The Hollywood Reporter

Behind the Animation Guild’s Push to Organize Production Workers

The guild, part of IATSE, is aggressively expanding efforts to target staffers in new roles and at companies beyond Los Angeles County in a bid to strengthen leverage with studios. By Katie Kilkenny ...
Yahoo

Walt Disney Animation Studios Production Workers Ratify Historic First Union Contract

Production management workers at Walt Disney Animation Studios have officially ratified their first union contract with the studio. This agreement comes after an intense organizing effort that saw a ...
Yahoo

Disney Feature Animation Production Workers Vote to Unionize

Eighty production workers at Walt Disney Animation will unionize with IATSE Local 839, better known as The Animation Guild, after 63 of them voted to do so in a National Labor Relations Board vote ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Walt Disney Animation Studios Production Workers Vote to Unionize in Labor Board Election

Production coordinators, production managers and production supervisors at the 'Wish' studio have demonstrated a majority support for joining The Animation Guild. By Katie Kilkenny Labor & Media ...
Cartoon Brew

Production Workers At Titmouse LA Move To Unionize With The Animation Guild

Production workers at Titmouse Los Angeles are the latest industry workers who are filing to join The Animation Guild and begin collective bargaining for their first union contract. Who exactly is ...
Variety

Nickelodeon Recognizes Production Workers as Members of Animation Guild

Nickelodeon Animation Studios has agreed to voluntarily recognize 177 production workers as members of the Animation Guild, avoiding the need for an NLRB election. The Animation Guild — also known as ...

Moira Animation Studio announces ‘Amelia’: a stop-motion short film inspired by Dungeons and Dragons

A new Mexican stop motion studio, Moira Animation Studio, launches a Kickstarter campaign to finish its first short film, ...
GamesIndustry

ANIMATION PRODUCTION VETERAN KEN DUER JOINS THROWBACK ENTERTAINMENT AS PRESIDENT, MEDIA

TORONTO - March 7, 2008 - Throwback Entertainment, a publisher of immersive interactive entertainment, today announced animation production veteran Ken Duer has joined the company as president, media.

What’s the story behind Netflix’s In Your Dreams? Director reveals why the animation is ‘cathartic and quite emotional

One of the shining moments of In Your Dreams is its hard-hitting yet powerful depiction of a family on the brink of ...
Cartoon Brew

French Animation’s Production Costs Hit All-Time High In 2019, As Foreign Investment Surged

Yesterday, we wrote about a new report on employment in France’s animation industry, which was presented at the Rencontres Animation Formation convention. The same event saw the launch of a separate ...
TheWrap

Disney Animation Production Management Workers Ratify First Union Contract

Disney production workers gather at the studio's Burbank headquarters (Courtesy of Animation Guild) Production management workers at Walt Disney Animation Studios have ratified their first labor ...
Variety

Walt Disney Animation Studios Production Workers Vote to Unionize With IATSE

Walt Disney Animation Studios production workers have voted to unionize, the Animation Guild (IATSE Local 839) announced Wednesday. In a National Labor Relations Board ballot count, 63 production ...