New Blogs By Harding & Tsutsumi
A couple talented animation folk have redesigned their websites to incorporate journal/blogs: Indie filmmaker Chris Harding (of LEARN …
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The Greatest Animation Event Ever?
Animation festivals are fine nowadays, but I can’t think of any event that could possibly compare to the Montreal Expo’s World Exhibition …
LIVE-ACTION ANIME FROM 1960
Here’s an oddity I just had to share. If you thought a live-action Flintstones was a bad idea, check this out. A live action Japanese …
MILES THOMPSON’S CALIFORNIA
My good friend, Miles Thompson, a full-time painter and sometimes animation artist, is currently working on his next solo art show, which …
TOON IN
Our buddy Tee Bosustow has just started broadcasting a new radio show dedicated to classic animated cartoons. Toon In! … to the Masters …
BREW HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE: THE SCOTT BRADLEY CD
Here’s a new item that needs to be on every Brew readers’ X-mas wish list. Screen Archives Entertainment/Film Score Monthly has just …
Animation Show 2007
Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt have announced the line-up for the third edition of the ANIMATION SHOW. Having seen all the films in the …
THE Conservative crusade against cartoons
In the 1950s it was comic books and rock & roll, in the 1990s it was video games and the internet. Now Steven Benen on The Carpetbagger …
John Canemaker’s Oscar Experience
What does it feel like to be nominated for an animated short Oscar? Atlanta animation director Ward Jenkins was curious to find out so he …
RUSSIAN ANIMATION SPY STORY
Who ever said being a distributor of animated films was boring work? Here’s an amusing newspaper article from a few months back about …
ART INSPIRED BY FAMILY GUY
Talk about scraping the bottom of the artistic barrel: the Museum of Television & Radio in Beverly Hills is currently hosting an exhibit …
FPS Charity Auction
Feel good this holiday season by participating in FPS MAGAZINE’s annual charity auction which runs through November 29. All proceeds, …
FESTIVAL REPORT: 2D OR NOT 2D
Animator Nancy Beiman (of the Rochester Intitute of Technology) sent in this first hand report from 2D OR NOT 2D FESTIVAL held in Everett …
Oswald To Get Lucky in 2007
One of the most interesting animation stories of ’06 took place last February when Disney acquired the rights to one of Walt’s earliest …
Don Hertzfeldt: CGI is mostly nouns
Indie filmmaker/stick-figure master/ANIMATION SHOW co-founder Don Hertzfeldt talks extensively about his work in this new AWN interview. …
New Animated Bits Around the Web
Joel Trussell of WAR PHOTOGRAPHER fame has finished a great looking spot for the anti-smoking campaign Way2Quit. Check it out …
PRIVATE SNAFU IN THE NEW YORK TIMES
Today’s NEW YORK TIMES has an ARTICLE that discusses how animation was used during the 1940s and ’50s to teach valuable medical lessons. …
WORST. PEANUTS. EVER.
Did you know Charlie Brown’s parents were organ donors? When Charles M. Schulz agreed to using Peanuts characters for MetLife’s …
UNDER THE HOOD
The San Francisco Society of Illustrators is letting everyone know about the event PIXAR UNDER THE HOOD: The Making of Cars happening a …
TIME TRAVEL
Dan Hollis has been working in radio for the past 10 years as both the sales manager for Hackettstown, New Jersey radio station WRNJ and …
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