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Ideas/Commentary

Chris Sanders
Explained Problems …

Brew reader “Test Pilot” was looking through his copy of The
Illusion of Life when he stumbled onto some Xeroxes circa 1989 …

Ideas/Commentary

Animation vs. Animations
by Amid Amidi   Saturday July 23, 2011   3:50 pm
Does it bother you when someone calls multiple pieces of
animation “animations”? Well, there’s a Facebook group for that: …
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Bad Ideas

A Pitch Party Where Everyone Loses Except Animation Magazine
by Amid Amidi   Tuesday June 21, 2011   1:43 pm
The problem with publishing a magazine about animation that
nobody wants to read is that one often has to resort to …
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Ideas/Commentary

Physics for Animation 101
by Amid Amidi   Friday June 10, 2011   2:51 pm
A short piece about Alejandro Garcia, a professor at San Jose
State who teaches physics to animation students and is now …
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Ideas/Commentary

“Space Jam” Producer Says Mo-Cap Isn’t Animation and Why He’s Wrong
by Amid Amidi   Tuesday June 7, 2011   1:02 pm
Last July we posted the amended Oscar rules that stated motion
capture would no longer be eligible for the best animated …
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Feature Film

Comment of the Day: Digital Domain Should Avoid Missteps of Others
by Amid Amidi   Monday May 30, 2011   8:23 am
Digital Domain is jumping head first into the feature animation
game. Veteran studio owner and director Uli Meyer suggested …
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vimeoinventions

Ideas/Commentary

Should I Post My Film On-Line?: A Filmmaker’s Perspective
by Amid Amidi   Tuesday May 17, 2011   6:23 am
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Ideas/Commentary

Comment of the Day: There are good stories about Pixar to tell
by Amid Amidi   Thursday May 12, 2011   9:05 pm
Responding to my comment about the difficulty of writing
anything interesting about Pixar nowadays, Brew reader Matt …
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Ideas/Commentary

Ed Wynn Deals with TV Network Execs
by Amid Amidi   Thursday April 28, 2011   7:11 am
Ed Wynn on TV network executives in 1950: “You know what an
executive is to me? An executive is a man who gets $50,000 a …
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Ideas/Commentary

A Response to Harry Partridge’s Silly Go! Animate Rant
by Amid Amidi   Tuesday April 26, 2011   3:12 am
“It’s not a gay lobster but still funny” – a response by
“reddplague” to Harry Partridge’s anti-Go! Animate cartoon …
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godfrey-great

Ideas/Commentary

Animated Shorts: Sell or Give Away for Free?
by Amid Amidi   Friday April 15, 2011   12:31 pm
Last year I wrote about how the family of British animation
legend Bob Godfrey was uploading his films to YouTube. Now …
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Comics

This PENCIL Must Be the Answer!
by Amid Amidi   Monday April 4, 2011   2:40 pm
A Jack Kirby panel custom-drawn for traditional animators. Read
more about the panel HERE. (via Super Punch)
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Books

BOOK EXCERPT: “Directing Animation”
by Amid Amidi   Monday April 4, 2011   1:32 pm
New York animation director and ASIFA-East president David Levy
has written a trio of helpful books aimed at young artists …
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Ideas/Commentary

Top Three Animated Films on YouTube and Vimeo
by Amid Amidi   Friday March 25, 2011   4:31 am
Hadn’t checked in a while and was curious to see what the most
viewed pieces of animation on YouTube and Vimeo currently are. …
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Ideas/Commentary

“Family Guy” Producer & Writer Alec Sulkin is an Insensitive Jerk
by Amid Amidi   Saturday March 12, 2011   5:25 pm
The image above contains the response to the tragic natural
disasters in Japan by a douchebag named Alec Sulkin, who happens …
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