Old Brew Virgil Widrich’s FAST FILM (2003) by Amid Amidi Thursday October 5, 2006 3:02 am FAST FILM (2003) by Virgil Widrich is one of those films thatreminds me why I love animation in the first place: it’s a …
Old Brew THE ANCIENT BOOK OF MYTH AND WAR by Amid Amidi Thursday October 5, 2006 2:06 am Five Pixar artists are currently working on a new hardcover artbook called THE ANCIENT BOOK OF MYTH AND WAR. It’s scheduled …
Old Brew Why Did Fox Bury Mike Judge’s IDIOCRACY? by Amid Amidi Thursday October 5, 2006 1:24 am One of the biggest film mysteries of 2006 still remainsunanswered: Why did Fox bury the release of IDIOCRACY, the new …
Old Brew THE LITTLE PUPPET BOY by Jerry Beck Wednesday October 4, 2006 2:30 pm Johannes Nyholm is a fascinating visual artist, animator andfilmmaker from Sweden. He’s currently working on a stop motion …
Old Brew DOG DAYS OF ANIMATION by Jerry Beck Wednesday October 4, 2006 12:00 pm Disney story artist Paul Briggs has started an unusual artproject/blogsite called Dog Days of Animation. Says Paul:It all …
Old Brew UNDER THE CHERRY TREE by Amid Amidi Wednesday October 4, 2006 4:52 am It’s always refreshing to see stylized applications of CGanimation as opposed to today’s ubiquitous photoreal approach. …
Old Brew Director of MALE RESTROOM ETIQUETTE Speaks by Amid Amidi Wednesday October 4, 2006 4:24 am Overman, the director of the unbelievably popular Machinima film we mentioned yesterday, MALE RESTROOM ETIQUETTE, has posted …
Old Brew WHAT’S UP, DRx? by Jerry Beck Tuesday October 3, 2006 6:25 pm Forget LOONATICS.It seems the classic Looney Tunes charactersare getting another makeover, in a slightly different manner, …
Old Brew Curious Production Stories by Amid Amidi Tuesday October 3, 2006 5:05 pm This blog post about the making of the recent animated filmCURIOUS GEORGE, written by one of the film’s supervising …
Old Brew Cartoon Modern in Scotland by Amid Amidi Tuesday October 3, 2006 4:12 am I’m super-excited to announce that I’ll be headed to Scotlandfor the Projector 2006 festival, which takes place next week …
Old Brew Miyazaki and Son by Amid Amidi Tuesday October 3, 2006 3:18 am If anybody is in need of some tough love from Dr. Phil, it’sprobably Hayao Miyazaki and his eldest son Goro. This Reuters …
Old Brew NY TIMES on the CG Glut by Amid Amidi Tuesday October 3, 2006 2:57 am The NY TIMES published a piece today about the glut of poorlyperforming animated CG films. That’s hardly news to anybody …
Old Brew The First Machinima Hit? by Amid Amidi Tuesday October 3, 2006 2:26 am Machinima is a CG animation technique that uses real-time, 3Dgaming engines for its imagery source as opposed to traditional …
Old Brew WE’RE ALL MAD HERE by Jerry Beck Tuesday October 3, 2006 12:31 am Gallery 1988 on Melrose and LaBrea is opening another theme show on Saturday, based around the Cheshire Cat from Disney’s …
Old Brew According to LA TIMES, Sony Invented Squash & Stretch by Amid Amidi Monday October 2, 2006 1:28 pm The LA TIMES published a piece today by Josh Friedman with thismind-bogglingly ignorant sentence about animation: [OPEN …