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New This Week: Mary Blair’s Cinderella
I’ve mentioned it before but the new Cinderella storybook, illustrated with Mary Blair’s conceptual artwork from the Disney feature, is …
Amid Amidi
Paradise by Jesse Rosensweet
The NFB has already released one terrifically original stop-motion film this year—Madame Tutli-Putli—and next …
Afterworld
Fascinating story in yesterday’s LA Times about Afterworld, a new CG animated series which premieres online this week at MySpace. The $3 …
Augenblick Animates The Ten
Animation Magazine has a good article about the new art house movie The Ten and the Flash-animated sequence in it produced by Augenblick …
Dead Animators on MySpace
A bit of a curious trend worth noting is the growing number of MySpace pages dedicated to legendary animation artists. While the pages …
More about the Death of Paul Boyd
The CBC has a followup article about the tragic police shooting of Vancouver animator Paul Boyd, mentioned here yesterday. The article …
‘Karnival’ by Jun seo Hahm
Karnival is a series of super-short animated pieces created by Jun seo Hahm at Portland commercial studio Bent Image Lab. The first two …
Michael Bierut on Charley Harper
Todd Oldham’s new monograph on Charley Harper (1922-2007), mentioned here last February, is a winner in every sense of the word. From the …
Monday Morning Maurice
Not sure why I’ve never linked to this before but here is an illuminating 1991 interview with legendary animation background designer …
Terry Gilliam’s Storytime
Storytime (1968) was the first film directed by Terry Gilliam. The visual style should be familiar to all Gilliam fans. (via …
The “Pink Elephants” Influence
I’ve seen Pat Smith’s music video “Moving Along” before, but I never would have guessed that it had been directly influenced by the “Pink …
Thursday Morning Inspiration: Bretislav Pojar
This cartoon series is a surprising and joyful discovery for me. From what I’ve read online though, it seems to be a well known classic …
Floyd Norman on Disney Mavericks
Be sure and check out this terrific article by animation veteran Floyd Norman about how Walt Disney offered creative latitude in his …
Fred Bastard
Fred Bastard is a pilot for an adult animated series that London-based Uli Meyer Animation produced in 2001. The content is …
This Wed In LA: The Animated Films of Brent Green
Almost didn’t hear about this event it’s so under the radar. Indie animator Brent Green is doing a screening in LA of his works which …
A Few Notes About Don Hertzfeldt
The dvd single of Don Hertzfeldt’s latest (and in my opinion, strongest and most intensely cinematic) short Everything Will Be OK goes on …
The Making of Pencil Test
With SIGGRAPH 2007 now wrapped up, I thought it might be appropriate to link to the video below about a CG animated short that debuted …
New Ed Emshwiller Bio
Emshwiller Infinity x Two by Luis Ortiz is a new joint-biography of artists Ed and Carol Emshwiller. Carol was a fiction writer, but of …
Dangerous Opinions
The advent of blogging has added a new dimension to the discussion about animation, especially as it pertains to artists themselves …
Splinecast With Mark Andrews and Ted Mathot
The Spline Doctors have posted a new podcast interview with Mark Andrews (head of story on Ratatouille and The Incredibles) and Pixar …
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