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POSTS FOR “January, 2006“Cartoon Brew's home for up-to-the-minute, unedited announcements and press releases direct from industry sources.
January 28, 2006 8:30 am
 Back when the family vacation was a real trip: Steve Thompson has been posting brouchures from the 1972 and 1973 King’s Island Happy Land of Hanna Barbera theme park in Cincinnatti, Ohio. No Comments » posted in Old Brew 
January 27, 2006 7:40 am
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January 27, 2006 1:56 am
 Speaking of Pixar, as we’ve been doing all week long, Dan Caylor has posted a great 14-1/2 minute video clip on his site that features the following: > an interview with Ralph Eggleston speaking about the genesis of his short FOR THE BIRDS > an interview with Jan Pinkava speaking about the technical challenges of creating GERI’S GAME > and WINTER, an amusing CalArts-era student film by MONSTERS INC. director Pete Docter If that weren’t enough, there’s also an unintentionally hilarious interview with Polish animator Zbigniew Rybczynski and an early Norman McLaren film (with a swinging performance by Albert Ammons) tucked inbetween the Pixar segments. No Comments » posted in Old Brew
January 27, 2006 12:04 am
Paul Briggs, a story artist at Disney Feature, shares on his blog the story of his first encounter with John Lasseter this week. An excerpt:
Paul also writes about the introduction of Catmull and Lasseter to the Disney artists, and he contrasts it with a David Stainton meeting at Disney Florida two years ago. His blog offers but a hint of the feelings of optimism and hopefulness that folks at Disney must be feeling right now. The good vibes certainly extend beyond Disney, and I’m sure many in the animation community, including myself, are now feeling very positive about this week’s developments. After decades of Katzenberg, Schneider, Schumacher and Stainton, it’s nothing short of a miracle that Disney is allowing an artist the caliber of Lasseter take charge of its studio. No doubt that this week will go down as a watershed moment in Disney and animation history. No Comments » posted in Old Brew
January 26, 2006 12:18 pm
Let the good times roll. According to the LA TIMES (reg. req’d or BugMeNot), TOY STORY 3 has been shelved. The announcement comes hardly as a surprise: Disney started the TOY STORY 3 unit primarily as a bargaining chip for these negotiations. Nevertheless, it’s nice to see, for once, an animated project that shouldn’t be made get dumped. Here’s the TIMES:
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January 26, 2006 8:46 am
 ASIFA-Hollywood’s Archive Blog has started posting images from Mary Blair’s long-out-of-print Golden Book of Little Verses and archivist Steve Worth promises to post more Blair artwork later this week. Worth has also posted an endorsement letter from June Foray about the goals of the ASIFA Archive. No Comments » posted in Old Brew
January 26, 2006 8:34 am
 Miayazki is the talk of several websites right now (due to his films being showcased this month on TCM), but another international filmmaker equally worthy of such praise is France’s Michel Ocelot. His features and shorts are rarely shown in the U.S., but next month Ocelot will be on hand at the Museum of Modern Art to introduce his latest feature Kirikou and The Wild Beasts. The screening is part of a MoMA series called Grand Illusions: The Best of Recent French Animation, which will be presented February 23-March 6, 2006. This primer on contemporary French animation will showcase: a Ruritanian romance (Paul Grimault’s marvelous The King and the Mockingbird), a swashbuckling adventure (Jean-François Laguionie’s Island of Black Mor), an ecological parable (Jacques-Rémy Girerd’s Raining Cats and Frogs), an African folktale (Michel Ocelot’s Kirikou and the Sorceress), a dark Russian fable (Francis Nielsen’s The Dog, the General, and the Birds), and a film that defies all pigeonholing (Sylvain Chomet’s Triplets of Belleville). Excellent films, historically significant and highly entertaining. Go. No Comments » posted in Old Brew
January 26, 2006 1:54 am
 Good stuff worth checking out. Nate Pacheco: Talented artist and Flash technical guru who has worked on Renegade’s HI HI PUFFY AMI YUMI and ELMO AARDVARK Web cartoons, among many other things. Brandon Scott: A student at Sheridan whose paintings have a distinctive sense of color and design. Miles Thompson, of animation and painting fame, has started his own blog. Clarke Snyder has started a new blog, Inspiration Grab-bag, where he’s posting artwork that inspires him. So far, lots of terrific frame grabs from Disney’s PIGS IS PIGS and scans of Mel Crawford illustrations. |
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