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John Canemaker’s opinion piece in the WALL STREET JOURNAL, documenting the demise of hand-drawn animation at Disney, can now be read …

For my money, these recent celebrity caricatures by John Kricfalusi are some of the most outstanding examples of caricature I’ve seen in …

Bill Robinson, an animation student at RIT, sent the Brew some thoughtful comments about Disney’s appearance at SIGGRAPH ’05. Here’s what …

In his latest article, Jim Hill writes about how impressed he was that Glen Keane was willing to get down on his knees at SIGGRAPH. No, …

Archive.org has three WWII-era Private SNAFU shorts posted on their site, and as always, everything on the site can be downloaded for …

Here’s one of the first examples of post-DreamWorks animation by James Baxter. It’s a TV spot for Microsoft that can be viewed HERE. His …

Ottawa animation festival director Chris Robinson, aka “The Animation Pimp,” has penned a short and sweet piece at ANIMATION WORLD …

If this is what computer animation means at Disney, then I wish they’d made the switch years earlier. The new pieces of art shown at …

THE MOON AND THE SON: AN IMAGINED CONVERSATION, the well-received 28-minute animated short by famed animation historian John Canemaker, …

Now I don’t want to be a party pooper, because I know Disney’s already been saved and all, but has anybody else noticed that through July …

I just noticed that one of the top search terms on Technorati, the site that tracks blog postings, was Mighty Mouse, which led me to …

Design Observer recently took a look at those graphic atrocities known as “station identification bugs.” The article offers few …

Craig Yoe said it best in the recent anthology THE EDUCATION OF A COMICS ARTIST: “Those who don’t study the ‘toon past are doomed not to …

Masaaki Yuasa’s MIND GAME (mentioned on the Brew yesterday) has received a thumbs-up from none other than Bill Plympton. He concurs with …

First it was Fred Osmond and Katie Rice who started blogs. Now, two more talented folks who recently worked on DISNEY’S THE BUZZ ON …

Masaaki Yuasa and his animated feature MIND GAME swept the Fantasia International Genre Film Festival in Montreal, which wrapped up this …

I love these images from the UPA industrial film LOOK WHO’S DRIVING (1954). The design is spare, yet artful. More importantly, it’s a lot …

Speaking of fps magazine, they just did an interview with the director of MIND GAME, Masaaki Yuasa, who was in Montreal last week for the …