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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.
May 1, 2007 6:10 pm
Apple and indieWIRE are presenting several Filmmaker Talks at the Apple Store Soho during the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. Tomorrow our friend, Oscar-winning animator John Canemaker, will discuss The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation and how the Mac played a significant role in the post-production process. New Yorkers: Go down there at 4pm and say “Hello” to John on behalf of Cartoon Brew. 2 Comments » posted in Animators, Events 
May 1, 2007 12:25 pm
I love old movie serials, and really admire Kim Deitch’s graphic novels. Strangely enough both converge at the Silent Movie Theatre in Hollywood this Thursday. Kim has curated a selection of silent era serial chapters highlighting the great serial heroines Pearl White, Ruth Roland and others, in a program starting 8pm, May 3rd, at the famed Fairfax Ave. theatre, and he’ll be signing his new book, Alias The Cat, beforehand, at 6pm at Family bookstore down the block. 2 Comments » posted in Events
May 1, 2007 12:02 am
Is it possible to have an animation magazine about animators, written by animators, and edited by an animator? It is… and animator Steve Moore is doing it. The first edition of FLIP: Lifestyles of the Hunched and Goofy is now online. The debut issue features an interview with Nancy Beiman, a profile of Jeff DeGrandis, James Baker on his drive-in movie memories, a feature on Blue Sky designer Mike Knapp, book reviews and more. Moore is doing this as a sideline hobby, and has no idea what he’ll put in the next issue. Let’s hope he can keep it going—it’s quite refreshing and deserves our support. 5 Comments » posted in Internet/Blogs
April 30, 2007 8:05 pm
Just got a last minute call to appear on a radio show tonight (4/30) at 11pm Pacific (2am Eastern). I’ll be discussing classic cartoons with Morgan White Jr. on Boston’s oldest and biggest radio station WBZ 1030AM. Tune in or listen live on the Internet. Billy West is Morgan’s guest in the first hour (at 10pm PST/1am EST). 2 Comments » posted in Internet/Blogs
April 30, 2007 11:02 am
I took a break from my deadlines on Saturday to see Mike Barrier discuss his Walt Disney biography at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Milt Gray, Eddie Fitzgerald, Miles Kruger, and award-winning author Amid Amidi were also there to cheer Mike on. The auditorium was packed (the entire LAT Book event itself has evolved over the years to become an annual must-do) and the panel of biographers (the others tackling Frank Lloyd Wright, Einstein, and Hitler) were fascinating. I just picked up my copy of Barrier’s new book at the Festival and will begin reading it this week. I know that once I open it I’ll never put it down till I finish, so I’m reserving some time to it during the next few days. I couldn’t attend the panel with Neal Gabler on Saturday afternoon, but CSPAN telecast the session in the wee hours of Sunday morning. I haven’t read Gabler’s tome yet either – I’ll do so after I devour Barrier’s – but you can’t deny his enthusiasm for the subject. I took the liberty of posting just Gabler’s comments on Disney in two parts on You Tube. Here is the first part (5 mins.), the second part (9 mins.) is embedded below. 6 Comments » posted in Disney, Events
April 29, 2007 12:19 pm
The first one was a big success, so here comes Too Art for TV, Too, the second annual exhibition of personal art by New York’s animation industry. Curators Liz Artinian, Amanda Baehr Fuller, Jessica Milazzo have set up the Stay Gold Gallery for 35 artists, for their exhibit of toys, comics, prints, and paintings, “liberating the skills otherwise “owned” by their television networks bosses.” The show runs May 4th through May 25th. Too Art for TV, Too is the biggest showing of this movement to date; featuring the artists who create, write, direct, storyboard, design, color, and animate “Venture Bros.” (Adult Swim), “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (Fox Network), “Ice Age” (Blue Sky Studios), “A Scanner Darkly” (Richard Linklater), “SpongeBob SquarePants” (Nickelodeon), “Code Name: Kids Next Door” (Cartoon Network), “Stanley” (Disney TV), “Daria” (MTV Animation), “Blue’s Clues” (Nick JR), and more. Opening Reception: Friday, May 4th, 7pm-10pm at Stay Gold Gallery, 451 Grand St. (between Keap & Union) in Brooklyn. For more info click here. No Comments » posted in Events
April 28, 2007 8:35 am
Disney animator Rob Corley (Mulan, Lilio and Stitch) has posted this fun little (80 second) pencil test he made around ‘94 or ‘95, produced during down time at Disney Animation in Orlando, FL. Corley explains on his blog: I wanted to play around with squash and stretch so I decided to start animating straight ahead and see how many ways I could change the character….after many moons, and after my hand almost fell off, I went back and just created a set up and ending to the piece to finish it off. It was a lot of work, but also a lot of fun to do. Rob is now co-owner of FunnyPages Productions with Tom Bancroft. 10 Comments » posted in Animators, Shorts
April 27, 2007 12:05 am
Fleischer Studios made arguably the funniest cartoons of the 1920s and ’30s — and they made them, from 1923 through 1938, in studio space leased at 1600 Broadway, the heart of Times Square, in Manhattan. The original building was demolished several years ago. Its replacement is ready for tenants. It’s now a modern high rise condo. Wanna live where Betty Boop was created? Where Popeye met Sindbad? Wanna sleep where Wiffle Piffle was born? It’s all yours at the new 1600 Broadway. (Thanks, Anne D. Bernstein) 11 Comments » posted in Cartoon Culture
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