CONTEST: Ottawa Animation Festival Passes
Contest time! We are giving away TWO all-access AnimaPasses (each valued at $200) to next week’s Ottawa International Animation Festival. …
Previously on Cartoon Brew
The Brilliant Conclusion of ‘Octocat’
Below is the stunning and brilliant conclusion of the online animated series Octocat. When I posted the first episode last March, …
Inspiration From Everywhere All At Once: Expanding Educational Experience At SVA
SVA students and alumni discuss extracurricular activities that helped to enrich their educational experience at the school.
Warner Club News #2
Another great photo op from the pages of The Warner Club News (December 1961). Mel Blanc and Elmer Bernstein! Blanc is still recovering …
Searle and Disney
No particular reason that I’m posting this photo other than I’ve never seen it before and figured it’d be fun to share with everybody. …
Classic Cartoon blog round-up
Some of my favorite blogs have just posted some unusual posts of interest, all worth a look. Back in December, Don Brockway took a look …
Holland Animation Festival Announces Web Competition
There are still some retrograde film festivals that penalize filmmakers for putting their films online, but progressive festivals are …
Warner Club News #1
This is an excerpt from an issue of Warner Club News, the studio’s in house magazine, from February 1958. Each issue had a column, aptly …
Dr. Kill and Mr. Chance
This is rather bizarre, but leave it to the French. A current project out of Paris, Reality Toon, is an homage to classic Hollywood …
The Daily Show’s Foghorn Leghorn and Droopy
Jon Stewart made a very funny comparison of some of our current politicians to a pair of cartoon favorites on Comedy Central’s The Daily …
Welcome to Cartoon Brew 2.5
Welcome to our updated look. As the title of this post implies, this is not a complete overhaul. Rather it’s a refresh of the existing …
Mike Grimshaw’s Quiet Please
As a response to YouTube’s takedown of Signe Baumane’s animated short, Canadian animation director Mike Grimshaw has posted an old film …
Screening Waltz With Bashir
Today’s L.A. Times features a story on Waltz With Bashir, the sure-to-be-controversial animated feature from Israel, being screened at …
Bill Melendez 1916-2008
Bill Melendez, the Mexican-born American character animator, film director, and film producer, best known for his animation for Warner …
Wallace & Gromit in The Right Trousers
British department store Harvey Nichols has concocted a brilliant advertising campaign starring Wallace and Gromit. It heralds the …
YouTube’s Inconsistent Standards for Animation Art
Award-winning filmmaker Signe Baumane writes to tell me that yesterday somebody flagged her one-minute short The Very First Desire Now …
Trailers From Hell: Dirty Duck
Last year Joe Dante (Looney Tunes Back In Action) established a terrific website called Trailers From Hell, featuring audio commentary by …
Kim Deitch at MoCCA
A major retrospective of work by underground cartoonist Kim Deitch opens at New York’s Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art on September 9th. …
Saul Bass on Titles
A 35-minute collection of classic Saul Bass film titles with narration and insights by Bass himself: (via Smashing Telly)
Sullivan (of Sullivan-Bluth) passes away
The LA Times reports (with several errors) on the passing of Morris Sullivan, the man who financed the Don Bluth studio and produced An …
My Cinecon Goodies
Cinecon, the film buff convention I attended over Labor Day weekend, is not a place to do animation research, but from time to time I’ve …
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