Filipino-made game 'Fallen Tear: The Ascension' dazzles with beautiful hand-drawn animation

Rappler— The game is a winner of the Global Play Showcase Award at the Game Developers Conference 2024, beating out entrants coming from countries such as Australia, Finland, Ghana, and Brazil

Flickering Myth—Pakistan's first hand-drawn animated film The Glassworker gets and English trailer and poster. Mano Animation Studios has released a trailer for The Glassworker, the first hand drawn animated film produced in Pakistan from writer-director Usman Riaz which centres on a young glassblower in training, and his relationship with his father and the daughter of an army colonel as their lives are upended by an impending war; watch it […] From blockbuster Hollywood movies to independent and British cinema, Flickering Myth has you covered. Read the original post here: Pakistan’s first hand-drawn...

Hollywood in Toto—'Beautiful Girls' Couldn't Be Made Today. Here's Why. There's a growing list of stories that Hollywood would never tell again. 'Blazing Saddles' shoots to mind, but so do 'The Producers,' 'Soul Man,' 'I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry' and 'The Toy.' (The last entry, to be fair, makes sense) Add 'Beautiful Girls' to that growing list. The 1996 ensemble tells uncomfortable truths about the male mind from start to finish. A key subplot involving a precocious 13-year-old girl wouldn't make it past the first draft in 2024. Even the actress who played...

Digiday—In the marketing world, anime is following in the footsteps of gaming. As marketers look to take advantage of anime's entry into the zeitgeist, they might be wise to observe the parallels between the evolution of anime as a marketing channel and the ways brands have learned to better leverage gaming in recent years.