Archive for 'Animation'

Mediatavern Animated Children’s DVD Makes Disney’s Top 10 List!

The IAGmedia property – Mediatavern produced animated DVD makes 2009 Top 10 list on Disney Family…Check the article out now! Buy DVD on IAGmedia site today!

Technology keeps TV toons topical : Digital tools keep comedic cartoons current

Article by ELLEN WOLFF for Variety “Topical animation” on TV sounds like an oxymoron, since animation typically takes so long that up-to-the-minute references are impossible. Not anymore. Thanks to improved digital tools, animated comedies can be almost as nimble as “Saturday Night Live” — with some of the pressures that come with that, as well. [...]

Animation & Advertising Panel – a Great Discussion Today!

I wanted to thank Michael Bellavia, Pete Michels and all those who attended the Mediatavern sponsored panel: Animation & Advertising. It was a great success and we really appreciate all the knowledge shared by the panelists and the excellent questions from the audience! For those who missed it – good news! It was video taped [...]

SEE THE ADVERTISING WEEK PANEL: ANIMATION & ADVERTISING

FAMILY GUY’s animation director Peter Michels and Michael Bellavia, President of Animax Entertainment, an Emmy Award-winning full-service creative agency, will join other leading animation experts for a panel discussion on the current and future state of animation, storytelling and visual effects on Madison Avenue and the advertising industry. The panel, which is part of Advertising [...]

ANIMATION & ADVERTISING

Douglas Rowell Executive Creative Director & Partner, Mediatavern I have been a passionate practitioner, enthusiast and consumer of animation ever since I was old enough to reach the dial on my family’s black and white Zenith TV. Even in 1978 this was a pretty ghetto way to watch TV, but animation had a magical way [...]