Pleasance Liddell, who is a young baker working at the Wonderland Bakery. As she explores the kingdom on various culinary adventures, she is accompanied by Fergie the white rabbit, Hattie, and Rosa, the Princess of Hearts. The teapot-shaped Wonderland Bakery has a kitchen where some of the equipment are animated, namely the oven and the mixer. The bakery also has a pantry which is vertical tunnel where the ingredients are on shelves on the sides, and anyone who enters will mostly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Child Of Kamiari Month
is a 2021 Japanese animated supernatural fantasy adventure film produced by Liden Films and directed by Takana Shirai. It premiered in Japanese theaters on October 8, 2021 and in Netflix internationally on February 8, 2022. The film follows Kanna, who has a passion for running until she lost it after her mother's death. She, along with a rabbit named Shiro and a demon named Yasha, race to Izumo in Shimane in time for an annual feast of the deities, collecting the feast offerings for them from shrine deities along the way before the consequences of not doing so happen. Plot Kanna Hayama is a young elementary school girl living in the Sumida ward of Tokyo, Japan, along with her recently widowed father, Norimasa Hayama. In school, she dreams about a flashback of her late mother, Yayoi Hayama, teaching her to run fast like her. Her leg becomes stiff during PE class, where they practice for the marathon tomorrow, with Akiko bringing her to the clinic afterward. While her classmates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liden Films
is a Japanese animation studio and production enterprise headquartered in Kamiogi, Suginami, Tokyo, and has animation studios in Kyoto and Osaka. Establishment Liden Films was founded on February 22, 2012 and, shortly after, joined joint-holding company Ultra Super Pictures, alongside studios Sanzigen, Trigger, and Ordet. The company is currently represented by Tetsurou Satomi. The company has since expanded, currently consisting of five separate branches and the Suginami branch: , founded in 2015; , founded in 2013; two Tokyo Studios, and ; and , founded in 2018. In 2016, the Kyoto Studio produced its own series, and in 2020 the Osaka Studio did the same. Works Television series Anime films * '' New Initial D the Movie - Legend 1: Awakening'' (August 23, 2014) - co-animated with Sanzigen is a Japanese animation studio specializing in CGI animation. The studio was founded in 2003, later becoming formally incorporated in 2006 by former employees of Gonzo, and has co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabby's Dollhouse
''Gabby's Dollhouse'' is an American live-action/animated/interactive preschool series created by Traci Paige Johnson and Jennifer Twomey for Netflix. In the series, which first aired on January 5, 2021, Gabby (voiced by Laila Lockhart Kraner) and her cat friends go on adventures within her dollhouse. The first episode was released as a sneak peek on YouTube on August 22, 2020, while the series itself was released on January 5, 2021. The second season premiered on August 10, 2021, while the third season premiered on October 19, 2021. The fourth season premiered on February 1, 2022, the fifth season premiered on July 25, 2022, and the sixth season premiered on November 1, 2022. The series was later renewed for a seventh season. ''Gabby’s Dollhouse'' made its linear debut on Cartoonito Latin America on April 18, 2022 and on Tiny Pop in the UK on October 17, 2022. Characters Main * Gabby is a 12-year-old girl who has a magical cat headband which is able to shrink her down to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TeenNick
TeenNick is an American pay-TV channel that is operated by the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global. Aimed primarily at teens and tweens, its programming includes a variety of live-action series inherited from sister channel Nickelodeon. The channel launched on September 28, 2009, as the merger between two defunct programming blocks which also targeted a teenage audience: TEENick on Nickelodeon and The N on Noggin. Before its introduction as a channel, TeenNick's space used to be held by Nick GAS (from 1999 to 2007) and a short-lived, 24-hour version of The N (from 2007 to 2009). When the TeenNick channel was first announced in early 2009, its name was spelled "TEENick" like the block it was based on. Nick Cannon, the original host of the TEENick block on Nickelodeon, was described in publicity materials as the chairman of TeenNick as well as its programming consultant. Cannon also hosted several shows on the channel, including '' TeenNick Top 10''. As of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
