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Cameron Bitter Because Oscars Snubbed Animated Characters
(Pocatar image by Chad Regan) An article from today’s Hollywood Reporter says that Avatar producer Jon Landau labeled the Oscars “a …
Amid Amidi
HOW-TO: Big Pants Mouse Comic
Gabe Swarr, an animation director at Nick by day, is the creator of the Big Pants Mouse comic strip which appears weekly at …
Watch All Five Oscar Nominated Shorts Online
UPDATE: We’ve got links to all five Oscar-nominated shorts again. Here they are: Watch French Roast. Watch Granny O’Grimm’s …
The Little Boy and the Beast
A delightful trailer for The Little Boy and the Beast (Der Kleine und das Biest), a six-minute short directed by Johannes Weiland and Uwe …
Irish Animation Booming
Ireland’s animation industry is still relatively small, but according to this piece in the Irish Times, it is robust and growing. A few …
Drift by Theo Tagholm
The dreamlike morphing imagery in Drift creates a mysterious and original style of movement that I haven’t seen before in any …
Moonshine: Brewed on the Dark Side of the DreamWorks Moon
A few years ago, a group of DreamWorks artists banded together to create Scrambled Ink, an indie comic anthology that was eventually …
Yuri Norstein in San Francisco, NYC and Olympia
As you may have gathered from yesterday’s post, Yuri Norstein is currently in the US. He’ll be making appearances in other cities besides …
Princess and the Frog Tops $100 Mil
After nine weeks in wide release, Disney’s Princess and the Frog limped across the $100 million mark last weekend. It generated $757,000 …
Six Points Fellowship
Six Points Fellowship is looking for applicants for its 2010 cycle. The fellowship is designed for emerging artists in the New York area …
Imagi Shuts Down US Studio
Imagi, the studio responsible for the TMNT and Astro Boy features, has shut down their American studio in Sherman Oaks, California. The …
For the Birds Controversy
The Internet which is always looking for a good controversy is trying to stir one up over a Pixar short. Lineboil.com pointed out a …
iPad as an Animation Tool?
Like so many others, I was eagerly anticipating Apple’s iPad, but the device falls shorts in many areas, including in its usefulness to …
Chuck Jones Article by John Canemaker
This six-page article about Chuck Jones was written by John Canemaker in the late-1970s. I don’t remember how I got it or where the …
Send Your Love to Disney Legend Bill Justice
Bill Justice working on “A Symposium on Popular Songs.” From Miehana’s Flickr. If you’re a fan of Disney legend Bill Justice, here’s …
Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist Debuts in February
The Illusionist, the long-awaited follow-up feature from Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville), will debut next month at the Berlin …
Fantasy City by Tatsuo Shimamura
I’m not going to pretend like I fully understand what’s going on in this short–alienation and dehumanization in modern society is …
BBC Winter Olympics Promo by Marc Craste
This spot promoting the BBC’s Winter Olympics coverage is one of the finest examples I’ve seen of an illustrative style applied to …
Walt Peregoy Exhibit in Encino
The Chocolate Bar in Encino is hosting an exhibit of personal artwork by Walt Peregoy. The exhibition runs February 1-27. There will be …
Outsider Art Becomes Animated in The Future
The video above is about The Future, a twelve-minute animated short drawn and voiced entirely by artists who are members of League …
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