100 Years of Paramount Pictures
Click to enlarge this newly released limited edition Paramount Pictures 100th Anniversary Poster, created by L.A.’s Gallery 1988. …
Jerry Beck
Every Anime Opening Ever Made
This would be funny… if it weren’t so true: Edited by Derek Lieu
“Wreck-It Ralph” First Images
This week we are getting our first look at Disney’s next animated feature, Wreck-It Ralph. USA Today got the exclusive first pics from …
Music Video Made With 25,000 Post-It Notes
If You Ever Need Someone, a new stop motion animated music video by Aaron Kaminar, was produced using over 25,000 post-it notes. No pun …
Animated Wine Labels
If you can’t make it to Annecy this week – you can always stay home with a case of wine, with labels drawn by an international collection …
Cereals That Never Were: Animatics from Hell
Last year we found an animatic for an unproduced Post cereal product: Pink Panther Foods. Here’s another one, circa 1968, featuring …
“The Suicide Shop” Trailer
The Annecy Animation Festival starts Monday and the opening night feature is Patrice Leconte’s The Suicide Shop. Based on a bestselling …
Happy Birthday: The Bray Animation Project
It’s been exactly one year since we first told you about Tom Stathes’ ambitious Bray Animation Project website. Both it and its …
Women In Animation asks “Who Says Yes?”
Women in Animation is bringing together a panel of development, production and consumer products executives to discuss the decision …
Franklin the Turtle goes XXX
People are always looking for subliminal messages in children’s cartoons. I’m not one of them. There are whole websites devoted to Out of …
UPA’s “The Sailor And The Seagull” (1949)
The complete output of animation produced by UPA may never be definitively collected, as they produced a large quantity of material for …
Nick picks up “Quick Quack Duck”
We don’t cover pre-school here as much as we should, but I’m particularly proud to post today’s announcement by Nickelodeon concerning …
“One Small Dish For Man” by Corentin Charron
The assigned topic was: “The Kitchen”. This one made me smile – and may make you hungry. One Small Dish For Man (Un Petit plat pour …
“Ghossts” by CRCR
That zany Paris-based collective of independent artists, CRCR, is back with this mesmerizing piece; a literal head-trip. I love …
“Miyazaki’s Characters Look Like Him” by Marlo Meekins
For more of Marlo’s comics and observations, visit Marlo Meekins.com
Dick Beals (1927-2012)
Animation voice actor Richard Beals (aka Dick Beals) passed away this week at age 85. Nobody has a better obit online than Mark Evanier, …
“Brave” Books
Less than one month to go before the release of the next Pixar “original” and the publicity is certainly heating up. Billboards are up …
Behind the Scenes: Mt. Franklin Bottled Water
First, director Simon Robson of Australia’s Engine recently created this beautiful “relief collage” styled spot for Mt. Franklin Bottled …
“Mongrel & The Wrath of the Ape King” by Morgan King
Morgan King had dreamed of making a Ralph Bakshi-ish rotoscoped fantasy animation all his life. This is the result of those dreams: a …
Lost animated “Little Rascals” pilot from 1970
Here’s a curio from the early 1970s. In the days before computer colorization, after Fred Ladd found success re-painting and refilming …
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