Toon Town Postponed

Animation Magazine postponed Toon Town 2.0 due to logistics issues. We'll let you know when it get rescheduled. As far as we know, the Film Finance Summit is still on. We're also headed to Kidscreen Summit, NY Toy Fair and the Engage Expo, so contact us if you're available to meet with Animax Entertainment.

Ten Years of Mike & Mike

Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg have been on ESPN Radio for 10 years now and as part of the celebration they are replaying a bunch of their best clips. One of their top moments was the Emmy win for the animated series Off-Mikes that Animax Entertainment produced. Here's the clip from the show where Mike & Mike generously pat Animax on the back. Thanks guys and congrats on the anniversary!

Top Social Media Rules

Inc. Magazine just highlighted Animax in an article about Social Media employee policies. In general our policy is pretty liberal in that we'd much rather focus on being part of the conversation than on controlling the kinds of things employees or connected folks say in particular. Our policy organically developed as we started to use Facebook, Twitter and other social media for marketing for Animax, FunNugget.com, as well as on client projects. One caveat: since we've produced a lot of kids focused work there are definite differences in approach to conversations in order to ensure security and safety.

Just Won Three Pixie Awards

With superlatives like "excellent" and "innovative," Animax Entertainment just won three Pixie Awards for a mix of our original animation productions and client work. Popzilla and Bob & Doug won Platinum level awards (the highest honor), and then Joint's Don't Jump won Gold. The awards represent the work of many animators and in particular many Flash animators working together.

(Sorry if the Pixie Award image) is NSFW but hopefully you're okay reading this blog post.

Let's Engage at Toy Fair

This February NY Toy Fair and the Engage Expo are teaming up to run a conference about the next generation of play. Animax's Michael Bellavia is moderating a panel called Adding A Powerful Online Presence To An Existing Offline Brand with executives from Scholastic, Mattel and Hidden City Games.

For anybody attending #EngageExpo in NYC http://bit.ly/M6VoM, here is a discount code "SPEAKERVIP" for $200 off.

Little Pim iPhone App Launches

One of Animax Entertainment's first iPhone apps launched: Little Pim's Word Bag. Aimed at toddlers, this pacifier app aka pass-back app will get kids tapping on your iPhone or iTouch to a different language. Kids tap through different cartoon flash card images presented by Little Pim the panda in both Spanish and French.

The app was developed by Animax for Little Pim and is based on their award winning DVD series that was recently profiled by Wired's Geek Dad blog.