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Holiday Gift Ideas: The Animation Pimp
One of my favorite animation books of 2007 is an unlikely choice: The Animation Pimp by Chris Robinson. Unlikely because the book is a …
Amid Amidi
Preston Blair Swipes: Harvey Comics and Speed Racer
Most of the Preston Blair swipes we’ve linked to in the past are by amateur artists, but this post shows that professional comic artists …
“Feeling Good”
SVA student Tamara Gildengers Connolly used type characters to create this music video for Nina Simone singing “Feeling Good.” Using type …
Dad, Can I Borrow the Car?
Disney historian and author Jim Fanning has written a fine appreciation of the little-seen Ward Kimball featurette Dad, Can I Borrow the …
Inside UPA has been Barrier’d
Anybody who’s somebody in animation has been Barrier’d at one point or another, and I’m pleased to report that my latest book project, …
Holiday Gift Ideas: Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings
Over the years, Craig Yoe has put together some of my favorite compilations of classic cartooning (Weird But True Toon Factoids, the Arf …
Animation History Round-Up #5
The animation history round-ups have become one of my favorite types of posts to do on Cartoon Brew. It is always eye-opening to see the …
Weekend Reading: Nick Cross Interview
Ottawa-based animator/director dynamo Nick Cross talks to Chris Robinson about his career in this article in Guerilla magazine. He …
Who Invented Motion Capture?
San Francisco commercial director Carl Willat has the shocking and hilarious answer. (Thanks, Karl Cohen)
“Lollipop” by Bonzom
The music video “Lollipop” for musician Mika is a joyful if somewhat overproduced Seventies graphic pastiche. It is the promising debut …
Fernando Leal
There isn’t a whole lot of work on the site of London-based Brazilian illustrator and animator Fernando Leal but what is there shows a …
Your Charm article about Disney
Below is an early-1940s article from a magazine called Your Charm, a young woman’s magazine alone the lines of Mademoiselle. Forgive the …
LA: Takashi Murakami at MOCA
For decades, the animation art form has been shunned by the mainstream art establishment, but it seems as if we are slowly witnessing a …
The Influence of Winsor McCay on Cinema
Joshua Glenn of the Boston Globe has created an audio slideshow presentation that points out the influence of cartoonist Winsor McCay on …
Inside UPA Now Shipping!
Satisfied customer Daniel Stone was awesome enough to post this photo of himself and the book on his blog Good news just in time for …
Films by Fred Mogubgub
It’s debatable whether the films below qualify as “animation” but the filmmaker behind them, Fred Mogubgub, was an important part of New …
Terrytoons in CG
A few years back, when MTV wanted to revive the Terrytoons characters, they commissioned an animation test in CG (of course, what else …
St. Trinian’s Girls Are Back
Ronald Searle fans can thank the upcoming live-action St. Trinian’s feature for the following book: St. Trinian’s: The Entire Appalling …
Animated at the Australian National Portrait Gallery
Animator Matt Taylor informs me of an innovative exhibition he’s taking part in at Australia’s National Portrait Gallery. The show, …
BP Gets Animated
Getting screwed at the gas pump does seem to have one slight upside: oil companies are now flush with money to blow on frivolous ad …
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