TONIGHT IN LA: “Ancient Book of Sex & Science” Show
Chances are you’ve already noticed the ad for this show running on the right side of the Brew. If you’re in LA, there’s one place (and …
Amid Amidi
Ten CalArts Student Films From 2009
Following my post about David Ochs’s short Who’s Hungry, Brew reader Marianne Hayden sent over several links to other shorts produced at …
Fatkat Shuts Down
Canadian animation studio Fatkat has shut its doors. The studio employed 100 people at its peak providing service work on shows like …
Who’s Hungry? by David Ochs
It never fails to excite me when I see a student film by somebody who gets it. And 23-year-old David Ochs plainly and clearly gets it. …
Anima Mundi: Call for Web/Cell Phone Submissions
The 17th annual edition of Anima Mundi, South America’s largest animation festival, is coming up this July in Rio and São Paulo. The …
Juxtaposed by Alex Myung
Juxtaposed by Alex Myung, one of the films that I’d highlighted in last week’s review of the SVA student screening, has been posted …
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Advice To Walt Disney
This is one of the most sage pieces of filmmaking advice I’ve ever run across: “Don’t let this idea ‘Box Office’ and this idea of what …
Great, Now We Have To Start Calling Him Dr. Lasseter
This photo comes from davedoo’s Flickr page. The accompanying caption: Saturday, May 2, 2009: A lovely day as Pepperdine University …
Pinocchio Trade Ad from 1940
While researching a book that I’m currently working on, I discovered a four-page ad published in the March 4, 1940 edition of The …
Sita Sings the Blues: A Free Culture Success Story
Nina Paley’s Sita Sings the Blues–now a film that everybody can (and should) watch–continues to make an impact in surprising and …
Bass+Crippen+Freberg=”Sale of Manhattan”
The animation above aired on the 1962 ABC special “Stan Freberg Presents The Chun King Chow Mein Hour: Salute to the Chinese New Year.” …
Let’s Do Nothing! by Tony Fucile
Apparently it’s the season for children’s books by animation artists. A couple weeks ago, we wrote about the new kids’ book by Tom …
The Princess and the Frog Trailer
The trailer for The Princess and the Frog aired for the first time today on Disney Channel. (Thanks, Aldon Spears)
School of Visual Arts Student Screening Review
I attended a couple year-end animation school screenings yesterday in Manhattan–one for NYU students and the other for School of Visual …
Yooouuutuuube.com
Yooouuutuuube.com is a site that allows users to create a frame-by-frame video wall display using any YouTube video link. The effect is …
From the “Not Everything Needs to be Animated” Dep’t.
A memo to real estate agents: The market is bad enough. Creepy, poorly animated CG spokespeople aren’t going to increase your sales and …
EXCLUSIVE: Early Review of The Princess and the Frog
I don’t typically republish reader comments in separate posts, but a Cartoon Brew reader named Michael saw a rough cut of The Princess …
“Mr. Wobble’s Nightmare” by Joel Trussell
Following this recent post, many readers demanded better animated and funnier fruit people. So I present to you Joel Trussell’s new Kid …
Two Books You Must Have in October
Come October, I know I’ll definitely be adding two new books to my bookshelf: South of the Border with Disney: Walt Disney and the …
‘White is for Witching’ Trailer
I’ve linked to a number of animated book trailers in recent months, and the trend appears to be growing. In the overcrowded fiction …
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