This just in from Warner Bros. animator Tim Walker: The Los Angeles Chapter of the American Parkinson Disease Association, is hosting Living Artistically with Parkinson’s Disease, a champagne brunch art exhibit & silent auction on Sunday, February 12th, from 11am to 2pm.

This one-of-a-kind exhibit will feature works of art – painting, drawings, photography, sculpture, and music – created by celebrated artists who have Parkinson’s Disease. Artists include Jorge Lacost, James Tim Walker, Herb Rosenkrantz and many more. Gallery sales from the exhibit and silent auction/raffle will directly benefit the artist and the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Parkinson Disease Association in it’s efforts to provide support and education locally.

Tim has gotten his colleagues at Warner Bros. to contribute to several incredible one-of-a-kind murals which will be auctioned off at the event. One, partially pictured above (and badly photographed with my iPhone), features funny animal (and people) drawings by Spike Brandt, Tony Cervone, Dan Haskett, Bob McKnight, Mark Christiansen and others. Another piece features adventure character drawings by Bruce Timm, Shane Glines, Glen Murakami and more.

The art exhibit opens February 8th and runs to the 14th. The auction is on Sunday at the James Gray Gallery, Bergamot Station Art Center, 2525 Michigan Ave., Building D4 in Santa Monica. Check with Parkinson LA for more information.

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“Highly Strung” by Dave Jones

February 6, 2012 2:00 am

Not strictly animation, but Australian filmmaker Dave Jones directed a live show the end of last year that combined interactive animated projections with large-scale puppetry. Says Jones,

“The show was performed outdoors on the side of a grain silo and featured a 14-meter tall puppet. It took ten people to operate the puppet whilst animation was used to create an interactive backdrop for the piece as well as to project the puppet’s face. For the mouth we actually mounted a projector inside the puppets head and gaffer taped it to an ipod which we could control wirelessly from the ground 20 meters below.”

It’s pretty cool looking. Here’s a 5 minute edit of the show (performed Oct. 28th 2011 at the Nati Frinj Festival in tiny Natimuk, Australia). There is plenty of behind the scenes and making-of stuff on Jones’ blog.

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“Valentoons” at the Cinefamily

February 6, 2012 1:00 am

To kick off a new year of animation programs at the Cinefamily/Silent Movie Theater in Hollywood, this Thursday (2/9) we will celebrate with our traditional Valentines Day program – aka Valentoons – an assortment of classic Hollywood cartoons based on the theme of love. From the sex-starved Pepe LePew to the appropriately named Woody Woodpecker (and yes, Herman and Katnip). This year our program features all 35mm Technicolor film prints, projected the way they are supposed to be seen on the big screen. Suitable for cartoon-lovers of all ages, for more information or advance tickets, please click the CineFamily website.

EXTRA BONUS: It’s my birthday on Thursday, so we’ll start the show (at 8pm) with one of my favorite “party” themed cartoons and a free slice of cake to everyone in attendence!

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A Note from Jerry Beck

February 6, 2012 12:05 am

I’ve received a lot of personal messages reacting to last Friday’s post by Amid. I just want to remind everybody that posts by Amid reflect Amid’s point of view. Posts by myself reflect mine. Posts that reflect both of our views are tagged with the Brewmasters label. So, in short, always check the byline and direct your messages accordingly. Thanks.

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Avery Tattoo

February 5, 2012 7:30 pm

Tex Avery tats spotted on line at Disney World. You know what? “I’m happy!”

(Thanks, Uncle Wayne)

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“Rango” tops Annie Award Winners

February 4, 2012 9:35 pm

Paramount’s Rango won the top feature film honors at the 39th Annual Annie Awards ceremony tonight at UCLA’s Royce Hall. The film also took honors in 4 award categories (others being character design, writing and editing). However, ASIFA voters spread the love by giving the Best Director prize to Jennifer Yuh Nelson for Dreamworks’ Kung Fu Panda 2. Best Animated Short Subject was presented to Minkyu Lee’s Adam and Dog.

Other highlights: Michel Gagne’s Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet won for Best Video Game. Cartoon Network’s The Amazing World of Gumball was honored as Best Animated Television Production for Children. The Simpsons took the prize again for Best General Audience TV Production. Character Animation in a Live Action Production was presented to ILM’s work on The Transformers: Dark of The Moon. Awards were given in various categories to Winnie The Pooh, Arthur Christmas and Rise of The Planet of The Apes. Even Spielberg’s Tintin wasn’t overlooked… it won awards for Visual Effects and Music!

A complete list of winners is after the jump.
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Live Stream of the ASIFA-Hollywood Annie Awards

February 4, 2012 4:30 pm

UPDATE: We’re live-tweeting the event on Cartoon Brew’s Twitter.

Get your popcorn ready, put on some clean underwear, and settle down. It’s the animation world’s biggest night—the ASIFA-Hollywood Annie Awards—and it’s being livestreamed for the first time ever! The live stream will begin at 7pm PST (10pm EST):

Click HERE to view the 64-page ASIFA-Hollywood Annie Awards Program Book as a PDF file. The complete list of all Annie Award winners will be posted here following the the live event.

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“The Space Stallions”

February 4, 2012 12:05 am

“As darkness is covering the multiverse, far away in the galaxy of the wild stallion, a spark of hope is born. Guided by the light of Mother Mustang, the Space Stallions must defeat the Demon of darkness, Destructo.”

The 2012 Bachelor film project from Denmark’s The Animation Workshop is a hoot. Students Thorvaldur S. Gunnarsson, Jonatan Brüsch, Ágúst Kristinsson, Arna Snæbjørnsdottir, Esben J. Jespersen, Touraj Khosravi and Polina Bokhan created this “homage” to 1980s sci-fi cartoons. If you like it, visit their Facebook page for more information.

(Thanks, Tim Thomsen)

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