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LA Times‘s Silly Pixar Article
Yesterday’s LA Times had an unnecessarily sensationalistic article about the difficulties of breaking into the directing ranks at Pixar. …
Amid Amidi
Wall-E Trailer
Pixar has released the final trailer for Wall-E before its June 27 release. All I can say is that I really want to see this film! And …
Dave Stevens, 1955-2008
Comic artist Dave Stevens, creator of The Rocketeer, has passed away after a battle with leukemia. An extensive obit can be found at The …
101 Farting Dalmatians?
An animator/director friend, who asked to remain anonymous, emailed me with a bizarre observation: that Disney is adding fart gags to …
Simon’s Cat by Simon Tofield
British commercial director Simon Tofield, who is repped by Tandem Films is the creator behind Simon’s Cat, an absolutely delightful …
Monsters vs. Aliens
DreamWorks has released the first latest official image from their March 2009 feature Monsters vs. Aliens. It’s hardly groundbreaking …
“Studying Character” Show at Moral Punch
This Saturday, March 15, Moral Punch Art Gallery in West Hollywood will be hosting a show called “Studying Character: Seeing Everyone We …
John K. on Rocky & Bullwinkle
John Kricfalusi has posted a fascinating visual analysis of the early episodes of Rocky & Bullwinkle. If there’s one bit of advice that …
‘Please Say Something’ by David OReilly
Please Say Something is a visually and narratively intriguing series of CG micro-shorts by David O’Reilly, creator of RGBXYZ. O’Reilly …
A Tale of Old Whiff
(click on the image above to see more of this model sheet) With so much attention being paid nowadays to film gimmickry like …
A Touching Winnie the Pooh Segment
In the video below, Disney’s version of Winnie the Pooh teaches kids that, “There are certain private places on your body that nobody is …
Fred and Sharon’s Movie Productions
Throughout the history of the animation art form, there have been a select group of innovators who have pushed the medium to its limits …
Hanako and Stitch
There’s an intriguing story in yesterday’s news wires about how Disney is producing a new TV version of Lilo and Stitch specifically …
Creative Bankruptcy in TV Animation
Nothing says more about the sad, pathetic, desperate, moribund state of the US TV animation industry than the fact that Seth MacFarlane …
The KidMan and Lemon Show
Cartoonist Rex Hackelberg has posted a ton of development artwork that he created for a project called The KidMan and Lemon Show. The …
A Book About Golden Books
Golden Legacy: How Golden Books Won Children’s Hearts, Changed Publishing Forever, and Became An American Icon Along the Way is a book …
Ghostbot Vid For No More Kings
Pete Mitchell, frontman of the band No More Kings, writes to Cartoon Brew: “i’ve checked cartoonbrew pretty much every day for the …
Animating From Behind Bars
Superjail is an animated series set in the cooler, but Brew reader Dominic Bisignano points out that there’s a non-profit organization …
Imagination: In Portland and On DVD
Imagination, an experimental indie feature that combines live-action with hand-drawn animation, stop-motion puppet animation, pixilation, …
The Little Island by Richard Williams
Richard Williams’s epic first animated short The Little Island (1958) has been posted online. Highly stylized, dialogueless, serious …
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