Pixar

Up meets Gran Torino

USC film student Daniel Johnson noticed a few similarities between Pixar’s Up and Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino. So he recut Up’s trailer …

Anime

Ghibli’s next film: The Borrowers

Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli has announced its next animated film, an adaptation of Mary Norton’s 1952 classic kid’s book, The …

Disney

Roy E. Disney R.I.P.

The Walt Disney Company announced today that Roy Disney has passed away. Click here for LA Times obit. Roy did his father and uncle …

Cartoon Culture

Awards Season

Within the last few days, many of the Hollywood award associations and motion picture critics have selected their best-of picks for 2009. …

Games

Run Hamster Run

No one knows where hand drawn animation is headed – but one outlet seems to be thriving: mobile video games. Here’s another for the list …

Disney

Epic Misney

When Disney’s acquisition of Marvel first became news we did a post inviting artists to show off their best visions of the merger. Now, …

Books

“The Story of Weston Woods”

I’ve been watching Weston Woods productions all my life and I never really realized it – and you probably haven’t either. I don’t know …

Comics

The Sunday Funnies 12/13/09

Our weekly survey of comic strips and editorial cartoons that reference animation characters. Glen and Gary McCoy’s The Flying …

Disney

Roger Rabbit crew photos on Facebook

This is animator Peter Western’s desk during the production of Who Framed Roger Rabbit at Richard Williams studio in London. Note the …

Events

Charity Auction

We usually don’t plug this sort of thing, but the array of talent assembled here is worthy of note. Thomas Brillante (The Art Institute …

Events

3 Jerry Events to Note

I’ll be plugging these again as we get closer to each, but here’s an early heads-up on three events coming up that I’ll be producing …

Disney

Undead Disney

These Disney Zombies (click picture above for full size image) made their debut at the recent London MCM Expo in October. Take that, …

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