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Cartoon Culture

Japanese Beverage
Drinkers Can Create …

A Japanese beverage company is encouraging its drinkers to animate
their drink bottles after they’ve finished drinking its contents. …

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Crowdfund Fridays

Japanese Filmmaker Mirai Mizue Needs Your Help To Complete “Wonder 365 Animation Project”
by Amid Amidi   Friday April 5, 2013   3:12 am
As most Cartoon Brew readers are aware by now, we’ve had a “no
crowdfunding” policy in place for a long time. But times …
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Experimental

“Kou Kou” Is Fantastic Abstract Animation from Japan
by Amid Amidi   Friday March 29, 2013   12:20 am
Within 15 seconds of hitting the play button on Kou Kou by
Takashi Ohashi, I did something I rarely do when watching films …
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Music Videos

Weekend Groove: Music Videos from Japan, US and UK
by Amid Amidi   Sunday February 3, 2013   5:50 pm
New music Videos from Japan, US and UK.
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Shorts

“A Gum Boy” by Masaki Okuda
by Amid Amidi   Wednesday January 30, 2013   11:24 am
A Gum Boy by Masaki Okuda is a 2010 student film produced at the Tokyo University of the Arts.
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Animators

Keiji Nakazawa, Creator of “Barefoot Gen”, RIP
by Amid Amidi   Saturday December 29, 2012   9:37 am
Keiji Nakazawa, the creator of the manga series Barefoot Gen, passed away on December 19th from lung cancer.
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CGI

“Rough and Laugh” by Tymote
by Amid Amidi   Friday December 21, 2012   11:01 pm
Japanese design studio Tymote has finally answered the age-old question: What if Wassily Kandinsky used Cinema 4D?
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Animated Fragments

Animated Fragments #21
by Amid Amidi   Thursday November 8, 2012   7:23 pm
There is a mind-boggling breadth of expression and
experimentation across the contemporary global animation scene. …
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Advertising

“100% Renewable Energy” By Amica Kubo and Tori
by Amid Amidi   Wednesday October 3, 2012   9:09 am
Here’s a gem I saw in Ottawa a couple weeks ago: “100% Renewable
Energy” by Amica Kubo and Tori is a colorful kawaii intro …
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Feature Film

GKIDS Heats Up the Oscar Animated Feature Race
by Amid Amidi   Wednesday August 29, 2012   10:17 pm
Today, family animation distributor GKIDS announced that they
will qualify four animated features for consideration in the …
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Animators

Yu-Gi-OH-OH! A Veteran Anime Director Is Arrested For Massacre Threats
by Amid Amidi   Monday August 27, 2012   5:33 pm
Japanese police in Osaka arrested 42-year-old animation director
Masaki Kitamura today for allegedly threatening to drive a …
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Feature Film

Box Office: A Strong Opening for “The Secret World of Arrietty”
by Amid Amidi   Tuesday February 21, 2012   7:38 pm
Studio Ghibli’s The Secret World of Arrietty opened in the US
with $6.4 million last weekend, and a total of $8.7 million …
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Animated Fragments

Animated Fragments #13
by Amid Amidi   Thursday December 15, 2011   2:54 am
In addition to the usual mix, there’s a few holiday-themed
greeting cards in this edition of Animated Fragments. If you’ve …
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CGI

Four Inspiring Pieces of Computer Animation
by Amid Amidi   Friday October 7, 2011   9:24 am
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Anime

Does Miyazaki Think Women Artists Signal the End of Anime?
by Amid Amidi   Thursday September 29, 2011   1:38 pm
Hayao Miyazaki, who has been known to often take a negative tone
about the animation industry and society in general, …
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