Tim Burton Says Hand-Drawn isn’t Dead
Tim Burton shares his thoughts about Hollywood’s misguided attitude of favoring technique over story and content: In Hollywood, they …
Amid Amidi
Miyazaki Knows how to deal with Hollywood
Hayao Miyazaki offers a terrific new method for dealing with pesky Hollywood movie executives: threatening them with samurai swords. An …
Guy Ritchie, the next Richard Rich?
A backhanded compliment if ever there was one. Live-action director Guy Ritchie says he was so inspired by Brad Bird’s THE INCREDIBLES …
Wallace+Gromit-Katzenberg=Good
Jeffrey Katzenberg says in the NY TIMES that he didn’t have much hands-on involvement in the upcoming Wallace & Gromit feature: “Any …
Studio 360 on The End of Hand-Drawn Animation at Disney
Studio 360, a program on Public Radio International, ran a 7-minute segment last weekend on the end of hand-drawn animation at Disney. …
Trusted Computing
Here at Cartoon Brew, our general focus on entertainment-related animation makes it easy to forget that animation is a sophisticated …
Hurricane Relief For Artists
We know that a lot of animation exec types read this site so here’s a message for you folks. Following the destruction of Hurricane …
NY Trip Report: 50s Design, New Books and Mind Game
Thanks to Jerry who’s been holding down the Brew fort while I was away in New York City. I was out there working on the design and layout …
Prelude to Eden
Michel Gagné has just posted a free, hi-quality Quicktime version of his cult classic animated short PRELUDE TO EDEN (1995). The …
Unsung Heros of Animation
I can count all the great books about modern independent animation on one hand…hell, probably on one finger, because there simply …
Even Mr. Bill Knew the Levees Wouldn’t Hold
A couple days ago on GOOD MORNING, AMERICA, President Bush said, “I don’t think anyone could have anticipated the breach of the levees.” …
Gabe Swarr’s Value Meal
Animation director-designer Gabe Swarr has launched the first designs in his new T-shirt line called Value Meal. “I like food,” says Gabe …
Animation Blog Season
The summer of 2005 will go down as the animation artist’s blog renaissance. Artist blogs have been cropping up at an unbelievable rate …
Ryan Larkin on the comeback trail
Ryan Larkin, the celebrated wunderkind of 1960s Canadian animation whose downfall was the subject of Chris Landreth’s Oscar-winnning …
Harald Siepermann Blog
Our friend Harald Siepermann, a mighty talented character designer who lives in Germany, has started his own blog HERE. Just a few of the …
Ruben Apodaca, RIP
I was saddened to hear that Ruben Apodaca passed away last month at age 73. I didn’t know him well, but met him a few times to work on a …
London Bloggers
A couple days ago, I mentioned a couple new bloggers who work in the London animation scene: Gerben Steenks and Stephane Kardos. Now, two …
Stephen Silver’s Blog
“Since everyone else draws hot women, I want to be the guy that draws fat men.” – Stephen Silver, in the comments section of his …
Eurovision Art Contest
The Eurovision Art Contest is a monthly drawing contest where artists create an illustration based on a specific theme. The contest is …
Disney Rarities: Celebrated Shorts 1920s-1960s
Disney has announced the contents for the fifth wave of their Treasures dvd sets. Of particular interest is the contents of DISNEY …
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