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Most Honest Book Title Of The Year
I like the honest name of this new how-to book: How to Cheat in Flash CS3: The art of design and animation in Adobe Flash CS3. Forget …
Amid Amidi
Rebecca Sugar Gets It On
Frankly I’m not sure what’s more disturbing: drawings of the Terrytoons characters Sourpuss and Gandy getting it on, drawings of …
Profiling Joel Trussell
It used to be that you had to live in Los Angeles or New York to make it big in the US animation scene, but today a whole new breed of …
“Mirador” by Hvass&Hannibal and UFEX
“Mirador” is a charmingly designed if not exceptionally animated music video for the Danish group Efterklang. It is directed and designed …
No Need To Create, Just Transcreate
The Wall Street Journal has a depressing article about a growing trend in the cartoon world: ‘transcreating’ cartoon characters, in which …
Dean DeBlois’ New Film
Everybody knows what Lilo and Stitch co-director Chris Sanders is up to nowadays, but what about the film’s other director, Dean DeBlois? …
C.L. Hartman Animation Reel
The grandson of Golden Age Hollywood animator C.L. Hartman has posted a reel onto YouTube of commercials animated by Hartman at John …
Un Regard Moderne (Paris)
Storefront and interior. Click for bigger version A few months ago, I solicited suggestions from readers about what to see and do …
Monte Schulz on the Peanuts Book
Charles Schulz’s son, Monte Schulz, has posted a new in-depth comment on Cartoon Brew detailing some of the family’s specific objections …
Ty Wong Paintings on Display
Ty Wong standing in front of his illustrations for The Wild Bunch at the opening of the show a couple weeks ago. (Matt …
Tower Bawher
NFB director Théodore Ushev writes to let me know that his gorgeous Constructivist-flavored short Tower Bawher is now viewable for …
10K Comments on the Brew!
We reached a milestone earlier in October that I think is worth mentioning: 10,000 reader comments on Cartoon Brew. We only launched …
More on the Schulz Book
There’s a lot more reaction appearing online to David Michaelis’ new book Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography. In the Wall Street Journal, …
Brickfilms and the Amateur Animation Community
There was a front page article in last weekend’s Wall Street Journal about the brickfilm community. Brickfilms is a general description …
Pixar Zoetrope at California Adventure
Head’s up: the Pixar Toy Story zoetrope created for their MoMA exhibit a couple years back is now on display at California Adventure. And …
Book Update: Inside UPA
The printing is now finished on the first-ever Cartoon Brew book, Inside UPA, and the book is currently en route to LA. They are …
Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
David Michaelis’ much awaited Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography, the first comprehensive bio of Charlez Schulz, is arriving into bookstores …
Becky Fallberg, RIP
Jeff Kurtti writes to inform that Becky Fallberg has passed away at age 84. She worked at Disney from 1942 to 1986 in various capacities …
Animation History Round-Up #4
• Rediscovering the early illustration work of Fifties-era animation designer Cliff Roberts. • The new …
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