Oscars 2014: Best Animated Short Film Contenders
Cartoon Brew looks at some of the likely contenders in the Oscar race for this year’s best animated short film.
Cartoon Brew looks at some of the likely contenders in the Oscar race for this year’s best animated short film.
To accompany its fawning story on the success of Walt Disney Animation, “Wired” labeled John Lasseter and Ed Catmull as “big heroes” on its cover.
CTA dev Garry Pye and his 15-year-old daughter Maddison demonstrate how easy creating animation is with CTA 5.2.
Meet the Burrowing Owl. He has recently lost his mate to a large predator that is hunting in his treacherous natural habitat. How will he survive in this dangerous wilderness alone? This is a story of love lost… and survival.
This week in Vancouver, the Spark CG Society will hold its annual Spark Animation conference and festival with an impressive group of presenters including Glen Keane, Nora Twomey, Roger Allers, Robert Kondo, and Graham Annable.
Disney announced this afternoon that Moana, their 56th animated feature, will be released into theaters in late-2016. The film will mark …
This weekend the $50 million-budgeted Fox/Reel FX film “The Book of Life,” opened in the United States with an estimated $17 million.
In this 1980 tribute to legendary animation director Tex Avery, fellow legendary director Chuck Jones shared six lessons that he learned about comedy from working with Avery in the 1930s. The advice remains essential to animation director working today.
José is a teenage pig living in a Spanish town; he is the only pig in his family. One day a new neighbour moves in next door, and José starts to come to terms with who he really is.
Someone, somewhere within Warner Bros. Consumer Products, approved these Halloween costumes for sale to the general public.
Today, Reel FX’s film “The Book of Life” opens in the United States, and the story of its 39-year-old director, Jorge Gutierrez, is also one worth telling.
Today we look at the work of Miki Montllo, Cartoon Brew’s Artist of the Day!
Are you hunting for a great animation job? The Cartoon Brew Job Board is the ideal place to look for your next gig.
Mondo Media may be expanding their brand into the kid-friendly market, but that doesn’t mean they’re neglecting their adult-oriented successes.
Turner Broadcasting announced yesterday that they will rebrand the Cartoon Network spin-off Boomerang in 2015, changing it from a channel of classic cartoons and Cartoon Network re-runs to a “global all-animation, youth-targeted network.”
Here’s a 4-minute piece from the upcoming “Penguins of Madagascar” that DreamWorks Animation teased last weekend at New York Comic Con.
Today we look at the work of David Merritt, Cartoon Brew’s Artist of the Day!
A lonely creature, on a lonely planet, abducted into the false allure of a computer generated world.
Indie American animation legend Bill Plympton, whose films have been officially unavailable on the Internet for the past decade, has reached a deal with Shorts International to make his extensive body of self-produced work available to online audiences.
Today we look at the work of Ian Abando, Cartoon Brew’s Artist of the Day!
Last weekend at New York Comic Con, Cartoon Network screened the following six-minute preview of their new show “Over the Garden Wall” created by former “Adventure Time” creative director Pat McHale.