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Terry Teachout on Why YouTube Rocks
Despite some missteps on YouTube’s part, like the unnecessary removal of dozens of public domain cartoons from its site, I’m still a huge …
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Animation Box Office Grosses
Mark Mayerson did some number-crunching recently and came up with some fascinating figures for animated feature box office grosses during …
Most Ironic Exec Quote of the Week
We’ve known since April that Cartoon Network is abandoning its original programming charter and slowly moving into producing live-action …
Virgil Widrich’s FAST FILM (2003)
FAST FILM (2003) by Virgil Widrich is one of those films that reminds me why I love animation in the first place: it’s a medium in which …
THE ANCIENT BOOK OF MYTH AND WAR
Five Pixar artists are currently working on a new hardcover art book called THE ANCIENT BOOK OF MYTH AND WAR. It’s scheduled for release …
Why Did Fox Bury Mike Judge’s IDIOCRACY?
One of the biggest film mysteries of 2006 still remains unanswered: Why did Fox bury the release of IDIOCRACY, the new live-action film …
UNDER THE CHERRY TREE
It’s always refreshing to see stylized applications of CG animation as opposed to today’s ubiquitous photoreal approach. “Under the …
Director of MALE RESTROOM ETIQUETTE Speaks
Overman, the director of the unbelievably popular Machinima film we mentioned yesterday, MALE RESTROOM ETIQUETTE, has posted an entry on …
Curious Production Stories
This blog post about the making of the recent animated film CURIOUS GEORGE, written by one of the film’s supervising animators, is pretty …
Cartoon Modern in Scotland
I’m super-excited to announce that I’ll be headed to Scotland for the Projector 2006 festival, which takes place next week from October …
Miyazaki and Son
If anybody is in need of some tough love from Dr. Phil, it’s probably Hayao Miyazaki and his eldest son Goro. This Reuters article about …
NY TIMES on the CG Glut
The NY TIMES published a piece today about the glut of poorly performing animated CG films. That’s hardly news to anybody working the …
The First Machinima Hit?
Machinima is a CG animation technique that uses real-time, 3D gaming engines for its imagery source as opposed to traditional CG software …
According to LA TIMES, Sony Invented Squash & Stretch
The LA TIMES published a piece today by Josh Friedman with this mind-bogglingly ignorant sentence about animation: [OPEN SEASON], based …
Open Season Opens a Weak #1
Sony Pictures Animation’s first CG feature OPEN SEASON opened in the #1 slot last weekend albeit with a weak $23 million (estimated) from …
TWICE UPON A TIME Online
So, you say you’ve read Taylor Jessen’s amazing piece about the production of TWICE UPON A TIME (1983) in ANIMATION BLAST #9 and now you …
3 Trees & 3 Flowers in November
The must-see LA art show of the fall season has been anounced. “3 Trees and 3 Flowers” opens November 4 at the Gallery Nucleus (30 West …
Tom Oreb’s MySpace
Guess who has their own MySpace now? http://www.myspace.com/tomoreb Poor guy has no friends though. Probably because he died in 1987. …
Lorelay Bove
I know two things about Lorelay Bove. 1.) She’s a character animation student at CalArts. 2.) She has some beautiful paintings on her …
Amid’s Notes from Ottawa 2006
The 2006 edition of the Ottawa International Animation Festival marked my fourth straight year that I’ve attended the festival. Instead …
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