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VIEW POSTS BY “jerry”Cartoon Brew's home for up-to-the-minute, unedited announcements and press releases direct from industry sources.
November 23, 2007 12:05 am
Our friend Steve Schneider has brought his traveling exhibit of original Warner Bros. cartoon production art to Redding California. What’s Up Doc? The Art Of Warner Bros. Cartoons is currently on display through January 6th at the Turtle Bay Exploration Park, in the Turtle Bay Museum. Those of you spending the holidays in northern California should certainly check it out. It’s open everyday except Tuesday. 5 Comments » posted in Events 
November 22, 2007 10:25 am
Lev Polyakov sent this Thanksgiving greeting below.
Happy Holidays to everyone. 10 Comments » posted in Illustration
November 21, 2007 12:05 am
You remember our June 2006 post about animator Joe Busam’s painting his child’s nursery in the style of a 1930s cartoon. Now Brew reader Joey Ellis, inspired by Busam’s mural, has decided to do one of his own. He chose Mickey’s Mechanical Man (1933) as his inspiration. Click here to see photos of the room work in progress (or a flickr slide show). Perhaps this will inspire others… Porky in Wackyland, anyone?
34 Comments » posted in Disney
November 20, 2007 12:03 am
Lest you think we’ve forgotten about Cartoon Dump, our monthly live comedy/cartoon show at the Steve Allen Theatre in Hollywood, we haven’t. In fact, we’ve got an amazing show lined up this month – it’s our “Thanksgiving Holiday Spectacular” and the cartoons won’t be the only turkey’s on the program. Frank Conniff, Erica Doering, Joel Hodgson and I will be joined by guest comedian Patton Oswalt (voice of Remy in Ratatouille). And Pow Wow The Indian Boy will make an appearance. 8pm, Tuesday November 27th. For reservations click here. 7 Comments » posted in Events
November 18, 2007 6:00 pm
Two animated films led the U.S. Box office this weekend: Beowulf came in first place, and Bee Movie is holding strong in second postition. I reluctantly concede that Beowulf is to be forever classified as an animated feature. In my book and my online listing I’ve counted prior rotoscoped films like Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings, American Pop and Fire & Ice, or Linklaters’ Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly as the animated films they rightfully are; I even include partials like Who Framed Roger Rabbit and The Adventures Of Rocky & Bullwinkle, so I guess I have to yield a place for Robert Zemeckis’ latest foray into what he calls “performance capture”. I bit the bullet and paid to see Beowulf (in 3D) over the weekend so I could join the discussion and speak from authority. I won’t formally review the film, but if you haven’t seen it yet, don’t bother. It’s just as ugly as the trailers make it out to be. Mark Mayerson nails all the problems with the movie on his blog. But what disturbs me, even more than Zemeckis’ misguided embrace of the motion capture technology, is the press and Hollywood pundits who are eating up the b.s. publicity surrounding the “performance capture” technique, making this picture out to be the next revolution in movie making. The kool-aid drinking Steve Mason at industry watchdog Fantasy Moguls.com proclaims “Beowulf is likely the future of the film business…”. He and several others who have been fawning over this film don’t even know what they are looking at. Far from being the future, Beowulf is a leap backwards into Gulliver’s Travels (1939) terrain (if only it were half as entertaining as the Fleischer film). To cleanse my palate, I went to ASIFA-Hollywood’s Raggedy Ann and Andy reunion at the AFI on Saturday, and had a great time re-watching a 35mm CinemaScope print of the 2-D hand drawn film (I hadn’t seen it in over decade). The best part was listening to the panel of animators (most of whom were only assistants at the time – 30 years ago) who held a grand on-stage reunion to discuss the craziness of making the film. The movie itself is a mad mess of Broadway showtunes and Williams artistic excess, but watching it again on the big screen (especially following Beowulf) was rather pleasurable – especially for the moments animated by Grim Natwick, Emery Hawkins, Art Babbit, Gerry Chiniquy and Tissa David. For all it’s flaws (and it had plenty), Raggedy Ann and Andy contained more imagination, creativity and heart than Beowulf could ever hope to.
104 Comments » posted in Feature Film, Mo-Cap, motion capture, Robert Zemeckis
November 18, 2007 12:46 am
They say one picture is worth a thousand words. This one is worth fifty bucks – on ebay. Click here to view at full size. 6 Comments » posted in Cartoon Culture
November 17, 2007 12:30 pm
Here’s the opening credits to a long gone (but not forgotten) TV series, My World And Welcome To It (1969): What an odd show this was. It combined the writings and drawings of James Thurber with the conventions of a late 1960s sitcom. It also featured regular doses of animation (usually adapting Thurbers black & white ink line drawings) by DePatie-Freleng. I recall there was a controversy over using a laugh track on this show. The series was a bit laid back in some respects, and Thurber’s witty parables were possibly over the heads of much of its viewing audience. Despite winning two Emmys (Best Comedy Show and Leading Actor, William Windom) it was cancelled after one season. A DVD release of the complete series would be quite enlightening. I’d love to see it again. In the meantime, here’s one of the show’s animation segments on You Tube. 29 Comments » posted in Classic
November 16, 2007 12:05 am
In honor of today’s release of the next big leap in three dimensional, digitally enhanced CG — I give you Mike Grimshaw’s One D: 16 Comments » posted in Shorts
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