Joy To The World

A fun little 1930s style TV spot for Sky TV animated by Richard Bazley (Roger Rabbit, Iron Giant, etc.). Read about the making of it on …

Human Flipbook

Animator Dustin Black and John Neerland recently completely a cable TV spot, for Northwest sandwich chain Erberts and Gerberts, in a …

Amp XGames by Three Legged Legs

The young Santa Monica animation studio Three Legged Legs continues to impress with each new project they turn out. Reza Rasoli, one of …

Sugar Bear Scholarship

Just when I think the world is spinning madly out of control, Dan Goodsell’s always delightful blog, A Sampler of Things, has visually …

Geico’s New Cavemen

Geico’s latest spots for car insurance use a new but familiar group of cavemen: The Flintstones. Brandweek has more details about the …

Olive Oyl sells sauce

A live action-animation TV commercial starring Olive Oyl has caught my eye. It’s currently airing as part of an advertising campaign for …

Creation Museum spot

Whatever your feelings are towards the controversial Creation Museum in Petersberg Kentucky, I think we can agree this is a pretty nice …

Amautalab

It’s rare to find a studio whose work truly excites like that of Amautalab, a young outfit based out of LA, Buenos Aires and Lima, and …

Popeye Beer ad

Please forgive all these Popeye and Woody Woodpecker posts, but here’s a YouTube find I had to share: a 1980s British Carling Black Label …

Woody and Popeye

Next week the Popeye collection goes on sale. While we wait, here are two recent vintage commercials that didn’t quite make it as …

Jack Zander Interview

Animation World Magazine has an interview with 99-year-old animation veteran Jack Zander whose career includes stints at studios like …

Animated Cartooning by Mail, 1939

Brew reader Billie Towser found this old magazine ad on Flickr. (Click on thumbnail at left for an enlarged version). Long before Cal …

Scary Green Giant

Stop motion animator/historian, Ken Priebe, thinks he has found the creepiest puppet animation ever:

BNN Interstitials by Greg Lawson

Greg Lawson, owner of Amsterdam-based animation studio Lawson & Whatshisname, is directing a series of 40 interstitials for the Dutch TV …

Goodbye Toucan Sam

An era has ended. Kellogg’s has announced it will no longer market its sugared cereals to children. Kellogg’s also said it would stop …

UPA-NY TV Spots Donated To MoMA

It was just a couple weeks ago that I was lamenting on the Cartoon Modern blog the unavailability of the UPA commercials. Today I have …

Spiderman 3 Trailer (not)

According to the folks at Black 20, “Spiderman 3 went way over budget, and to finish the film, producers had to use product placement to …

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