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ASIFA-East Award Winners
The winners have been announced for America’s longest continually-running animation award–the 39th ASIFA-East Animation Festival. The …
Amid Amidi
PerfectLand by Ben Meinhardt
PerfectLand is an oddly appealing series of Flash-animated shorts created for MTV by Ben Meinhardt. I’ve embedded the first one below and …
Final Jeopardy–Katzenberg Style
The second contestant’s answer on this “Final Jeopardy” question is quite possibly one of the worst answers I’ve ever heard on a …
NEXT MONDAY IN NYC: Avery and Maltese Tribute
I was bummed that I missed the centennial tribute to Tex Avery and Michael Maltese that was presented in LA last March, but I just …
Pictoplasma NYC in September
Pictoplasma is moving its conference on contemporary character design from Berlin to NYC this year. The two-day event will take place …
The Art of Pixar’s Short Films
A while back I mentioned briefly on this site that I had been offered an opportunity to write a book for Pixar, and today I thought I’d …
Plympton, Paley and CGI at Tribeca
The 2008 Tribeca Film Festival kicks off this week and there are three animated features in competition. Each of them plays multiple …
Peur(s) du Noir & Richard McGuire
Over the past couple years, I’ve mentioned the French animated feature Peur(s) du Noir, which is a collection of black-and-white horror …
Oliver Laric’s (>’.’)>=O____l_*__O=<('.'<)
It’s been over a year since we’ve mentioned the innovative video experiments of Oliver Laric, but his latest project, (>’.’)>=O____l_*__O=
New Book: Working for Disney
On his blog, Didier Ghez points out an interesting-sounding book that was self-published a few days ago: Working for Disney: 1936-1937, …
Haagen-Dazs and Psyop Save Honeybees
Apparently, all the important causes that a corporation could pretend to care about have already been snatched up, so ice cream …
Bakshi — In the Gallery and On Radio
Folks in Manhattan may want to check out the Animazing Gallery in Soho (461 Broome St.) which has a show of new paintings by Ralph …
Orgesticulanismus by Mathieu Labaye
This one’s a must-see! Orgesticulanismus by Mathieu Labaye of Camera Etc. starts out slow but quickly turns into one of the most …
Masaaki Yuasa’s Kaiba
Below are the opening titles to the upcoming series Kaiba, created and directed by Masaaki Yuasa, the genius visionary behind Mind Game. …
Titles for Run Papa Run
Henri Wong, an animator and motion graphics designer from Hong Kong, sent in a link to an eye-catching animated title sequence he …
Musical Rollercoaster
Great music can be a roller coaster of emotion, both figuratively and literally. This new CG spot for the Zurich Chamber Orchestra is a …
Annecy, Anima Mundi, Hiroshima & Ottawa
Four major animation festivals on four different continents are coming up soon: France’s Annecy in June, Brazil’s Anima Mundi in July, …
Amiga Tribute by Eric Schwartz
Does anybody still use Amiga computers to create animation? Eric Schwartz apparently does and he recently finished this nicely animated …
Andy Knight, RIP
According to a note posted by PaulD on this message board, veteran animator and director Andy Knight, died last Thursday, April 10, at …
The Making of the “HBO Starship” Intro
A 1982 mini-doc about how the impressive CG-less HBO intro was made. The entire spot is shown at the end of the film. Apparently it’s all …
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