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Animator Dan Meth (of Hebrew Crunk fame) just completed an animation experiment. He animated his latest film while getting drunk in a …
Animators
Frédéric Back’s New Website
Animation legend Frédéric Back (Crac, The Man Who Planted Trees, The Mighty River), who turned 83 this week, has launched a …
Eric Pigors
Eric Pigors has worked at Disney Feature animation for fifteen years. He’s also contributed his art to Family Dog, Ed, Edd and Eddy and …
Friday Morning Inspiration: Hardie Gramatky
Hardie Gramatky (1907-1979), one of the great American watercolorists, actually started in animation working at Disney from 1929-1936. …
ASIFA-Hollywood Double Header
ASIFA-Hollywood is presenting two animation events this month well worth your time and participation. Bill Plympton: On Wednesday …
John Canemaker Events
Two upcoming John Canemaker events in the New York area: The Tribeca Film Festival will salute the animator with The Animated World of …
Elbert Tuganov (1920-2007)
Pioneering Estonian animator Elbert Tuganov has passed away at age 87. Chris Robinson, author of Estonian Animation: Between Genius and …
Glen Keane Draws
Glen Keane lectured at CalArts a couple weeks ago. Below is a short video of Keane drawing the Beast and explaining some of the design …
Marvcards
Animator Marv Newland dropped us a note about his new art project/website, Marvcards, which he says is part of “a little film in the …
Thorndyke on Mercer and Crandall
Here’s an oddity. I found a copy of cartoonist Chuck Thorndyke’s 1939 book The Business of Cartooning: The Success Stories of the …
More on George Pal’s Puppetoons
As a follow up to my posting a 1943 Look Magazine article on George Pal, Brew reader Kevin Kidney sends us this April 1944 Coronet …
Paul Driessen at UCLA
Dutch animator Paul Driessen will make a rare Los Angeles area appearance next week, on Friday March 16th. Driessen will do an Q & A …
Osvaldo Cavandoli (1920 -2007)
Giannalberto Bendazzi sends word that Italian animator Osvaldo Cavandoli died in Milan on Saturday, March 3rd, 2007, of natural causes. …
J.J. Defends 2-D
Go J.J.! Animator J.J. Sedelmaier has written an editorial for latest edition of Create Magazine making the case for animation …
Kant-1
French illustrator, designer and 2D animator Quentin Tavernier (aka Kant-1) has a cool new website worth checking out. It’s as much fun …
1943 article on Pal’s Puppetoons
From Collier’s magazine (January 16, 1943), an interesting article on George Pal and hisPuppetoon shorts for Paramount Pictures. Click on …
New Internet ads by John K.
John Kricfalusi has done four mini animated pieces for Raketu, a new internet/cell phone entertainment/communication service. John has …
More from Jules Engel’s estate
Here are a few more caricatures from Jules Engel’s estate, courtesy of USC’s Christine Panushka, Jules’s executor. Christine wants to …
Jules Engel on Bambi
These three caricatures, above, are of Jules Engel enacting part of a storyboard on Bambi. Don’t strain your eyes. Click here to see a …
Monday Morning Reading
Just a few interesting bits I’ve run across recently: Perhaps the best tribute I’ve read to Ryan Larkin is this piece by animation …
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