Animators New Investigation Into The Police Shooting Death Of Animator Paul Boyd by Amid Amidi Tuesday May 29, 2012 1:04 pm A new video has surfaced that shows the Vancouver policedepartment shooting Paul Boyd to death. Boyd was a director on …
Shorts “Mongrel & The Wrath of the Ape King” by Morgan King by Jerry Beck Tuesday May 29, 2012 1:00 am Morgan King had dreamed of making a Ralph Bakshi-ish rotoscopedfantasy animation all his life. This is the result of those …
Stop Motion Lost animated “Little Rascals” pilot from 1970 by Jerry Beck Monday May 28, 2012 12:05 am Here’s a curio from the early 1970s. In the days before computer colorization, after Fred Ladd found success re-painting and …
Animators Let Frank Tashlin Teach You His “SCOT Art” Cartooning Method by Amid Amidi Sunday May 27, 2012 2:08 am Frank Tashlin’s extremely rare 1952 cartooning booklet How toDraw Cartoons has been posted online in its entirety. In the …
Disney All Hail our Mickey Masters! by Jerry Beck Sunday May 27, 2012 12:05 am In honor of Memorial Day… This clip is a relativelyrecent dubbing of “Minnie’s Yoo Hoo” (from Mickey’s Follies …
Feature Film Hungarian Animation Legend Marcell Jankovics Has Finished An Epic New Feature “The Tragedy of Man” by Amid Amidi Saturday May 26, 2012 3:56 pm One of the most unique voices in animation, Marcell Jankovics,the Hungarian director of features like Fehérlófia and …
Bad Ideas Rhode Island Taxpayers Lose $75 Million Trying To Make A Video Game by Amid Amidi Saturday May 26, 2012 12:07 pm Last Thursday, Rhode Island-based 38 Studios laid off its entire staff of nearly 400 people, which presumably included many …
Animators John Lasseter on the Future of Animation by Jerry Beck Friday May 25, 2012 1:30 pm “No one goes to Milt Kahl – or Marc Davis or Ollie Johnston orFrank Thomas – ‘Wow’ what pencil did you use?” That’s my …
Disney If the X-Men became a Disney Feature… by Jerry Beck Friday May 25, 2012 11:30 am …it might look like these incredible designs by MatthewHumphreys, an artist currently at Hasbro Studios. Click on image …
Bad Ideas Madagascar Knock-off From Hell by Jerry Beck Thursday May 24, 2012 3:30 pm Not to be confused with Dreamworks’ Madagascar… …actually, the makers of Life’s A Jungle are …
CGI Afghanistan Is Making Slick Computer Animated Films by Amid Amidi Thursday May 24, 2012 2:27 pm Buz-e-Chini is being hailed in the news story above as being the first computer-animated short in Hazaragi, the language of …
Animators Dreamworks Animators “Push It” by Jerry Beck Thursday May 24, 2012 1:00 pm This year’s intro video to Dreamworks “Animation Day” (a daylong acting workshop for their animators) is a hoot. Look …
Cartoon Modern “Marooned On Watango Island” By Lluis Fuzzhound by Amid Amidi Wednesday May 23, 2012 4:32 pm Self-taught Australian animator Lluis Fuzzhound’s Marooned OnWatango Island is a loving tribute to the Cartoon Modern style, …
Anime “Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt” by Jerry Beck Wednesday May 23, 2012 6:00 am I’ve been away from anime for a bit so forgive me – I have noidea what this is… …but I admit this trailer looks …
Music Videos “Lee Van Cleef” by Chris Lenox Smith by Jerry Beck Wednesday May 23, 2012 12:05 am Chris Lenox Smith of Brooklyn’s Mixtape Club directed this coolsolo piece for Primus: (Thanks, Gibbs Rainock via Team …