Listen to Phil Tippett’s Great Tip To Artists At the Annie Awards
A simple tip to artists from a stop motion master.
A simple tip to artists from a stop motion master.
A recent blog post on the Guardian brings up a common misconception: that sexualizing Disney characters is somehow daring or cutting edge.
Last summer at SIGGRAPH, Pixar presented a paper offering some clues about one of the major new directions that CG feature animation is headed. The paper, “Stylizing Animation By Example,” explored how filmmakers could achieve more expressive rendering styles that disregard the perfect boundaries of computer graphics rendering and mimic traditional painting techniques.
Find out which studios, schools, and countries visited Cartoon Brew most frequently last year.
While we’ve already debunked Meryl Streep’s accusations that Walt Disney was a “gender bigot,” let us use her commetns as an opportunity to dig even deeper and find out what actions Disney actually undertook to encourage the advancement of women at his studio.
Yesterday we looked at “Boonie Bears,” a Chinese attempt to emulate Western-style computer animation. But at the risk of overgeneralizing contemporary Chinese animation on the basis of their most derivative and commercial efforts, I wanted to offer another perspective.
Take your pick: a tattoo of a classic Golden Age American cartoon character or a popular contemporary anime character.
In October 2011, Britain’s Channel 4 began airing a new initiative entitled Random Acts; this was designed as a space for …
We reveal the top 30 Cartoon Brew posts of the past year based on the number of pageviews each post received.
In 2013, we published more content on Cartoon Brew than ever before. Here are some of our favorite pieces from throughout the year.
On February 18, 2014, the Criterion Collection will do something that they rarely ever do: release an animated film.
Here’s a new and potentially lucrative market for animators: recreating alleged crimes with computer animation.
Animate Projects, the non-profit organization that supports experimental animation in Britain, has always been keen to adapt. Officially …
There has been noticeable grumbling and griping within the animation community over the past few years about the Animated Short category …
In 1990, when the Dolphin and Swan hotels opened at Walt Disney World, it marked the start of the ill-fated Disney Decade, a plan …
Author Phil Phillips spent the 1980s warning parents about the occult forces in children’s TV animation. While his notoriety has passed, fear of the messages in cartoons still exists today.
In 2011, Emma Coats, a now-former Pixar story artist, tweeted out a series of twenty-two storytelling tips she’d picked up during her …
The notoriously reclusive Bill Watterson, creator of “Calvin and Hobbes,” speaks about why there will never be an animated version of his classic comic strip.
Last week we reported on the controversy sparked by Frozen’s head of animation Lino DiSalvo following his comments about the difficulties …
Disney’s Frozen won’t be released theatrically for another month-and-half, but it’s already melting into one giant slushee of controversy.