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Cartoon Characters as Pancakes
Kevin Blankenship makes pancakes in the shapes of various cartoon characters.
Amid Amidi
Ward Kimball Is Featured In ‘The Who, The What, and The When’
“The Who, the What, and the When” is a new book by Jenny Volvovski, Julia Rothman and Matt Lamothe that celebrates the “secret sidekicks of history” who propelled famous historical figures to greatness.
Peter Sohn Named New Director of Pixar’s ‘The Good Dinosaur’
Yesterday evening, Pixar quietly revealed on Twitter that the new director of “The Good Dinosaur,” scheduled to be released in November 2015, is Peter Sohn.
Tyler Perry and Bento Box Produce Direct-to-Video ‘Madea’ Feature
Actor Tyler Perry, whose drag performances as an elderly African-American woman named Madea have resulted in explicable live-action success, has transferred his Madea act to animation with the dreadful-looking “Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Tough Love.”
Oscars 2014: Best Animated Short Film Contenders
Cartoon Brew looks at some of the likely contenders in the Oscar race for this year’s best animated short film.
Amid Wage Theft Scandal, ‘Wired’ Calls Ed Catmull A ‘Big Hero’
To accompany its fawning story on the success of Walt Disney Animation, “Wired” labeled John Lasseter and Ed Catmull as “big heroes” on its cover.
‘The Hidden Life of the Burrowing Owl’ by Mike Roush
Meet the Burrowing Owl. He has recently lost his mate to a large predator that is hunting in his treacherous natural habitat. How will he survive in this dangerous wilderness alone? This is a story of love lost… and survival.
Glen Keane, Nora Twomey, Roger Allers, Robert Kondo, Graham Annable Will Present at Spark Conference
This week in Vancouver, the Spark CG Society will hold its annual Spark Animation conference and festival with an impressive group of presenters including Glen Keane, Nora Twomey, Roger Allers, Robert Kondo, and Graham Annable.
Breaking: Disney Sets ‘Moana’ For Late-2016 Release
Disney announced this afternoon that Moana, their 56th animated feature, will be released into theaters in late-2016. The film will mark …
‘Book of Life’ Launches with $17 Million
This weekend the $50 million-budgeted Fox/Reel FX film “The Book of Life,” opened in the United States with an estimated $17 million.
6 Comedy Lessons that Chuck Jones Learned From Tex Avery
In this 1980 tribute to legendary animation director Tex Avery, fellow legendary director Chuck Jones shared six lessons that he learned about comedy from working with Avery in the 1930s. The advice remains essential to animation director working today.
‘Jamón’ by Iria Lopez
José is a teenage pig living in a Spanish town; he is the only pig in his family. One day a new neighbour moves in next door, and José starts to come to terms with who he really is.
Dress Up (Kind of) Like The Looney Tunes This Halloween
Someone, somewhere within Warner Bros. Consumer Products, approved these Halloween costumes for sale to the general public.
‘Book of Life’ Director Jorge Gutierrez: “Write Your Own Story”
Today, Reel FX’s film “The Book of Life” opens in the United States, and the story of its 39-year-old director, Jorge Gutierrez, is also one worth telling.
Boomerang is Dead, Long Live Boomerang!
Turner Broadcasting announced yesterday that they will rebrand the Cartoon Network spin-off Boomerang in 2015, changing it from a channel of classic cartoons and Cartoon Network re-runs to a “global all-animation, youth-targeted network.”
Extended 4-Minute Clip from ‘Penguins of Madagascar’
Here’s a 4-minute piece from the upcoming “Penguins of Madagascar” that DreamWorks Animation teased last weekend at New York Comic Con.
‘Zerogon’ by Joshua Planz and John Mattiuzzi
A lonely creature, on a lonely planet, abducted into the false allure of a computer generated world.
6-Minute Preview of CN Mini-Series ‘Over the Garden Wall’
Last weekend at New York Comic Con, Cartoon Network screened the following six-minute preview of their new show “Over the Garden Wall” created by former “Adventure Time” creative director Pat McHale.
Sticky Jots are Storyboard Pads for Mobile and Tablet Filmmakers
Here’s an inevitable product of our time: custom-designed storyboard pads for people creating content specifically on iPads and iPhones.
Anim’est Winners: ‘Boy and the World,’ ‘Poils’
I just returned from an awesome week in Bucharest, Romania where I was on the jury of the 9th edition of the Anim’est festival.
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