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 …

21st Century Cartoon Chase

This is a fairly amusing promo for Cartoon Network Latin America. It was accepted into this year’s Cannes Lions advertising festival. …

Classic Seventies Advertising

Chris Padilla recently hipped me to some visually striking animated spots from the 1970s. Chris actually showed some of these commercials …

Guitar Hero II spot by Pete Candeland

Gorillaz animation director Pete Candeland of Passion Pictures has turned out a visually stunning spot for the videogame Guitar Hero II. …

Fox’s Oleg

Last week the Wall Street Journal ran an article about a new animated series on Fox called Oleg the Taxi Man. The cartoons, however, are …

Introducing A Studio With Style

Style5 is a new Toronto-based company that has admirable ambitions: to offer advertisers animation with more adult sensibilities and an …

Homage or Rip-off? (II)

First, London based Matt Clark and Matt Everitt created this short, using dialogue from a Ricky Gervais Xfm radio show. This is one of a …

Buck

Buck is an incredible design studio that uses animation, anime, and visual effects to create commercials, I.D.’s, and short films for a …

Homage or Rip-off?

“Homage or Rip-off” should be a new category on Cartoon Brew. Certainly we have enough material. In the comments of the Lee Lennox’s …

Coo-Coo for Cocoa Puffs

A few weeks ago I posted about Chuck McCann and mentioned his memorable voice work as Sonny and Gramps in the original 1960s Cocoa Puffs …

Disney Tomato Stickers

It’s all about marketing, I guess. Bad enough that Cinderella III was hyped on those dividers at the checkout aisle, now we can take …

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