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A Danny Bonaduce Post, Finally!
Our rules for how to submit news items for Cartoon Brew consideration are quite clear, but that doesn’t stop PR folks, who have clearly …
Amid Amidi
Stan VanDerBeek
(Photo © Amy Drown) I’m currently fascinated with the work of avant-garde filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek (1927-1984). There seems to be …
Bruce Bickford
This nine-minute excerpt from Monster Road, the documentary about the life and times of stop-motion genius Bruce Bickford, really makes …
Don Hertzfeldt Leaves The Animation Show
Sad news from our favorite touring cartoon festival, The Animation Show. Don Hertzfeldt, who co-founded the Show with Mike Judge, …
Classic Disney Art Returns to the US
The NY Times reports that Disney is having returned to them over 250 pieces of original classic artwork, most of it from Sleeping Beauty. …
Monday Morning Inspiration: Jim Henson’s Time Piece
A 1965 Oscar-nominated experimental short written, directed and starring Muppets creator Jim Henson. The film is live-action with brief …
Realistic Homer
A disturbing new creation by Pixeloo who gave us Mario a few days ago…
Amitabh Bachchan For US Prime Minister
Badmash a new Indian animation studio with bases in Pune, India and Berkeley, California is promoting itself with a political parody site …
Darts in the Snow by Alexei Kharitidi
Simple but thoughtful storytelling in under a minute by Oscar-nominee Alexei Kharitidi. (via Cold Hard Flash)
Justin Wright (1981-2008)
Sad news out of Pixar. Story supervisor Ronnie del Carmen reports on his blog that newly minted Pixar story artist Justin Wright passed …
Frank & Artie
What’s wrong with the following sentence in this Andreas Deja interview: “I got to know, not only Marc Davis, but Frank Thomas, Artie …
Gabe Swarr for Radiohead and AniBoom
Gabe Swarr was commissioned to create this Flash-animated musical piece below advertising Radiohead and AniBoom’s “In Rainbows Music …
Ron Paul Goes CG
Everything’s better when it’s in CG…even presidential candidate Ron Paul. Of all the recent animated political ads, this commercial …
Chester Cheetah in CG
Speaking of creepy CG translations of 2D characters, the new adult-targeted Cheetos ad campaign starring Chester Cheetah is highly …
Bone Marrow for Emru
Animation writer and critic Emru Townsend was diagnosed last December with leukemia and a condition called monosomy 7. He is in need of …
Spoon Video by Double Triple and Ryan Junell
In this day and age of slick and mostly overwrought CG visuals, it’s refreshing to see some lo-fi cutout animation, especially when it’s …
Super-real Mario
Digital artist Pixeloo has created a super-real version of Nintendo’s Mario (full image on his site). It’s not bad but he’s no match for …
Friday Site Announcement
I just wanted to reassure Cartoon Brew readers that neither Jerry nor I are involved in the following scandolous headline from today’s LA …
The Bear That Wasn’t (1967)
I just finished reading the new Maurice Noble biography Stepping Into The Picture by Robert McKinnon and am working up a review of it. In …
Octocat Adventure #1
Half-cat and half-octopus, Octocat is searching for his parents. And he manages to drink a relaxing cup of tea during the search. I hope …
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