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Ratatouille Trailer
Here’s the latest trailer for Pixar’s Ratatouille with a lot of new footage that I haven’t seen anywhere else before. (Thanks, John)
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Glen Keane Draws
Glen Keane lectured at CalArts a couple weeks ago. Below is a short video of Keane drawing the Beast and explaining some of the design …
Annecy 2007 Selections
The official competition selections have been announced for the world’s longest-running animation festival, the Annecy International …
Freehead Benefit Concert
Cartoonist extraordinaire Jim Smith (Ren & Stimpy, Samurai Jack, The Ripping Friends) will be performing a “farewell concert” with the …
The Animation Show on iTunes
Last week our friends at The Animation Show started selling independent animated shorts on Apple’s iTunes. The films from their touring …
Homage or Rip-off?
“Homage or Rip-off” should be a new category on Cartoon Brew. Certainly we have enough material. In the comments of the Lee Lennox’s …
The Fly by Ferenc Rofusz
Another contemporary animation classic on YouTube. This 1980 Hungarian short by Ferenc Rofusz won an Oscar. Hungary was at the …
Russian Pooh
Russian animation director Fyodor Khitruk once said in an interview that the best award he ever received was when Disney director Woolie …
Nike “Love” campaign
Nike Love is a new ad campaign that encourages fat kids to exercise. The website has three animated spots; they’re not particularly …
The Magazine Cartoons of Hank Ketcham
This post at Drawn! about Hank Ketcham’s comic work reminded me of an upcoming book that I can hardly wait for—Where’s …
Alexei Karayev’s Welcome (1986)
What would happen if some Russians took a Dr. Seuss story and turned it into a paint-on-glass animated short? The results would be …
John Lasseter in the NY Times
Yesterday’s New York Times featured an interview with John Lasseter and some interesting bits can be gleaned from the article. One thing …
Hans Bacher’s Dreamworlds
Hans Bacher (the art director of Disney’s Mulan) reports on his blog that his new book, Dreamworlds, has just been released in Japan. The …
Walt Stanchfield’s Gesture Drawing For Animation
Anybody who’s studied animation in recent years is doubtless familiar with Walt Stanchfield’s drawing handouts. Stanchfield (1919-2000), …
Mickey Like You’ve Never Seen
Check out this sweet animation for a proposed videogame called Neo-Mickey. Apparently the project isn’t going forward at the moment which …
1960 US Navy spot by Bobe Cannon
After Robert “Bobe” Cannon (the genius director of Gerald McBoing Boing) left UPA around 1958, he began to do a lot of commercial …
Lee Lennox’s “Girl and the Sea”
The Presets’ “Girl and the Sea” is an incredibly lovely mixed-media music video directed by Lee Lennox. It’s not a new …
How William Shatner Deals With Producers/Execs
This hilarious MP3 clip from the Howard Stern Show features an excerpt from a commercial recording session by William Shatner. Listen to …
Three Trees Make a Forest Contest
Ok, as promised in the post about the book last Friday, we’re giving away two copies of the book Three Trees Make a Forest, courtesy of …
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