PARK FOOT BALL by Grant Orchard
With the World Cup in full swing now, it’s a perfect time to share Grant Orchard’s two-minute masterpiece PARK FOOT BALL (2005), which …
With the World Cup in full swing now, it’s a perfect time to share Grant Orchard’s two-minute masterpiece PARK FOOT BALL (2005), which …
The new trailer for Warner Bros.’s upcoming ANT BULLY is posted HERE. It looks like a pretty good CG film…especially if it was …
Animation artist Cholki Han was inspired by the Annecy pics I posted yesterday and did some amusing caricatures of folks in the photos …
I’m back. Thanks to Jerry for holding down the fort and keeping the Brew updated while I was having an awesome time in Marseille and …
Worth a read: in the latest issue of TATE ETC., the magazine of UK’s Tate museums, there is a nice appreciation of the experimental …
I don’t like to use the term “genius” a lot, but if there’s anybody working in the current industry scene who can be classified as such, …
Just a quick note to let European folks know that I’ll be at the Annecy Animation Festival next week from June 5-10th. If you want to get …
This September, Fantagraphics is reprinting animation director Gene Deitch’s rarely seen mid-Fifties syndicated comic strip TERR’BLE …
There’s now an accurate contents listing for BLAST #9 posted on the newly redesigned AnimationBlast.com. Below is the wraparound cover …
I have to admit that I didn’t quite “get” Ga”lle Denis’s film CITY PARADISE when I first saw it, but maybe that’s just me. The film, …
There is a quiet revolution happening in the animation community, and it’s all thanks to the Internet. With the explosion of blogs in the …
“TOMORROWLAND: CalArts in Moving Pictures” is an ambitious film program (curated by Josh Siegel) that aims to document the work of …
Artist Caleb Johnston has taken a bunch of 19th century public domain illustrations and engravings from the Dover books, and transformed …
This is the trailer for Aardman’s first CG film FLUSHED AWAY.Looks like the new formula is (Aardman+CG = Aardman-charm).
Here’s the TRAILER for PRINCESS, a new hand-drawn animation/live-action feature from Denmark directed by Anders Morgenthaler. The film is …
HALAS AND BATCHELOR CARTOONS: AN ANIMATED HISTORY is a new coffeetable book coming out in August that is “part-history, part-tribute, …
A bit of a follow-up to all the recent posts about Disney insignia from WWII (here and here). There is currently an exhibition at the …
This FORTUNE magazine interview with John Lasseter is a good read. The piece has the most extensive comments I’ve seen from Lasseter …
Here’s the latest on ANIMATION BLAST #9. I spoke to my Canadian printer yesterday, and he says if everything goes according to plan, …
My favorite anime critic, Ben Ettinger, recently wrote a piece about the long-running Japanese animated series CRAYON SHIN-CHAN and how …