Music Videos “Space and the Woods” Music Video by Amid Amidi Wednesday August 13, 2008 12:19 am Another recent music video to point out. This one is for theband Late of the Pier and their song “Space and the Woods.” The …
Cartoon Culture Irwin and Peppino by Jerry Beck Wednesday August 13, 2008 12:05 am This could be one of the “Worst Cartoons Ever” if it WAS acartoon! Just another insane old children’s record found by Mark …
Books The Alchemy of Animation by Jerry Beck Tuesday August 12, 2008 4:30 pm Head’s up on Don Hahn’s new book The Alchemy of Animation, which will be available on October 7th. Hahn is, of course, the …
Music Videos Three Music Videos by Amid Amidi Tuesday August 12, 2008 11:37 am Music videos are such a great place for experimentation withvisual techniques and ideas. Here’s three that have caught my …
Feature Film Coraline preview by Jerry Beck Tuesday August 12, 2008 9:40 am Everything I see from Henry Selick’s new film Coraline looksterrific. Rotten Tomatoes is posting a new, different …
Cartoon Culture Cartoon Song by Jerry Beck Monday August 11, 2008 11:30 am Someone made an unauthorized video for Cartoon Song by ChrisRice, a song intended as a parody but taken to heart by the …
Advertising New United Airlines Animated Spots by Amid Amidi Sunday August 10, 2008 10:31 pm United Airlines has unveiled five new animated spots for theBeijing Olympics. The commercial are elegant, visually-driven …
Disney Disney Magazine Illustrators by Jerry Beck Sunday August 10, 2008 3:30 pm Kevin Kidney has posted a virtual gallery of rare images oforiginal vintage publication art for Walt Disney’s Magazine, …
Animators B&F meet Freleng and Clampett by Jerry Beck Saturday August 9, 2008 12:00 pm Once again, I’ve dug out a few embarrassing photos of myselfwhich I thought I’d post online for posterity. In 1982, Will …
Internet/Blogs Animated Chicago by Joe Fournier by Amid Amidi Friday August 8, 2008 2:41 pm One of the newest, and most unexpected, outlets for originalanimation nowadays appears be newspaper websites. For the past …
Feature Film Animated Features for Grown-Ups by Amid Amidi Friday August 8, 2008 12:29 pm FilmInFocus.com has a series of articles entitled “AdultAnimation: A Look at How Cartoons Grew Up.” I wrote a piece for …
Internet/Blogs Who Needs to Pitch? by Amid Amidi Thursday August 7, 2008 2:42 pm LA Weekly has two articles this week profiling Amy Winfrey andher animated webseries Making Fiends and Stefan Bucher’s Daily …
Cartoon Culture New Yorker Cartoon by Jerry Beck Thursday August 7, 2008 11:30 am (Published in The New Yorker August 4, 2008. Drawing by MichaelCrawford.)
Disney Bye Bye Toon Disney by Jerry Beck Thursday August 7, 2008 7:45 am The LA Times is reporting that the ten-year-old Toon Disneycable channel will be rebranded next February as Disney XD. The …
Animators Gary Mooney 1930-2008 by Jerry Beck Thursday August 7, 2008 12:05 am Bob Kurtz reports that veteran animator Gary Mooney passed awayon Tuesday August 5th at age 78. The cause was cancer. Kurtz …