Even Mr. Bill Knew the Levees Wouldn’t Hold
A couple days ago on GOOD MORNING, AMERICA, President Bush said, “I don’t think anyone could have anticipated the breach of the levees.” …
Amid Amidi
Gabe Swarr’s Value Meal
Animation director-designer Gabe Swarr has launched the first designs in his new T-shirt line called Value Meal. “I like food,” says Gabe …
Animation Blog Season
The summer of 2005 will go down as the animation artist’s blog renaissance. Artist blogs have been cropping up at an unbelievable rate …
Ryan Larkin on the comeback trail
Ryan Larkin, the celebrated wunderkind of 1960s Canadian animation whose downfall was the subject of Chris Landreth’s Oscar-winnning …
Harald Siepermann Blog
Our friend Harald Siepermann, a mighty talented character designer who lives in Germany, has started his own blog HERE. Just a few of the …
Ruben Apodaca, RIP
I was saddened to hear that Ruben Apodaca passed away last month at age 73. I didn’t know him well, but met him a few times to work on a …
London Bloggers
A couple days ago, I mentioned a couple new bloggers who work in the London animation scene: Gerben Steenks and Stephane Kardos. Now, two …
Stephen Silver’s Blog
“Since everyone else draws hot women, I want to be the guy that draws fat men.” – Stephen Silver, in the comments section of his …
Eurovision Art Contest
The Eurovision Art Contest is a monthly drawing contest where artists create an illustration based on a specific theme. The contest is …
Disney Rarities: Celebrated Shorts 1920s-1960s
Disney has announced the contents for the fifth wave of their Treasures dvd sets. Of particular interest is the contents of DISNEY …
Happy 80th, Oscar Peterson
I couldn’t let this pass by without making some mention of it: here’s a belated happy birthday to legendary jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, …
Frank Espinosa Talks Rocketo
There’s a good article about Frank Espinosa, creator of the new comic book ROCKETO, at Comic Book Resources. The article includes some of …
I AM 8-BIT: THE BOOK
Chronicle Books is going to be making a lot of people happy in April 2006. Not only is my 50s design book coming out then, but my friend …
Hopeless Pictures
I hadn’t heard of the new animated series, HOPELESS PICTURES, which premiered last Friday on IFC. After watching (or more appropriately, …
Brief Note from Amid
If you’ve emailed me anytime in the past few weeks, chances are you haven’t received a response. Crazy book deadlines will do that. I’m …
Joe Ranft, Jude Law and Cindy Sheehan
The mainstream media may not be interested in properly covering the death of an influential animation artist, but the ‘net (i.e. regular …
Donating in Honor of Joe Ranft
UPDATE (3:55pm): Ronnie Del Carmen has details of where to send donations and cards. Click HERE. UPDATE (9:34am): Hold off on donations …
Remembering Joe Ranft
Some really beautiful sentiments can be found on-line regarding Joe Ranft (1960-2005). Here’s a handful that stood out to me. The …
More on Joe Ranft (1960-2005)
A couple more brief notes about the untimely passing of story artist Joe Ranft. This article from the MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL explains …
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