“El Tigre” Creator Jorge Gutierrez Moves Into Features with “Book of Life”
Jorge Gutierrez is transitioning into feature film directing. Guillermo del Toro, Reel FX and Fox are involved.
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An Appreciation of the Tiger in “Life of Pi”
My favorite animated performance in Pixar’s Brave was the Queen-as-a-bear character. It was a fine piece of cartoon-inspired …
“Brave” Wins Golden Globe
Pixar’s Brave won the Golden Globe tonight for Animated Feature Film.
Look At This Blue Sky Studios Sticker
“Anal Retention in Three Dimensions” has a certain ring to it…
Steve Jobs Promotes “Toy Story”
Three months before Toy Story was released, Pixar owner Steve Jobs took to the stage at the SIGGRAPH conference and explained why the film represented a major leap in film technology.
“Marvin The Martian” “Hong Kong Phooey” Live/CG Footage Leaked [UPDATED]
In case you were wondering what these characters would be like in CG – wonder no more.
A Yule Log for the 8-Bit Generation
Amsterdam-based animator Nigel Upchurch offered us Chirstmas Warmer, a 21st century interpretation of the Yule Log film.
“Rough and Laugh” by Tymote
Japanese design studio Tymote has finally answered the age-old question: What if Wassily Kandinsky used Cinema 4D?
Was “Rise of the Guardians” A Victim of the Bill Joyce Curse?
The William Joyce brand has been uniformly successful across various media platforms—except for one arena: CG animated features.
Trailer for “Blood of Eden,” An Iranian CG Feature
This trailer for the animated feature Blood of Eden is among the more cinematically ambitious pieces of Iranian animation I’ve encountered yet.
Tomorrow in NYC: Lillian Schwartz Retrospective
The Museum of Modern Art is presenting a retrospective of work by legendary computer animator Lillian Schwartz at 7pm.
“Sir Billi” and “Brave” Have Something in Common
Typically, a cheesy low-budget animated feature would be lucky to get one major Hollywood name involved with it. Not so in the case of …
New Trailer For “Sir Billi”
Would you watch a film about a senior citizen skateboarding veterinarian voiced by Sean Connery? What happens if I told you this …
Blue Sky to produce Charlie Brown feature
Deadline Hollywood broke the news this morning that 20th Century-Fox and Blue Sky Studios will produce a new feature length movie …
“The Croods” teaser trailer
Here it is, the first trailer from Dreamworks initial 20th Century-Fox release, Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco’s The Croods. Eye candy …
Sony’s “Hotel Transylvania” Debuts With $42.5 Million
The Genndy Tartakovsky-helmed Hotel Transylvania overcame overwhelmingly negative reviews to lead the U.S. box office with an opening …
“The Butterfly Effect” by Dan Sumich
The Butterfly Effect is a short CG/mo-cap animated film created by Dan Sumich at UK-based Passion Pictures. It was made in partnership …
“Snail Trail” by Philipp Artus
Today is bittersweet because we are presenting the final film in our 2012 Cartoon Brew Student Animation Festival. But we are delighted …
DreamWorks Animation Ambition: 12 Features in 3-1/2 Years
DreamWorks Animation has unveiled the most ambitious animated feature slate of any cartoon studio in history. Beginning next spring, …
Kelly Richardson’s “Mariner 9” Animates Futuristic Mars Landscape
How might Mars look like a hundred years in the future, after we’ve sent dozens of rovers to explore the planet? That’s the idea that …
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