Animators

The passing of legendary American photographer/filmmaker Gordon Parks reminds me of an interesting fact I learned while researching my …

I’m not sure how many folks are aware of this, but there’s interesting and rare animation popping up almost daily now on YouTube. For …

This Flash-animated music video for Telemetry Orchestra’s song “Suburban Harmony” is one of my favorite music videos of recent months. It …

Pixar story artist Jim Capobianco is working on a personal hand-drawn short called LEONARDO and he’s almost done with the rough animation …

This interview with Bob Iger is an interesting read. He discusses the Pixar acquisition at some length, and says that in his five months …

This is a genius trailer mash-up of TOY STORY 2 and Darren Aronofsky’s gritty REQUIEM FOR A DREAM. (Click on the image above to watch the …

I rarely buy dvds, but one of the few that I’m planning to get is the forthcoming GOLDEN AGE OF CARTOONS: CARTOONS FOR VICTORY!. I saw a …

An article in BARRON’S is suggesting that Apple may eventually purchase Disney, sending up stock futures by 6%. I think there’s a good …

It’s Mary Blair Week!Guess where?

Yesterday’s NY TIMES (use BugMeNot to bypass registration) had a piece by Charles Solomon about John Canemaker’s Oscar-nominated short …

TACHIGUISHI RETSUDEN is an upcoming Japanese animated film by Mamoru Oshii (GHOST IN THE SHELL) and Production IG. It is yet another …

Well, that didn’t take long. Congrats to our friends at the Weinstein Company for releasing the first CGI bomb of 2006, DOOGAL. The film …

Michael Barrier posted an article excerpt on his site from yesterday’s WALL STREET JOURNAL that said the Vintage ToonCast, which is an …

Don Knotts has passed away. He’ll always be remembered as Barney Fife and Raph Furley, though Knotts also had a lot of animation to his …

One of the hot things emerging on several cartoon blogs lately is the detailed deconstruction of classic animated features and shorts. By …

Master character designer Harald Siepermann has been doing some exceptional posts on his blog where he discusses how he arrived at the …

Story artist Jenny Lerew has written another wonderful piece on animation storytelling, this time with a discussion of the story pitch, …

Homestat Farm, the current manufactuers of MAYPO (the maple flavored oatmeal cereal) are relaunching the product with an updated version …

The FPS MAGAZINE blog has a thought-provoking piece by Marc Hairston about how Disney – not having learned anything from their clumsy …