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January 16, 2007 5:43 am
 The first footage for Disney’s upcoming live-action/2d-animated film ENCHANTED has appeared online. A few seconds can be seen at the tail end of this unbelievably annoying Disney promo. Before anybody starts complaining about the generic designs though, bear in mind that the film is parodying these Disney stereotypes.The hand-drawn animation is being produced by James Baxter’s studio. Character designer Harald Siepermann has posted a page of his character designs for the film on his blog. No Comments » posted in Old Brew 
January 16, 2007 2:31 am
Jeff Jonas, an artist at Sony Online Entertainment and the the son of Golden Age animation artist Homer Jonas, has written some hilarious memories of working as a Hanna-Barbera copy boy in the 1970s when he was still a teenager. He offers a disclaimer in the piece:
Still, I’d take Seventies H-B any day over the gloomy corporate boardroom vibe of contemporary LA animation studios. I can’t remember the last time I visited a studio in LA where I didn’t leave feeling depressed and blue. No Comments » posted in Old Brew
January 16, 2007 2:02 am
 Kip W has posted some amazing animation artifacts on Flickr: coverage of the 1941 Disney strike as reported in New York’s leftist daily paper PM. There’s some great cartoon drawings and photos (like the one above) in the articles. Kip initially posted these in Cartoon Brew’s Animation History Archive group on Flickr. Feel free to join – lots of folks are sharing stuff from their collections as we unearth rare cartoon history together. No Comments » posted in Old Brew
January 14, 2007 7:45 pm
Here’s a short video of Iwao Takamoto drawing a famous Hanna-Barbera character not designed by him. The video was posted by background painter Tristin Cole. No Comments » posted in Old Brew
January 13, 2007 4:00 pm
 Girl animation artists drawing girls. Cool. It’s a new book, it’s a gallery show, it’s an event on January 20th at Pehr Space in Los Angeles (near Echo Park). The gals include Anand Duncan (Disney), Anne Walker (Renegade), Nicole Filiatrault (South Park), Shannon O’Connor (Iron Giant), Crystal Chesney (Looney Tunes: Back In Action) and a whole slew from The Simpsons, including Melody Severns, Debbie Bruce, Nancy Kruse, and Jenny Moeller. More info at the Girls Drawin Girls website. No Comments » posted in Old Brew
January 13, 2007 3:20 pm
 Forget Astro Boy! Digital Meme has announced an upcoming release of a new DVD collection of vintage Japanese anime that predates Tezuka’s classic by thirty years! The set includes fifty five rare cartoons from the Golden Age of Japanese silent film and early talkie period. Japanese Anime Classic Collection is a digital collection of hard-to-find anime produced from 1928 through 1936. Entertaining, exciting, and startling, the collection will be treasured by enthusiasts, who will find it a valuable reference tool for retracing Japanese animation from its early roots to what is now universally known as anime. Presented chronologically, these anime have been painstakingly digitally reproduced for DVD viewing. Nothing has been altered or edited except for the integration of music in some titles.Some selections in the set are “record talkies.” These anime came to theaters together with a gramophone record, which provided a separate, simultaneous audio track with music, voice, and effects. I don’t know about you, but I’m very intrigued. The price is $110.00 (or $40.00 per DVD when sold separately) and it’s scheduled for release on April, 30th 2007. For further details, please check Digital Meme’s website. No Comments » posted in Old Brew
January 12, 2007 4:54 pm
 What happens when five Pixar animators get together to talk animation? The results are in this Spline Doctors podcast. The participating animators are Adam Burke, Angus MacLane, Scott Clark, Stephen Gregory and Andrew Gordon. Haven’t listened to it yet but I know what I’ll be putting onto my iPod this weekend. No Comments » posted in Old Brew
January 12, 2007 4:15 pm
The animation industries in North America and Europe may be healthy, but the numbers presented in this newspaper article from Chinese news agency Xinhua are staggering. Can anybody say Chinese animation boom:
China’s neighbor, India, has been experiencing a similar boom of its own. This newspaper article from an article this week in Rediff offers some big numbers of its own:
Just to offer a little perspective on these, the largest animation union in the United States representing most major studios in LA, the Animation Guild Local 839 IATSE, currently has slighty over 2,100 active members, and at its all-time peak (in the mid-1990s), it topped out at 2500 members. While it’s true that the large majority of animation work being produced in China and India is low-grade TV animation – the type of work that was being outsourced a decade or two ago to South Korea and the Philippines – there is an upside. If Korea is to serve as a model, once the outsourced work dries up, the large pool of trained talent will turn to producing their own original projects. Both the Chinese and Indian animation industries are in their infancies and it’s safe to say that we can expect to see a lot of exciting new work coming out of those countries over the coming years as their industries grow and mature. (Xinhua article via CG Society) No Comments » posted in Old Brew
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