Animators 1943 article on Pal’s Puppetoons by Jerry Beck Sunday March 4, 2007 6:00 am From Collier’s magazine (January 16, 1943), an interestingarticle on George Pal and hisPuppetoon shorts for Paramount …
Shorts Random Cartoon Postcards by Jerry Beck Saturday March 3, 2007 6:00 am Fred Seibert has posted a group of publicity postcards createdto promote his new series, Random Cartoons. Thirty-nine …
Shorts Mel Brooks’ The Critic by Jerry Beck Saturday March 3, 2007 1:20 am Brew reader Charles Brubaker wrote in to tell me that Mel Brooks Academy Award winning animated 1963 short, The Critic, had …
Disney Japanese Retro-Oswald Figures by Jerry Beck Friday March 2, 2007 3:42 pm Continuing our Japanese theme today, David Gerstein led me to aJapanese website offering some very cool new Mickey Mouse and …
Books Hans Bacher’s Dreamworlds by Amid Amidi Friday March 2, 2007 11:43 am Hans Bacher (the art director of Disney’s Mulan) reports on hisblog that his new book, Dreamworlds, has just been released …
Anime PAPRIKA trailer by Jerry Beck Friday March 2, 2007 10:03 am Click here to see the exciting trailer for the new film bySatoshi Kon (Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers), …
Events Grindhouse Triple Feature by Jerry Beck Thursday March 1, 2007 6:30 pm Quentin Tarantino is curating a two month retrospective ofgrindhouse movies at the New Beverly Cinema in Hollywood. He’s …
Advertising New Internet ads by John K. by Jerry Beck Thursday March 1, 2007 10:00 am John Kricfalusi has done four mini animated pieces for Raketu, a new internet/cell phone entertainment/communication …
CGI RGBXYZ by Amid Amidi Thursday March 1, 2007 5:05 am I’ll probably regret posting this in a few hours but theanimation at Technicolon.com is some of the most trippy …
Books Walt Stanchfield’s Gesture Drawing For Animation by Amid Amidi Thursday March 1, 2007 2:15 am Anybody who’s studied animation in recent years is doubtlessfamiliar with Walt Stanchfield’s drawing handouts. Stanchfield …
Advertising PandaPanther by Jerry Beck Wednesday February 28, 2007 4:55 pm Animation producer Lydia Holness has teamed with directorsJonathan Garin and Naomi Nishimura to launch a new …
Anime New Anime at the Egyptian by Jerry Beck Wednesday February 28, 2007 1:00 pm Roughly a month from now, on Saturday March 31st, the AmericanCinematheque and The Japan Foundation are presenting a double …
Disney Mickey Like You’ve Never Seen by Amid Amidi Wednesday February 28, 2007 8:18 am Check out this sweet animation for a proposed videogame calledNeo-Mickey. Apparently the project isn’t going forward at the …
Advertising 1960 US Navy spot by Bobe Cannon by Amid Amidi Wednesday February 28, 2007 7:08 am After Robert “Bobe” Cannon (the genius director of GeraldMcBoing Boing) left UPA around 1958, he began to do a lot of …
Music Videos Lee Lennox’s “Girl and the Sea” by Amid Amidi Wednesday February 28, 2007 4:35 am The Presets’ “Girl and the Sea” is an incredibly lovelymixed-media music video directed by Lee Lennox. It’s not a new …