Animators

One of my biggest grievances against contemporary animation is that characters won’t shut up. Too often in American animation, dialogue …

Michael Sporn had the great luck of breaking into the animation industry at John and Faith Hubley’s studio, Storyboard, in the …

As folks may recall, I put out a call for help last December asking readers to offer their suggestions on the cover for my book, CARTOON …

“The Over the Hedge trailer is horrible,” says Jim Hull. He should know since he worked on the film. Jim has an interesting post on …

I had a first look at OVER THE HEDGE yesterday (thank you, Dreamworks) and it’s not the 90 minute talk-fest, per the trailer, that Amid …

Animator Nate Pacheco has posted two must-see episodes of the early-1960s cartoon series JOT. He calls it one of his biggest sources of …

What a way to start the week – here’s the new trailer DreamWorks recently released for OVER THE HEDGE. I’m speechless, but fortunately …

In a new WIRED interview, film/music video director Michel Gondry offered an interesting personal perspective on CGI:People rely too …

HUGE news out of the Walt Disney Co.’s shareholders’ meeting today! I’m surprised that nobody else has picked up on the story yet. …

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 …