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CalArts Teaches The Fine Art of MoCap
Don’t know if you’ve heard but CalArts is finally catching up with the times and renaming itself the California Institute of Motion …
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More Rare Kimball Video
Brew reader Dave Stuckey has uploaded yet another crazy rare Ward Kimball clip: a Firehouse Five Plus Two performance from the MGM film …
Calvin and Hobbes Animated!
We may never see a Bill Watterson-approved animated version of Calvin and Hobbes but the following student film from Italy is a nice …
Len Lye’s Post Office Films
Ok, so imagine you’re the post office and you need to make three animated shorts to illustrate the following concepts: new parcel rates, …
Free LA Seminar: Flash Animation Essentials
Six Point Harness, one of the up-and-coming Flash animation studios in Los Angeles, is hosting a FREE two-day seminar this weekend (May …
New Animation Bookstore in Toronto
Toronto-area folks now have their own local alternative to Bud Plant and Stuart Ng’s. The Labyrinth is a brand new bookstore specializing …
To Infinity and Beyond
This October, Chronicle Books will release To Infinity and Beyond: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios by Karen Paik and Leslie Iwerks. …
Ward Kimball on You Bet Your Life
At the pace we’re going, by this time next week our site will likely be renamed Kimball Brew. But after seeing the incredible Ward …
Classic LA Cartoonist Photos
Earlier this week, UCLA’s Department of Special Collections unveiled a new searchable website that houses 5,100 hi-res images from the …
Book By Its Cover
Imagine if there was a New York Times Book Review that exclusively covered inspiring art and illustration books. Well, there is such a …
Psst! Pass It On
Psst! Pass It On… is a collaborative filmmaking experiment in which three different creative teams work together to create a 90-second …
More About Disney’s New Shorts Program
From Business Week, this article offers a few new details about Disney’s shorts program. Among the tidbits: * The budgets for these …
New Cinderella Book With Mary Blair Art
Via Didier Ghez’s always informative Disney History blog comes word of a new Cinderella storybook that uses Mary Blair’s concept art from …
Droopy on DVD: Uncut and DVNR’d
David Mackenzie has gotten his hands on the hotly anticipated dvd set Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection, slated for release on …
Iranian Animation Legend Banned From Teaching
Noureddin Zarrinkelk, one of Iran’s most celebrated animation figures and a fine art professor at Tehran University, was thrown out of …
Animation Writing Roundup
The most interesting writing and interviews about animation can no longer be found in any particular magazine; rather it’s spread out …
Beany & Cecil Boards by Bruce Timm
File this under “Weird Things I’ve Accumulated Over the Years.” While cleaning out some boxes recently, I ran across photocopies of a …
Your Feet’s Too Big by Nancy Beiman
What a great way to start the week! Your Feet’s Too Big (1983) is a beautifully drawn short by animator/author/teacher Nancy Beiman, set …
Conan Capture
Conan O’Brien recently visited ILM where, among other things, he created some motion capture movement. It’s in the second half of the …
Designing Magoo Express (1955)
There’s a big post at the Cartoon Modern blog about Sterling Sturtevant’s character design work on the 1955 short Magoo Express. The post …
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