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“It’s Always Six O’Clock” by Eva and Franco Mattes
Pooh plays the role of Gulliver, Mickey has hung himself, Superman is a painter, and a cellphone has been kidnapped by the Grinch. These …
Amid Amidi
Mass Animation Project Pays
Some happy news to report today. The Mass Animation project that we mentioned here last week released a new set of details today on their …
Bolt: Storyboard vs. CG
AICN recently posted the above two images as part of a preview of Disney’s Bolt. So, as I understand the animation process at Disney, …
Procrastination by Johnny Kelly
Excellent mixed-media student short by Johnny Kelly of the Royal College of Art. I was going to post it last weekend, but, well, you know…
Awesome Animated 3D Illusion on iPhone
David O’Reilly has built a very cool animated walk cycle that takes advantage of the iPhone’s motion sensitivity. O’Reilly …
Mass Animation or Mass Exploitation?
Animators beware! There’s a new collaborative animation project called Mass Animation that is asking animation artists (both pros and …
Year of the Fish: An Animated Feature?
As the line between live-action and animation blurs, there are more and more controversies about what qualifies as animation. Is A …
Tarsem’s The Fall
I saw an unexpectedly great live-action film last night–Tarsem’s The Fall (view the trailer here). The film’s production design is …
Advertising Kung Fu Panda
Is this bus stop ad from Norway part of the official DreamWorks marketing campaign or did they receive some assistance from the public? …
Pools Stokbrood by Daan
Pools Stokbrood is an amusing one-minute short directed by Daan based on a text by Russian surrealist and absurdist poet Daniil Kharms. …
Roger Ebert Finds 3-D Films Annoying
Hurtling 3-D objects at viewers is not a substitute for quality filmmaking as last week’s weak opening of the 3-D animated pic Fly Me to …
THIS SATURDAY: Eric Goldberg Signing in Torrance
This Saturday, Eric Goldberg will be signing his new book Character Animation Crash Course! at Stuart Ng Books in Torrance, CA. He’ll be …
Animation Attack! in Atlanta
As part of the Atlanta Underground Film Festival, ASIFA-Atlanta will be presenting Animation Attack!. The three-screening series takes …
Revisiting the Uncanny Valley
The UK Times got duped into running an article about one company’s claims that their animation has leapt the Uncanny Valley. The video …
Mapping Springfield
Even for someone like myself who hasn’t seen a new episode of The Simpsons in years, it’s hard not to be impressed by the obsessive …
Michael Eisner, Cartoon Creator
Michael Eisner has launched a new animation company called Tornante Animation. And he’s created his own animated series. And …
Ray Harryhausen Presents The Pit and the Pendulum
Stop-motion legend Ray Harryhausen doesn’t animate much himself nowadays, but he has a new production banner “Ray Harryhausen Presents” …
Happy 100th Birthday, Animated Film
Oops, we forgot to mention that yesterday marked the centennial of animated film. The animated film that started it all: Emile Cohl’s …
ELA in Love at First Byte
Co-director Fernando Sarmiento descibes ELA in Love at First Byte to me as, “A weird mix between She Ra, Tron and Flash Gordon.” It also …
Making Sense of Cars
Try as he might, illustrator Jake Parker couldn’t make sense of the world that Pixar created for Cars. He writes: And that leads me to …
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