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DATE WITH DIZZY (1956)

What an awesome way to start a Monday morning! Josh of the Jazz:Animated blog has posted onto YouTube the difficult-to-find 1956 John …

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Terry Teachout on Why YouTube Rocks

Despite some missteps on YouTube’s part, like the unnecessary removal of dozens of public domain cartoons from its site, I’m still a huge …

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Animation Box Office Grosses

Mark Mayerson did some number-crunching recently and came up with some fascinating figures for animated feature box office grosses during …

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Most Ironic Exec Quote of the Week

We’ve known since April that Cartoon Network is abandoning its original programming charter and slowly moving into producing live-action …

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THE ANCIENT BOOK OF MYTH AND WAR

Five Pixar artists are currently working on a new hardcover art book called THE ANCIENT BOOK OF MYTH AND WAR. It’s scheduled for release …

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UNDER THE CHERRY TREE

It’s always refreshing to see stylized applications of CG animation as opposed to today’s ubiquitous photoreal approach. “Under the …

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Curious Production Stories

This blog post about the making of the recent animated film CURIOUS GEORGE, written by one of the film’s supervising animators, is pretty …

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Cartoon Modern in Scotland

I’m super-excited to announce that I’ll be headed to Scotland for the Projector 2006 festival, which takes place next week from October …

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Miyazaki and Son

If anybody is in need of some tough love from Dr. Phil, it’s probably Hayao Miyazaki and his eldest son Goro. This Reuters article about …

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NY TIMES on the CG Glut

The NY TIMES published a piece today about the glut of poorly performing animated CG films. That’s hardly news to anybody working the …

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The First Machinima Hit?

Machinima is a CG animation technique that uses real-time, 3D gaming engines for its imagery source as opposed to traditional CG software …

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Open Season Opens a Weak #1

Sony Pictures Animation’s first CG feature OPEN SEASON opened in the #1 slot last weekend albeit with a weak $23 million (estimated) from …

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TWICE UPON A TIME Online

So, you say you’ve read Taylor Jessen’s amazing piece about the production of TWICE UPON A TIME (1983) in ANIMATION BLAST #9 and now you …

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3 Trees & 3 Flowers in November

The must-see LA art show of the fall season has been anounced. “3 Trees and 3 Flowers” opens November 4 at the Gallery Nucleus (30 West …

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Tom Oreb’s MySpace

Guess who has their own MySpace now? http://www.myspace.com/tomoreb Poor guy has no friends though. Probably because he died in 1987. …

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