In the crazy world of CG animation there is a deluge of studios and companies putting out work with enormous discrepancies in quality.

Thousands of visitors and rowers at the 2010 World Rowing Championships will be urged to 'give it back and recycle' thanks to the launch of an event recycling programme by Coca-Cola Amatil New Zealand (CCANZ).

An animated film made by South Auckland-based Massacre Films, also known as Isaiah Tour, has taken the top prize in the annual Youthtown Short Film Challenge.

A team of young Kiwis will return home from a global digital technology summit for youth in Boston on Tuesday morning.

Pixar began the world of feature length CG animated films with ‘Toy Story 1’ way back in 1995 and they have continued to break new ground with every film since then, not only with box office takings but also in showing that great characters and stories can come from the world of anima

Australia's largest and most critically acclaimed film festival, the Melbourne International Film Festival, has selected five short films from some of New Zealand's most promising filmmaking talent.

When it comes to comedy series the British are masters at the unique and odd ball style that was made very famous by ‘Monty Python’, but even before Python they had their own unique way of entertaining the masses.

NZ short film Poppy has been awarded the Computer Animation Festival's Jury Prize ahead of the SIGGRAPH 2010 International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, which is being held in Los Angeles on the 25th - 29th July.

Launched in 2008 to celebrate the growth and strength of children's music in New Zealand, the APRA Children's Song of the Year and What Now Children's Video of the Year recognise New Zealand children's music for what it is: a rich variety of fantastic fun for kids and parents alike.

With the creative well for new movies apparently drying up in Hollywood, it seems many of the production companies have turned to adaptations of already popular licenses. One of the new crazes in this area seems to be adapting animated series, in particular Japanese manga and anime.