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Inside UPA Update
It’s been a while since I’ve posted an update on my latest book Inside UPA but there’s a couple important reasons to write about it now. …
Amid Amidi
The Disney Girls
I’m fascinated by the continually emerging stories of women who worked in creative positions at Disney during its Golden Age. Women …
Woodies with Walter Lantz
Back before Walter Lantz created Woody Woodpecker, he liked to draw ‘woodies’ of a different kind. Animator Marc Deckter offers an …
Bolt Character Designs
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, but unfortunately, none of those words are appropriate for printing on this blog. Even …
Orderly Confusion by Rob Bohn
I saw a lot of films that I enjoyed last week at the SVA student animation show. One of my favorites was Rob Bohn’s Orderly Confusion, a …
Fox Launches Inkubator Shorts Program
This Variety article explains how 20th Century Fox TV and Fox Broadcasting Co. are launching Fox Inkubator, a new inititative designed to …
Portishead Videos by Nick Uff
Nick Uff’s new videos for Portishead songs “The Rip” and “We Carry On” are two of my favorite pieces of animation so far this year. This …
Analyzing the Greatest Game of Baseball Ever
Forget the Cubs vs. Indians. This is the big game!
VOICST Music Video by Fons Schiedon
Dutch director and animator Fons Schiedon, previously featured on Cartoon Brew and quickly becoming a favorite director of mine, just …
The Lure of Live-Action
Does the fact that cartoon channels like Cartoon Network and Teletoon are no longer interested in airing animation have any relation to …
Inspired by Cartoon Brew
One of the most rewarding parts of running Cartoon Brew is hearing from artists who are inspired by the items that we post here. Here are …
The Making of a “Wall-E” Picture Book
Illustrator Ben Butcher has done an interview with Grain Edit about his illustration process on Lots of Bots, a graphically-striking …
Christian Aid Week Spot
Richard Mitchelson writes in to tell me about a new ad that he animated in Flash for Christian Aid Week. Though created before any of the …
“Guernica” in CG
Lena Grieseke created this 3D “exploration” of Picasso’s famed painting “Guernica.” In the description of the project, Grieseke writes …
Bakshi in NY Mag
A short but fun interview with Ralph Bakshi appeared in last week’s New York magazine. I particularly enjoyed this exchange between the …
Jazz in Early Theatrical Animation
(click for full-sized chart) Designer Allister Roberts recently created a chart documenting the use of jazz in animated shorts between …
Malice in Wonderland by Vince Collins
I’ve linked to Vince Collins’s animation before, but I hadn’t run across this hallucinogenic 1982 piece of animation he made called …
YouTube’s Most Viewed Original Animation
Recently I became curious to find out what is the most viewed original piece of animation on YouTube. The answer turned out to be a bit …
“Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy”
A new exhibit opening at the Met today, entitled “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy,” is dedicated to exploring the “symbolic and …
The Journal of Cartoon Over-Analyzations
I remember this site from a few years back and it’s now back online in blog form. The Journal of Cartoon Over-Analyzations doesn’t just …
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