Next Saturday in SF: FELIX THE CAT in 35mm
If you are not at the San Diego Comic Con next Saturday, but find yourself in Northern California – here’s where you should dwell: The …
If you are not at the San Diego Comic Con next Saturday, but find yourself in Northern California – here’s where you should dwell: The …
Walt Disney’s first home – his family’s house on Tripp Ave. in Chicago – is for sale. This is where Walt spent the first four years of …
J. P. Miller created brilliant drawings for the “Baby Weems” sequence of The Reluctant Dragon, and Andreas Deja has posted a nice …
Had to post this photo with June Foray and her well-deserved Emmy Award, taken a few minutes ago at the broadcast of Stu’s Show. Again, …
Animation historians can sleep a little easier tonight. We now know that the rotoscope model for Superman in the classic Fleischer …
More from that cache of vintage MGM model sheets obtained by Mike Van Eaton. I don’t think these have been reprinted, or are on any other …
Apparently, Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Sym-bionic Titan) impressed Sony Pictures …
FX Guide offers an in-depth look at how Pixar created the curly red hair of Brave’s Merida including a 30-minute audio podcast with Pixar …
Once upon a time, way back in 1937… MGM decided to produce its own cartoons and set up a studio on the lot. They ended their …
The Walt Disney Family Museum announced yesterday their first major special exhibition, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The Creation of …
The consummately cute Fifties-era Hallmark booklet below was drawn by Louie Schmitt (1908-1993) and painted by Stan Spohn (1915-2012), …
Golden Age animator Phil Monroe (1916-1988) is rarely discussed, even amongst animation cognoscenti, which is unfortunate because he had …
It’s been exactly one year since we first told you about Tom Stathes’ ambitious Bray Animation Project website. Both it and its …
The complete output of animation produced by UPA may never be definitively collected, as they produced a large quantity of material for …
Animation voice actor Richard Beals (aka Dick Beals) passed away this week at age 85. Nobody has a better obit online than Mark Evanier, …
Swiss animator Oswald Iten has written an enlightening analysis of the different approaches to narrative and characterization used by the …
Watching Kontraste by Sieglinde Hamacher makes me realize I’ve never seen any East German animation. From what I’ve read, their state-run …
Kaj Pindal, who turns eighty-five years old this year, ranks up there as one of my all-time favorite animators. Pindal typically works …
Jake Friedman emailed yesterday to tell me about BabbittBlog.com, a site dedicated to all things Art Babbitt. Jake has been researching a …
If not for the cutting and pacing of the film, it would be easy to imagine Walerian Borowczyk’s Les Astronautes had been made today–and …