First Look: ‘How to Train your Dragon’ Live-Action Adaptation

Jessa Ngojo 11/20/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – If you grew up watching How to Train Your Dragon and still remember the thrill of flying alongside Hiccup and Toothless, get ready to relive those heartwarming moments in a whole new way.…

Icon Manila 2024: Elevating professional excellence in animation and visual arts

09/13/2024

Icon Manila 2024 is poised to be an extraordinary event celebrating creativity and professional development in the animation and visual arts industries. Founded by Armand and Bing Serrano, Icon Manila not only honors artistic innovation but also…

From PH to the ‘Spider-Verse’: Artist Ronald Samson on his ‘date’ with Hollywood

Rito P. Asilo - Entertainment Editor 05/28/2023

If you loved the Oscar-winning 2018 animated feature “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” as much as we did, you’re in for a bigger and bolder treat when its sequel, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” begins its theatrical run in…

World’s top animation festival moves online over virus

04/09/2020

The world’s top animated film festival was canceled Tuesday because of the coronavirus, but organizers said they would hold an online version instead. The Annecy Festival in eastern France is the latest in a string of major…

MOANA: All fluff, violence-laden stuff

Jeff Ruffolo 12/02/2016

  AGAINST all odds, a young girl fights to save her island home in Disney’s Moana. Disney has concocted this cartoon adventure set in Polynesia and placed its world crushing film team that produced “Frozen” and “Big…

TROLLS: Big-hearted sensory overload

11/11/2016

IT’S somewhat fitting that the new DreamWorks Animation feature “Trolls “ has come out after Halloween. The movie is a sugary sweet confection of sights and sounds that will surely leave a fair share of adults with…

Pete’s Dragon: Sweet family flick

Jeff Ruffolo 09/09/2016

A FLYING dragon befriends an orphan boy in “Pete’s Dragon.” Of course, this is yet another rehash of a perfectly good 1977 Disney version of “Pete’s Dragon” with Elliott the Dragon in the starring role—this time in celluloid…

ARCHCon gathers cosplayers in Cebu on its eleventh year

Intern 11/07/2015

THE Animation, Role-playing, Comics and Hobbies Convention (ARCHCon) once again united cosplayers (costume players), gamers and hobbyists on its eleventh year. With the increasing hype in animation, role-playing, comics and hobbies, ARCHCon was packed with people having…

Vibrant and colorful ‘Home”

Jeff Ruffolo 03/27/2015

When a diminutive blue alien named Oh unceremoniously drops onto planet Earth, all sorts of mayhem occurs in the delightful new animated cartoon movie, “Home.” Voiced by Jim Parsons from TV’s “The Big Bang Theory,” Home’s Oh…

New international filmmaking school opens in Cebu City

Aileen Garcia-Yap 03/17/2015

Lights, camera, action! A school for film-making has opened in Cebu  offering industry-standard equipment  to tap creative talents in the country and foreign students who enroll. Filipinos have a reputation of being some of the best animators…

Deborah Tudtud: Child woman in motion

Orly J. Cajegas 03/15/2015

She sketches from imagination, breathes life into her drawings  in a painstakingly process and—voilà!—the cartoon character comes alive. But Cebuana Deborah Tudtud, who studied classical animation at the Vancouver Film School in Canada, will tell you that…

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