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Golden Book Art Exhibit in NYC
The Children’s Museum of Manhattan (212 West 83rd Street, NY, NY) has opened a new exhibit “Golden Legacy: Original Art from 65 Years of …
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“Kaiserwetter” by Benjamin Leng
“Kaiserwetter” is a distinctive looking video for German musician Olli Schulz directed by Benjamin Leng of HickPix. Leng tells us, “I …
Animation Block Party ’08
Brooklyn’s homegrown cartoon festival Animation Block Party will return for its fifth edition from July 25-27. Over 100 animated shorts …
Rooftop Films Signal Film by Fran Krause
Fran Krause created the signal film for this year’s Rooftop Films screening series. It’s animated nicely in Flash.
Wall•E Required Viewing for All Americans
“Wall-E for President” is an op-ed column written by NY Times political commentator Frank Rich. In it, he implores everybody from John …
‘Western Spaghetti’ by PES
Western Spaghetti, the latest stop-motion short from director PES, has been posted onto his website EatPes.com. The film was animated by …
Endangered Species by Tony White
Endangered Species by Tony White (Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook) is so insidery that it’s doubtful it’ll ever find a mainstream …
Harald Siepermann Designs Galore
Character designer Harald Siepermann has posted a lot (and I do mean A LOT) of his artwork onto this blog entry. These include designs …
Tezuka Shorts on iTunes
While browsing iTunes yesterday, I noticed that they’ve licensed many of the independent shorts produced by Japanese cartooning legend …
Wall•E and Christianity
Wall•E director Andrew Stanton talks with Christianity Today about some of the Genesis-related themes he incorporated into the …
Presto on iTunes
Heads-up, Pixar’s latest short Presto is now available on iTunes for $1.99. It’s currently the #1 selling short film download on Apple’s …
Interview with JibJab’s Gregg Spiridellis
Below is a short but insightful interview with JibJab co-founder Gregg Spiridellis about some of the recent business plans for their …
Who Is Rocket Johnson? Charity Auction
Who is Rocket Johnson? (previously mentioned on the Brew) is the new graphic novel anthology being self-published by Disney animation …
Marketing Wall•E and Kung Fu Panda
The Movie Marketing Madness blog offers interesting in-depth analyses of the marketing campaigns supporting the recent animated features …
Grand Theft Auto IV: Almost Great Art
piece in last weekend’s Wall Street Journal that examined the new Grand Theft Auto IV and the comparisons it has drawn to works like The …
Cartoon Modern for the budget-conscious
I know most people have my book Cartoon Modern by now, but if you’re in need of a copy, Amazon is currently selling new copies at a 42% …
Bolt Trailer
And here’s the newly released trailer for Disney’s Bolt.
The Tale of Despereaux Trailer
Here is the trailer for Universal’s CG adaptation of the children’s book The Tales of Despereaux. Sam Fell (Flushed Away) is directing, …
CalArts Hiring New Character Animation Head
The CalArts Character Animation Department is looking for a new program director. Here’s the job listing. The CalArts grad who sent us …
Kung Fu Panda Writer Can’t Stand Katzenberg
Dan Harmon, one of the writers of Kung Pu Panda, has written an entertaingly long rant about how much he disliked working on the film and …
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