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 …
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 …
A quick follow-up to last Friday’s post about Cartoon Network’s first original live-action production. An individual who’s familiar with …
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 …
Mark Mayerson did some number-crunching recently and came up with some fascinating figures for animated feature box office grosses during …
We’ve known since April that Cartoon Network is abandoning its original programming charter and slowly moving into producing live-action …
FAST FILM (2003) by Virgil Widrich is one of those films that reminds me why I love animation in the first place: it’s a medium in which …
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 …
One of the biggest film mysteries of 2006 still remains unanswered: Why did Fox bury the release of IDIOCRACY, the new live-action film …
It’s always refreshing to see stylized applications of CG animation as opposed to today’s ubiquitous photoreal approach. “Under the …
Overman, the director of the unbelievably popular Machinima film we mentioned yesterday, MALE RESTROOM ETIQUETTE, has posted an entry on …
This blog post about the making of the recent animated film CURIOUS GEORGE, written by one of the film’s supervising animators, is pretty …
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 …
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 …
The NY TIMES published a piece today about the glut of poorly performing animated CG films. That’s hardly news to anybody working the …
Machinima is a CG animation technique that uses real-time, 3D gaming engines for its imagery source as opposed to traditional CG software …
The LA TIMES published a piece today by Josh Friedman with this mind-bogglingly ignorant sentence about animation: [OPEN SEASON], based …
Sony Pictures Animation’s first CG feature OPEN SEASON opened in the #1 slot last weekend albeit with a weak $23 million (estimated) from …
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 …
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 …
Guess who has their own MySpace now? http://www.myspace.com/tomoreb Poor guy has no friends though. Probably because he died in 1987. …