In June, Rovio acquired Kombo, the Finnish animation studio, to expand its in-house animation capabilities and it recently secured a grant from the Finnish Film Foundation to start planning its first full length animation film.

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While Amorphium lets you add some basic motion to scenes, it's not a full-blown animation package along the lines of Kinetix's 3D Studio Max.

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Thus when Viacom licenses Rugrats toothpaste and Rugrats macaroni cheese, it both makes money and promotes the direct-to-video movie launched last year and the full-blown animation feature due out later this year.

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