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POSTS FOR “August, 2007“Cartoon Brew's home for up-to-the-minute, unedited announcements and press releases direct from industry sources.
August 4, 2007 6:30 am
Once again the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive provides a new piece of the giant jigsaw puzzle that is the history of animated cartoons. Steve Worth has scanned sections of a December 1945 issue of Coronet magazine which includes an autobiography of Bugs Bunny (illustrated with original images loosely based on the storyboards from A Hare Grows In Manhattan (released in May 1947). Anybody have any guesses as to who did the art? 18 Comments » posted in Classic, Comics 
August 3, 2007 10:01 pm
This short Reuters video tells the story of how soap stone carvers in the Kenyan village of Tabaka are earning more money than ever by turning out delectably off-model carvings of Simpsons characters. In particular, the shot of the villagers trying to watch an episode of the Simpsons is priceless. According to Reuters, the village has an official license from Fox to produce these figurines. Now the question is, where can one purchase these statues? UPDATE: Brew reader Hunter writes in the comments that the statues will soon be available here. 12 Comments » posted in Cartoon Culture, TV
August 3, 2007 12:00 pm
14 Comments » posted in Cartoon Culture
August 3, 2007 10:48 am
The show may put viewers to sleep but the artwork certainly doesn’t. Bill Wray has posted a gorgeous selection of backgrounds that he and Scott Wills painted while working on Samurai Jack. 65 Comments » posted in TV
August 3, 2007 3:07 am
Director Chris Sanders (Lilo and Stitch), currently helming Crood Awakening at DreamWorks, has launched a website — ChrisSandersArt.com. The site is new and still growing although there is a nice selection of his personal drawings currently posted. 19 Comments » posted in Animators
August 3, 2007 1:46 am
Here’s a nice environmentally-themed complement to the Koji Yamamura piece posted on the Brew yesterday. Spilled Oil is a new hand-drawn short produced as an internal project at Minneapolis-based animation studio Make. It was animated by Andrew Chesworth and Aaron Quist. The film can be viewed at SpilledOil.com and a ‘making of’ version with pencil tests can be viewed here. (via No Fat Clips) 1 Comment » posted in Shorts
August 3, 2007 1:00 am
The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive has posted another gem, my favorite piece of Disneyana of all time: the wartime in-house publication Dispatch From Disney. They’ve scanned the pages (click here for Part 1, here for Part 2). This publication (only one issue was produced in 1943) was beautifully produced and loaded with unique information and art by Fred Moore, T. Hee, Roy Williams and others. I always wanted a copy and now, thanks to the Archive, I can read it anytime I want. 4 Comments » posted in Disney
August 2, 2007 10:30 am
Mike Van Eaton’s latest acquisition is a killer. An original Koko the Clown drawing, apparently related to (or for) the 1922 film called The Mosquito,signed and dated by Max Fleischer. Click on image above to see a larger version. The intriguing inscription reads “My Dear Raoul, Here’s wishing you success with my new productions. Sincerely, Max Fleischer, 1922″ Raoul Barre perhaps? If anybody has a copy of “The Mosquito”, I would love to see if this is one of the opening drawings. |
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