Advertising Jack Zander Interview by Amid Amidi Monday July 16, 2007 1:17 am Animation World Magazine has an interview with 99-year-oldanimation veteran Jack Zander whose career includes stints at …
Cartoon Culture An Interdisciplinary Journal by Jerry Beck Monday July 16, 2007 12:05 am One of the many people I met at the Platform Festival inPortland two weeks ago (I’m just now getting around to unpacking …
Advertising Animated Cartooning by Mail, 1939 by Jerry Beck Friday July 13, 2007 12:05 am Brew reader Billie Towser found this old magazine ad on Flickr.(Click on thumbnail at left for an enlarged version). Long …
Advertising Scary Green Giant by Jerry Beck Thursday July 12, 2007 4:45 pm Stop motion animator/historian, Ken Priebe, thinks he has foundthe creepiest puppet animation ever:
Books The Colored Cartoon by Jerry Beck Thursday July 12, 2007 12:00 pm Heads up: University of Massachusetts Press has announced thepublication of The Colored Cartoon: Black Representation in …
BrewFilms Update From The Dump by Jerry Beck Thursday July 12, 2007 10:43 am I’m still recovering from yesterday’s all-day shoot forCartoonBrewFilms first original podcast, Cartoon Dump. That’s …
Animators RIP, Art Stevens by Amid Amidi Wednesday July 11, 2007 11:31 am I was out of town when this news emerged a couple weeks ago butI wanted to make mention of the passing of Disney animator …
Internet/Blogs Ratatouille Virtual Sets by Amid Amidi Wednesday July 11, 2007 4:31 am Tim Petros, a photographer who specializes in QuickTime VR, washired to transform the Ratatouille backgrounds into VR movies …
Events Tonight in Hollywood by Jerry Beck Wednesday July 11, 2007 12:01 am If you live in L.A. you really have no excuse not to go out andhave a good time tonight! Today we are shooting our …
CGI Apnée by Claude Chabot by Amid Amidi Tuesday July 10, 2007 9:34 am I’d heard good things about Claude Chabot’s Apnée butunfortunately missed its screening at Platform. Luckily the film …
Advertising BNN Interstitials by Greg Lawson by Amid Amidi Tuesday July 10, 2007 7:23 am Greg Lawson, owner of Amsterdam-based animation studio Lawson &Whatshisname, is directing a series of 40 interstitials for …
TV Simpsons in Vanity Fair by Amid Amidi Tuesday July 10, 2007 1:40 am Vanity Fair has published an extensive oral history about TheSimpsons. The piece includes the thoughts of everybody from …
Animators RIP, David Hilberman by Amid Amidi Monday July 9, 2007 4:03 pm ASIFA-San Francisco president Karl Cohen forwarded a note to let us know that UPA co-founder and one of the last of the …
Events San Diego Comic Con: Animation Programming by Jerry Beck Monday July 9, 2007 12:00 pm They’ve just posted the complete schedule of programming for the San Diego Comic Con, July 26-29. Below I’ve extracted the …