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Last year Mark Ackland and his partner in crime, Riccardo Durante, completed a series of short films produced by Nelvana for their …

Animation director Ward Jenkins wrote a blog post about the recent deluge of blogs by animators and illustrators, and he attributes this …

“You’ve got to embrace [computer animation] or there isn’t going to be a place for you.” It was with that ultimatum, Walt Disney Feature …

Jared Deal and Garnet Syberg-Olsen have lots of fun stuff to look at over at Carnival Cartoons.

Here’s some interesting news that I hadn’t heard before. Nickelodeon Animation is giving up their Burbank studio at 231 W. Olive Avenue. …

To continue what we started in the “Animation Blog Season” post, here’s a handful more animation artist blogs that I’ve been enjoying …

CARTOON BREW is heading for Ottawa.The world premiere of my two new books will be on Saturday September 24th, 5pm, at the CHAPTERS Book …

Tim Burton was a Disney animatoranimation artist and has been long associated with animated films including FAMILY DOG and THE NIGHTMARE …

Tim Burton shares his thoughts about Hollywood’s misguided attitude of favoring technique over story and content: In Hollywood, they …

Tim Burton’s CORPSE BRIDE opens on Friday in selected cities – and next week it opens everywhere else. I haven’t seen it yet, but I’m …

Hayao Miyazaki offers a terrific new method for dealing with pesky Hollywood movie executives: threatening them with samurai swords. An …

A backhanded compliment if ever there was one. Live-action director Guy Ritchie says he was so inspired by Brad Bird’s THE INCREDIBLES …

Jeffrey Katzenberg says in the NY TIMES that he didn’t have much hands-on involvement in the upcoming Wallace & Gromit feature: “Any …

If you live in L.A. and can’t get to Ottawa next week – several screenings at Disney Concert Hall’s REDCAT Theatre in October might help. …

Reader Lynn Fava reports:I don’t know if you have any Dollar Tree stores near you, but thought you might want to know that they are …

Reader Aaron Neathery sends in this observation:I saw this on Ebay and had to share. I really, really don’t understand Pachinko, but the …

Here at Cartoon Brew, our general focus on entertainment-related animation makes it easy to forget that animation is a sophisticated …